Investigating Power
Climate, Democracy, Environment, Trump
Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee have suspended their panel’s rules to force through Scott Pruitt’s nomination to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ALEC, Environment, SPN, Trump
Whitehouse cites reporting that at least 52 Open Records requests remain unfulfilled by Pruitt’s office. Six of those are from the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD).
Senate Democrats boycotted the committee vote Wednesday on Scott Pruitt’s nomination to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), successfully delaying his confirmation, for the time being.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) this morning wrote to the office of the Trump EPA nominee, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, to renew his demand for information about Pruitt’s communications with fossil fuel companies — and to suggest that Pruitt may be deliberately concealing information from senators weighing his confirmation.
Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s pick to sway the Supreme Court for decades to come, should not be confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court. He’s Bork with more charm, and would politely help destroy the hard fought rights of women, LGBTQ Americans, our environmental protections, worker rights, and more. Here’s the interview of CMD’s Lisa Graves on Pacifica with Ian Masters.
As a Senate committee nears a vote on Betsy DeVos’s nomination as U.S. secretary of education, several Democrats on the panel continue to press concerns about the nominee’s financial disclosure and ethics agreement.
The Senate knows very little about Pruitt’s ties to oil and gas, and he’s making sure they won’t find out more.
By 2015, the federal government spent more than $3.7 billion to boost the charter sector–with millions wasted on financing “ghost schools” that never opened.
When the history of Donald Trump’s Administration is written, people may point to the appointment of a Koch brothers’ operative to a little-known White House position as a turning point in Trump’s evolution from unorthodox Republican candidate to doctrinaire corporate politician.
Rep. Scalise offers his supporters a full menu with different levels of access–depending on the size of the check.