President Joe Biden on Tuesday issued the first three pardons of his presidency — including one to a Secret Service agent who guarded President John F. Kennedy — and commuted the sentences of 75 others, the White House announced. “Today, I am pardoning three people who have demonstrated their commitment …
Read More »DOJ Appeals Federal Ruling That Overturned Travel Mask Mandate
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is asking the Department of Justice (DOJ) to proceed with its appeal of a ruling issued by a Florida judge on Monday, which tossed out the Biden administration’s travel mask mandate. “To protect CDC’s public health authority beyond the ongoing assessment announced …
Read More »Biden Administration May Appeal Ruling On Travel Mask Mandate
The Biden administration will appeal a federal judge’s order striking down a mask mandate for air travel and public transit, subject to a decision by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Justice Department said in a Tuesday night statement. The CDC has yet to conclude that the …
Read More »Biden Talks Infrastructure Plans In New Hampshire
President Joe Biden visited New Hampshire on Tuesday to talk about his $1.2 trillion investment in infrastructure. In his speech at the New Hampshire State Port Authority, Biden said that America is healthier than ever as it emerges from the coronavirus pandemic. “We’re the only country in the world that I believe …
Read More »Biden Administration Announces Steps To Boost Equity In Government
Dozens of federal agencies launched action plans last week that focus on minority groups and other underserved communities, meant to increase equity in government by opening federal programs to more people and reduce racial disparities caused by government decisions. The plans come in response to an executive order President Joe …
Read More »Biden Announces New Judicial Nominees Bringing Total Federal Bench Appointments To 90
President Joe Biden announced five new federal judicial nominees Wednesday, three for district court positions and two of them former Obama appointees now being vaulted to the appellate circuits. Judge John Z. Lee has been judge in the Northern District of Illinois since 2012. Biden is nominating him to be …
Read More »Biden: Biofuels ‘have a role to play’ In Easing Gas Prices
by Katie Akin, Iowa Capital Dispatch April 12, 2022 MENLO, Ia. — In response to rising gas prices, President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that fuel stations may sell cheaper, higher-ethanol blend fuels through the summer. “I’m here today because home-grown biofuels have a role to play right now… as we …
Read More »Biden To Nominate New ATF Director; Announce New Rules On Ghost Guns
On Monday, President Joe Biden will announce that he is nominating Steve Dettelbach to serve as Director of The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Dettelbach is a former U.S. Attorney and career prosecutor who spent over two decades as a prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice. In 2009, he …
Read More »Ketanji Brown Jackson At White House: ‘We’ve made it, all of us’
by Jacob Fischler, Idaho Capital Sun April 8, 2022 Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson accepted her dual roles Friday as the next U.S. Supreme Court justice and as a symbol of racial progress. Speaking outside the White House with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris looking on, and her …
Read More »Biden Signs Executive Order To Fix ‘Family Glitch’ In Affordable Care Act
Former President Barack Obama joined President Joe Biden on Tuesday at the White House to celebrate the 12th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare. During the event, President Biden signed an executive order to close the so-called “family glitch,” a loophole in the Affordable Care Act that limits coverage …
Read More »Statement by President Biden Marking 54 Years Since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassination
“A few years ago, I visited the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, which is the site of the Lorraine Motel. I stood on its balcony, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. last stood before a hateful gunman took away his last breath fifty-four years ago today. The motel balcony …
Read More »Biden OKs Release Of 1 Million Barrels Of Oil A Day From Reserve
by Jacob Fischler, Idaho Capital Sun March 31, 2022 On Thursday, President Joe Biden said he would release 1 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve daily for the next six months and spur mining companies to increase their production of the materials used to power electric vehicles. …
Read More »White House Launches ‘one-stop shop’ Website For COVID-19 Information
President Joe Biden on Wednesday introduced his administration’s new website, COVID.gov, designed to be a “one-stop shop” for the latest pandemic information, as well as a means of providing access to vaccines, tests, treatments and masks on a single site. Biden unveiled the site while asking Congress to approve an …
Read More »Biden Budget Plan Would Levy Minimum Tax On Billionaires, Boost National Security
by Jennifer Shutt, Missouri Independent March 28, 2022 WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden sent a new $5.8 trillion budget request to Congress on Monday that calls on lawmakers to institute a minimum tax on billionaires and boost spending on national security. The proposal, which lawmakers will undoubtedly change, asks Congress …
Read More »Biden Administration To Give Federal Employees Time Off To Vote, Work The Polls
The Biden administration last week announced that federal agencies will now allow employees to take time off to vote in federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial elections. Employees may also use leave to serve as non-partisan poll workers or observers. Vice President Kamala Harris highlighted the new guidance from the …
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