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riversedge's JournalA House Dem Calls for Investigating Trump Sexual Assault Allegations as Her Colleagues Shrug
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E. Jean Carroll’s allegations against Trump barely resonated on Capitol Hill. At least one of Trump’s other accusers is furious with Congress’ inaction.
Updated 06.26.19 3:45AM ET /
As yet another woman comes forward to accuse President Donald Trump of sexual assault, a Democratic member of Congress is now calling for a formal investigation into the roughly two dozen similar allegations against Trump.
Rep. Jackie Speier, a California Democrat who sits on the House’s Oversight and Reform Committee and is a leader on the Hill on sexual harassment, said Congress should look into these accusations after writer E. Jean Carroll published a book in which she detailed an alleged violent sexual encounter with Trump over 20 years ago.
“We do have a lot on our plates, so I can’t speak to when it’s going to happen,” said Speier in a brief interview with The Daily Beast on Tuesday. But she affirmed it was worth lawmakers’ time, especially in light of Carroll’s story.
“This particular case is particularly egregious, and there’s no reason not to believe the woman,” said Speier. “I think his problem is, he sees that as a way of wooing a woman and women see it as sexual assault or rape.”............................................................
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/rep-jackie-speier-calls-for-investigation-of-trump-sexual-assault-allegations-as-her-colleagues-shrug
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Duncan Hunter's website has "Family Values" sect-He is very concerned about the sanctity of marriage
Hypocrite is too kind of a word to describe this crook!
Duncan Hunter’s website has a “Family Values” section. He is very concerned about the sanctity of marriage.
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Here's What You Need to Know About the Hyde Amendment and Efforts to End It
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Here’s What You Need to Know About the Hyde Amendment and Efforts to End It
https://rewire.news/article/2019/06/21/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-hyde-amendment-and-efforts-to-end-it/
Jun 21, 2019, 10:28am Ally Boguhn
After years of advocacy by women of color, eliminating Hyde now has unprecedented support among Democrats—including most 2020 White House contenders.
The Hyde Amendment bans federal funding for abortion except in cases of rape, incest, and life endangerment. Though it’s often discussed as if it’s permanent law, it is not. Hyde is what as known as a “rider,” or amendment, that must be renewed each year with the bills that appropriate—or approve—funds for the government to operate.
Hyde blocks the use of funds from Medicaid—the federal program that provides insurance to people with low incomes—to cover the costs of abortion care. Following years of concerted advocacy by women of color, eliminating Hyde now has unprecedented support among Democrats—including most 2020 White House contenders.
The Hyde Amendment was first passed in 1976. Three years after the U.S. Supreme Court made its landmark abortion rights decision in Roe v. Wade, Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL) introduced the amendment as part of the 1977 Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare, Appropriation Act. It passed by a wide margin in the House—which was at the time held by Democrats.
Speaking about his intentions in 1977, Hyde said he wanted to stop all abortions but could only restrict access at the time through Medicaid. “I certainly would like to prevent, if I could legally, anybody having an abortion, a rich woman, a middle-class woman, or a poor woman,” he said. “Unfortunately, the only vehicle available is the … Medicaid bill.”
Megan Donovan, senior policy manager at the Guttmacher Institute, told Rewire.News that Hyde was “clear in his intent to limit access to abortion and also clear that he understood that what he was doing effectively was targeting a program intended to provide access to health care for people with low incomes—targeting that population for this restriction because it was a mechanism that was available to him.”
The Hyde Amendment’s reach is far-ranging, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), because its annual reauthorization is attached to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ appropriation bill. It therefore covers Indian Health Service, Medicare, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Similar language has also “been incorporated into a range of other federal programs that provide or pay for health services to women including: the military’s TRICARE program, federal prisons, the Peace Corps, and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program
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The anti-choice amendment blocks those who rely on Medicaid—the federal program providing insurance to those with low incomes—from using their insurance to cover abortion care. Following the efforts of women of color to end Hyde, doing away with the anti-choice policy now has unprecedented support among Democrats—including most 2020 White House contenders.
In the Biggest liars contest... who to believe?
I assume the biggest liar contest is between Putin and Trump.
@MalcolmNance
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In the Biggest liars contest... who to believe?
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Boaty McBoatface makes significant climate change discovery on first mission
Boaty McBoatface makes significant climate change discovery on first mission
By Rob Picheta, CNN
Updated 3:04 PM ET, Tue June 18, 2019
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(CNN)The British research submarine Boaty McBoatface has made an impressive debut in the scientific arena, discovering a significant link between Antarctic winds and rising sea temperatures on its maiden outing.
The unmanned submarine, whose moniker won a landslide victory in a public poll to name a $300 million British polar research ship, undertook its inaugural mission in April 2017.
The task saw McBoatface travel 180 kilometers (112 miles) through mountainous underwater valleys in Antarctica, measuring the temperature, saltiness and turbulence in the depths of the Southern Ocean.
Its findings, published in the journal PNAS on Monday, revealed how increasingly strong winds in the region are causing turbulence deep within the sea, and as a result mixing warm water from middle levels with colder water in the abyss.
That process is causing the sea temperature to rise, which in turn is a significant contributor to rising sea levels, scientists behind the project said. ........................
Boaty McBoatface returns from its first voyage with 'unprecedented' data
DOJ Asks SCOTUS To Make A Drastic Move In Census Citizenship Case
Source: TPM
June 25, 2019 5:56 pm
The Department of Justice boldly and explicitly asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to resolve an issue the court hasn’t formally reviewed in the census citizenship case when the justices hand down their decision in the case expected this week.
The request, which the Justice Department has made in a more subtle fashion in previous court filings, is extraordinary and reflects the highly unusual legal battle the Trump administration has engaged in to change the 2020 census.
The Justice Department request came in the form of a letter to the court submitted just a few hours after an appeals court said new evidence warranted the reexamination of a case challenging the citizenship question brought in Maryland.
The Maryland case was not the case in front of the Supreme Court when it was briefed on the question’s legality this year. And the claim that is now being reconsidered by a federal judge in Maryland — that the question was added to the census with a discriminatory intent – was not one of the questions formally in front of the justices. The Department of Justice briefly referenced it in one of their pleadings in the Supreme Court case, which was a review of census cases from New York and Maryland, but the high court never requested official briefing on it.
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Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/justice-department-equal-protection-request-census-citizenship
I do not see the SC comply with Trump Administration--yet I never know what will happen anymore!!
Watch Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue dance around climate change questions
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Lindsey Graham on E. Jean Carroll's rape accusation of Trump: "He's denied it. That's all I needed t
I really believe greedy, gullible Lindsey has learned to love the good life that Trump can offer him--all the riches, good times, food, gulf, dinner parties etc etc.
Sen. Lindsey Graham on E. Jean Carroll’s rape accusation of Trump: “He’s denied it. That’s all I needed to hear.”
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New EPA rule would expand Trump officials' powers to reject FOIA requests
Source: the hill
By Miranda Green - 06/25/19 09:50 AM EDT
The EPA’s new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) rule will expand the ability of the agency’s administrator and other administration officials to withhold sought-after documents by labeling them “non-responsive,” according to a copy of the final rule obtained by The Hill.
The rule is expected to be published in the Federal Register as early as Wednesday and will not allow for a public comment period.
According to the new language in the FOIA rule signed by EPA chief Andrew Wheeler last week, the administrator and other officials would be allowed to review all materials that fit a FOIA request criteria, known as responsive documents, and then decide “whether to release or withhold a record or a portion of a record on the basis of responsiveness or under one or more exemptions under the FOIA, and to issue ‘no records’ responses.”
EPA officials who would be authorized to make that decision include the administrator, deputy administrators, assistant administrators, deputy assistant administrators, regional administrators, deputy regional administrators, general counsel, deputy general counsels, regional counsels, deputy regional counsels and the inspector general or delegates of those individuals, according to the final rule.
A “no records” response would allow records seekers to be told there are no documents meeting their search criteria, even if they were found but withheld by the political appointees.....................................
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/450169-new-epa-rule-would-expand-trump-officials-power-to-reject-foia-requests
gawd. this is really happening to us. damn. damn!!
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1143537604094287872
And this tweet is another part of the new rules!!!!
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Commonly prescribed drugs are tied to nearly 50% higher dementia risk in older adults, study says
Source: CNN
Updated 5:54 AM ET, Tue June 25, 2019
(CNN)Scientists have long found a possible link between anticholinergic drugs and an increased risk of dementia.
A study published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine on Monday suggests that the link is strongest for certain classes of anticholinergic drugs -- particularly antidepressants, bladder antimuscarinics, antipsychotics and antiepileptic drugs.
Researchers wrote in the study that "there was nearly a 50% increased odds of dementia" associated with a total anticholinergic exposure of more than 1,095 daily doses within a 10-year period, which is equivalent to an older adult taking a strong anticholinergic medication daily for at least three years, compared with no exposure.
"The study is important because it strengthens a growing body of evidence showing that strong anticholinergic drugs have long term associations with dementia risk," said Carol Coupland, professor of medical statistics in primary care at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom and first author of the study.
"It also highlights which types of anticholinergic drugs have the strongest associations. This is important information for physicians to know when considering whether to prescribe these drugs," she said, adding "this is an observational study so no firm conclusions can be drawn about whether these anticholinergic drugs cause dementia.".............................
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/24/health/dementia-risk-drug-study/index.html
My very elderly mom was taken off her overactive bladder pills a few weeks ago because of this study --by her urologist.
She said she would rather go to the bathroom more often than lose her mind. Wise choice
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