News by subject: POL

Today, Congresswoman Betty McCollum (DFL-Minn.) launched the Congressional Celiac Disease Caucus, along with U.S. Representatives Jake Auchincloss (D-MA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Matt Cartwright (D-PA), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Brian Fitzpatrick...

Restore Liberty, a citizen-led organization, is sponsoring a peaceful veteran gathering on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021.The Reaffirm and Remember Muster 2021 begins promptly at 10:00 a.m. ET, at the bottom of the steps at the Abraham Lincoln Memorial. This...

Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas has mailed out nearly 1.8 million Second Installment property tax bills. Payments are due Oct. 1. The new bills will bring the total amount billed countywide for 2020 to more than $16.1 billion, an increase of more...

Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions (CRES) today called on U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to swiftly bring to the House floor the freestanding bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), which passed the U.S. Senate in...

Two significant court rulings have put a halt to the Biden administration's efforts to end an effective border security program and the deportation of illegal aliens already in the United States. The question is now whether or not they will comply in...

Leading gubernatorial candidate Kevin Paffrath, a JFK-style Democrat, will be visiting eight cities campaigning this weekend. He is planning multiple, local campaign stops where he will be meeting supports and talking to the media. Mr. Paffrath will...

Former Atlanta City Councilmember Alex Wan has announced his bid to again represent Council District 6. This follows the recent announcement by District 6 Councilmember Jennifer Ide that she will not seek reelection in November; Ide succeeded Wan...

Reston-based consulting firm Counter Threat Solutions LLC (CTS) has once again earned recognition as one of Inc. magazine's fastest growing private companies. This marks the second consecutive year CTS has been named to the prestigious list, which...

America First Political Committee Chairman KW Miller today demanded that the U.S. Military be fully deployed in Afghanistan to rescue all Americans who were left behind by Joe Biden. America is a 'leaderless nation,' a global embarrassment. "The...

The Global Digital Asset & Cryptocurrency Association (GDCA)'s Advocacy Subcommittee Chairwoman Jill Richmond released the following statement in conjunction with GDCA member-endorsed letters submitted to the leadership of the U.S. House Ways & Means...

A group of 15 civil rights, business and education advocacy organizations asked Education Secretary Miguel Cardona today to detail the administration's plans for resuming state assessment and school improvement requirements set by federal law and...

First Political Committee Chairman KW Miller Addresses the Afghanistan Catastrophe in 'Powerful State of the Union Speech.'  "Afghanistan is just the tip of the iceberg in the complete failure of the leftist socialist Joe Biden government, which...

Rhode Island Housing and Mortgage Finance Corporation (RIHousing) is allocating emergency rental assistance (ERA) to local tenants and landlords affected by the COVID-19 pandemic using Rent Relief software and services from Yardi®. RIHousing's ERA...

The group gathering signatures to qualify a recall of controversial San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin has come up short....

Results of a newly released Long Island University Steven S. Hornstein Center for Policy, Polling and Analysis national poll reveal what Americans think of the federal infrastructure bill proposal.  ...

The nonprofit group Consumer Watchdog applauded the decision by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to investigate Tesla's Autopilot feature and crashes related to it....

Khaled Salem, popular candidate for U.S. Senate running against incumbent Chuck Schumer in 2022, today released a statement to President Biden in favor of substantially increasing U.S. military support for Israel. Salem acknowledged the recent "Human...

Alcohol Justice, the San Rafael, California-based alcohol industry watchdog and the California Alcohol Policy Alliance (CAPA) are charging California legislators with GUI (Governing Under the Influence) for accepting special interest money and...

Leading gubernatorial candidate Kevin Paffrath, a JFK-style Democrat, will be in Los Angeles and San Diego campaigning today. He is planning multiple, local campaign stops in Los Angeles and San Diego. Mr. Paffrath will be available for interviews at...

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. ("TekSavvy") today applauded the unanimous resolution passed by the Ontario Big City Mayors (OBCM), which calls upon the federal Cabinet to reinstate a key 2019 CRTC decision that would lower Canadian internet prices (the 2019...

Vaccination is the most effective tool to reduce the risk of COVID-19 for Canadians and to protect broader public health. It is our most important instrument and so we continue to take action to get as many Canadians vaccinated as possible. The...

CEO of American Human Rights Organization and candidate for U.S. Senate against incumbent Chuck Schumer in 2022, Khaled Salem, said today, in the strongest terms, "Fight back against Hamas and Hezbollah. Call out Iran as the 'heinous pimp' of global...

Today, OSFI confirmed that the exclusion of sovereign-issued securities from the leverage ratio exposure measure for deposit-taking institutions (DTIs), introduced at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, will not be extended past December 31, 2021. ...

Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas will post the Second Installment property tax bills online after 10 a.m. today at cookcountytreasurer.com. The new bills will bring the total amount billed countywide for 2020 to more than $16.1 billion, an increase...

Esper, a fast-growing govtech startup, recently announced an $8M Series A led by Cota Capital with participation from 8VC, Gaingels, and Stand Together Ventures Lab. To date, this round brings Esper's total funding to over $14M in capital raised....

With the September 14 recall on the horizon, the nonpartisan Pacific Research Institute today released Saving California, a new book offering realistic, market-based reforms to 10 of the state's major policy challenges. The authors are current or...

First Book, a nonprofit social enterprise dedicated to educational equity as a path out of poverty, today released the findings of a nationwide survey of 2,004 educators serving kids in need that examines their spending priorities for American Rescue...

Family Research Council submitted a public comment to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding the proposed rule with the deceptively innocuous title, "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Updating Payment Parameters and...

The following statement can be attributed to Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), in response to the Biden administration's extension of the Title 42 public health order:...

In the first initiative of its kind, an £85 million approach to funding for affordable housing with variable tenures that can last from one day to a lifetime is launched today by Orchard & Shipman.   Working with specialist advisors Revenue and...

K2 Integrity, the preeminent risk, compliance, investigations, and monitoring firm co-founded by Jeremy M. Kroll and Jules B. Kroll, welcomes today's announcement by the U.S. Department of the Treasury that Himamauli Das, K2 Integrity Senior Managing...

Magnolia Medical Technologies, Inc., inventors of Steripath®, the only FDA 510(k)-cleared device platform indicated to reduce blood culture contamination for sepsis testing,1 today commended the U.S. House of Representatives following the passage of...

Establishing a two-part drug pricing system quantifying separate values for a drug's innovation and production would create an efficient market and a more accurate reflection of how patients value a drug compared to those produced by centralized...

Scarinci Hollenbeck is pleased to announce that Partner and Chair of the firm's Education law practice group John G. Geppert and Sarah A. Gober successfully secured a ruling on behalf of the Hackensack Board of Education. The case involved a dispute...

U.S. Senate candidate for New York Khaled Salem today announced his 100% support for justified retaliation by Israel in response to the Israeli Foreign Minister's statement that as of now "Iran is not just an Israeli problem." Salem is running...

American Jewish Committee (AJC) praised the Biden Administration for appointing today Rashad Hussain as United States Ambassador at-Large for International Religious Freedom. He will be the first Muslim to serve in this position. "Rashad Hussain is...

Insurance companies have overcharged Californians by billions of dollars since the COVID-19 lockdowns began in March 2020, sixteen months ago. Today, in a letter to California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, Consumer Watchdog proposed a plan to...

With food banks operating on or near every military installation in the United States and a growing need for food among military families Craig Newmark Philanthropies announced an additional $100,000 investment in MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger...

The following is a statement from Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa on the Senate's confirmation of David Prouty and Gwynne Wilcox this week to serve on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which will give Democrats a majority at the...

InsureMyTrip, the nation's first-and-largest travel insurance marketplace, is seeing an increase in travel insurance policies purchased for cruises. This, as Disney becomes the latest cruise line to require travel insurance for unvaccinated...

The Teamsters are applauding the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee for passing the Fair and Open Skies Act, HR 3095. The bill was approved unanimously yesterday by voice vote....

Khaled Salem, the Egyptian-American U.S. Senate candidate running against incumbent Chuck Schumer in the 2022 election and CEO of American Human Rights, today expressed outrage that Staten Island borough residents are still paying a discounted...

Today, Intersections of Our Lives released new, national polling data demonstrating the intersectionality of the experiences of Black, Latina/x, Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women voters. This new research explores the experiences of...

Craig Snyder ? a former Senate Chief of Staff and nationally acclaimed GOP political and policy thought leader ? today declared his candidacy in the 2022 Pennsylvania GOP primary contest to replace Pat Toomey, Pennsylvania's retiring US Senator. View...

New Jersey's leading business journal NJBiz recently ranked Scarinci Hollenbeck's Founding & Managing Partner Donald Scarinci #7 on their annual Law Power 50 list. The annual list recognizes the most influential attorneys in the state. "I am...

Governor Greg Gianforte, the Montana Congressional Delegation of Senators Tester and Daines, and Representative Matt Rosendale will join Rimrock and GoMo Health in marking the Rimrock Concierge program for individuals who are struggling with...

The Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) and InterExchange, two non-profit sponsors of BridgeUSA programs, have founded the Coalition for American Public Diplomacy and Leadership (CAPDL) to cultivate a network of supporters who will...

Critically acclaimed celebrity Patrick Kilpatrick announced his bid to be the next Governor of California. With the current establishment unable and unwilling to adapt to the needs of its citizens, the time is ripe for a change. Mr. Kilpatrick is...

Attorney Rella Zapletal has entered the race for City Council District "B" against failed incumbent, Jay Banks, to deliver a bigger focus to solutions for public safety, infrastructure, and affordable housing to our City Council at a pivotal moment....

Slaughter Free Chicago, a campaign launched by nonprofit Free From Harm, has announced a new initiative that demands Governor JB Pritzker replace Illinois Department of Agriculture Director Jerry Costello after an independent investigation revealed...