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EPA head Regan, who championed environmental justice, to leave office Dec. 31

WASHINGTON — Michael Regan, who championed environmental justice as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, will leave the agency Dec. 31, three weeks before the end of President Joe Biden’s term. Regan led EPA “with compassion and skill” and “advanced historic environmental justice policies to better protect the health and well-being of every American,” Carper said. Regan, who worked at …

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EXCLUSIVE: Senate Dems consider whether Biden should ‘clear the slate’ and pardon Trump

Raw Story

President Joe Biden’s 180-degree flip on Sunday from his promise not to pardon his son Hunter Biden prompted fierce backlash from politicians and pundits, calling the move a “ tremendous strategic blunder that will haunt Democrats,” “ the worst thing a president could possibly do to his party ” and “ the biggest public corruption scandal ever.” While some legal …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

First trans politician elected to Congress

The Telegraph

Congress will see its first openly transgender member with the election of Sarah McBride to Delaware’s single seat in the House of Representatives. ‘I didn’t run to make history’ “Tonight is a testament to Delawareans that we have shown time and time again that in this state of neighbours, we judge candidates based on their ideas and not their identities,” …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Delaware’s state primaries

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Delaware’s most prominent elected official, President Joe Biden, may have upended the presidential race in July when he dropped his bid for a second term, but it’s the impending departures of two other prominent Democratic officeholders, Gov. Carney will leave statewide office next year after two terms as governor, two terms as lieutenant governor and three terms as …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Old-time feel, modern wit and an upright bass

ABC

Beccy talks to country adventurer/crooner/upright bassist Melissa Carper - who's body of work shakes up an effortless mix of classic country, blues and old time jazz. Our Spotlight album is from the superstar and super-hit-packed Twisters soundtrack - featuring Lainey Wilson, Megan Moroney, Tyler Childers, Tucker Wetmore and Alabama's Red Clay Strays - Double J's Henry Wagons beams into the …

5 months, 1 week ago

Melissa Carper 'Borned In Ya'

ABC

Austin, Texas based musical treasure – Melissa Carper – releases her new LP, ‘Borned In Ya’, via Mae Music/Thirty Tigers. The film featured an interview with roots music icon Ralph Stanley; “I don’t think you can get this sound unless it’s borned in ya,” he said when asked about what he called “old-time mountain music.” When Carper heard those words, …

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6 months, 1 week ago

A grown-up FIDLAR rages wisely while maintaining lack of concern during the making of ‘Surviving the Dream’

LA Times

When the three remaining members of rock band FIDLAR decided to take a little break at the end of 2019, they didn’t count on a global pandemic extending their hiatus to nearly three years. So for their newly announced album, “Surviving the Dream,” Carper, Schwartzel and Kuehn found themselves back in a friend’s studio recording and producing their own songs …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

'What a piece of work': Marjorie Greene's 'childish' SOTU response trashed by Senate Dems

Raw Story

WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans' cold, rude and, at times, antagonistic reactions to Thursday night’s State of the Union address has one of President Joe Biden’s closest allies missing Richard Nixon. “We're not perfect by any stretch on our side, but what's happened, especially with Trump, is very, very sad,” Sen. Tom Carper told Raw Story as he walked through the …

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1 year ago

Senate swiftly confirms top military brass, ending months-long campaign by GOP Sen. Tuberville

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Senate unanimously confirmed 11 top-ranking military officers late Tuesday, ending a months-long blockade staged by a single Republican, Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama. Without debate, the Senate swiftly confirmed the military officials, including four-star generals, whose promotions and family livelihoods had been held up by the GOP senator protesting the Defense Department’s policy on abortion. In a …

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1 year, 3 months ago

GOP lawmaker breaks financial law after ripping opponent for breaking financial law

Raw Story

A New Jersey freshman congressman has violated a decade-old financial disclosure and conflicts-of-interest law — the same one he slammed his opponent for breaking. Kean’s violation, first reported by the New Jersey Globe, is particularly notable given that his 2022 campaign for Congress hit his Democratic opponent, then-Rep. Tom Malinowski, with withering criticism over Malinowski’s numerous STOCK Act violations. “I …

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1 year, 4 months ago

‘Undermining the integrity of Congress:’ Four more GOP lawmakers just violated a federal law

Raw Story

Four Republican members of Congress have blown past a federal deadline for disclosing personal stock trades, with some more than a year late, a Raw Story analysis of congressional financial documents reveals. “So, there's lots of concerns there, and, of course, they get to vote and make decisions that could impact the financial state of various companies and industries, so …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Florida congresswoman — a former DNC chair — is months late disclosing family stock sale. Again.

Raw Story

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, was seven months late disclosing a family stock sale, according to a federal financial document reviewed by Raw Story. Wasserman Schultz first appeared to violate the STOCK Act in 2021 when she was seven months late disclosing up to $60,000 of her and her dependent child’s stock purchases …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Democratic senator keeps breaking conflicts-of-interest law over and over and over again

Raw Story

Members of Congress keep struggling to comply with a decade-old financial disclosure and transparency law — the latest, two federal lawmakers who were late reporting stock and U.S. Treasury transactions. “Senator Carper is working with the Ethics Committee so he can fully resolve the matter.” The STOCK Act — passed in 2012 to stop insider trading, curb conflicts-of-interest and enhance …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Delaware congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester announces bid for US Senate

Associated Press

— Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester, Delaware’s lone representative in the U.S. House, announced Wednesday that she is running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by fellow Democrat Tom Carper. Blunt Rochester, who once interned for Carper when he was in the House and also served in Carper’s Cabinet when he was governor, was reelected to a fourth term in …

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1 year, 6 months ago

‘How can we trust her?’: Florida congresswoman violates same financial law she blasted rival for breaking

Raw Story

Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, the Florida congresswoman who blasted her Democratic predecessor for violating a federal conflicts-of-interest and financial disclosure law, appears to have broken the same law herself. This isn’t Salazar’s first STOCK Act slip-up: Just last year, Insider reported that Salazar was more than two months late in disclosing $500,000 in stock of senior healthcare services company, Cano …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Can’t stop, won’t stop: Another congressman violates STOCK Act

Raw Story

A dozen lawmakers have now violated a federal conflicts-of-interest and financial disclosure law in 2023 — the latest a Republican representative from Nebraska, according to a Raw Story analysis of congressional financial documents. Rep. Adrian Smith was more than a year late disclosing some of his wife’s purchases of stock in CarterBaldwin, an executive search firm, according to a new …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware won’t seek reelection, opening up seat in liberal state

Associated Press

— Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware announced Monday that he will not seek reelection to a fifth term in the U.S. Senate. The options, according to the former two-term governor, were vying for a record 15th statewide election win, or to just “ride off into the sunset and call it day.” “After a good deal of prayer and introspection, …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Busted: These 6 members of Congress violated a federal conflicts-of-interest law

Raw Story

At least six more members of Congress have violated the STOCK Act by failing to disclose transactions — up to $376,280 collectively — within a 45-day federal deadline, according to a Raw Story analysis of congressional financial documents. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, who last year led Democratic House leadership’s self-aborted effort to ban congressional stock trading, violated the STOCK Act with …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Pelosi lieutenant who sponsored congressional stock ban bill just violated the STOCK Act

Raw Story

Rep. Zoe Lofgren, who last year led Democratic House leadership’s self-aborted effort to ban congressional stock trading, just became the latest lawmaker to violate the STOCK Act with up to $265,000 in late financial disclosures, according to a Raw Story analysis of financial records. Lofgren in September introduced the Combatting Financial Conflicts of Interest in Government Act, which would ban …

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1 year, 7 months ago

‘I mistakenly left it in draft’: Republican violates STOCK Act with up to $5 million in late disclosures

Raw Story

Rep. Dan Bishop is the latest federal lawmaker to violate the STOCK Act by failing to properly disclose purchasing up to $5 million in U.S. Treasury notes, according to a Raw Story analysis of congressional financial disclosures. The disclosure said, “The submittal of this report is late because I mistakenly left it in draft and failed to submit when originally …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Biden vetoes bill that sought to toss EPA water protections

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Defending his administration’s actions on clean water, President Joe Biden on Thursday vetoed a congressional resolution that would have overturned protections for the nation’s waterways that Republicans have criticized as overly intrusive. “The increased uncertainty” caused by the congressional action “would threaten economic growth, including for agriculture, local economies and downstream communities,’' Biden said in his veto statement. …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Sen. Tom Carper just violated this federal transparency and conflicts-of-interest law

Raw Story

Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware violated a transparency and conflicts-of-interest law by disclosing one of his wife's stock trades more than a year after a federal deadline, according to a Raw Story review of congressional financial disclosure records. Carper on Tuesday disclosed that Martha Ann Stacy sold $2,991.98 worth of stock in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd., although the trade …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Congress approves measure to toss Biden’s water protections

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Congress on Wednesday approved a resolution to overturn the Biden administration’s protections for the nation’s waterways that Republicans have criticized as a burden on business, advancing a measure that President Joe Biden has promised to veto. Republicans have targeted the Biden administration’s protections for thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways, labeling it an environmental overreach that …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Senate Committee That Grilled Norfolk Southern’s CEO Is Awash In Company’s Cash

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Norfolk Southern’s corporate PAC has donated more than $375,000 to members of the Senate committee that grilled the railroad’s chief executive on Thursday about the toxic derailment of one of the company’s trains in East Palestine, Ohio. Biden administration officials and Democrats want to keep the focus on Norfolk Southern and are broadly wary of Republicans using …

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EPA head Regan, who championed environmental justice, to leave office Dec. 31

EXCLUSIVE: Senate Dems consider whether Biden should ‘clear the slate’ and pardon Trump

First trans politician elected to Congress

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Delaware’s state primaries

Old-time feel, modern wit and an upright bass

Melissa Carper 'Borned In Ya'

A grown-up FIDLAR rages wisely while maintaining lack of concern during the making of ‘Surviving the Dream’

'What a piece of work': Marjorie Greene's 'childish' SOTU response trashed by Senate Dems

Senate swiftly confirms top military brass, ending months-long campaign by GOP Sen. Tuberville

GOP lawmaker breaks financial law after ripping opponent for breaking financial law

‘Undermining the integrity of Congress:’ Four more GOP lawmakers just violated a federal law

Florida congresswoman — a former DNC chair — is months late disclosing family stock sale. Again.

Democratic senator keeps breaking conflicts-of-interest law over and over and over again

Delaware congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester announces bid for US Senate

‘How can we trust her?’: Florida congresswoman violates same financial law she blasted rival for breaking

Can’t stop, won’t stop: Another congressman violates STOCK Act

Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware won’t seek reelection, opening up seat in liberal state

Busted: These 6 members of Congress violated a federal conflicts-of-interest law

Pelosi lieutenant who sponsored congressional stock ban bill just violated the STOCK Act

‘I mistakenly left it in draft’: Republican violates STOCK Act with up to $5 million in late disclosures

Biden vetoes bill that sought to toss EPA water protections

Sen. Tom Carper just violated this federal transparency and conflicts-of-interest law

Congress approves measure to toss Biden’s water protections

Senate Committee That Grilled Norfolk Southern’s CEO Is Awash In Company’s Cash