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Congress should take the appointment power for its own agencies
Early last year President Trump fired the Librarian of Congress allegedly for her promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the agency, amid a string of firings of top government officials appointed by prior presidents. But unlike wi...
Lake America and the U.S. Board of Geographic Names
As the Trump Administration engages in a trade war with Canada, President Trump signed an Executive Order to re-name Lake Ontario to Lake America. In similar fashion to the Gulf of Mexico last year, some digital map providers, namely Google...
Trump rule on mail-in voting halted, for now
In March, President Trump signed an Executive Order to require states to submit their voter rolls to USPS, which would adopt certain rules when it comes to the delivery of mailed ballots in federal elections. The proposed rules include requ...
President Trump sells early access to his social media posts
The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) defines insider trading as “buying or selling a security, in breach of a fiduciary duty or other relationship of trust and confidence, on the basis of material, nonpublic information about the securi...
House passes congressional stock buying ban
On July 22 the House passed the Stop Insider Trading Act (SITA), with a poison pill for the Senate. The main part of the legislation would increase penalties for insider trading in Congress from $200 to $2000 or 10% of the value of the tran...
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Tracking the U.S. Congress and the White House at www.govtrack.us.
Democracy, congressional reform. Writes the First Branch Forecast for the American Governance Institute.
I am a turtle (am I?) and the founder of GovTrack.us. By day, I am a software engineer at a scientific software company.
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