Tag: Policies & Impacts

US Treasury Can Meet All Obligations After Debt Ceiling Suspension

June 5, 2023
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WASHINGTON—The U.S. Treasury said it can now meet the federal government’s payment obligations after a debt ceiling suspension, following earlier warnings that it would run short of funds on Monday if Congress failed to act. “Now that Congress has acted to suspend the debt limit, Treasury has the tools needed to ensure that the U.S….

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Pennsylvania Democrats Move Forward 11 Resolutions Without a Single Republican Vote

June 5, 2023
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The Pennsylvania Legislature is not getting much done. Since the start of the session in January, the 253 full-time elected members have gotten just one non-controversial bill passed: a measure requiring insurance companies to provide screenings for breast cancer. Pennsylvania has a Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro, a Republican majority 50-member Senate, and a newly Democrat-led…

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House Republicans Target Gas Stove Regulations, Power of Administrative State

June 5, 2023
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After repeatedly failing to overturn Biden administration regulations in existing legislation, House Republicans are taking the next steps in their attempt to exert authority over the administrative state. Lawmakers discussed a series of bills intended to reach those ends during a June 5 Rules Committee hearing. “The Constitution articulates where the laws are made. It’s…

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House GOP Target Gas Stove Regulations, Power of Administrative State

June 5, 2023
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After repeatedly failing to overturn Biden administration regulations in legislation, House Republicans are taking the next steps in their attempt to exert authority over the administrative state. Lawmakers discussed a series of bills intended to reach those ends during a June 5 Rules Committee hearing. “The Constitution articulates where the laws are made. It’s here…

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Santa Monica Residents Push Backs Against Outdoor Needle Distribution Site

June 5, 2023
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Some residents in Santa Monica, an idyllic beach town in Southern California, are pushing for an outdoor county-operated program, which distributes clean syringes weekly to homeless drug users near the city’s parks, to be moved indoors to a county-owned facility. The “overdose prevention program”—which is overseen by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health’s…

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Santa Monica Residents Push Back Against Outdoor Needle Distribution Site for Homeless

June 5, 2023
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Some residents in Santa Monica, an idyllic beach town in Southern California, are pushing for an outdoor county-operated program, which distributes clean syringes weekly to homeless drug users near the city’s parks, to be moved indoors to a county-owned facility. The “overdose prevention program”—which is overseen by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health’s…

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‘Literally Impossible’: Trucking Companies Brace for California’s Electric Mandate

June 5, 2023
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Logistics companies are scrambling to meet California’s upcoming 2024 mandate that all trucks servicing ports, railyards, and distribution centers in the state be zero-emission vehicles, with experts questioning limited access to charging stations and the viability of switching from diesel to electric fleets. Availability of electric semi-trucks is a concern, as is the price of…

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Birth Rates Last Year Still Below Replacement Level, CDC Says

June 5, 2023
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American women are still having too few babies to replace themselves and their partners, the latest national birth data suggests. In what the U.S Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) described as a “nonsignificant decline,” the nation recorded 3,661,220 new babies in 2022, just a few thousand less than the year before. Overall, the…

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Supreme Court Overrules Local Governments for Seizing Homes

June 5, 2023
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The U.S. Supreme Court reversed court rulings in which local governments seized two homes over unpaid tax debts and kept sale proceeds that far exceeded the tax owed. Critics call the practice “home equity theft.” The case came after Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), which represented the homeowners in both cases, released a report late last year saying…

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[PREMIERING 7:00PM ET] This Is the Real Reason Companies Are Going Woke

June 5, 2023
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Woke culture has blanketed the world. Companies are getting behind it as corporate policy. Schools are parading it in front of children. Governments are standing behind it and protecting it through law. But is it something actually embraced by the average person, or is it an agenda being manipulated to appear more popular than it…

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