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Yahoo
17 hours ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump Lackey Emil Bove Up For Senate Grilling As Trump Tries To Make Him A Judge
The man who spearheaded the administration's effort to remake the Department of Justice into Trump's ideal is up for a hearing Tuesday morning before the Senate Judiciary Committee over his nomination to be a federal appeals court judge. Emil Bove is a former Manhattan federal prosecutor who, until January, was a personal lawyer to President Trump in his criminal cases. He has served in various senior roles in the first months of the Trump DOJ, including associate deputy attorney general. Trump nominated Bove to a position on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. We expect much about his DOJ tenure to come up at the hearing. Follow along below.
The Hill
a day ago
- Politics
- The Hill
Republicans restore bill language eliminating $200 fees for silencers and short-barrel rifles
Senate Republicans have revised language in President Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' to eliminate the $200 tax stamp for firearm silencers — also known as suppressors — and scrap a similar tax stamp for short-barrel rifles. It's a win for Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who pushed for the measure. Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough on Friday ruled against a section of the bill that removes regulations pertaining to gun silencers and easily concealable firearms under the National Firearms Act. She said the provision, which would have eliminated enhanced background checks for individuals who purchase suppressors, violated the Byrd Rule, which governs what legislation is eligible to pass the Senate with a simple-majority vote. Legislation advanced through the upper chamber on the budget reconciliation fast track must be primarily of a budgetary nature. Significant policy changes that have a tangential or incidental budgetary impact are subject to 60-vote point-of-order objections. The elimination of the $200 tax stamps for suppressors and short-barrel rifles is included in Section 70436 of the revised Senate bill, which Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), released late Friday evening. Cornyn and Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz (R-Texas) scored another victory when GOP leaders kept language in the updated Senate bill providing $85 million for the transfer of the Discovery space shuttle from the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum to a non-profit group in Houston. The parliamentarian had advised on Friday that the section of the bill appropriating money for the transfer violated the Byrd Rule. Cornyn's and Cruz's staff revised the language later Friday to pass muster with the parliamentarian and it was included in the latest version of the Senate budget reconciliation bill. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has told Republican colleagues they will vote to proceed to the House-passed reconciliation package on Saturday. Senators will then amend that bill with the 940-page Senate substitute text.
Time of India
2 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
‘Who was the real Prez?': Senate Committee probes ‘Biden cover-up' in fiery ‘unfit to serve' hearing - The Economic Times Video
Tensions erupted during a fiery Senate Judiciary Committee hearing as GOP Senators accused Democrats of orchestrating a years-long cover-up of former President Joe Biden's cognitive health. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) delivered a blistering rebuke, demanding answers on who was truly making decisions in the White House.
Newsweek
2 days ago
- Health
- Newsweek
GOP Senator: Medicaid Is Broken. Republicans Are Trying To Save It
As an OB-GYN in rural Kansas, I delivered a baby almost every day for over 25 years. About half of these deliveries were on Medicaid, and another 10 to 20 percent were done without reimbursement. Every doctor in our community, and our hospital, took all comers; no one was turned away based on their ability to pay. We thought it was our duty, our obligation to society. It's why we wanted to become doctors: to serve our fellow human beings. All this despite no increase in reimbursement from Medicaid in my 25 years of practicing medicine. I've said it many times: Medicaid is the most broken program in the country. Having Medicaid does not mean you have access to health care. Only 74 percent of physicians accept Medicaid, and many of those who say they do never see patients on Medicaid. Others string out appointments and limit the number they will see. Many specialists use the "busy schedule excuse" and give Medicaid patients appointments months and months out; for all practical purposes, they exclude them from their practice. Over the past five years, Medicaid spending has increased by hundreds of billions of dollars while American health outcomes have declined. Our plan will strengthen and save Medicaid for those who need it the most. By keeping the program fiscally solvent, Republicans are protecting seniors in nursing homes and all those with disabilities. We are ensuring funding will remain available for pregnant moms and prioritizing funding for children. In fact, almost half of all the children in the country—37 million—are now on Medicaid's CHIP program. We must prioritize every dollar we have for those who need it the most. US Senator Roger Marshall, a Republican from Kansas, testifies during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled "Breaking the Visa-Mastercard Duopoly: Bringing Competition and Lower Fees to the Credit Card System" on Capitol Hill in Washington,... US Senator Roger Marshall, a Republican from Kansas, testifies during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled "Breaking the Visa-Mastercard Duopoly: Bringing Competition and Lower Fees to the Credit Card System" on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on November 19, 2024. More ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP/Getty Images Over 60 percent of Americans support work requirements for Medicaid; a job is the best safety net out there, not to mention a great treatment for mental health and addiction issues. I believe there are better solutions out there than throwing more money at a program that doesn't work well. More block grants to federally funded Community Health Centers, which are developing a broad-based, more holistic approach to health care—which I believe will become a big part of the "Make America Healthy Again" movement. Another is block grants to rural hospitals, which are struggling. The best thing we can do for rural hospitals is strengthen our agricultural economy, which last year suffered its largest drop in net income in my lifetime. The GOP-led farm bill will help do just that; provisions related to biofuel production, taxes on farmers, and crop insurance will boost rural America's economy. Rural hospitals are a reflection of their local economies, and with populations declining in many rural counties, the financial base to support rural hospitals is no longer there. Any hospital that builds its financial survival based on dependence on Medicaid is bound to fail. We hope that this GOP bill spurs the economy, and expect that if anyone loses Medicaid, it'll only be because they found a good job with benefits. A good job is the best safety net out there. Roger Marshall, M.D., a Republican, is the junior U.S. senator from Kansas. He sits on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. The views expressed in this article are the writer's own.
Engadget
4 days ago
- Business
- Engadget
US senators reintroduce bill to open Apple and Google's app stores
Senators Marsha Blacburn (R-Tenn.), Mike Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) have reintroduced a bill that would force app store owners like Apple and Google to allow third-party payment systems and sideloading apps, among a collection of other developer-friendly changes. The bill, called the Open App Markets App, was originally introduced in 2021, but it never came up for a vote after passing through the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2022. The Open App Markets Act applies its changes to app stores with 50,000 monthly users or more, most obviously applicable to the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. Like the original bill, the reintroduced Open App Markets Act wants covered companies to allow things like sideloading, third-party app stores and alternative payments systems, while protecting developers ability to "tell consumers about lower prices and offer competitive pricing." It would also prevent app store operators from privileging their own apps and services in app store search results. While the aims of the new bill are largely the same as the original one, the legal environment is meaningfully different. Apple has been forced to allow third-party app stores and alternative payment systems in the European Union following the introduction of the Digital Markets Act in 2022. Thanks to its failure to make good on the small concession Epic won via its lawsuit, Apple has also been forced to allow developers to direct customers to pay for things outside of the App Store and its in-app payments system. The Open App Markets Act would make these kinds of changes the law in the US. It seems possible the bill could pass, too. Regulatory pressure on tech companies has only increased since 2021. For example, Utah recently passed an age-verification law that would require app stores to only allow users 18 and up to make an account.
