Tag Archives: Republicans

Why Trump’s pick for top prosecutor in DC isn’t sailing through Senate approval

Ed Martin Jr., a conservative activist with modest legal experience who has defended rioters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is testing Republican party loyalties as a deadline approaches for the Senate to decide whether to extend or end his brief but tumultuous tenure as leader of the country’s largest U.S. Attorney’s office.

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Author: PBS News

House Republicans wrestle with how to make $1.5 trillion in cuts

After a frenzied week of small group meetings, leadership listening sessions and private committee discussions, House Republicans are still grappling with core disagreements over how they will extract $1.5 trillion in savings over the next decade. Questions over how to overhaul Medicaid and which tax provisions to pay for are front and center and the divides are still so entrenched that GOP members and aides aren’t ready to begin hearings next week on key elements of the bill.

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Author: Lauren Fox

House Committee Offers Fossil Fuel Industry a ‘Once in a Generation’ Opportunity to Develop on Public Lands

Sacred Native American sites, public lands and undeveloped landscapes on and off shore are once again under threat from President Trump and congressional Republicans after the House Natural Resources Committee released draft legislation Friday that would make substantial changes to how fossil fuel companies doing, or hoping to do, business on public lands are regulated.  […]

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Author: By Jake Bolster