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February 1, 2017

HUGE NEWS: Executive Orders Are NOT Binding Laws

Wow! There is no specific mention of Executive Orders in the Constitution… the power to issue an Executive Order is implied, Presidents argue, by Article 2 of the Constitution: ‘the executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States’ is one quote they cite. ‘The President shall be …

January 30, 2017

Obama’s Final Bill Invites Silicon Valley Innovators Into Unelected Government Positions — Under the Trump Presidency

Last week, mere hours before Donald Trump’s Inauguration, President Barack Obama signed, while he was still President of the United States, one final bill into law. Again: this was Pres. Obama’s very last bill. The bill, known rather obscurely as the TALENT Act of 2017, is a last-minute codification of an existing program called the “Presidential Innovation …

January 24, 2017

Fourteen Connecticut Representatives Propose 14 Different Bills to Remove the Same Unpopular CT Tax on Health Centers

  This month, fourteen different Connecticut lawmakers proposed fourteen different bills, all set to accomplish, if passed,  essentially the same thing. These bills, sponsored by both Democrat and Republican lawmakers, are each only a sentence long, and all aim to either repeal or to phase out a tax on ambulatory …

January 19, 2017

Obama Signs Last-Minute “Civil Rights Crimes” Bill. “Cold Cases” Warm At Last?

Just before leaving office, President Obama has made a statement for civil rights and on that, supporters of it would say, honors the many lives lost on the road to achieving them for all Americans. The Emmet Till Bill — or  “The Emmet Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Reauthorization Act …

January 13, 2017

Vlog 1/13/17: Kwanzaa as an US Official Holiday? Puerto Rican US Voting Rights?

https://youtu.be/HQwos8xqmls Transcript: Hi everyone! I’m excited to be live on Facebook, and soon on the DailyClout home page, talking to our community of people from all over America and around the world, who are tired of being shut out of democracy and really want to know what’s going on at …

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