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Owe obama's climate bill. we didn't pass legislation ten years ago. senator manchin is a west virginia coal guy. he made half a million dollars from coal production personally. he is the largest recipient of coal and natural gas money in the senate this election cycle. he just happens to be the chair of the energy and natural resources committee, which means he is crafting the democrats' climate legislation. as if it was not obvious already, he is committed to propping up coal and natural gas, to use the government to artificially extend the life of the fuels we're trying to get rid of, which ...

On today’s episode of The Backstory, host Lee Stranahan and co-host John Kiriakou discussed current events, including the US being allowed to challenge key evidence in...

Source: New Zealand Government Attorney-General David Parker today announced the appointment of Cassie Nicholson as Chief Parliamentary Counsel for a term of five years. The Chief Parliamentary Counsel is the principal advisor and Chief Executive of the Parliamentary Counsel Office (PCO).  She is responsible for ensuring PCO, which drafts most of New Zealand’s legislation, provides high quality services and advice to the Government and Parliament.  Ms Nicholson holds a BA/LLB (Hons) from Victoria University of Wellington, was a Commonwealth scholar and holds an LLM from the London School...

>> you know what, that's a danger. you do think we may need to look at further legislation to make sure that it is clear an unquestionable that that is an illegal activity. >> blocking that legislation. >> seems to me that would make common sense, anyone would know. you talk to any reasonable attorney almost, they will tell you it's a violation of law, what the president has done and continues to do. so for the sake of making sure that in the future and for future presidents, maybe we need to make sure it's explicitly put into law. so i think a number of my colleagues are looking at drafting l...

Are the officials there operating by the rules? we don't know, because at least the republicans who are controlling the congress now, they have not seen fit to do oversight in the months that we have been talking about the fact that the united states has been jailing babies on the border. if anything, the incoming democratic congress in addition to the drafting legislation to ensure that the lives are safeguarded when they are in u.s. custody, but also to providing oversight and holding secretary neilsen and her agency to accountt for the errors and the deaths that happened on their watch. >> ...