Category: Federal

  • U.S. House passes the Federal Register Modernization Act

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    The U.S. House passed a bill that would change printing requirements for the Federal Register. The Federal Register is a legal newspaper published every federal business day by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the Government Publishing Office (GPO). The Federal Register lists new administrative agency rules and regulations in addition to policy…

  • President Trump issues first veto of presidency

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    President Trump issued the first veto of his presidency Friday when he blocked Congress’ resolution of disapproval of his declaration of a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump declared the national emergency on February 15 after Congress did not meet his request for border wall funding in a government funding deal.   The resolution…

  • Federal Register weekly update; lowest weekly page total since January

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    The Federal Register is a daily journal of federal government activity that includes presidential documents, proposed and final rules, and public notices. It is a common measure of an administration’s regulatory activity.   During the week of March 11 to March 15, the number of pages in the Federal Register increased by 1,104 pages, bringing…

  • DOJ asks SCOTUS to consider constitutional claim against census citizenship question

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    The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) requested on March 11 that the U.S. Supreme Court weigh in on Judge Richard Seeborg’s constitutional claim challenging the addition of a citizenship question on the U.S. Census when it hears Department of Commerce v. New York in April 2019. Seeborg’s ruling was the second decision by a federal…

  • U.S. Senate confirms Rao to D.C. Circuit

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    The U.S. Senate voted 53-46 on March 13 to confirm Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) Administrator Neomi Rao to replace Brett Kavanaugh on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. All Republican senators voted in favor of Rao while all Democratic senators opposed her confirmation. President Trump nominated…

  • Senate confirms second circuit court nominee without approval from home-state senators

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    On March 12, the U.S. Senate confirmed Paul Matey to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit on a vote of 54-45. President Trump nominated Matey to the court on April 12, 2018. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V. ) was the only Democratic senator to vote in favor of the confirmation. Matey will join…

  • More than 600 candidates have filed to run for president

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    More than 600 candidates have filed with the Federal Election Commission to run for president in 2020. Democrats outpace Republicans by more than 2:1.   While there are 14 notable Democratic candidates already in the race, the field has not yet settled with announcements still expected from former Vice President Joe Biden (R) and former…

  • Twenty-six file to run in North Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District special election

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    Twenty-six candidates filed to run in the special election to fill North Carolina’s vacant 3rd Congressional District seat. The candidates include six Democrats, 17 Republicans, one Constitution Party candidate, and two Libertarians. The vacancy occurred when former Rep. Walter Jones (R) died on February 10. Jones had held the seat since 1995. Primaries are scheduled…

  • Manafort sentenced to almost 4 years in bank fraud case

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    Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced to 47 months in prison in what was the first of two rounds of sentencing. He was convicted last year of five counts of tax fraud, two counts of bank fraud, and one count of failure to disclose a foreign bank account. Manafort’s convictions did not relate…

  • Senate Judiciary Committee advances Rao’s nomination to D.C. Circuit

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    The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12-10 in a party-line vote on February 28 to advance OIRA Administrator Neomi Rao’s nomination to replace Brett Kavanaugh on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.   The vote took place less than a week after Senate Judiciary Committee member Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) raised…