The White House released its final rule updating the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the law governing permitting and environmental review for new federal projects. CEI Senior Fellow Mario Loyola said: “America’s infrastructure modernization is drowning in red tape. Policymakers of both parties know that reforms to the National Environmental Policy Act are urgently needed. Under President … Continue reading Final NEPA Rule Will Encourage Anti-Development Lawsuits Against Fossil Fuel Projects
Hispanic voters care about real issues like the economy, school choice, and safe communities while Democrats care more about their radical agenda that’s leaving working-class families behind. Republicans continue to show up for Hispanic communities across the country and the results are speaking for themselves. Operación ¡Vamos! is focusing on sharing the GOP’s opportunity agenda … Continue reading Washington Examiner: Democrats lose Hispanic and blue-collar voters at same time
Healthcare workers at the Wesley Manor BHI retirement community in Frankfort, Indiana have won a decertification vote, and successfully removed the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 962 union from their workplace. The workers’ decertification petition was filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Region 25 office in Indianapolis, IN … Continue reading Wesley Manor Workers Vote Overwhelmingly to Remove Unwanted AFSCME Union Officials from their Workplace
Chronic pain patients provided with cannabis-based interventions significantly reduce their daily intake of prescription opioids, according to longitudinal data published in the German medical journal Schmerz. A team of German investigators assessed opioid use trends in a cohort of 178 chronic pain patients who were provided with either whole-plant cannabis extracts, nabiximols (a cannabis plant-derived oromucosal spray), or … Continue reading Study: Pain Patients Dramatically Reduce Opioid Intake Following Use of Various Cannabis Preparations
U.S. Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) called on Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Minneapolis Fed) President Neel Kashkari to stop his political lobbying and advocacy efforts because they violate the Fed’s mandate and staff code of conduct. In January 2020, the Minneapolis Fed launched an official webpage devoted to advocating for an amendment to the Minnesota … Continue reading Toomey Calls on Minneapolis Fed President to Stop Lobbying on Taxpayer’s Dime
Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo’s latest endeavor on behalf of the Biden administration to expand union membership by urging the NLRB to overturn 50 years of precedent and reinstate the 1949 Joy Silk Mills standard, which empowers the NLRB … Continue reading Foxx blasts union boss scheme to bring back Card Check forced unionism
More than half of Americans ages 18 and older acknowledge having consumed cannabis, according to nationwide survey data provided by YouGov.com. Fifty-two percent of respondents admitted having tried marijuana during their lifetimes, including 63 percent of those between the ages of 45 and 64. By contrast, those respondents between the ages of 18 and 29 years old … Continue reading Poll: Over Half of US Adults Have Tried Cannabis
Everybody knows your prosecutor can’t also be your judge. Everyone, that is, except for former Midland County, Texas, prosecutor Ralph Petty, his supervisor, and the county’s entire system of justice. Petty spent 20 years moonlighting as a law clerk for the same judges he argued before, effectively playing both prosecutor and judge in more than … Continue reading An Unethical Prosecutor Destroyed Her Dreams, Now She Seeks to Hold Him & Court System Accountable for Violating Her Constitutional Rights
Repeated power grabs by the Environmental Protection Agency have seriously imperiled the rights of property owners and must be dialed back, argued Americans for Prosperity Foundation in a Supreme Court brief today. The EPA’s strong-arm tactics have less to do with safeguarding the environment than with the agency’s desire for raw power over private land use, said … Continue reading Americans for Prosperity Foundation Files Supreme Court Brief in EPA Land Grab Case
The U.S. Department of Justice has agreed to return 100% of the funds seized—approximately $1.1 million—from Empyreal Logistics during stops of its armored vehicles by the San Bernardino County Sheriff. The funds were transferred to federal law enforcement for civil forfeiture proceedings. Represented by the Institute for Justice (IJ) and David C. Bass, Partner at KNCH LLP, … Continue reading Federal Government Will Return Over $1 Million Seized from Armored Car Company in California
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