Impeachment Trial Day 9: Last day of questioning comes ahead of pivotal vote on witnesses
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Why US climate legislation must be bipartisan
Speaking at a June 20 Brookings event, U.S. Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) details his record of climate legislation and explains the importance of bipartisanship in adopting bold and lasting climate change policy.
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D.C. AG Racine Says Trump Using White House to Add Wealth
President Donald Trump ’s continued financial stake in his global business empire violates the U.S. Constitution’s limits on profiting from his office, Maryland and the District of Columbia said in a federal lawsuit. District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine speaks at a news conference.
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Dan Glickman is currently a senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, D.C. The BPC was formed in 2007 by former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole and George Mitchell to develop and promote bipartisan solutions to the country's problems and to promote civility in government.
Glickman also serves as the Executive Director of the Aspen Institute Congressional Program.
Dan Glickman served as Chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) from 2004 until 2010. The MPAA serves as the voice and advocate of the American motion picture, home video and television industries.
Prior to joining the MPAA, Mr. Glickman was the Director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government (2002-2004). Mr. Glickman also served as a Partner and Senior Advisor to the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Washington, DC.
Mr. Glickman served as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from March 1995 until January 2001. Under his leadership, the Department administered farm and conservation programs; modernized food safety regulations; forged international trade agreements to expand U.S. markets; and improved its commitment to fairness and equality in civil rights.
Before his appointment as Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Glickman served for 18 years in the U.S. House of Representatives representing the 4th Congressional District of Kansas. During that time, he was a member of the House Agriculture Committee, including six years as chairman of the subcommittee with jurisdiction over federal farm policy issues. Moreover, he was an active member of the House Judiciary Committee; chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; and was a leading congressional expert on general aviation policy.
Before his election to Congress in 1976, Glickman served as president of the Wichita School Board; was a partner in the law firm of Sargent, Klenda and Glickman; and worked as a trial attorney at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He received his Bachelor of Arts in history from the University of Michigan and his J.D. from The George Washington University. He is a member of the Kansas and District of Columbia Bars.
Glickman serves on the board of directors of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange; Communities in Schools; Food Research and Action Center, a domestic anti-hunger organization; National 4-H Council; William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan; and the Center for U.S. Global Engagement, where he is Chair of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. He co-chairs an initiative of eight Foundations, administered by the Meridian Institute, to look at long term implications of food and agricultural policy. He also chairs an initiative at the Institute of Medicine on accelerating progress on childhood obesity. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a senior fellow of the Center on Communication Leadership and Policy at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, the Council on American Politics at The Graduate School of Political Management at The George Washington University, and is Vice-Chair of the World Food Program-USA. He also serves as a member of the External Advisory Board to CIA Director Leon Panetta. He is the co-chair of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs' global agricultural development initiative. He is the author of Farm Futures, in Foreign Affairs (May/June 2009).
Innovative Tiny Houses in Washington DC Make A BIG Impact
Tiny houses and small homes dazzled at the first-ever Innovative Housing Showcase, co-hosted by the National Association of Home Builders and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). During the event, we repped the tiny house movement by talking with policymakers, the general public, and the HUD Secretary Ben Carson. And we toured the swoon-worthy innovative structures on display. To our delight, the tiny houses on wheels were incredibly well-received with bi-partisan support. Other show highlights included a reimagined shipping container house to an expandable, stackable building system.
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Bipartisan Meeting on Health Reform: Part 5
President Obama and Congressional leaders from both parties discuss how to expand health care coverage to Americans who currently lack it.. Held at the Blair House in Washington, D.C.
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Introducing the LWCF Parity for the Territories and DC Act
Congresswoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo introduces bipartisan legislation to provide full federal funding for public parks, playgrounds, outdoor sports fields, and other community spaces in Guam, the other U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia. The bill is supported by all six members of Congress representing the U.S. territories and the federal District of Columbia.
Original cosponsors: Congresswoman Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen (R-AS), Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan (D-NMI), and Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González-Colón (R-PR) and Congresswoman Stacey E. Plaskett (D-USVI).
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Mr. Speaker, I am proud to introduce the LWCF Parity for Territories and DC Act, with the support of all six Members of the House representing our U.S. territories and the District of Columbia as original cosponsors. This bipartisan bill gives parity to Guam, the other territories, and D.C. in annual funding from the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund.
Current law requires the territories and DC to split—six ways—a single state’s annual LWCF allocation. Our bill fixes this disparity by providing a full, state-equivalent share of LWCF funding for each territory and DC, every year. This additional funding is needed to improve public parks, outdoor sports fields, and community open spaces on Guam and the other territories, especially as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands rebuild from recent hurricanes.
Mr. Speaker, I encourage our colleagues to cosponsor this bipartisan legislation and support LWCF parity for the territories and DC. Thank you, and I yield back the balance of my time.
House Amendment Could Make D.C. the Nation's Most Permissive Gun Jurisdiction
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., decried a House proposal Wednesday that would effectively wipe out all of the District of Columbia's gun safety laws.
This amendment is being offered by a member who claims, at every turn, to support the principle of local control or local affairs, yet he is using the big foot of the federal government to overturn local laws, Norton said.
The amendment was proposed by Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., one of Congress' most outspoken libertarians.
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Water Advocacy for Delaware, Maryland and the District of Columbia
The Chesapeake American Water Works Association (CSAWWA) and the Chesapeake Water Environment Association has performed logical Water Advocacy for the citizens of Delaware, Maryland and DC over the past thirteen years including 338 prime and follow up Congressional Meetings with members and key staff.
The Delaware and Maryland Congressional Members were instrumental in savings billions of dollars for the citizens of the United States. Senator Biden, Senator Carper, Senator Milkulski, Senator Sarbanes and then Congressman Cardin and Hoyer took the sword out for the water industry.
Our little volunteer water group on our own personal time was instrumental with just logical scientific facts, goes to show you can accomplish bi-partisan legislation that makes senses with a little hard work... believe it or not we were instrumental in shutting down the energy bill in the George Bush years until the oil and gas industry took the MTBE provision out of the bill - (MTBE is additive to gasoline) - (the additive easily goes into solution and contaminants groundwater systems) (the chemical is very difficult to remove from water and the taste and ordors even at small amounts are pungent) numerous community and individual water systems across the United States have contaminated wells - the clean up cost on the backs of the average citizen was unacceptable. This all stem from the South Lake Tahoe Water Authority MTBE Contamination Law Suit. Again the Maryland Congressional Delegation was one of the key reason the bill was changed and the provision removed. They were the first signing the letters to start the change to remove the provision.
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It is easier to meet with a member of Congress on Capitol Hill than it is your own State Official, State Senator and or Delegate or local politician about water issues. The majority of our team don't even live in congressional member geographical district. Goes to show they care the members really care about water...Respectfully ...please call up your local politician and ask them when is the last time they crossed the threshold in the front door in their town, city, county, township, borough or authority water or sewer treatment plant to find out the issues directly from the most important employee in your local government that being your water or wastewater plant operator that produces the drinking water for your family or treats your sewage for our nations rivers. How our priorities have changed in the last several decades. I have been speaking on water since 1980 and yes I do ask that question to my audience in every presentation...have you ever been in your or taken a tour of your local water or wastewater plant and or understand what goes into producing your community drinking water or treating your sewage? What is more important than water folks?
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Congresswoman Eleanor Norton Pushes District's Freedom to Spend
Norton on House Floor Today to Push for D.C. to Be Able to Spend Its Local Funds While Congress Continues to Battle Over Budget Cuts
March 15, 2011
WASHINGTON, DC -- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today will speak on the House floor during the general debate for a three-week continuing resolution (CR), the second one this Congress, to avert a federal government shutdown, which would also mean a District of Columbia government shutdown. Norton will use her time on the floor to push for D.C. to have the authority to spend its local funds for the remainder of the fiscal year, and to warn the Congress that a local jurisdiction is being needlessly pulled into a federal fight. Last week, Norton introduced the District of Columbia Local Funds Continuation Act, a critical measure to permanently protect D.C. from federal government shutdowns by always allowing the District to spend its local funds for the remainder of a fiscal year if Congress has not approved the District's local budget by the start of that fiscal year.
Congress is apparently fine with running the federal government two to three weeks at a time under successive CRs, but D.C. cannot afford this outrage, said Norton. Successive CRs impose a calculable operational cost on D.C., in addition to significantly increasing the city's costs of doing business, further burdening D.C. taxpayers.
Since the budget battle began, the Congresswoman has attempted to amend the short-term CR that expires March 18 to allow the District to spend its local funds for the remainder of the fiscal year in order to avoid the possibility of a District government shutdown if Congress fails to pass another appropriations bill by March 18, and to avoid the city having to operate under successive CRs. Last week, she also offered a similar amendment to the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2011. The Rules Committee refused both of her amendments.
Norton's House Floor remarks are below:
Look, the majority has chosen to run the government, the federal government, from CR to CR. But the majority has no right to inflict this operational outrage on the local funds of a local jurisdiction, the District of Columbia.
The majority may want to incur for the federal government the operational difficulties. After all, the District of Columbia delivers services to federal officials, including the President, federal buildings, foreign embassies, and the like. But does the majority really want to risk, to put the District and its operations at risk or to place, what Wall Street almost surely will do, a risk premium on the District due to the uncertainty that we are at bay from CR to CR?
This is a fragile economy for every big city, but D.C.'s local budget was approved a year ago in the city and last summer by the Appropriations Committees. Yet the District of Columbia is being held hostage to a federal fight, although the District of Columbia can do nothing to free itself from this federal fight.
I have tried to get the District on successive CRs so that we could spend our own money all year. There is no disapproval of that here. I wager that very few Members even know that the District would close down if the federal government closed down; would be perplexed by it; would have no objections to our spending our own local money all year long.
We raise and manage $8 billion. We have a right to spend our local funds without being dragged into a federal fight.
You can't run big city from CR to CR. I ask you to find a way between now and three weeks to free D.C. to run its own local city for the rest of the fiscal year.
Let my people go!
A New Approach to Preventing Extremism in Fragile States
Congress charged the U.S. Institute of Peace, an independent, bipartisan leader in reducing and preventing conflict, with convening The Task Force on Extremism in Fragile States. The Task Force has developed a proposal for a new cost-effective, evidence-based, and coordinated preventive approach.
Join us as we wrestle with the challenge of supporting fragile states to build resiliency, sustain progress and prevent future threats and instability. Take part in the conversation on Twitter with #PreventExtremism.
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9:30am - 10:30am - Recommendations of the Task Force on Extremism in Fragile States
Secretary Madeleine Albright
Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group
Stephen Hadley
Chair of the Board of Directors, U.S. Institute of Peace
Governor Tom Kean
Co-Chair, Task Force on Extremism in Fragile States
Nancy Lindborg
President, U.S. Institute of Peace
Michael Singh
Lane-Swig Senior Fellow and Managing Director, The Washington Institute
David Ignatius, moderator
Columnist and Author, The Washington Post
10:30am - 11:30am - Prioritizing Prevention Across the United States Government
Chris Milligan
Counselor, The U.S. Agency for International Development
Lieutenant General Michael Nagata
Director for Strategic Operational Planning, National Counterterrorism Center
Alina Romanowski
Principal Deputy Coordinator for Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State
Ambassador Paula Dobriansky, moderator
Senior Fellow for The Future of Diplomacy Project, Harvard University
11:30am - 11:45am - Coffee Break
11:45am - 12:45pm - International Prevention Efforts
Ambassador Diane Corner
Counsellor of Foreign and Security Policy, British Embassy in Washington, D.C.
Ambassador Martin Dahinden
Ambassador of Switzerland to the United States of America
Habib Mayar
Deputy General Secretary of the g7+
Ulrika Modéer
UN Assistant Secretary-General and Director of UNDP’s Bureau for External Relations and Advocacy
Sam Worthington
President and CEO, InterAction
Raj Kumar, moderator
Founding President and Editor-in-Chief, Devex
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Green Party calls for deep cuts to the bloated US military budget
WASHINGTON, DC -- The Green Party today said the solution to the current impasse over sequestration and federal budget cuts is deep cuts in the military budget.
Green Party leaders said that cutting at least $300 billion per year from military spending would resolve the budget stalemate and would free up funds to reinvest in providing jobs and rebuilding the U.S. economy, including a rapid transition to carbon-free energy. Greens blame the current deficit on reckless imperial ventures around the world, costly and unnecessary defense contracts, and tax cuts for the rich.
Since 2001, Presidents have launched wars and military attacks that have drained the U.S. budget, said Vietnam War veteran T.E. Smith, a member of the DC Statehood Green Party. These actions and various 'homeland security' boondoggles have made the defense budget a feeding trough for contractors -- while Congress and the White House continued to pump more money into the military budget. It's time to scale military operations and spending back to what's needed strictly for defense of our borders.
While defense contractors like Halliburton, McDonnell-Douglas, Raytheon, and GE made a killing and the wealthy were given generous tax breaks, thousands of Americans and their families made the ultimate sacrifice in these illegal and undeclared wars for lies and imagined threats. Under no circumstances should veterans' benefits and services be reduced, said Mr. Smith.
New York Green Party activist Mark Dunlea, in a recent CounterPunch column, wrote:
No one knows how much we really spend on the military. The low-ball estimate is that it is $700 billion (a 100% increase in the last decade) but most believe it runs over a trillion dollars when you add in interest payments from past wars, nuclear weapons, intelligence gathering, Veteran benefits, Homeland Security. etc. The military budget is so out of control and hidden in so many places that it has never been audited, making it wide open for fraud and theft... The standard line is that 54 cents out of every discretionary dollar in the federal budget is spent on the military. More than half of tax revenues go to the military. We spend as much on the military as the rest of the world combined -- and most of the other big spenders are our military allies. (
Greens call the bloated military budget a symptom of warped bipartisan priorities to rubberstamp military spending increases.
Since the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, Congress has raised the debt ceiling ten times to pay for these unfunded wars. The federal debt ceiling (enacted in 1917) was created to guard the country against unfunded wars, imposing limits to prevent military spending from damaging the domestic economy. Exactly this happened in the past decade.
According to current negotiations, only about $45 billion of project military spending increases will be reduced.
Greens advocate reduction of military spending by at least $300 billion, to a level consistent with immediate self-defense needs. This would mean defunding superfluous (including nuclear) weapons programs and canceling funding for foreign bases and operations that make the U.S. an empire that exercises global domination and control over oil and other resources around the world.
The Green New Deal advocated by Green candidates, including presidential nominee Jill Stein, would reorient the nation's priorities. Instead of feeding military aggression and the bottom lines of arms manufacturers and other favored companies, the Green New Deal would invest in Green jobs and restore financial security for millions of Americans, especially those who lost homes, jobs, and savings during the recent Wall Street meltdown,
FDR's New Deal was a public investment that put 4 million jobless people to work and built infrastructure across the U.S. Huge public investments in the post-World War II decades gave us the most prosperous era in U.S. history. We need a 21st century equivalent that will promote a peacetime economy, put Americans to work, create new prosperity, and invest in job-rich technologies and projects to solve the looming global climate crisis. None of this is possible under the wartime economy and belligerent posture maintained by Democrats and Republicans,.
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The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future
Book by Ralph Nader (Harper Paperbacks, 2012)
The Most Expensive Fighter Jet Ever Built, by the Numbers
By Theodoric Meyer, ProPublica, March 14, 2013
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Karl Racine, Attorney General for the District of Columbia explains key roles District Attorney's including Consumer Protection at 2018 Professional Association for Customer Engagement Conf. More at consumer.protection@dc.govVideo by Ken Kraetzer for CBSIServices.com and PACEAssociation.org the Professional Association for Customer Engagement
The Honorable John Boehner, Speaker of the House of Representatives
The Honorable John Boehner, Speaker of the House of Representatives, speaks with Economic Club President David M. Rubenstein on September 15, 2011.
Huge Bill for Marijuana Goes Forward. Should We Legalize All Drugs?
The House Judiciary Committee approved a bill Wednesday that legalizes marijuana on the federal level, removing it from schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act.
The legislation, which passed 24 to 10, has a high chance of approval in the House where Democrats control the chamber with 234 seats. It’s likely to face a tougher battle in the Republican-controlled Senate, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell opposes marijuana legalization.
The legislation allows states to enact their own policies and gives them incentives to clear criminal records of people with low-level marijuana offenses. It also includes a 5% tax on cannabis products that would provide job training and legal assistance to those hit hardest by the war on drugs.
According to the American Civil Liberties Union, marijuana arrests account for more than half of all drug arrests in the United States. U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday repeatedly cited the disproportionate impact drug laws have had on communities of color, adding decriminalizing marijuana helps, in part, alleviate that issue.
“The criminalization of marijuana has been a mistake,” Chairman Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said during the markup of the bill. “The racial disparity in marijuana enforcement laws only compounded this mistake with serious consequences, particularly for minority communities.”
Some Republican members expressed concerns that the bill went too far and that it was unlikely to be taken up in the GOP-controlled Senate.
I don’t think a majority of the Republicans will support this bill,” Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado said Wednesday. “It is even less likely that the Senate would take it up. Therefore, I would just suggest that we deal with other bills that we can get a much larger bipartisan support from.”
In response, Nadler said that House Democrats can “negotiate” with the Senate, acknowledging Republicans won’t take the bill “as is.”
“I don’t think it’s a good idea ... to say, ‘the Senate won’t take this bill,’” he said. “When the House passes a bill, it’s part of a continuing process. It’s not the end of a process.”
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, also known as NORML, has called the legislation the “biggest marijuana news of the year.”
The bill has more than 50 co-sponsors, according to Congress.gov. Backers of a Senate version of the legislation include, presidential contender Sen. Kamala Harris.
Only 11 states in the U.S. and the District of Columbia have legalized cannabis for recreational use. Medical marijuana, prescribed by physicians, is legal in 33 states and Washington, D.C.
The committee approval comes two months after the House passed legislation that would protect banks that serve marijuana businesses in states where the substance is legal.