Elections have consequences and President-Reject donald trump has nominated ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to be our next U.S. Secretary of State. Picking the CEO of one of the largest and most environmentally destructive fossil fuel corporations in the world to serve as America’s
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According to a survey from the Conservative Energy Network (CEN), there is strong conservative support for renewable energy. The survey found that there is majority support for solar power and state net metering rules. Seventy percent of respondents also said the U.S.
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Major News: Denise Turner Roth, head of the Government Service Administration has told Congress Trump will be in violation of his lease on his DC hotel as soon as he is sworn in. It’s a real conflict now.
Washington (December 13, 2016) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Foreign Relations Committee and Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement today after President-elect Donald Trump announced plans to nominate ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to be
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— by Stacy Canam. Office for Older Americans, CFPB Last week the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) took action against three reverse mortgage companies for deceptive advertisements, including claiming that consumers could not lose their homes. The CFPB is ordering American Advisors
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— by Aaron Rupar, Journalist at ThinkProgress | Twitter: @atrupar As part of the deal President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence struck with Carrier, the company has promised to make a $16 million investment in its Indianapolis facility — an investment management
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Sunday, December 11, 2016 Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), Senate Democratic Leader-elect, and Jack Reed (D-RI),
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The other day, I came across a link to a website that asked citizens to email members of the Electoral College with their concerns, so I did so. Here’s the content of my brief email stating my concerns: Dear Electors: My name
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I made my first visit to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 1998, when I was campaign manager for a longshot candidate running against an entrenched incumbent. By the time we left the building, we felt empowered and connected. We had a
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Congress Introduces Legislation To Destroy Social Security In December, 2015 just ahead of the Iowa caucuses, then-candidate Donald Trump stood up at a town hall and reassured a concerned AARP Iowa member that they “were not taking their Social Security.” In fact,
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