Bill Maher isn’t pleased about the current state of American corporate regulation. [Reposted from the Huffington Post | Lily Karlin | June 27, 2015] On “Real Time with Bill Maher” Friday night, the host skewered the “Republican-led House” for voting to end the requirement that meat labels include information about the origin of the product.…
BEIJING — At a ceremony imbued with quiet triumph at the Great Hall of the People, China’s president, Xi Jinping, hosted 56 member countries on Monday for the founding of a China-led infrastructure bank for Asia, including major American allies from Asia and Europe that Washington had counseled not to join the bank. [by…
WASHINGTON — On the evening of June 15, President Obama joined a conference call with the two men who had done more than anyone in six years to disrupt, derail or defeat his agenda in Congress. Now they were asking for something that was in short supply: trust. [Reposted from The New York Times | …
At midday Thursday, there was a gathering in Majority Whip Steve Scalise’s members’ lounge off Statuary Hall to toast House passage of Trade Adjustment Assistance, the last piece of a legislative package giving Trade Promotion Authority to President Barack Obama. [Reposted from Roll Call | Emma Dumain | June 26, 2015] But among the select group of…
