Tag: President Joseph Biden
Keystone Pipeline and a Key New Lobbyist
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TransCanada Pipelines, the firm behind construction of the politically controversial Keystone Pipeline, has hired Putala Strategies to lobby for its interests in Washington,...
Federal Student Loan COO Steps Down
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In a development that creates a new post for the new Biden administration to fill, Mark A. Brown, the chief operating officer of the...
Tanden Bows Out of OMB Nomination Fight
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The President's choice to head the Office of Management and Budget, Neera Tanden, has withdrawn herself from consideration. It had become clear that...
Student Debt Forgiveness
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One of the big challenges now facing the Biden administration involves the forgiveness of student debt, i.e., debt incurred in the pursuit of...
Biden Reversing the Trump Admin Medicaid Policy
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is now displaying the consequences of its new Biden-administration leadership. On Friday, February 12, the CMMS...
Health: WHO Doesn’t Think Covid Began in a Lab
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The World Health Organization announced last week that it has studied the question of the origins of the coronavirus behind the ongoing pandemic....
Long-Delayed New York 22d Race Decided at Last
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The contested campaign for the Congressional seat for New York's 22d District gave rise to a long-running saga of razor-tight counts and litigation....
Military Takes Control in Myanmar
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On the morning of February 1, 2021, in Myanmar (the country in southeast Asia formerly known as Burma), the military took power, declaring...
Health: A Wartime Ramp-up of Production
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On his first full day as President of the United States, Joseph Biden issued an executive order on a "sustainable public health supply...
It’s Official: Joseph Biden is President of the United States
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After an extraordinary two weeks of security preparations following the Capitol Hill riot on the day Congress counted the electoral votes, and in...