The White House dismissed the congressionally mandated reported as inaccurate.
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Trump has a congressionally mandated deadline of Monday to decide.
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Trump had faced a congressionally mandated deadline of Monday to decide.
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In other cases, reprogramming moves funding across congressionally enacted appropriation accounts.
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In general, congressionally-levied sanctions are a poor foreign policy tool.
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Those powers include the ability to delay supplying congressionally authorized aid.
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Administrative personnel should facilitate elimination of inadvertent obstacles to congressionally-approved approaches.
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That's when congressionally mandated numeric quotas end, creating urgency for policy change.
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That's nearly double the congressionally imposed nationwide audience cap of 39 percent.
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Shortly after the call, the congressionally appropriated assistance to Ukraine was withheld.
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At the time, Trump was withholding Congressionally appropriated military aid to Ukraine.
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The administration also dragged its feet on implementing congressionally mandated sanctions on Russia.
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The authors are co-chairs of the congressionally-mandated Syria Study Group report.
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The Congressionally mandated duty to assist has served as an somewhat inadequate substitute.
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Dan Southerland, former executive editor of the congressionally funded network Radio Free Asia.
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A congressionally-imposed cap on national debt kicks back in on March 2.
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Requests of this nature by the USFWS fall outside any congressionally approved authority.
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Enter President Richard Nixon, who made a habit of impounding congressionally appropriated funds.
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The posts of deputy director and four congressionally mandated associate directors remain vacant.
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The White House released its congressionally-mandated National Security Strategy report (warning: PDF) yesterday.
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The role is now congressionally recognized as warranting the honor of burial at Arlington.
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Consider a congressionally enacted (or approved) online sales tax system which was origin-based.
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Later, a congressionally appropriated $391 million military aid package was added to the leverage.
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Venezuela: Trump has hewed to the congressionally supported line of opposition to President Nicolás Maduro.
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Democratic lawmakers, however, were not pleased with the congressionally mandated report when it was released.
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At the time of the call, Trump was withholding congressionally approved military aid for Ukraine.
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A reprogramming action involves the movement of congressionally-appropriated funds from one account to another.
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Simultaneously, the Trump administration froze nearly $400 million in congressionally-approved military aid to Ukraine.
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The Supreme Court ruled in 1998 that a congressionally passed line-item veto was unconstitutional.
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The White House had missed the congressionally ordered deadline by a month and a half.
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The president's ask came days after congressionally approved military aid was withheld from the country.
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President Donald Trump's rationale for why he withheld congressionally approved aid to Ukraine changed overnight.
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This onslaught of congressionally mandated rulemaking also created the risk of tying up the agency.
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Trump had blocked the payment of congressionally appropriated military aid to Ukraine earlier this year.
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The staffing numbers are what the TSA says it can afford based on Congressionally-approved appropriations.
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For example, Bush's team disregarded parts of congressionally passed laws in the name of national security.
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This was a congressionally mandated rule intended to help create a safer work environment for drivers.
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In essence, they nullify the outcomes of all prior elections and congressionally approved legislation and laws.
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At the time, Trump was withholding roughly $400 million in congressionally-approved military aid to Ukraine.
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"Our congressionally designated responsibility is to be the memorial," said Mike Shriver, the grove's board chairman.
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It would be an abdication of the Justice Department's congressionally mandated responsibilities to ignore these problems.
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USADA is the same congressionally approved organization that governs the medication program for the nation's Olympic athletes.
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On Friday, Pompeo missed a deadline to hand over congressionally subpoenaed documents related to Trump and Ukraine.
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The delay is likely going to push the program over its congressionally capped $8 billion development budget.
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On May 1st the Pentagon is due to publish a congressionally mandated report on global civilian casualties.
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The government has not been able to borrow money since March, because of congressionally mandated borrowing limits.
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The other signs: The administration released in November a congressionally mandated report confirming human-influenced climate change.
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President Trump withheld congressionally appropriated military aid to Ukraine as Ukrainian soldiers were dying on the battlefield.
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That is to say, through carefully targeted Congressionally authorized spending, lending, loan-guaranteeing and even joint-venturing.
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Republican lawmakers on Tuesday erupted at Obama's congressionally mandated plan, claiming that the effort would be illegal.
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The relationship may be further soured by congressionally mandated sanctions, which the S-400 buy has triggered.
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Those omissions are just one reason lawmakers greeted the Congressionally mandated report with eviscerating criticism on Friday.
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No president has the automatic right to impound congressionally appropriated funds, above all for nakedly political ends.
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Judges have wide latitude to sentence however they want -- except when certain crimes carry congressionally mandated sentences.
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"Price added that it is "not normal" and "not legal" for Trump to "withhold congressionally obligated funds.
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"The congressionally mandated report evaluating a Space Force to answer those questions is due in August," Turner said.
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Agency cybersecurity executives often don't have access to their directors' ears or congressionally mandated authority to make decisions.
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" Similarly, AMVETS' David Gai said: "We have to remain nonpartisan, especially those of us who are congressionally chartered.
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With a Congressionally protected monopoly for their product, there is little incentive for them to negotiate their prices.
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"And what we hear him doing is using congressionally authorized aid as personal leverage for an election benefit."
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Running low on funds, the agency is about to hit congressionally mandated caps on salary and overtime allowances.
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The proposal ultimately calls for spending $57 billion less than the new congressionally-mandated nondefense caps for 2019.
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Its small staff did not produce the congressionally mandated national drug strategy in 2017, citing the presidential transition.
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At that time, facing another congressionally imposed deadline, he agreed to renew an exemption on sanctions on Iran.
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Beginning in July, the Administration withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine.
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The Department of Defense is already in the middle of a congressionally mandated review of the space force issue.
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The agency's budget represents what the agency can afford, based on the congressionally-approved appropriations, according to the TSA.
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He co-chaired, with Jared Cohon, the congressionally-mandated Commission to Review the Effectiveness of the National Energy Laboratories.
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Changing congressionally set boundaries is not among the very specific powers delegated to the president by the Antiquities Act.
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There was a congressionally approved delay in implementation... There was a problem getting proper bandwidth access from the FCC.
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That process, surveillance experts say, is not directly related to congressionally dictated 6900 authorities -- it's governed by administration regulations.
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The congressionally-created 9/11 Commission produced valuable findings on the terrorist attacks and the government response to them.
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At the end of August, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson finally took half of the congressionally authorized funds.
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Unprecedented in scope, this draft report on US fracking was congressionally mandated and nearly four years in the making.
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Trump has certified Iran's compliance with the deal both times the congressionally mandated deadline has arisen during his presidency.
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The pressure tactics allegedly included withholding congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine in its war against Russian-backed separatists.
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The pressure tactics allegedly included withholding congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine in its war against Russia-backed separatists.
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The pressure campaign came at the same time that Trump was withholding congressionally appropriated military aid to Ukraine. Rep.
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The DOE's study was completed in 2008 as part of the congressionally mandated and since stalled preparation for Yucca.
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With congressionally imposed constraints on government spending, where will robust growth come from if consumer spending begins to plateau?
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The alleged pressure campaign came while Trump was withholding congressionally appropriated military aid to Ukraine as it battles Russia.
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The president froze a nearly $400 million congressionally appropriated military aid package to Ukraine shortly before the phone call.
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Later today, the Pentagon will be releasing a congressionally mandated report describing the steps needed to create the new branch.
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This week, Page defied a congressionally issued subpoena to appear Wednesday for a closed-door deposition before the same committees.
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We really are focused on getting the right outcome for that Congressionally mandated price stability and maximum employment over time.
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A Congressionally-enacted Iran Assets Recovery Plan would be a powerful weapon the ruling clerics in Iran could not ignore.
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According to Customs and Border Protection there are about 2000,219 agents on duty -- nearly 22,203 below the congressionally mandated 220,29.
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The congressionally mandated report provides an assessment of whether foreign countries are undervaluing their currencies to gain a trade advantage.
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Even so, the government will not allow the congressionally appointed judges to unseat those already sitting on the Supreme Court.
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She said the agency must be allowed to finish the congressionally mandated review before taking further action in the matter.
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Democrats essentially accused Trump of blackmailing Ukraine with congressionally-approved security assistance, and using it to solicit foreign election interference.
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The wall construction money will come from congressionally appropriated funds as well as reprogrammed Defense Department funding, according to Wolf.
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The complaint alleged that Trump withheld congressionally allocated military aid from Ukraine to pressure it into opening investigations into Biden.
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They come a month-and-a-half after a congressionally imposed deadline to impose new sanctions against Russia had passed.
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The federal government has not been able to borrow money since March, when congressionally-mandated borrowing limits went back into force.
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Seven top retail executives are headed to Washington this week to express their opposition to a congressionally proposed border adjustability tax.
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Scientists have told CNN they fear that the administration might try to bury the findings of the congressionally mandated climate report.
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The report was co-authored by the lead investigator of the congressionally-mandated assessment of the 1994 federal assault weapons ban.
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Based on available information, the past year's annual average daily detainee population exceeds the 20033,520 congressionally funded beds available to ICE.
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Instead, Trump has dragged his feet on imposing congressionally mandated sanctions and taken nearly every opportunity to cozy up to Putin.
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Those that question the validity of these plebiscites should put aside their obstructionist tactics and agree to a congressionally mandated plebiscite.
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The state has the unique, and congressionally mandated, right to set emissions standards for itself that are higher than federal limits.
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The United States Institute for Peace, a congressionally chartered organization, was also a sponsor, according to fliers issued at the conference.
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The climate science report is part of a congressionally mandated review conducted every four years known as the National Climate Assessment.
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It's one of the highest numbers on record, and about 500 more than a congressionally mandated limit of just over 45,000.
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Such a request would seem to undermine any future case for reducing congressionally-approved military construction money to finance the wall.
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The issue was a major focus of a 2018 congressionally-mandated report on the National Defense Strategy, the Pentagon's guiding doctrine.
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Trump was impeached for allegedly trying to leverage congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine into political favors for his reelection campaign.
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In early 2018, the White House is slated to start work on the congressionally-mandated National Strategic Plan for Advanced Manufacturing.
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Our stories were two of those featured at a recent congressionally-sponsored forum about the realities of life in border communities.
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This expectation that they be treated with dignity helps explain why Pakistanis so strongly resent congressionally imposed conditions on U.S. aid.
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It is the first time that a completely unclassified version of the congressionally mandated report has been released, according to the Pentagon.
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Case in point, an extravagantly expensive congressionally funded Alaskan "bridge to nowhere" that served just a handful of people on an island.
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"Congressionally mandated lease sales tend to be pretty rare," said Beaudreau, now a fellow at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy.
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Despite the daily Sturm und Drang coming out of the Capitol, a congressionally established commission has been quietly doing the public's work.
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This and other EPA documents related to the standard are then intensely reviewed by the congressionally-mandated Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee.
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At the time of the July 25 call, Trump had recently put roughly $400 million in congressionally-approved security assistance on hold.
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If the bureau did not introduce new rules within 18 months, a congressionally mandated set of lending guidelines would automatically take effect.
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The Trump administration continues to put sanctions on Russia using its executive powers, even as it refuses to implement congressionally-mandated sanctions.
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A little later that year, it used a massive sanctions bill to block Trump from rolling back any congressionally mandated Russia sanctions.
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Administration officials said Mr. Trump had significant flexibility to hold up aid — even from countries, like Egypt, where it is congressionally mandated.
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It also found that Trump held back $391 million in congressionally approved aid that Ukraine needed to defend against Russia-backed separatists.
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The surplus of fees collected over the amount needed to fund the agency's annual congressionally-authorized budget flows to the U.S. Treasury.
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The president said the office's advisory and other functions could largely be assumed by the National Science Foundation, a congressionally chartered agency.
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But the Times report raises the possibility that the congressionally mandated taxpayer payment was only freed up after Trump got found out.
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It's no wonder there are multiple lawsuits challenging Trump's authority to derail and reroute congressionally mandated spending by declaring a national emergency.
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Trump has certified Iran's compliance with the deal both times the congressionally mandated deadline to do so has happened during his presidency.
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Two months ago, Trump infuriated lawmakers from both parties for failing to impose congressionally crafted sanctions on Russia for its election meddling.
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Much of this pressure campaign also occurred in concert with a freeze on nearly $400 million in congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine.
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BE-4 is the only engine that can fly by 2019, meeting the congressionally mandated deadline to eliminate dependence on Russian-built engines.
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About half of that increase will go towards congressionally mandated personnel costs and force structure requirements, included in the National Defense Authorization Act.
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What's next: Amid the confusion and speculation, this may prove either a temporary blip or an insidious attempt to undermine congressionally mandated sanctions.
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A congressionally mandated report on the Syrian civil war also sounded the alarm regarding the threat poised by the overburdened ISIS prison camps.
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The Democratic majority in the Senate followed suit as did the two minority parties, creating the de facto ban on congressionally directed spending.
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Many lawmakers believe it was these congressionally-mandated sanctions that forced Iran to the bargaining table and led to an eventual nuclear agreement.
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Adding to the mix is the upcoming deadline for imposing new congressionally-required sanctions on Russia for its behavior in last year's election.
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"Through modernized forms of subversive tactics, Russia interferes in the domestic political affairs of countries around the world," read the congressionally-mandated document.
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The report found that the cost of the Space Launch System had exceeded the congressionally mandated baseline by 28500 percent by November 6900.
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The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has just released its Congressionally-mandatedreport detailing the potential economic outcomes of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
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The Border Patrol has only been able to bring its numbers up to 19,300 agents, despite a congressionally mandated floor of 21,370 agents.
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The request, which came amid a holdup of congressionally authorized military aid to Ukraine, is now at the center of Democrats' impeachment inquiry.
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Meanwhile, the Securities and Exchange Commission, suffering under weak leadership, is far behind on issuing congressionally mandated rules to avoid the next financial crisis.
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"History has shown that congressionally-exposed criminal conduct by the president or a high-ranking Executive Branch official can lead to legislation," Mehta wrote.
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"History has shown that congressionally-exposed criminal conduct by the President or a high-ranking Executive Branch official can lead to legislation," Mehta wrote.
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What's happening: The DOE is seeking to roll back the scope of congressionally established lighting efficiency standards that would otherwise take effect in 2020.
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One of the panel's jobs would be to make recommendations to government agencies based on the findings of a forthcoming congressionally mandated climate report.
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Pruitt has acted as if he could write on a blank slate, seeking regulatory reversals before doing the congressionally required work to justify them.
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The VA scandal involved VA hospital employees moving patient scheduling off-book for the purpose of making their records qualify for congressionally-mandated bonuses.
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In a dissenting opinion, Kennedy said the court's ruling puts needed, reasonable, accepted, lawful and congressionally authorized criminal investigations at risk in serious cases.
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This crisis is entirely of Congress' own making, because these negotiations, like dozens before them, are occurring outside of the congressionally mandated budget process.
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ICE is currently housing 50,223 migrants, one of the highest numbers on record, and about 5,000 more than the congressionally mandated limit of 45,5003.
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Democrats successfully pressed for immediate disclosure of the recipients and stronger oversight, including installing an inspector general and congressionally appointed board to monitor it.
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The Treasury fund used to back those efforts contains just $94 billion, so congressionally-approved money would pave the way for serious scaling up.
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According to Customs and Border Protection, as of March 17, there were 7100,346 Border Patrol agents on duty, short of the congressionally mandated 21,370.
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The report was completed this year and is a special science section of the National Climate Assessment, which is congressionally mandated every four years.
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It would also destroy several Native American cultural sites and impact 3 miles of the Congressionally designated and protected Old Spanish National Historic Trail.
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Chris Collins pleads guilty in insider trading case MORE late Friday demanding a thorough explanation for how the department would meet Congressionally mandated deadlines.
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The Government Accountability Office also said Thursday that the administration's freezing of nearly $400 million in congressionally approved aid to Kyiv broke the law.
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On the contrary, the Ukrainian president criticized Trump for freezing congressionally appropriated military aid to Ukraine, which is at war with Russian-backed separatists.
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More than $35 million in congressionally approved aid to Ukraine has not been dispersed, according to a new report by the Los Angeles Times.
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Obamacare directed the Institute of Medicine, an independent, congressionally chartered body, to define what medical services should be included as women's preventive health benefits.
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And then there was that other, congressionally orchestrated release of a certain classified memo, a highly politicized move whose importance security experts are still debating.
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A proposed draft of the congressionally mandated report finds that advanced telecommunications capability isn't being deployed in a "reasonable and timely fashion" to all Americans.
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A spokeswoman for Shelby noted that the rules package passed by the new House Democratic majority did not include a prohibition on congressionally directed spending.
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President Trump's proposed budget for U.S. international broadcasting for fiscal 2018 would cut more than $4.7 million from congressionally funded Radio Free Asia's annual budget.
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This is the conclusion of the Commission on the National Defense Strategy for the United States, a bipartisan, congressionally chartered body, which we co-chaired.
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Soltani added that the agency has limited resources and its congressionally mandated scope is too narrow to act as a full-strength data protection authority.
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But the White House's ability to lift congressionally-imposed Ukraine sanctions — something that would need to happen to solicit cooperation from the Kremlin — is uncertain.
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A first step — but not the last — would be American implementation of the congressionally-mandated sanctions the executive branch is obligated by law to impose.
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Again, the congressionally-passed Endangered Species Act explicitly states that only scientific data can be used to determine if a species needs protection, she noted.
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To afford the F-35 and other pricey weapons programs while still remaining under Congressionally-mandated spending caps, the Pentagon cut training and maintenance budgets.
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It is alleged that Trump withheld $390 million in congressionally-approved military assistance to Ukraine for months pending Zelensky's public agreement to open an investigation.
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The findings of the congressionally mandated report are directly at odds with President Trump's agenda of environmental deregulation, which he asserts will spur economic growth.
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The House Foreign Affairs Committee's top Democrat and Republican sent a letter to Trump on Monday demanding that the administration meet its congressionally mandated obligations.
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Aside from congressionally provided funds, there are a number of grants administered by federal agencies that could mean big money lost to cities and states.
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Saturday US debt ceiling comes back into effect -- The federal government's borrowing authority will be exhausted, with the congressionally-mandated debt ceiling back in effect.
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And Trump did so while withholding almost $400 million in vital, congressionally approved military aid from Kyiv as it fights a war against pro-Russian separatists.
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A congressionally mandated chemical review, which was supposed to reevaluate risks of asbestos and several other highly toxic substances, has been limited by the Trump administration.
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Still, he's certified that Iran is in compliance with the deal both times the congressionally mandated deadline to do so has come up in his presidency.
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The government of Puerto Rico is currently under the jurisdiction of a congressionally mandated oversight board and in bankruptcy-like proceedings in the Federal District Court.
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As a member of the congressionally chartered Equity and Excellence Commission, we recommended bold action to fix this problem and ensure resource equity in our schools.
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Asked about the apparent increase in instances of misbehavior, Special Operations Command's senior enlisted adviser told reporters that the command had conducted a congressionally mandated review.
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"Our nation needs to retain this validated congressionally approved authorization for the use of military force to contain the fight against terrorism around the world," Rep.
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Dozens of military and veterans groups, including the largest congressionally chartered organizations, such as the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars, also touted the changes.
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Trump allegedly withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine while he was pushing for the probes into his political rivals.
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What's more, 13 of the Ninth Circuit judges are Republican-nominated, nine of whom were selected by President Donald Trump, who rejects Congressionally-mandated climate science.
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Instead, there is a congressionally-mandated market that operates as a hidden ethanol tax, since ethanol contains about one-third less energy than gasoline by volume.
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Mr. Trump admits that about a week before the infamous phone call, he put nearly $400 million in congressionally appropriated military aid for Ukraine on hold.
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And Trump's apparent attempt to coerce Ukrainian officials into concocting an attack on Trump's political opponents — seemingly by holding up congressionally appropriated foreign aid — is outrageous.
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It remains to be seen whether Mr. Trump even has the authority to cut off congressionally appropriated funding, or if he'll follow through on these threats.
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Last year a congressionally mandated panel of experts found the Choice program was inefficient, but recommended establishing a community-based healthcare system that would include private doctors.
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Why it matters: The report by scientists from 13 federal agencies constitutes the second volume of the Fourth National Climate Assessment, which is a congressionally mandated report.
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The congressionally mandated report is the work of 13 federal agencies and more than 0003 scientists, and it spells out how climate change is hurting people already.
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"The Trump Administration has starved the program intended to help families get covered by refusing to make congressionally-required investments in outreach and enrollment," the Democrats said.
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Hoyer says earmarks or congressionally directed spending should be allowed, albeit with reforms to make it tougher to secure shady deals for lobbyists or lawmakers' personal gain.
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The Democratic-led inquiry is examining whether Trump tried to pressure Ukraine to open politically charged investigations in return for the release of congressionally approved security aid.
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A source told The Morning Call the investigation was being led by the U.S. Center for SafeSport, an independent wing of the congressionally sanctioned U.S. Olympic Committee.
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Mr. Remus's stewardship of the river is guided by a 432-page document, the Master Manual, which lays out the eight congressionally authorized purposes he must balance.
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The law creates disclosure requirements, an inspector general and a congressionally mandated board to monitor a $425 billion bailout fund to be administered by the Federal Reserve.
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"That is wishful thinking as far as I can tell," said Dana Stroul, co-chairwoman of the congressionally sponsored Syria Study Group and a former Pentagon official.
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Why it matters: President Trump is facing an impeachment inquiry over allegations that he used congressionally approved military aid to pressure Ukraine to pursue politically motivated investigations.
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The watchdog concluded that withholding funding for the department violated a federal law that sets strict requirements for when an executive agency can block congressionally appropriated funding.
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"To avoid upsetting the delicate web of international relations, we typically presume that even congressionally crafted causes of action do not apply outside our borders," Alito wrote.
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The Pentagon in the Trump presidency has agreed to divert some of its congressionally allotted funding for schools on military bases to instead build the border wall.
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That declaration serves as a congressionally mandated benchmark for American relations with Hong Kong and China under the Hong Kong Policy Act, enacted as law in 1992.
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While withholding congressionally approved military aid, Trump in the call pressed his newly elected counterpart to announce an investigation into Democrat Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
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If congressionally directed spending, also known as earmarks, is restored it makes most sense to do so as part of comprehensive reform of our dysfunctional budget process.
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While Trump sought those investigations, his administration was withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine as it battled Russia-back forces.
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As an independent, congressionally authorized investigator, Elkins has unique access to the agency and its internal workings — and a responsibility to go public with whatever he finds.
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"Many offices have difficulty finding room in their Congressionally-set budget, and pay is already too low for permanent staff," Chu said in a statement to CNN.
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Arthritis is instead forced to compete with more than 30 other medical topics in a general research program budget within the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP).
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Trump declared illegal immigration a national emergency in February as part of a plan to shift $255 billion in non-congressionally approved funds to border wall construction.
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The far-reaching directive will boot many mainstream environmental scientists from the congressionally-mandated panels that work to ensure the EPA administrator receives the best available scientific advice.
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One Democrat, Senator Patty Murray of Washington, introduced separate legislation that would restrict the president from reallocating congressionally approved funds, though it is unlikely to reach the floor.
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Most of the major iterations of Obamacare replacement faced the idea of congressionally imposed "caps" on Medicaid spending that would then be left up to states to implement.
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It's run by a congressionally appointed director — currently Keith Hall, who was picked by House Republicans in 2015 — and a staff of about 230 economists and policy analysts.
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According to a 2009 survey published by the congressionally-mandated Military Leadership Diversity Commission, an estimated 1.09 percent of the members of the U.S. armed forces are Jewish.
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A congressionally mandated report released in November found that climate change could cost the United States billions of dollars annually within decades if greenhouse gases aren't dramatically reduced.
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The Congressionally mandated task force studying the nation's overcrowded and costly federal prison system Tuesday called for major changes that could reduce the federal prison population by 60,000.
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It would also relieve Congress of an excuse for failing to engage in meaningful oversight, and deprive the president of a congressionally-supported claim to blank check authority.
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A congressionally mandated commission is recommending women should be eligible for the draft, a move that comes five years after the Pentagon opened all combat roles to women.
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The issue of whether Trump used Congressionally-approved military aid as leverage to extort the Ukrainian government into investigating his political opponent is central to the impeachment proceedings.
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Pentagon money managers have exacerbated the confusion in their accounts by refusing to provide congressionally mandated audit statements, making Defense the only noncompliant member of the executive branch.
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"What local partners are going to work with the United States now, after this?" said Dana Stroul, the co-chair of a congressionally sponsored bipartisan Syrian Study Group.
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The Trump administration said Friday that it will withhold 20 emails between two Trump administration aides regarding the freeze of a congressionally mandated military aid package for Ukraine.
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An independent US government watchdog announced Thursday that the White House violated the law by withholding over $200 million of congressionally appropriated military aid to Ukraine last year.
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For example, the Government Accountability Office recently concluded that Trump's secret hold on congressionally appropriated funds for Ukraine violated the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
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In addition to better communication, the Pentagon's congressionally-mandated split of its acquisition, technology and logistics arm will help the Defense Department better adopt new technology, he said.
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Trump withheld congressionally appropriated military aid to Ukraine as he pressed that nation to investigate, an act that led to ongoing impeachment proceedings in the House against Trump.
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In contrast, Trump wants to cut nearly $1 billion in congressionally approved aid to Central American nations, an idea that, if implemented, will likely lead to more illegal immigration.
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CalçadaA new congressionally mandated report says NASA should refine its strategy and improve its tools to foster the study of exoplanetary systems and expedite the search for alien life.
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A 2017 survey released by the American Legion, a congressionally-charted veterans group, revealed 92 percent of veteran households support further research into the potential benefits of medicinal cannabis.
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In October DHS began exploring the possibility of opening five new detention centres, but such facilities would take time to find or build and congressionally appropriated dollars to run.
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The U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration published a congressionally-mandated report in 2012 that provided no recommendations, but did note that computerized detection of spills is uncommon.
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Pence, in the Baltics, praises tough new congressionally mandated sanctions; Mr. Trump tweets that the sanctions will send United States-Russia relations to 'an all-time & very dangerous low.
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The National Climate Assessment is a Congressionally mandated report on the impacts of climate change and was culled from the work of 300 authors in a dozen federal agencies.
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In those conversations, Sondland allegedly told Taylor that the president would not release congressionally allocated military aid for Ukraine unless the country publicly announced an investigation into the Bidens.
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The Government Accountability Office in April found him guilty of overspending congressionally allocated money on a $43,000 soundproof booth built in his office to provide privacy on personal calls.
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The tale of the final hours before the congressionally mandated 25-year release deadline adds a new chapter to the story of Trump's troubled relationship with his spy agencies.
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" On Friday, the federal government released a congressionally mandated report that found "no convincing alternative explanation" for the changing climate other than "human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse gases.
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A congressionally defined and supported role In 2628, the "Key West Agreement" articulated the roles of the various services, replacing the direction from the prior year's executive order 28500.
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The sale puts into play congressionally mandated sanctions, which fall under the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act and are imposed when a U.S. partner buys Russian military equipment.
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"Even in the absence of congressionally conferred immunity, a serious constitutional question exists regarding whether a president can be criminally indicted and tried while in office," the footnote states.
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NATIONAL An article on Thursday about passenger railroads' failure to universally implement congressionally mandated safety devices misidentified the train involved in a fatal crash in Philadelphia two years ago.
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Also last month, Trump set aside congressionally mandated pay increases for military and civilian employees, cutting them to 0003% for uniformed services and an average of 1.9% for civilians.
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The Government Accountability Office in April found him guilty of overspending congressionally allocated money on a $6900,2628 soundproof booth built in his office to provide privacy on personal calls.
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Trump has in the past slow-walked or not imposed congressionally mandated sanctions, such as his continued reluctance to impose sanctions on Turkey for buying a Russian weapons system.
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The White House, the State Department, and the Pentagon haven't turned over any records about the plot to pressure Zelenskiy or hold up congressionally allocated military aid for Ukraine.
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Corps officials say they are not allowed to change the congressionally authorized purposes of the reservoirs, though they had been most focused on limiting floods for the past year.
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DOJ's brief to the Supreme Court, with its emphasis on the Commerce Department's congressionally delegated authority over the decennial census, is carefully pitched to its audience of Supreme Court justices.
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"Rather than legitimate process delays or congressionally imposed conditions, these delays, unique to Puerto Rico, seem to reflect President Trump's personal policy preferences and biases against Puerto Rico," they wrote.
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The tale of the final hours before the congressionally mandated 25-year release deadline adds a new chapter to the story of Trump&aposs troubled relationship with his spy agencies.
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According to the National Science Foundation's congressionally mandated Science & Engineering Indicators report released today, overall spending on research in China has gone up by roughly 269% each year since 2000.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two decades of congressionally mandate reforms have failed to make the Federal Aviation Administration more efficient and cost-effective, according to a government watchdog report released on Wednesday.
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Top retailers heading to Capitol Hill to oppose border tax proposal: Seven top retail executives are headed to Washington to express their opposition to a congressionally proposed border adjustability tax.
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The choice of Garland, a respected, previously vetted and congressionally approved moderate hands Democrats a strong argument that Republicans are shirking their constitutional responsibilities in an act of pure politics.
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"This just breaks my heart," said Emory University psychiatry professor Barbara Rothbaum, who served on a congressionally mandated committee that investigated the treatment of PTSD by the Department of Defense.
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The administration is expected to discount or ignore the congressionally mandated study — the first of its kind issued during the Trump administration — even as it continues to cut environmental regulations.
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In the border wall case, the House said the Trump administration went outside its powers when it transferred congressionally appropriated funds from the Department of Defense to build the wall.
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This change potentially unleashed presidents to use the congressionally delegated emergency powers in ways that contradicted the will of congressional majorities — an opportunity Mr. Trump is now taking advantage of.
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A congressionally appointed commission will recommend that women be required to register for the draft, the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee and a committee aide confirmed Tuesday.
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The law that several officials feared the president was violating, the Impoundment Control Act, prohibits the president from blocking congressionally authorized funds from being paid out unless he notifies Congress.
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The Trump administration broke the law by withholding congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine last summer "for a policy reason," a top government watchdog said Thursday in a scathing report.
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His agency receives its funding without any limitation or congressional oversight, as it has a "put" to the unlimited resources of the Federal Reserve rather than the congressionally-appropriated budget.
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"There is zero evidence that EPAs congressionally mandated small refinery exemption program...has had any negative impact on domestic corn ethanol producers," a spokesman for the EPA said in emailed comments.
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At issue are foreign entities creating pages and websites targeted at veterans, something Kristofer Goldsmith, a top official at the congressionally recognized nonprofit, has been tracking since August of last year.
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"There is zero evidence that EPA's congressionally mandated small refinery exemption program...has had any negative impact on domestic corn ethanol producers," a spokesman for the EPA said in emailed comments.
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The White House has said in recent weeks it did, in fact, withhold about $391 million in congressionally approved military aid from Ukraine for months, although its reasons why are evolving.
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The funding for that specific package of aid is bound by congressionally designed human rights conditions that say that Egypt must meet certain human rights standards in order to receive it.
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This program provides financial and technical assistance to congressionally designated National Heritage Areas, which are managed by non-Federal organizations to promote the conservation of natural, historic, scenic, and cultural resources.
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Trump used congressionally appropriated aid to Ukraine, as well as the promise of a White House visit, to try to extort Ukraine's president to announce investigations that would benefit Trump politically.
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Sinclair responded to his proposal on Wednesday with a revised plan to sell off certain stations from the combined company in order to get it under a congressionally-mandated ownership limit.
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In a time when congressionally fostered accountability is lacking, this administration is signaling that it will not only help Congress in reigning in agency mission-creep, it will provide the roadmap.
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In short, Pai's FCC gave a loophole back to companies like Sinclair that allowed conglomerates to exceed a Congressionally mandated limit on how much of the country their TV stations could.
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"Obviously these are congressionally set legislative parameters, and if Congress wants to change that, I'm sure we can make it happen, regardless of the interpretations that are out there," Reed said.
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Congressionally approved funding for a broad range of related science is around $9 million this year, down 45 percent from five years ago, according to several scientists involved in the research.
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The conversation, which was not previously reported, raises new questions about Sondland's conversations with Trump during the time the president was freezing nearly $400 million in congressionally appropriated aid to Ukraine.
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The latest congressionally mandated report, dubbed the Fourth National Climate Assessment, finds that the effects of climate change are rippling out across the globe, negatively affecting people's health and well-being.
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Another study was Congressionally mandated for the National Nuclear Security Administration, or NNSA, to examine the aging of nuclear weapon pits, the explosive core in many types of U.S. nuclear weapons.
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Moreover, by moving congressionally-approved funds out of the defense program, the administration weakens its own efforts to press America's allies, especially the NATO allies, to increase their own defense expenditures.
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A congressionally created commission on Wednesday proposed sweeping changes to how the federal government approaches cybersecurity in an effort to better defend the U.S. against increasingly bold and devastating digital attacks.
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Such testimony would be the strongest evidence yet linking Trump to a so-called quid pro quo of congressionally-approved military aid in exchange for investigations that could benefit Trump politically.
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Such testimony would be the strongest evidence yet linking Trump to a so-called quid pro quo of congressionally approved military aid in exchange for investigations that could benefit Trump politically.
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The Trump administration's efforts toward this goal included an illegal hold on $400 million in congressionally appropriated military aid as the president's team sought to force the country's leaders to comply.
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The "opinion is forceful and it is unambiguous: When President Trump froze congressionally appropriated military aid to Ukraine, he did so in violation of the law and the Constitution," said Sen.
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Why it matters: Republicans are using a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 presidential election to justify President Trump's decision to freeze congressionally approved aid to the country.
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In 2005, after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast, institutions in Louisiana and Mississippi were able to gain access to $190 million in congressionally appropriated funds without an application.
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Newly released documents from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Pentagon provide further insight into the timeline regarding the White House's freezing of congressionally approved aid to Ukraine.
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Then, in October, came reports that Mr. Trump and his administration withheld congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine while asking for a foreign government to investigate one of his political rivals.
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The size of the Army should not fall below 450,000 active-duty troops and 85003,000 reservists for the foreseeable future, according to a long-awaited report by a congressionally appointed commission.
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One big caveat to the deal is that there appears to be nothing in the current agreement that would prevent ICE from continuing to exceed the congressionally-mandated cap on detention beds.
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The increases to the Congressionally approved budgets were used to heighten security at bases, for enlistment and reenlistment bonuses, to increase pay to retain personnel, and for the healthcare costs of servicemembers.
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More than 90 non-governmental organizations signed a letter sent to congressional leaders on Monday urging Congress to end the administration's repeated efforts to use rescissions to cut congressionally approved aid funds.
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Bill Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, drew a direct line connecting congressionally approved military aid to Ukrainian interference in domestic U.S. politics when he appeared before House panels last Tuesday.
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We would win elections, and we won the House back in 2010, we did well at least congressionally in 2012, so we would rack up these victories, and nothing would ever change.
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In 85033 the congressionally established National Commission on Children in Disasters provided a report of recommendations to better meet the needs of children in a disaster following the response to Hurricane Katrina.
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So the end result of expunging future climate modeling and certain climate scenarios will only serve to weaken congressionally-mandated scientific reports in the U.S. And that may be the administration's plan.
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The crux of their argument: That Trump sought to extort Ukraine's leaders into publicly announcing investigations into the Bidens and the 2016 election by withholding congressionally approved military aid from the country.
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The Trump administration declined to follow a congressionally mandated deadline Friday to report on whether Saudi leadership, including Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is responsible for Khashoggi's slaying and should be sanctioned.
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In November, Trump rejected findings in a congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment, which said climate change could reduce U.S. gross domestic product more than 10 percent by the end of this century.
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The bipartisan, congressionally-appointed National Defense Strategy Commission recently published its consensus report on the state of the U.S. military and its ability to meet the Trump administration's National Defense Strategy (NDS).
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However, the Obama Administration cast far too wide a net in attempting to resolve these possible issues by reducing the allowable incentives for wellness programs, despite Congressionally enacted statute explicitly stating otherwise.
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They are calling for an end to cuts of labor enforcement staff and resources at the Labor and State departments as well as urging the administration to spend congressionally authorized enforcement funding.
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Considering that most congressionally driven inquiries into an administration are politically charged, Mr. Trump is hardly the first president to come under siege from a congressional chamber controlled by the other party.
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The U.S. census, which takes place every 10 years, is a congressionally mandated process in which the country is able to gather information about its population, including its size and demographic makeup.
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The investigation is focused on whether Trump used almost $400 million in congressionally approved aid to Ukraine as leverage to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to begin an investigation of the Bidens.
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The charges relate to Trump asking Ukraine's new president to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden — the frontrunner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination — while withholding congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine.
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This review follows congressionally mandated studies of the Special Operations Command's culture and accountability in 2018, and its ethics in 2019 — studies whose recommendations have not been fully implemented, the report says.
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In February, Trump missed a congressionally-mandated deadline to determine whether bin Salman is responsible for Khashoggi's killing and report the findings to Congress as well as any decision to impose sanctions.
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In February, Trump missed a congressionally mandated deadline to determine whether bin Salman is responsible for Khashoggi's killing and report the findings to Congress as well as any decision to impose sanctions.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called a bombshell New York Times report "game changer"; the report revealed new details about the Trump administration&aposs hold on Congressionally mandated military aid to Ukraine.
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Facing a congressionally-mandated deadline to say whether Iran is complying with the nuclear accord, Trump refused to make the certification but did not go as far as withdrawing from the deal.
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Graham-Cassidy represents a different type of federalism, one that allows states to go below the congressionally mandated floor, paring coverage and opening the door to discrimination against those with preexisting conditions.
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Former FBI attorney Lisa Page has "voluntarily" agreed to appear for a private interview before House committees on Friday, following her refusal to appear for a deposition Wednesday despite a congressionally issued subpoena.
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The agency found the delay in Ukraine funding could not be attributed to a mere programmatic delay and noted the legislation does not allow the delay of congressionally appropriated funding for policy reasons.
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But perhaps the biggest question at the heart of this scandal has been whether Trump's blocking of about $400 million in congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine was linked to this pressure campaign.
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They understood that, if they didn't use this congressionally delegated power prudently, other countries would retaliate with their own trumped-up "national security" limits on American exports, eventually undermining open rules-based trade.
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One, the 85033,500-paged congressionally mandated Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) report by the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and second, a major study published in British healthcare journal named The Lancet.
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Trump objected to congressionally mandated sanctions on Moscow and raised eyebrows when he congratulated Putin on his victory in March in an election that international observers was rife with fraud and voter intimidation.
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In 22019, a bipartisan, congressionally initiated study conducted by an ideologically diverse, nonpartisan group of business leaders, former elected officials and scholars argued that exposure to humanities is critical for educating our youth.
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The "Congressionally Directed Spending" section at the end of the fiscal 2900 bill contained the names of the members of Congress requesting each project and its location, as required by the transparency rules.
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The congressionally mandated report released by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) found more than 31,000 cyberattacks against federal agencies in fiscal 2018, a nearly 12 percent drop from the previous year.
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If the Navy believes that the option for a tenth boat is the best way forward, then using the Congressionally-mandated option in 2023 is the most prudent way to achieve that goal.
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Today, the Director of National Intelligence can neither reallocate congressionally appropriated resources from one element of the intelligence community to another nor can he easily alter the structural elements of the intelligence community.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also known as ICE, is currently housing more than 50,000 migrants, one of the highest numbers on record, and about 5,000 more than the congressionally mandated limit of 45,274.
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It is time for Congress to reclaim its rightful investigative powers in support of its constitutionally-mandated legislative responsibilities by implementing inherent contempt fines and independent criminal contempt prosecutions by congressionally-appointed attorneys.
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The latest climate report, written by scientists in 13 federal agencies as part of a congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment, says little that hasn't been said in countless reports over the past decade.
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But most pernicious, President Trump conditioned hundreds of millions of dollars in congressionally appropriated, taxpayer-funded military assistance for the same purpose: to apply more pressure on Ukraine's leader to announce the investigations.
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Why it matters: Many of the president's tweets were fighting back against the House's impeachment inquiry into allegations that he withheld congressionally approved military aid to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political opponents.
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The big picture: The survey also demonstrates that Americans want to hear from White House officials who have first-hand insights into the administration's decision to halt congressionally approved military aid for Ukraine.
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The island's Financial Oversight and Management Board — a congressionally mandated office that oversees Puerto Rico's finances — announced Tuesday it had authorized the disbursement of $260 million for emergency funds related to the earthquakes.
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At the time of what Trump has repeatedly called a "perfect" phone call with Zelensky, he was moving to place a hold on about $400 million in congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine.
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One of the earliest signs of President Trump's concerns about the funds stems from a June 19 article in the Washington Examiner discussing the congressionally approved military aid for Ukraine totaling $250 million.
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Here, even if the President lawfully could have withheld the congressionally-authorized military aid to Ukraine, conditioning the release of that aid on the public announcements of politically-beneficial investigations would be unlawful.
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"Although the committees only received a partial production of the requested materials, OMB's responses and documentation to date confirm that the apportionment process has been misused to withhold Congressionally enacted appropriations," Democrats said.
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Jeanne ShaheenCynthia (Jeanne) Jeanne ShaheenDemocratic senator calls on Giuliani to testify over Ukraine scandal Congressionally appointed panel recommends US halt Syria withdrawal Russia: US denied visas to UN delegation members MORE's (D-N.
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At the time of the call, Trump had put on hold roughly $400 million in congressionally-approved military aid to Ukraine as it contends with an ongoing, bloody war against pro-Russian separatists.
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What they're saying: House Appropriations Chair Nita Lowey and House Budget Chair John Yarmuth said "legislative proposals and reforms" are being considered to address OMB's control over congressionally approved foreign aid, per Politico.
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It was left for dead in 1982, when three states failed to ratify it by a congressionally imposed deadline, leaving it short of the necessary three fourths of the states needed for ratification.
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And so absent congressionally granted authority, the FTC can only enforce violations of open internet "principles," which aren't the same as actual rules, and which critics like Sohn say are all but unenforceable.
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In his opinion on Monday, Mehta invoked the Senate's Watergate investigation as he argued "history has shown that congressionally-exposed criminal conduct" by the President or other high-ranking officials could lead to legislation.
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Bob Corker — the anti-Trump Republican who warned that the president might start "World War III" — raised questions about an over three week delay on Trump administration implementation of congressionally mandated sanctions on Russia.
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The House charged that Trump withheld nearly $400 million in congressionally appropriated military aid to Ukraine last summer while demanding that country announce investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
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Trump's impeachment trial centered around the president's alleged dealing with Ukraine, in which he pressured that country's president to announce investigations into the Bidens while withholding nearly $400 million of congressionally approved military aid.
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Two food safety groups have filed a lawsuit seeking to force the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to implement a congressionally-mandated testing program aimed at detecting foodborne illness outbreaks after years of inaction.
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"As a demonstration of the administration's commitment to supporting American businesses, DHS is providing this one-time increase to the congressionally set annual cap," Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly said in a statement.
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In December, the Pentagon launched the first full-scale audit in its history, a congressionally mandated undertaking that officials have hailed as a sign of their commitment to spending their multibillion-dollar budget wisely.
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Any director confirmed by the Senate for a full term should make clear that his or her aim will be to rededicate the bureau to its essential (and congressionally mandated) mission of consumer protection.
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"Given the scope and the breadth of the analysis he's contemplating, he will not have a final decision completed by the congressionally mandated deadline tomorrow," State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters on Wednesday.
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Lawmakers and conservationists are dealing with whiplash after a stunning decision by the Trump administration this week to reverse course and retroactively use congressionally appropriated funds for maintenance costs incurred during the government shutdown.
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Trump withheld $391 million of congressionally approved security assistance to Ukraine in July but says there was no quid pro quo - a Latin phrase meaning a favor for a favor - attached to its release.
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"I strongly support restoring Congressionally directed spending with the reforms that Democrats put in place when we previously had the majority to ensure transparency and accountability," he said in a statement to The Hill.
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"Given the scope and the breadth of the analysis he's contemplating, he will not have a final decision completed by the congressionally mandate deadline tomorrow," State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters on Wednesday.
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The 2017 request would also hike spending for the broader Defense Department over the next six months, with $24.9 billion more sought to "readiness needs" after years of complaints over congressionally imposed spending caps.
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It is manifestly impossible to ask CASAC to meet its congressionally mandated Clean Air Act requirements without scientific input from experts in the many fields pertinent to understanding the impacts of ozone and particulates.
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The BOP told CNN on Friday that it eliminated several thousand vacant, previously authorized bureau positions nationwide this year while trying to cut costs in line with the Justice Department's congressionally approved budget plan.
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"As the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, a federal agency may pre-empt state law only when and if it's acting within the scope of its congressionally delegated authority," Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said.
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Leaders of the older, congressionally chartered veterans groups like the Legion are not categorically opposed to easing restrictions on private care, particularly in cases where veterans are facing long wait times and subpar facilities.
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This new volume of the congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment includes more alarming predictions than its predecessors did, and it officially puts the Trump administration on the record about the dire threats Americans face.
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It should be the standard operating system for Congress to have oversight over the dispersal of congressionally authorized aid, and there should be an inspector general keeping an eye on any politically motivated shenanigans.
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"We're disappointed the Senate wasn't able to stop President Obama's unworkable rule by a federal agency that does not have the congressionally granted authority to regulate air quality," said Barry Russell, the group's president.
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During a conversation in August with Mr. Trump, Mr. Bolton mentioned his concern over the delay of the $391 million in congressionally appropriated assistance to Ukraine as a deadline neared to send the money.
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Puerto Rico, which suffered devastating losses from Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, has received just $1.5 billion of the roughly $20 billion in congressionally authorized disaster funds that HUD is supposed to administer.
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According to the New York Times, Bolton spoke to Trump in August and raised the $391 million in congressionally approved aid to Ukraine for its war in the country's east against Russian-backed separatists.
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And this is in spite of the fact Trump was impeached over soliciting foreign interference in the 2020 election in a complex scheme that involved freezing nearly $400 million in congressionally-approved security assistance.
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One by one, Trump has taken on the post-Watergate reforms, from checks on what a president could do with congressionally appropriated funds to laws on when a president can get us into war.
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At issue in GAO's legal opinion is how the Ukraine aid pause gels with the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, a law that sharply curbs the executive branch's authority to alter congressionally appropriated funds.
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The congressionally chartered National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine said Thursday that the Interior Department's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) sent a stop-work order for the study earlier this month.
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Recall that the individual mandate, which the TCJA put to rest beginning next year, is a congressionally imposed, Internal Revenue Service collected penalty on Americans who choose not to purchase government-approved health insurance.
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Robert Heller, a former Federal Reserve governor from 1986-1989, said that, in his opinion, the 2 percent inflation target wasn't entirely in line with the central bank's Congressionally mandated goal of price stability.
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"I've asked people not to take a negative stance," said Sherman Gillums Jr., the chief advocacy officer for American Veterans, or Amvets, one of the largest of the six congressionally chartered veterans service organizations.
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The draft report, which is part of the congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment, was approved by National Academy of Sciences, according to the Times, but it is currently awaiting approval from the Trump administration.
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A few hours later, he turned the Treasury Department's Congressionally-mandated and much-feared "Kremlin Report" into what observers called a toothless hybrid of Forbes Magazine's richest Russians list and an internal Kremlin directory.
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Update 06:54pm ET: The FAA issued the following statement today: The FAA has spent $7.5 billion in congressionally appropriated funds on the air traffic modernization program known as NextGen over the past seven years.
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Reeker said he also became troubled during a White House meeting in which Laura Cooper, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, raised concern over the freezing of congressionally approved Ukraine aid.
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With a still-emerging Green New Deal stalled in the Senate — and nearly two decades after the U.S. released its first congressionally-mandated climate report — the U.S. still has no long-term, coherent climate plans.
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The report, part of the fourth congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment from the multi-agency Global Change Research Program, came out Friday, the day after Thanksgiving and a major shopping day for the United States.
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Trump, however, contrary to law, was holding up this congressionally authorized aid — dangling it — while pressuring the vulnerable new chief executive of a small, beleaguered country to do his bidding for his own personal reasons.
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While OMB says it will reevaluate the "pause" on the use of funds as soon as it receives information on the accounts, critics see the move as an attempt to block congressionally appropriated foreign aid.
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Why it matters: Allegations that Trump froze nearly $400 million of congressionally approved military aid in order to pressure Ukraine to investigate a potential 2020 rival are central to the impeachment case against the president.
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The backdrop to all of this is Trump's recently completed impeachment trial — one stemming from the president getting caught trying to leverage congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine into politically motived investigations of the Bidens.
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What's more, senators don't see a path forward today, especially when President Donald Trump, who dismissed a dire, years-in-the-making, congressionally-mandated climate report from top U.S. scientists, sits at the Resolute desk.
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The impeachment inquiry centers around whether Trump held up nearly $400 million in congressionally mandated military aid to Ukraine and a visit to the White House on the condition that Ukraine announce politically advantageous investigations.
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Some, like National Review writer David French, have argued that the killing was legal because it occurred in Iraq, where US troops are fighting a congressionally-authorized war with the permission of the Iraqi government.
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Trump is accused of abusing his office by dispatching his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and other administration officials to withhold a congressionally-appropriated $391 million military aid package from Ukraine for his own personal gain.
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Judge Rosemary Collyer of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia held the alleged spending of public funds that had not been congressionally authorized injured Congress by nullifying its power of appropriation.
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Manchin had tried desperately to find a way out by proposing the Senate merely censure the president for … trying to force an ally to find dirt on Joe Biden by withholding congressionally approved military aid.
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That push has put Trump at risk of impeachment after the president supported Giulani's effort by himself asking Ukraine's president in July to investigate Biden, even as Trump withheld congressionally appropriated military aid from Ukraine.
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As of today, the local government's cash on hand is supplemented by access to roughly $28503 billion in congressionally authorized loans and $22019 billion via a 0 percent loan offered by senior sales-tax bondholders.
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Shanahan until this month was an executive at Boeing Co. Should Lord make it through the Senate confirmation process, she will encounter a Congressionally mandated division of the AT&L position, to come Feb 1.
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The Democrats presented a detailed and documented case of presidential abuses, including pressuring the government of Ukraine to investigate his political rival, withholding congressionally required foreign aid without legitimate cause, and then covering it up.
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Trump urged Ukraine to launch investigations into his political rivals as he simultaneously withheld about $400 million in congressionally-approved military aid from the country, which is fighting an ongoing war against pro-Russian separatists.
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That, combined with a 1973 moratorium by President Richard Nixon on all congressionally approved spending on housing and cities, spelled doom for the corporation — and a steady decline in federal responsibility for housing and cities.
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That, combined with a 1973 moratorium by President Richard Nixon on all congressionally approved spending on housing and cities, spelled doom for the corporation — and a steady decline in federal responsibility for housing and cities.
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Trump was accused of pressing Ukraine to announce investigations into his political rivals, including former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, while withholding nearly $400 million in congressionally appropriated military aid to Kyiv.
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Earlier this month, Trump said the building project would initially be paid for with a congressionally approved spending bill and Mexico will eventually reimburse the U.S., though he has not specified how he would guarantee payments.
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House Republicans were all set to move the Office of Congressional Ethics—an independent watchdog group tasked with investigating lawmakers for misconduct—under the congressionally controlled House Ethics Committee after a 119–74 vote on Monday.
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But perhaps the biggest question at the heart of this scandal has been whether Trump's decision to block about $400 million in congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine was tied to this pressure campaign as well.
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In particular, he will likely be asked about allegations the president withheld congressionally approved military aid Ukraine needed to continue its fight against Russian aggressors in the hope of pressuring Ukrainian leaders to launch that investigation.
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The congressionally-mandated report - dismissed as inaccurate by Trump's White House - said climate change will cost the U.S. economy hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of the century, hitting everything from health to infrastructure.
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At a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday, a congressionally-mandated advisory panel looking into Pentagon acquisition reform presented an interim report calling for a shake-up in the Department of Defense's outmoded acquisition system.
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" Kennedy in his dissent said the majority's opinion "puts needed, reasonable, accepted, lawful and congressionally authorized criminal investigations at serious risk in serious cases, often when law enforcement seeks to prevent the threat of violent crimes.
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But its still over 2,000 agents short of the congressionally-mandated level of 21,370 — even as Trump signed an executive order in January 2017 to hire 5,000 Border Patrol agents to clamp down on illegal immigration.
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The Democratic Caucus should "review procedures and work with the Senate to determine the most effective way to carry out our constitutional responsibilities through congressionally-directed spending," Lowey wrote in her letter seeking the Appropriations gavel.
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According to officials who briefed reporters Sunday, the strategy -- a congressionally mandated document -- identifies four national interests: protecting the homeland, advancing American prosperity, preserving peace through strength and pushing American influence by new approaches to development.
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That has in many cases pitted conservative advocates against congressionally chartered, old-line groups like the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion that have long guarded the Veterans Affairs system that they helped build.
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It would also place visa restrictions on Turkish leaders, sanction any foreign person supporting the Turkish military and ensure the previously congressionally mandated sanctions for Turkey's purchase of a Russian missile defense system go into effect.
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In that time, we learned that Trump's own Government Accounting Office declared that the administration violated U.S. federal law in withholding the money that was congressionally mandated to go to Ukraine for military and security aid.
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Unlike the Trump administration, which has slow rolled the imposition of congressionally mandated sanctions on Russia for its interference in the 2016 election, the British government appears determined to respond forcefully to the recent Russian skullduggery.
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Astonishingly, Republican leaders, traditionally strong backers of Ukraine, have stayed silent while Trump has essentially thrown a country at war with Russia under the bus, placing Ukraine in an impossible position by withholding congressionally approved aid.
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"They are going to be too focused on protecting the mission instead of on fighting ISIS," said Dana Stroul, a former senior Pentagon official and the co-chair of a congressionally sponsored bipartisan Syria Study Group.
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Related: The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office said the Trump administration violated the law when it withheld nearly $400 million in congressionally approved aid to Ukraine last summer, a decision at the heart of the impeachment case.
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Democrats accuse Trump of withholding congressionally appropriated military aid in order to pressure the foreign leader to smear Trump's possible 2020 rival by announcing probes into the Bidens, and then stonewalling Congress' investigation into the matter.
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The inquiry is also examining whether Trump's temporary freeze of $391 million in congressionally approved security aid to help Kiev fight Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, was intended to pressure Zelenskiy to conduct the probes.
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In the House, Democrats focused on the witnesses who testified that Trump withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in congressionally approved military aid from Ukraine until the country's president announced an investigation into the Biden family.
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The bipartisan Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and the congressionally-created Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission uncovered that some of these same firms were actively selling garbage to their customers while also betting on their customers' misfortune.
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The report makes the case that Trump conditioned first a coveted White House visit and later congressionally approved military aid on Ukraine opening investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden, his son, and Democrats more broadly.
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A congressionally appointed panel recommended the United States halt its withdrawal from Syria to prevent an ISIS resurgence, counter Iranian influence in the country and provide leverage for a negotiated end to the Syrian civil war.
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Why it matters: Allegations that Trump froze nearly $400 million of congressionally approved military aid in order to pressure Ukraine to carry out investigations into his political rivals are at the heart of the impeachment inquiry.
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The draft report, which is part of the congressionally-mandated National Climate Assessment, was approved by National Academy of Sciences, according to the New York Times, but it is currently awaiting approval from the Trump administration.
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The House said Trump abused his power by withholding nearly $400 million in congressionally appropriated military aid to Ukraine last summer while demanding that country announce investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
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The National Park Foundation, a congressionally chartered organization that serves as the National Park Service's (NPS) official charity, launched the Parks Restoration Fund on Thursday amid growing concerns about the damage the shutdown is inflicting on parks.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Marine Corps Commandant General Robert Neller, like much of the Pentagon top brass, is pretty happy about President-elect Donald Trump's campaign pledge to rebuild America's military after years of congressionally imposed spending caps.
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"Although most personnel operations can resume, bureaus and posts are expected to adhere to strict budget constraints with regard to new spending for contracts, travel, and other needs" given a lapse in congressionally appropriated funds, Todd added.
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President Trump's Defense Department cut all but 1 of 23 mentions of "climate change" from the final draft of a Congressionally mandated report on climate risks — increased flooding, drought, wildfire and extreme temperatures — to U.S. military installations.
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Sandra Pershing and Helen Patton both currently serve as Special Advisors to the World War One Centennial Commission, a Congressionally-charted Commission focused on educating the American public about our Nation's history in the First World War.
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In the past he has been highly critical of the central bank, calling for clearer, congressionally set limits on what the Fed can do in a crisis, and a more transparent set of rules to govern policy.
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Republican defenders of Donald Trump have argued that he withheld congressionally mandated military aid to Ukraine and a promised White House meeting because he wanted assurances that Ukraine's new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, was serious about fighting corruption.
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Trump withheld almost $400 million in congressionally appropriated military aid while he was pushing Ukraine to launch that probe, as well as another one into a conspiracy theory that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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First of all, presidential signing statements to "spin" congressionally passed laws more to the executive's liking — to justify creative enforcement or to influence future court rulings on the statutes — are nowhere to be found in the Constitution.
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"The security concerns are very real," said Blaise Misztal, a fellow with the Hudson Institute and the former head of the congressionally mandated task force on countering extremism in fragile states for the U.S. Institute of Peace.
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And the island's Financial Oversight and Management Board — a congressionally mandated office that oversees Puerto Rico's finances — announced Tuesday it had authorized the disbursement of $260 million of the territory's emergency fund to deal with the earthquake.
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The annual congressionally-mandated report once again labels Iran as the lead state sponsor of terrorism, with Sales saying that Iranian-backed Lebanese Hezbollah has been linked to attacks and weapons stockpiles in Europe and South America.
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But less attention has been granted to the Trump administration&aposs ongoing hold on $105 million in congressionally-approved military aid to Lebanon as it faces an escalating economic and political crisis — with mass protests occurring nationwide.
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The coalition urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to overturn the EPA's decision not to add the nine upwind states to the congressionally created "Ozone Transport Region," which requires stricter pollution controls.
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News surrounding the complaint, which the administration has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal, has raised concerns that Trump used congressionally approved military aid as leverage to pressure a foreign country to investigate his potential political opponent.
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The saga began on July 18, when OMB revealed to senior administration officials that Trump, through Mulvaney and Vought's office, had frozen a package of congressionally mandated military assistance to Ukraine intended to fend off Russian aggression.
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The US has not had borrowing power since March, when the congressionally mandated debt ceiling kicked in, and independent analysts suggest the government could run out of money by September unless Congress can agree to allow additional borrowing.
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The call prompted an inquiry into allegations that the president was using a nearly $400 million in congressionally-mandated military aid to Ukraine and a coveted White House visit to pressure Zelensky into announcing investigations into political rivals.
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Bipartisan anger started bubbling up again after Trump declined to adhere to a congressionally mandated deadline Friday to report on whether Saudi leadership, including Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is responsible for Khashoggi's killing and should be sanctioned.
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Vindman also asserted that no one within the national security apparatus believed that congressionally mandated aid to Ukraine should be delayed — a claim that fuels suspicions that the hold-up stemmed from a political motive on Trump's part.
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In them, Taylor openly criticized what he saw as the Trump administration's intent to withhold nearly $400 million in congressionally appropriated military aid to Ukraine unless the Ukrainian government launched investigations into President Donald Trump's domestic political rivals.
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In the most recent National Climate Assessment — a congressionally mandated report that dropped on Friday, during the holiday weekend — scientists across 2118 federal agencies outlined the serious environmental threats facing the United States in more than 212,22018 pages.
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In the most recent National Climate Assessment — a congressionally mandated report that dropped on Friday, during the holiday weekend — scientists across 13 federal agencies outlined the serious environmental threats facing the United States in more than 1,500 pages.
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And the impending release of a congressionally mandated report on climate change could force President Trump to choose between science and members of his base, many of whom don't think humans play a role in a warming planet.
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But having a congressionally mandated study emphasize this need will send a signal that there is a consensus in this country that rejects belligerent isolationism and understands that the U.S. cannot withdraw from its responsibilities in the world.
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The White House earlier this year authorized a politically appointed official to withhold military aid meant for Ukraine after budget staff members questioned the legality of delaying the congressionally approved funds, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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And before the Ukraine affair came to light, lawyers in the White House budget office developed a legal theory that Mr. Trump had constitutional authority to withhold congressionally mandated military aid from Ukraine, overriding the Anti-Impoundment Act.
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While Trump — and it was later revealed, numerous administration officials — were pressuring Ukraine to announce the investigations, hundreds of millions of dollars in congressionally allocated military aid to the country had been withheld by Trump without clear explanation.
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This effort is a rare economic beacon for the county and received an $243,270 boost from the congressionally funded Appalachian Regional Commission, which assists communities in 236 states affected by job losses from coal mining and related businesses.
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Trump was impeached by the House last month on charges that included abuse of power stemming from his decision to suspend congressionally mandated foreign aid to Ukraine last summer while he sought investigations from Ukraine's newly elected president.
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Sondland also testified that he later became aware in July that congressionally appropriated military aid was being held from Ukraine at the same time Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was asking Ukraine to launch the investigations.
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With both presidential candidates, a bipartisan majority in Congress, most state governors, state legislatures, and the American electorate finally recognizing the importance of E-Verify, perhaps the time has come for a federal congressionally-approved E-Verify mandate.
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"The allegations ... that he blocked hundreds of millions of dollars in congressionally approved aid to another country is an allegation, unless he agreed to smear a political opponent, is not the conduct of an American president," Biden said.
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WASHINGTON — As the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, Laura K. Cooper was one of multiple Pentagon officials who warned the White House that freezing congressionally approved aid to Ukraine could violate the law.
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And when that didn't work, he held up $391 million in congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine, a country stuck in a grinding conflict with Russia-backed separatists on its eastern border in which 14,000 people have died.
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The new sanctions fall under a 1991 law known as the Chemical and Biological Weapons and Warfare Elimination Act and will come out in two waves, starting around August 22, about a month after a congressionally mandated deadline.
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Since then, the administration has been mulling imposing congressionally mandated sanctions on the country, and Turkey has fired back by considering blocking the United States from using its air base in Incirlik if Washington follows through on such penalties.
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With Republicans in control of the White House and both chambers of Congress, the Koch-funded efforts have already succeeded in disrupting the consensus-driven veterans community, where policy discussions have long been dominated by congressionally chartered veterans groups.
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"History has shown that congressionally-exposed criminal conduct by the president or a high-ranking Executive Branch official can lead to legislation," Judge Amit Mehta of the DC District Court wrote in his 41-page opinion siding with Congress.
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Together, these courts contain a congressionally authorized 852 life-tenured judicial positions, of which around 100 are now vacant, a number that will grow by the end of the year as judges enter previously announced retirement or senior status.
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He portrayed the Justice Department's resistance as symptomatic of the outgoing administration's ambivalence that, in his view, led Mr. Obama not to fight congressionally imposed transfer restrictions that blocked him from carrying out his plan to close the prison.
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"This latest effort to steal congressionally appropriated military funding undermines our national security and the separation of powers enshrined in our Constitution," Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leaders, said in a joint statement on Thursday.
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That call happened days after Trump personally ordered that $400 million in Congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine be held up, in what Democrats argue was an attempt to leverage national security funds into a politically advantageous corruption probe.
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A congressionally mandated report in 2016, by a panel called the Commission on Care, analyzed the cost of sending more veterans into the community for treatment and warned that unfettered access could cost well over $100 billion each year.
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A report from the congressionally mandated National Assessment of Educational Progress found that last year, students in Detroit's public school district scored lower in reading and math than students in all of the other 26 large urban districts measured.
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More than 19903 percent of migrants pass the initial screening because of congressionally mandated rules that set a fairly low bar for approval to ensure that persecuted people have the opportunity to apply for refuge in the United States.
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Amtrak last year became the first U.S. railroad to fully install "positive train control" (PTC) systems on its routes, a congressionally mandated technology that uses antennae on locomotives and sensors on tracks to monitor trains' precise location and prevent collisions.
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At the time that Trump had a phone call in July with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky and asked for "a favor" in doing those investigations, the White House was withholding nearly $400 million in congressionally appropriated military aid from Ukraine.
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Ukraine sits at the center of the trial, with Democratic House managers arguing that Trump misused the power of his office by freezing congressionally approved aid to the country in an attempt to leverage a personal political favor from Zelensky.
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The action was triggered by a whistleblower report about a July 25 phone call with Ukraine in which the president appeared to dangle nearly $400 million in congressionally appropriated military aid in exchange for that country's investigations into his political rivals.
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One year ago, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency on the southern border, a move that has allowed his administration to defy Congress and divert billions of dollars from congressionally-funded military projects to the construction of a border wall.
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A federal judge on Wednesday questioned why the Food and Drug Administration was delaying putting out a congressionally-mandated final rule requiring graphic health warnings on cigarette packs and advertising and said she may need to order it to do something.
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma sought political support from insurance companies for the American Health Care Act (AHCA) by offering a deal to continue funding congressionally mandated cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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Democracy assistance programs supported by the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development and the congressionally-funded National Endowment for Democracy are helping countries such as Tunisia to combat vulnerabilities to extremism by building a better future for their people.
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Congressionally mandated legislation passed last year will result in the splitting up of the job of undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics (AT&L) into two positions: one on the technology wing and a second on the acquisitions wing.
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Another appropriate vehicle for investigating what happened during the most recent presidential election would be a congressionally mandated independent nonpartisan commission of the kind that looked into the causes of 9/11 and the need for new laws and procedures.
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For the past three years, state sponsored medical cannabis programs have operated under the guidance of federal agency memos and Congressionally imposed spending restrictions, which have limited federal interference and created a "cease-fire" for states implementing medical cannabis programs.
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The National Park Service (NPS) will retroactively pull from congressionally appropriated funds to pay for the park maintenance and other operations the Trump administration authorized during the partial government shutdown, according to an internal NPS memo obtained by The Hill Wednesday.
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"GEO is required to abide by these federally mandated standards and congressionally established guidelines," he told Axios, "GEO has consistently, strongly refuted the allegations made in these lawsuits, and we intend to vigorously defend our company against these baseless claims."
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A congressionally mandated report by former U.S. officials released earlier this week said that the military did not have sufficient resources to fund the military's needs and the goals set out by U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis earlier this year.
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The speculation and mixed messages coming out of the White House have flummoxed key lawmakers in both parties, who continue to support the secretary, as well as many of the major veterans groups, which are congressionally chartered and largely apolitical.
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The commission, a congressionally mandated government agency, listed India as among the worst countries in the world for religious freedom, grouping it with Afghanistan, Azerbaijan and Cuba, and a little ahead of countries including the Central African Republic, Russia and Syria.
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He proposed that Mr. Trump take the additional money from the Treasury Forfeiture Fund and the Defense Department accounts used to support counterdrug activities and efforts to block drug smuggling — congressionally approved funds that the president already plans to use.
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Mike Walls, vice president of regulatory and technical affairs at the American Chemistry Council, an industry trade group, said his organization objected to any effort to impose a ban before the completion of a separate, congressionally mandated evaluation of asbestos.
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Democrats accuse Trump of withholding $391 million in congressionally appropriated military aid to Ukraine while pressuring the country to announce probes into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, as well as a debunked conspiracy theory about 2016 election interference.
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Many of those states, however, ratified the ERA more than 40 years ago -- and five that had passed it later rescinded their support -- and opponents argue that the congressionally-imposed deadline for adding ERA to the Constitution expired decades ago.
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Moreover, the White House's Office of Management and Budget, which has not hesitated to abuse its latitude in implementing continuing resolutions by disregarding congressionally-negotiated priorities, would have even more opportunity under an automatic CR to brush aside the legislative branch.
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Washington (CNN)The Trump administration announced new sanctions Friday related to Russia's occupation of Crimea and ongoing violence in eastern Ukraine, just days ahead of a congressionally mandated deadline for the implementation a separate, broad array of Russia-related sanctions.
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"The president pressured a foreign government for personal political gain while withholding congressionally approved foreign aid, and in doing so, both abused his power and put our national security at risk," Delgado, who unseated a Republican last year, said then.
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma sought political support from insurance companies for the American Health Care Act (AHCA) by offering a deal to continue funding congressionally mandated cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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Yarmuth and Lowey wrote that the decision to hold up congressionally approved funds over the summer represented a potential "abuse of authority" by the president on apportioning money, suggesting the move may have violated the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
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Yarmuth and Lowey wrote that the decision to hold up congressionally approved funds over the summer represented a potential "abuse of authority" by the president on apportioning money, suggesting the move may have violated the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
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For example, just months after Mr. Trump's election, the Commerce Department disbanded a 220-person scientific committee that had explored how to make National Climate Assessments, the congressionally mandated studies of the risks of climate change, more useful to local officials.
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We call on Congress to ensure FDA has adequate funding – through both congressional appropriations, and industry-paid user fees – so the agency can meet its congressionally-mandated product review responsibilities and ensure sustained biomedical investment, innovation and improved patient care.
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Those officials testified during the House probe that a July 25 call between Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy — in which Trump pressed his counterpart to announce an investigation into his Democratic rivals while withholding congressionally approved military aid — was inappropriate.
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Dershowitz argued that if Trump had agreed to release congressionally appropriated foreign aid to Ukraine in exchange for help in his reelection campaign — the central allegation in the impeachment trial — then Trump's actions still would not amount to an impeachable offense.
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Register Pallante recognized that the equally important but sometimes conflicting missions and priorities of the Library and the Copyright Office were hindering the Office's ability to meet its constitutionally rooted and congressionally mandated responsibilities to the public, copyright holders and Congress.
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The Trump administration also announced new sanctions on Friday related to Russia's occupation of Crimea and ongoing violence in eastern Ukraine, just days ahead of Monday's congressionally mandated deadline for the implementation a separate, broad array of Russia-related sanctions.
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Many Americans who served in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars need mental health care, but they aren't always getting enough from the Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Health Administration, according to the results of a congressionally mandated investigation released Wednesday.
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The U.S. corn lobby hopes to convince both Clinton and Trump to uphold the regulation, which requires a doubling of U.S. biofuels use to 36 billion gallons per year by 2022, when congressionally mandated volume targets are set to expire.
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It is the second part of the congressionally mandated Fourth National Climate Assessment, and it's all about how climate change is (and will continue) impacting the people and economy of the US. The first part, released last November, overviewed the latest climate science.
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While Navy officials are clear to tell Warrior Maven that the service does not comment on pending legislation related to Congressionally-authorized funding, service leaders have been quite vocal about the Navy and Marine Corps need for more amphibs for many years now.
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Trump was accused of abusing his power by pressuring Ukraine to announce that probe — and another into a debunked conspiracy theory that Kyiv, not Moscow, interfered in the 2016 election — while withholding nearly $400 million in congressionally appropriated military aid to the country.
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Washington (CNN)The Trump administration's new National Defense Strategy is insufficiently resourced and the US runs the risk of a military defeat by China or Russia, according to a report by a congressionally mandated panel of bipartisan experts that was released Wednesday.
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Multiple witnesses have now testified that they believe President Trump actively pushed Ukraine to investigate both the Bidens and the 2016 election — and that congressionally approved military aid to the country was held up while Trump sought to get what he wanted.
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Washington (CNN)Top Senate Republicans are pledging to find out if the White House is intentionally delaying new sanctions on Moscow as the Trump administration is several weeks past a congressionally-imposed deadline to identify top Russian officials involved in political cybermeddling.
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The congressionally mandated report recommends drastically reducing carbon emissions and predicts consequences, if the U.S. does not do so, that range from mass heat-related deaths to damaging weather that could eat up to a tenth of America's gross domestic product by 2100.
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House Democrats have recently sought to narrow their impeachment inquiry to the allegations stemming from an intelligence community whistleblower complaint that said Trump tried to pressure Ukraine to initiate politically charged investigations in return for the release of congressionally approved security aid.
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"Chairman Grijalva continues to perpetuate a false narrative about our congressionally funded and supported relocation efforts that will better serve the American people and the Bureau of Land Management's multiple-use mission," said Nick Goodwin, Interior spokesperson, in a statement to the Hill.
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At the time, Trump had placed roughly $1.53 million of congressionally-approved security assistance to Ukraine on hold, and the president is accused of dangling the aid over Zelensky as part of a broad scheme to pressure him into launching the investigations.
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"Chairman Grijalva continues to perpetuate a false narrative about our congressionally funded and supported relocation efforts that will better serve the American people and the Bureau of Land Management's multiple-use mission," said Nick Goodwin, Interior spokesperson, in a statement to the Hill.
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The impeachment probe is focused on Trump's pressuring of Ukraine last summer to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and a conspiracy theory related to the 2016 presidential election, even as Trump withheld nearly $400 million in congressionally appropriated military aid to Ukraine.
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House Democrats have recently sought to narrow their impeachment inquiry to the allegations stemming from an intelligence community whistleblower complaint that said Trump tried to pressure Ukraine to initiate politically charged investigations in return for the release of congressionally approved security aid.
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He has the look of a man who hasn't slept much since hurricane and wildfire season began and his staff has worked such long hours, many have hit a congressionally mandated pay cap and must give back portions of their overtime pay.
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As Giuliani was pushing for Ukrainian probes of the Bidens and the discredited theory about Ukrainian meddling in the 2016 election for Hillary Clinton, hundreds of millions of dollars in congressionally allocated military aid to Ukraine were being withheld without clear explanation.
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The order comes as the Senate conducts an impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in connection with Trump asking Ukraine's new president to announce investigations of Joe Biden and Hunter Biden while withholding almost $343 million congressionally appropriated military aid to that country.
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Democrats accuse Trump of abusing his power by withholding congressionally passed aid while lobbying Ukraine to investigate his political rivals, including former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenSenators take reins of impeachment trial in marathon question session Sanders campaign says it raised more than .
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Having Joe Biden's son testify would illuminate the Bidens' irrelevance to the issue of whether the president held up congressionally appropriated military assistance for Ukraine until the Ukrainian president announced — not necessarily conducted, just announced — a government investigation into the Bidens' role.
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Democrats outlined the White House effort to squash their investigation into Trump's efforts to hold up taxpayer-funded, congressionally approved aid to Ukraine, and the unprecedented lack of cooperation between the branches of government as they tried to find out what happened.
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The officials described how Trump, Giuliani, and a small circle of political appointees conditioned a high-profile White House meeting for Zelenskiy, as well as nearly $400 million in congressionally appropriated military aid to Ukraine, on Zelenskiy's willingness to announce the investigations.
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Criticism of Saudi Arabia has mounted in recent weeks on Capitol Hill, after one of the authors of a congressionally commissioned report on the 9/11 terrorist attacks called for the declassification of 28 pages he says show that the kingdom was involved.
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The U.S. House of Representatives has launched an impeachment inquiry against Trump, focused on whether he used congressionally approved aid to Ukraine as leverage to pressure Zelenskiy to investigate Biden, one of Trump's main Democratic rivals as he seeks re-election in 2020.
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Next, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office published a report January 16 finding that the Ukraine aid freeze did, in fact, break federal law by violating the Impoundment Control Act, which stipulates that congressionally appropriated funds must be spent within a given window.
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Democrats have pointed to the decision to block congressionally approved aid to Ukraine days before the Trump call as evidence that Trump may have abused his power to leverage the aid in an attempt to pressure Zelensky to comply with his request.
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"The combined effects of the congressionally imposed sanctions from 2011–12 have significant consequences on the Iranian economy, which is part of what forced them to the table," said Jamil Jaffer, an adjunct professor of national security law at George Mason University.
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So, think Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal, but instead of breaking into the Democratic National Committee's headquarters for purposes of political espionage, this time it's a presidential administration withholding $400 million in congressionally authorized military aid to a vital US ally fighting Russian aggression.
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Cooper's testimony — halted for hours when Republicans stormed the Intelligence Committee's hearing room in protest — provided a window into the urgent questions high-level officials raced to answer about Trump's move, including whether it violated any laws about distributing congressionally mandated appropriations.
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Meanwhile, The Washington Post reported in mid-January that out of $36 billion in Congressionally approved aid to be administered by Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Puerto Rico had only received $1.5 billion of it.
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The Global War on Terror (GWOT) Memorial Foundation , the congressionally-designated non-profit foundation tasked with organizing, fundraising and coordinating efforts to build a new memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., passed legislation in August of 2017 to make this memorial a reality.
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This move is part of a large-scale overhaul of the congressionally mandated Obama-era grant program, which was created in an effort to move away from abstinence-until-marriage approaches to sexual education and teen pregnancy programs that were common under previous administrations.
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Mulvaney was not only aware of the linkage between the withheld security aid to Ukraine and the political investigations Trump was seeking, but he was the official who carried out Trump's directive to freeze nearly $400 million in congressionally approved security aid to Ukraine.
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According to emails and other internal documents reviewed by the network, defense officials were worried by the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) direction to halt the congressionally approved dollars, wrote that the aid was at "serious risk," and wondered if the move was legal.
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President Donald Trump's latest defense against the impeachment inquiry is that while congressionally approved military aid may have been withheld to pressure Ukrainian leaders to investigate Joe Biden and his son, withholding that money was not wrong, because Ukraine didn't know it was happening.
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Current and former national security officials, including Trump-appointed ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sondland, have testified that the president was withholding nearly $400 million of congressionally appropriated military aid to Ukraine until Zelensky publicly announced the investigations Trump and his attorney, Rudy Giuliani, wanted.
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The impeachment inquiry is looking at whether Trump violated his oath of office by holding back the congressionally approved funds while he asked the new Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for a favor— to investigate political rival Joe Biden's family and the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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The larger number tracks with what some experts, including a congressionally appointed panel, have said should be a yearly 3 to 5% increase to the defense budget, which includes money for the military as well as the nuclear weapons elements of the Department of Energy.
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"We are gravely concerned that your lack of responsiveness to our requests has seriously impeded our abilities to carry out our congressionally mandated duties to properly complete this safety investigation and potentially prevent similar accidents in the future," wrote the board's general counsel, Kathleen Silbaugh.
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Thursday's congressionally imposed deadline, to renew an exemption to sanctions on Iran suspended under the 2015 deal, was significant because had the president reimposed economic punishments on Iran, he would have effectively violated the accord, allowing Tehran to walk away and ending the agreement.
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Some security experts and election integrity advocates have also criticized the county's decision to award the "Voting Solutions for All People" contract to a vendor called Smartmatic, which was the subject of a congressionally requested inquiry 14 years ago into its potential foreign ties.
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Although no violation of the criminal code is required for impeachment, this president has committed bribery, extortion, obstruction of a lawful congressional investigation, conspiracy, facilitation of foreign interference in an election, and the mishandling of congressionally appropriated funds in violation of the Impoundment Control Act.
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But that call — and the president's order to withhold congressionally-approved military aid to Ukraine — became the center of the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry that has made Mr. Trump only the third president to face a trial in the Senate and potential removal from office.
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Although President Zelensky assured President Trump that he would be very serious in looking into the case, when the investigation did not appear to be moving forward, President Trump withheld congressionally authorized military aid to Ukraine and a president-to-president White House meeting.
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Trump has fumed for months about the House impeachment inquiry, which kicked off after revelations that he had withheld congressionally approved military aid from Ukraine last summer while urging that nation's new president to announce investigations into Democrat Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.
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Cooper, the top Pentagon official for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, in closed-door testimony in October described to the committee how she and other national security officials were frustrated by President Donald Trump's decision to withhold $400 million in congressionally approved military aid for Ukraine.
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That began with Trump withholding a coveted White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and escalated into the Trump administration withholding nearly $400 million in congressionally approved military aid as Trump-appointed government officials pushed Ukraine to announce investigations into the Bidens and 2016.
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It is perfectly reasonable to think that the president abused the powers of his office by withholding congressionally appropriated military aid from a foreign ally in an attempt to extract from that ally an act that would solely serve the electoral interests of the president.
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Trump really did delay the delivery of congressionally authorized military aid to Ukraine, and during his one-on-one talks with the Ukrainian president he linked that aid to both the Crowdstrike theory and the effort to dig up dirt on a political rival.
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House Democrats are weighing whether Trump should be removed from office for holding up nearly $400 million in congressionally authorized military assistance to Ukraine as it battled pro-Russian separatists in return for allegedly pressuring Ukraine's president to launch an investigation of Trump's political rivals.
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But documents, including "lessons learned" interviews conducted by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, a congressionally mandated oversight body established to track and account for the billions spent there, show that US diplomatic and military officials consistently painted overly-rosy assessments of Afghan progress.
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The House has accumulated significant evidence that Mr. Trump used his office, and leveraged congressionally appropriated foreign security assistance, for his personal political benefit by attempting to coerce Ukraine, a foreign ally facing Russian aggression, to announce an investigation into a domestic political rival.
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Trump's agenda to encourage more fossil fuels use clashes with a congressionally mandated government report that came out last month saying climate change is driven mainly by human activity and will cost the U.S. economy hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of the century.
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The BuzzFeed report came one day after President Donald Trump was acquitted on two articles of impeachment, which were linked to his effort to pressure Ukraine into launching inquires into his political rivals as he simultaneously froze almost $400 million in congressionally-approved security assistance to Kiev.
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NBC News reported that Romney will vote to convict Trump on the first article of impeachment, which alleges Trump abused his power by pressuring Ukraine's president to announce investigations into his political opponents while he withheld nearly $400 million in congressionally appropriated military aid to Kyiv.
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"Given the President's reported orders to his senior staff to eliminate Puerto Rico's disaster recovery funding, this failure to provide congressionally approved funds raises serious concerns that HUD is using the shutdown as a pretext for withholding funds from Puerto Rico," Warren wrote in her letter.
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"I will do everything in my power to achieve those goals while preserving the Federal Reserve's independent and nonpartisan status that is so vital to their pursuit," Powell said, referring to the Fed's Congressionally mandated goals of promoting both maximum employment and low and stable inflation.
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What's more, The Times reported that the Trump administration might not include future high carbon emission scenarios (which are quite likely) in forthcoming climate reports, including the congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment — a major report closely reviewed by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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With regards to justifying the EO's cut of 2628,28503 of the Congressionally agreed upon 22019,000 refugees for FY 2017, the Court also found that the EO made no findings whatsoever that entry in excess of 50,000 would be detrimental to the interests of the United States.
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Here's everything you need to know about the leaked study: The leaked draft of the study, later corroborated by the Washington Post, was created by scientists representing 13 federal agencies and comes from a section of a larger, congressionally mandated study called the National Climate Assessment.
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PARK SERVICE BACKTRACKS ON ENTRANCE FEES: The National Park Service (NPS) will retroactively pull from congressionally appropriated funds to pay for the park maintenance and other operations the Trump administration authorized during the partial government shutdown, according to an internal NPS memo obtained by The Hill Wednesday.
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As a result, it is more important than ever that the renegotiated NAFTA include a digital trade framework that builds on the progress of TPP, is consistent with the congressionally mandated negotiating objectives in Trade Promotion Authority, and sets a strong precedent for any future trade agreements.
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The fire started July 12 when lightning struck a snag and began burning — the same area scarred by the 1987 Silver Fire and 2002 Biscuit Fire in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness, a congressionally designated wilderness area where forest management activities such as mechanized thinning are strictly prohibited.
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Today, there are four services presenting aviation assets and competing for aviation dollars (five if you count the Coast Guard.) Rival aircraft development — or worse congressionally mandated joint aircraft procurements, have often drawn out acquisition timelines — increased costs and reduced the effectiveness of the final, compromise platform.
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The House impeachment probe focuses on whether Trump abused the power of his office by withholding congressionally appropriated foreign aid to Ukraine, while his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, worked with a small group of Trump aides to get Ukraine's president to launch the investigations that Trump wanted.
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It also probes Trump's own insistence that the congressionally mandated military aid package be withheld as he sought investigations into Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, who worked on the board of a Ukrainian energy company while his father served under President Barack Obama.
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It would also prohibit arms transfers to Turkish military units in Syria, sanction any foreign person providing arms to Turkish forces in Syria, impose penalties on Turkish financial institutions and force Trump to impose previously congressionally mandated sanctions on Turkey's purchase of a Russian missile defense system.
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration disclosed on Friday that there were 20 emails between a top aide to President Trump's acting chief of staff and a colleague at the White House's Office of Management and Budget discussing the freeze of a congressionally mandated military aid package for Ukraine.
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The heart of the accusation against Mr. Trump is that he abused his official powers, including withholding a promised White House meeting and congressionally mandated military aid, in an attempt to coerce Ukraine's president into announcing investigations that could deliver personal political benefits to Mr. Trump.
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As we learned a few days ago, only moments after Trump brought up the Biden matter in a call with Zelensky, he ordered a freeze of congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine, something his own administration's officials worried was illegal, sparking a frenzy of anxious correspondence.
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A 42-page report that China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs released in August singled out the National Endowment for Democracy, the congressionally funded organization established in 1983 to support the global spread of democracy, for special loathing, accusing it of underwriting the turmoil in Hong Kong.
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Democrats also have accused Trump of abusing his power by withholding $391 million in congressionally approved security aid to Ukraine - a vulnerable U.S. ally facing Russian aggression - and holding back a coveted White House meeting with Zelenskiy as leverage to pressure Kiev into investigating the Bidens.
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Democrats also have accused Trump of abusing his power by withholding $391 million in congressionally approved security aid to Ukraine - a vulnerable U.S. ally facing Russian aggression - and holding back a coveted White House meeting with Zelenskiy as leverage to pressure Kiev into investigating the Bidens.
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Part of the investigation centers on whether Trump temporarily cut off congressionally approved aid to Ukraine earlier this year to pressure President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate Biden and a debunked theory that it was Ukraine and not Russia that meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Instead of taking even a small measure of responsibility for a crisis that kicked off after he tried to enlist foreign election help in exchange for congressionally approved military aid for an ally at war, Trump demonstrated the pure essence of his narcissism and self-pity.
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For weeks, officials at the Office of Management and Budget ignored warnings from the Department of Defense that placing a hold on a congressionally appropriated $391 million military-aid package to Ukraine violated the law, according to new unredacted emails obtained by Just Security and published Thursday.
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The $750 billion figure tracked with what some experts, including a congressionally appointed panel, have said should be a yearly 3% to 5% increase to the defense budget, which includes money for the military as well as the nuclear weapons element of the Department of Energy.
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If you're a Republican, imagine how you would feel if a President Hillary Clinton withheld congressionally appropriated military aid to a country under assault by the Russians with the request that they formally announce an investigation into her most formidable Republican rival in advance of an election.
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WASHINGTON — The impeachment of President Donald Trump hit a milestone Monday as the House Intelligence Committee released a report that found "overwhelming" evidence of misconduct and concluded that the president "ordered the suspension" of congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine to try to benefit himself politically.
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The congressionally mandated report, written with the help of more than a dozen U.S. government agencies and departments, outlined the projected impact of global warming on every corner of American society in a dire warning that is at odds with the Trump administration's pro-fossil-fuels agenda.
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Why it matters: Taylor's explosive testimony, which relies largely on his conversations with U.S. Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland, draws a direct line from congressionally approved military aid to Ukrainian interference in domestic U.S. politics — the quid pro quo that Trump and his allies have long denied.
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Trump was accused of abusing his power by pressuring Ukraine to announce probes into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, as well as a debunked conspiracy theory about interference in the 2016 election, while withholding nearly $400 million in congressionally appropriated military aid to the country.
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Trump is facing an impeachment inquiry by the House of Representatives over allegations that he pressured the Ukrainian government to investigate Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, as well as the 2016 US election in return for releasing hundreds of millions in congressionally mandated defense funding meant for Ukraine.
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What I have heard from the attorney general sounds like a pretty marked retreat from the willingness to enforce a congressionally-mandated statute [a 1994 law] that gave the Justice Department the responsibility of ensuring that police departments don't engage in a systemic pattern or practice of unconstitutional policing.
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The commander in chief, however, offered no comment on whether he would impose congressionally mandated sanctions on Ankara, a NATO ally, over its purchase of the S-400 surface-to-air missile defense system, which U.S. officials fear could be used to gather intelligence on the F-35.
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"IPAA continues to educate Senate offices on the costly and duplicative burden that the [Bureau of Land Management] rule, which is essentially an air quality rule and is outside the congressionally given authority of the BLM, places on U.S. independent producers' businesses," said Neal Kirby, the organization's spokesman.
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A 0003-page report released recently by China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs singled out the National Endowment for Democracy, the congressionally funded organization founded in 1983 to support the spread of democracy and human rights around the world, accusing it of underwriting a similar revolution in Hong Kong.
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According to a New York Times story about the manuscript, published during the impeachment trial in the Senate, Bolton wrote that Trump told him of his plans to hold nearly $400 in congressionally-mandated military aid to Ukraine until Zelensky agreed to announce investigations into Trump's political rivals.
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The impeachment inquiry kicked off two weeks ago after it was revealed that Trump, who had been withholding congressionally appropriated military aid from Ukraine, pressured that country's newly elected president in July to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, a leading contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
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Trump was impeached by the House in December in connection with his request that Ukraine's new president announce an investigation of former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, at the same time Trump was withholding nearly $400 million in congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine.
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A congressionally mandated report on the Pentagon's AI initiatives released this week by the RAND Corporation finds that the DoD lacks "baselines and metrics" to assess progress, that the JAIC's role within the DoD ecosystem remains unclear, and that the JAIC lacks the authority to deliver on its goals.
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New Report Urges NASA to Intensify Search for Exoplanets and AliensA new congressionally mandated report says NASA should refine its strategy and improve its tools to …Read more ReadThe end of the Kepler era is sad, no doubt, but NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) began operations on July 25, 2018.
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And the increasing certainty that the president offered Congressionally approved aid to Ukraine in return for investigation of his political rivals (and that he abandoned our Kurdish allies in Syria) has made it clear that the risks of not attempting to remove him from office have increased for the country.
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In late June, Mr. Trump told top aides to look into the military assistance the United States provides to Ukraine, setting in motion a process that led him to order the withholding of $391 million in congressionally approved aid that Ukraine needed for its grinding war against Russian-backed separatists.
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Older middle-class Americans might be better off than those living in poverty under a shutdown, because Social Security and Medicare are exempt (not congressionally appropriated) while Temporary Assistance for Needy Families may not — but if they lose their Social Security cards, they won't be able to get new ones issued.
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As a result, members of Congress and their staffs will have a better ability to oversee federal agencies, with readily accessible information on remaining balances in agency accounts, and a clear flow of where federal dollars go: from congressionally-approved budgets all the way to the eventual contract or grant.
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The House is investigating Mr. Trump for using the power of his office to pressure President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine into providing incriminating information about former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and other Democrats at the same time he was holding up $391 million in congressionally approved security assistance.
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In his zeal to win Mr. Zelensky's compliance, the president ousted the American ambassador to Ukraine, froze congressionally approved military aid, shut out foreign-policy experts in the National Security Council and sidestepped the State Department to set up a back-channel to Kiev with his personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani.
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Patrick LeahyPatrick Joseph LeahyAppropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid House panel investigating decision to resume federal executions Graham moves controversial asylum bill through panel; Democrats charge he's broken the rules MORE (D-Vt.), who asked whether the president has the power to violate a congressionally passed surveillance ban.
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Jackson's position on the issue is unknown, though the White House said Thursday in response to accusations made by Shulkin that "there are no discussions about privatizing" the VA. Veterans service organizations, which are congressionally chartered and hold substantial sway over veterans issues in Congress, raised questions about Jackson's qualifications.
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The governments of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea "violate the human rights of those within their borders on a daily basis and are forces of instability as a result," Sullivan said in a preface to the congressionally mandated report that documents human rights in nearly 200 countries and territories.
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The book is said to include an assertion that Trump had made congressionally mandated aid to Ukraine contingent upon the government in Kyiv helping with investigations into the former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenSenators take reins of impeachment trial in marathon question session Sanders campaign says it raised more than .
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The House of Representatives is currently conducting an impeachment inquiry that was sparked by revelations that Trump had withheld congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine while he pressured that country's president to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, a leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, and Biden's son Hunter.
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An unpublished manuscript of Bolton&aposs upcoming book, reported on by The New York Times, has been alleges bombshell details regarding Trump&aposs alleged pressure campaign on Ukraine, in which he&aposs accused of withholding congressionally approved aid to the country in exchange for an investigation into a political opponent.
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It is a central puzzle of the impeachment process so far: If, as the president claims, he did not try to withhold congressionally mandated aid to force Ukraine to meddle in the 2020 election, why won't he allow any senior administration officials to testify about his actions and clear him?
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Now is the moment to prevent war & protect innocent people - the question for many is how, publicly & Congressionally: The drone strike followed an assault on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday by supporters of an Iranian-backed militia, which itself followed reciprocal airstrikes by both sides over the weekend.
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The FAA also still faces questions about how it is carrying out a congressionally-mandated process of delegating much of its aircraft approval and inspection work to manufacturers such as Boeing — as well as fears that the 737 MAX won approval despite dangerous flaws in an automated flight control system.
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Here we have a direct witness who is willing to testify and who states in the unpublished manuscript of his forthcoming book that the President told him directly that he wanted to continue withholding congressionally appropriated military aid to Ukraine until they announced an investigation into his most formidable political rival.
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The House of Representatives a month earlier impeached the president in connection with his withholding of congressionally appropriated military aid to Ukraine while he was pressuring that country's new president to announce a probe of Biden and his son Hunter, who served on the board of a Ukraine gas company.
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On Thursday, Democrats laid out their arguments that Trump met the standard for impeachment by pushing Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to announce probes into his political rivals and a debunked conspiracy about the 2016 presidential election while millions of dollars in congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine was being withheld.
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"China uses a variety of methods to acquire foreign military and dual-use technologies, including targeted foreign direct investment, cyber theft, and exploitation of private Chinese nationals' access to these technologies, as well as harnessing its intelligence services, computer intrusions, and other illicit approaches," the congressionally mandated Department of Defense report said.
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"China uses a variety of methods to acquire foreign military and dual-use technologies, including targeted foreign direct investment, cyber theft, and exploitation of private Chinese nationals' access to these technologies, as well as harnessing its intelligence services, computer intrusions, and other illicit approaches," the Congressionally mandated Department of Defense report said.
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The fiscal 2021 budget request of $50.8 billion is a decrease of 1.2% from the fiscal 2020 enacted level, with the cuts coming mainly from the elimination of nearly $1.6 billion in research funding added each year to the Pentagon budget by Congress as part of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program.
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The House's impeachment probe was sparked by revelations that Trump had withheld congressionally appropriated military aid to Ukraine at the same time he was asking that country's new president in July to investigate a conspiracy theory regarding the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and to also probe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.
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The Supreme Court often defers to presidents in matters of immigration, but the provision of his executive order in question has little to do with immigration per se and much to do with who gets to decide when "congressionally appropriated funds" may be, in Mr Sessions's words, "claw[ed] back" from uncooperative localities.
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Democrats accused Trump of abusing the power of his office by pressing Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to announce a probe into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, as well as a debunked conspiracy theory about election meddling in 2016, while withholding nearly $400 million in congressionally approved military aid.
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A key addition was tougher oversight on the corporate bailout fund, including an inspector general and congressionally appointed board to monitor it, disclosure requirements for businesses that benefited, and a prohibition on any of the money going to Mr. Trump's family or his properties — although they could still potentially benefit from other provisions.
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Not only was she very good at the Central Command's headquarters in Tampa, but she carried out a highly commendable job both as congressionally-confirmed principal deputy under secretary of Defense to then-Comptroller David Norquist, and then as Norquist's acting replacement when he moved up to become the DOD's deputy secretary.
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In the draft excerpts that were first reported on by The New York Times, Bolton asserts that President Trump linked congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine with an investigation into former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenSenators take reins of impeachment trial in marathon question session Sanders campaign says it raised more than .
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Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Thursday that President Donald Trump — who is facing an impeachment inquiry because of controversial contacts with Ukraine — did not withhold congressionally appropriated military aid to Ukraine as part of a quid pro quo to get that country to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden.
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Over all, these exchanges show growing tension between the White House and the Pentagon in late August and early September, as Defense Department officials questioned if they would be able to spend all of congressionally appropriated military aid to Ukraine before the deadline at the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30.
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Here's an explainer on how impeachment works, and a rundown of the latest developments: An official at the White House budget office told investigators this month that two of his colleagues had resigned after expressing concerns about Mr. Trump's decision to hold up $391 million in congressionally approved security assistance to Ukraine.
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WASHINGTON — Two officials at the White House budget office resigned this year partly because of their concerns about President Trump's decision to hold up congressionally approved security assistance to Ukraine, a third aide at the office told impeachment investigators, revealing dissent within a key agency about Mr. Trump's refusal to release the money.
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Additionally, provisions included in the emergency supplemental package treat Puerto Rico vastly different than the states by conditioning federal funds for disaster recovery to an expansion of powers of a congressionally-mandated oversight board that was specifically created to address the over a decade old fiscal crisis, not oversee the island's recovery.
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The law they must apply is clear: An agency action deserves judicial scrutiny and rejection when it violates congressionally set process, dodges contrary evidence and the views of the agency's own experts, offers explanations lacking any support in the record and disregards Supreme Court precedent about agency obligations to follow the law.
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At a twice-yearly appearances before Congress, the Fed chair is often peppered with barbed questions about the central bank's effectiveness, regulatory chops and commitment to congressionally set goals, both from Republicans like House Financial Services Chair Jeb Hensarling as well as Democrats like Elizabeth Warren, who sits on the Senate Banking Committee.
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The exchange: Why it matters: Bill Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, testified to House investigators this month that nearly $400 million of congressionally approved military aid was contingent on Ukraine opening investigations into allegations of interference in the 2016 election and the natural gas company Burisma, where Hunter Biden sat on the board.
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Tillerson took a hard line on Russia in what appeared to be an effort to reassure U.S. allies and others concerned about Trump's relationship with Putin, his reticence to impose congressionally mandated sanctions on Moscow and his refusal to explicitly condemn what U.S. intelligence agencies concluded was Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Jackson argued that the bank was a "danger to our liberty and independence" not just because it was a congressionally created bank, but also because of the lack of accountability of the directors of the bank, the lack of constraints on the business of the bank and the novelty of that quasi-governmental institution.
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New Report Urges NASA to Intensify Search for Exoplanets and AliensA new congressionally mandated report says NASA should refine its strategy and improve its tools to …Read more Read With this possibility in mind, astronomers should now look for rocky planets with super-short orbital periods that might be the remnants of this process.
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Iran The President is famous for bragging about his prescience on a wide array of global hot spots -- and if his remarks Tuesday morning before the United Nations are any guide, he signaled he is committed to decertifying Tehran's compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action by a congressionally mandated deadline of October 15.
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I did not contend or imply that Snowden was acting legally or should not be prosecuted for acting in behalf of what he claims is a more morally compelling cause, namely, to protest congressionally approved but sometimes abusive police-state practices adopted to combat international terrorism at whatever cost to a free and open society.
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Key to Mr. Bolton's account about Ukraine is an exchange during a meeting in August with the president after Mr. Trump returned from vacation at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J. Mr. Bolton raised the $391 million in congressionally appropriated assistance to Ukraine for its war in the country's east against Russian-backed separatists.
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The documents depict the back-and-forth at OMB and with the Department of Defense and others as the holdup on more than $200 million of congressionally appropriated military assistance to Ukraine dragged on from late summer, until around the time a whistleblower came forward in September about the President's political pressure on Ukraine.
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Democrats plan to direct some to Pat A. Cipollone, the White House counsel, about what he knew about an unpublished book by John R. Bolton, the president's former national security adviser, in which he said Mr. Trump refused to release congressionally allocated military assistance for Ukraine until the country announced investigations into his political rivals.
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Two other Republicans, Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, have expressed openness to the idea, but both were noncommittal after reports about Mr. Bolton's manuscript, in which he said that Mr. Trump refused to release congressionally allocated military aid to Ukraine until the country furnished information about his political rivals.
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He applied this pressure himself and through his agents within and outside of the U.S. government by conditioning a desperately-sought Oval Office meeting and $391 million in taxpayer-funded, congressionally-appropriated military assistance—vital to Ukraine's ability to fend off Russian aggression—on the announcement of political investigations helpful to his personal interests.
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The Republican defense is likely to follow the contours of their report, arguing Trump was worried about corruption in Ukraine and hesitated sending congressionally approved military aid not because he wanted the country to investigate a rival but because he feared taxpayer money would be embezzled — all while framing impeachment as a partisan attack.
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The Department of Homeland Security "is likely to suffer irreparable harm absent a stay because the preliminary injunction takes off the table one of the few congressionally authorized measures available to process the approximately 2,000 migrants who are currently arriving at the nation's southern border on a daily basis," the judges said in issuing the stay.
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Democrats, instead, have turned their investigative targets elsewhere, mostly on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the White House and the State Department, which is the center of what Democrats say was a corrupt effort by the President to withhold congressionally approved aid for Ukraine in exchange for a Ukrainian probe to dig up dirt on the Bidens.
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There are still a number of more witnesses in a variety of agencies -- State, Pentagon, Energy, Office of Management and Budget and the White House national security council -- who have firsthand knowledge of Trump's handling of Ukraine, the work of his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and why congressionally approved military aid was held up for Ukraine.
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The Washington Post reported this weekend Sondland plans to tell Congress that explosive text messages in which the ambassador denied Trump was offering Ukraine a quid pro quo arrangement (the release of congressionally approved military aid in exchange for an investigation into Biden) was simply Sondland relaying a message that Trump told him over the phone.
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As part of NSA's oversight of the use of congressionally-authorized spying authorities under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Department of Justice and NSA compliance personnel review the intelligence reports written by analysts to ensure they meet legal guidelines, including ensuring that analysts only targeted appropriate people and masked the identities of any Americans in the reports.
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The new testimony from Sondland, who is still employed as Trump's ambassador to the EU, threatens to undermine claims by Trump and his political allies who have repeatedly denied that congressionally mandated foreign aid to Ukraine worth nearly $400 million was ever used as leverage by Trump to try and pressure the country into launching investigations.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE also recently announced his support for a $85033 billion Pentagon budget, a full $100 billion above the congressionally mandated — and ignored — budget caps.
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As we honor Holocaust Remembrance Day this Saturday, here are five action items for Congress to move forward immediately this year to combat anti-Semitism, fight hate crimes, and prevent another genocide: More than a year has passed without the appointment of a U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, a congressionally mandated position.
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By now, everyone — including those Republican senators who insist on standing by the president — recognizes that Donald Trump played fast and loose with the national interest when he withheld congressionally approved aid to Ukraine until he was assured that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was prepared publicly to announce an investigation of the Bidens pere et fils.
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Tom CoburnThomas (Tom) Allen CoburnThe Hill's Morning Report — Presented by PhRMA — Worries grow about political violence as midterms approach President Trump's war on federal waste American patients face too many hurdles in regard to health-care access MORE (R-Okla.), infamous for his "wastebook," reminded everyone of the perpetuity of some pots of congressionally authorized funds.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat who represents the District of Columbia, noted that the Pentagon recently released a Congressionally mandated report that examined the vulnerability of military bases to climate events and found that 36 bases are vulnerable to wildfires , 43 to drought and 53 face recurrent flooding caused by sea level rise and storm surges.
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And as immigration negotiations continue, it's worth understanding why In practice, the bill gave both groups of immigrants more of what they already have — turning their existing protections (which will likely persist for months or longer thanks to federal court cases) into three-year congressionally granted protections — but only after putting them through an application process many may not pass.
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Moreover, between the difficulty of recruiting and congressionally-mandated caps on manpower, the military increasingly relies on contractors to fill as many roles as possible, another factor driving up cost but also subtly increasing risk: it isn't clear that contractors (many of whom are not Americans) can be persuaded to provide services on a "hot" battlefield in a major war.
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During the past two weeks, nearly a dozen current and former officials in the Trump administration testified before Nunes and the rest of the Intelligence Committee about what they say was a far-reaching effort to exert pressure on Ukraine to announce the investigations Trump wanted, up to and including withholding congressionally appropriated foreign aid to the war-torn country.
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House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie ThompsonBennie Gordon ThompsonHouse committee chairman requests DHS consider Secret Service protection for Biden, Sanders Clyburn takes victory lap after Biden wins big on Super Tuesday Establishment Democrats rallying behind Biden MORE (D-Miss.) on Friday raised concerns around the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) failure to submit a congressionally mandated election security report on time.
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The report, which was compiled by the bipartisan Cyberspace Solarium Commission over the past year, aims to define federal priorities around defending the U.S. against cyber threats is set to be released next week, with members of the commission that assembled the congressionally mandated report using the Super Tuesday contests to highlight the election security priorities included in the report (The Hill).
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The SLS has been a congressionally mandated project ever since 2010, shortly after President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaTuesday primary turnout slumps amid coronavirus anxiety Biden has broken all the 'rules' of presidential primaries Presidential do's and don'ts during natural disasters MORE summarily cancelled the Bush 43-era Constellation Project, causing a rift between the White House and Congress over space policy.
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Leaders of the National Republican Congressional Committee, the campaign arm of House Republicans, and their counterparts at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had labored for much of the summer over rules that would have governed the way the congressionally run committees and their candidates treated material like the thousands of pages of damaging Democratic documents stolen and leaked by Russian hackers in 2016.
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Two Republican senators, Susan Collins of Maine and Utah's Mitt Romney, broke with their party and voted alongside the Democrats The 51-49 vote came amid reports of leaked details from Bolton's upcoming memoir that described Trump telling the then-national security advisor directly that nearly $400 million in congressionally appropriated military aid to Ukraine was tied to investigations into his political rivals.
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Transportation Secretary Elaine ChaoElaine Lan ChaoTrump administration takes step to relax truck driver time regulations New guidance on travel with service animals is a step forward, but more can be done The Hill's Morning Report — Mueller testimony gives Trump a boost as Dems ponder next steps MORE called on railroads to implement the technology ahead of the congressionally mandated deadline.
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"If a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in an impeachment," Dershowitz said, referring to the charge that Trump abused his power by using congressionally approved security aid as leverage to get a foreign power to smear his political rival, Joe Biden.
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A national, congressionally funded transition to vote-by-mail, modeled on the earlier transition to e-voting, would not only prepare the US to hold safe and fair elections no matter how ugly a possible pandemic gets, but once in place it would also protect against future disruptions to elections from wildfires, floods, hurricanes, terrorist attacks, and other disasters natural and man-made.
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They explained in methodical detail how the president withheld a White House meeting and hundreds of millions of dollars in crucial, congressionally authorized military aid to Ukraine, all in an effort to get Mr. Zelensky to announce two investigations — one into Mr. Trump's political rival, Joe Biden, and his son, Hunter, and another into Ukraine's supposed interference in the 2016 election.
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According to Sondland's testimony, it was during this call that Trump told him he wanted "nothing" from Ukraine, and Trump has repeatedly referenced this call as evidence for his claim that there was no attempt to withhold congressionally appropriated security aid to Ukraine in return for other things Trump personally wanted and outlined in a phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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"Working closely with the Army Corps of Engineers and Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security is exercising its Congressionally-granted authority to waive procurement regulations in six high-traffic border sectors, which will allow us to use already vetted and experienced contractors to build an additional 6900 miles of new border wall system," DHS spokesperson Heather Swift said.
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"Working closely with the Army Corps of Engineers and Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security is exercising its Congressionally-granted authority to waive procurement regulations in six high-traffic border sectors, which will allow us to use already vetted and experienced contractors to build an additional 177 miles of new border wall system," Heather Swift, a DHS spokesperson, told Business Insider.
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"There are significant risks to the CIA associated with treating [independent contractors] as employees, including the potential liability for taxes and employee benefits that would have been withheld or paid had the individuals been treated as employees, and potential criticism that the CIA is circumventing its Congressionally mandated personnel ceiling by utilizing [independent contractors] as employees," the audit report said.
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As a result, Kinzinger said he won't vote to block President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's national emergency declaration to secure funds that have not been congressionally appropriated for his long-desired wall along the southern border.
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Lawmakers are investigating whether or not Trump used the hold on the congressionally approved aid as leverage in an attempt to get Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to publicly announce that he would investigate former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenGOP senators balk at lengthy impeachment trial 85033 Democrats make play for veterans' votes 2020 Dems put focus on stemming veteran suicides MORE's son, Hunter Biden.
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On May 85033, a congressionally organized Syria Study Group, handpicked by the establishment, sent its interim report to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellPelosi, Schumer press for gun screenings as Trump inches away The malware election: Returning to paper ballots only way to prevent hacking First House Republican backs bill banning assault weapons MORE (R-Ky.) outlining its initial findings and policy options.
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CNN reported last week that the Office of Management and Budget had put a temporary hold on the majority of congressionally approved foreign aid funds -- pending a review by the State Department and the US Agency for International Development -- in a move that critics said was an attempt by the administration to undercut Congress and cancel aid programs that advocates see as vital to US interests.
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Now fresh reporting from the New York Times has emerged to strengthen the Democrats' minimum condition of a real trial: The Senate must seek witness testimony from key players in Mr. Trump's attempt to strong-arm Ukraine into announcing an investigation of his political rival, former vice president Joe Biden, using congressionally appropriated military aid and promises of a White House visit as leverage.
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That the White House withheld congressionally approved funds from an ally actively trying to fight a five-year conflict with Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine -- one that has cost more than 13,000 lives and displaced millions -- was widely slammed by witnesses subpoenaed by the House of Representatives last fall, from former acting ambassador William Taylor and his predecessor Marie Yovanovitch to Army Lt. Col.
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Similarly, while the judicial branch has thus far upheld Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpMnuchin knocks Greta Thunberg's activism: Study economics and then 'come back' to us The Hill's Morning Report - House prosecutes Trump as 'lawless,' 'corrupt' What to watch for on Day 3 of Senate impeachment trial MORE's absolute power to declare a national emergency, in order to redirect congressionally budgeted funds, he has abused that power.
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I.), and John GaramendiJohn Raymond GaramendiHouse Democrats inch toward majority support for impeachment Trump bashes Mueller for 'ineptitude,' slams 'sick' Democrats backing impeachment Pelosi denies she's 'trying to run out the clock' on impeachment MORE (D-Calif.), on Monday sent a letter to Shanahan requesting that he revise the congressionally mandated report, which they said failed to meet basic requirements laid out in the fiscal 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
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Heller stumbles on earmarks Heller claimed in the debate that he never supported earmarks, the congressionally directed spending provisions that former Senate Majority Leader Harry ReidHarry Mason Reid2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care Reid says he wishes Franken would run for Senate again Panel: How Biden's gaffes could cost him against Trump MORE (D-Nev.) once used to steer tens of millions of dollars to Nevada.
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During the same news conference, Mulvaney admitted that Trump engaged in a quid pro quo with Ukraine by withholding congressionally appropriated military aid for that country even as he was asking its newly elected president for an investigation of a conspiracy theory that the Democratic National Committee framed Russia for the hacking of DNC computers, and that Ukrainian officials were involved in a cover-up of the scheme.
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Thanks to a whistle-blower in the intelligence community as well as reporting from investigative journalists at multiple newspapers (including this one), we have enough evidence to think that Trump used hundreds of millions in congressionally authorized military aid to try to extort the Ukrainian government into investigating Hunter Biden's business activities in the country, as well as Joe Biden's alleged efforts to protect his son from prosecution.
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Because the facts here are not in doubt — indeed Trump's allies in the media and Congress have largely given up disputing them: Trump held up congressionally directed taxpayer funding to strengthen Ukraine's military against Russia until the new Ukrainian president agreed to do what Trump called a "favor" — announce that Ukraine was investigating Trump's most likely opponent in the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden, and his son, who was involved with a Ukrainian gas company.
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I recently reviewed trends in the performance levels of private and public schools, as reported by The Nation's Report Card (NRC)—a congressionally mandated project administered by the National Center for Education Statistics, which is within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences—and found a modest but significant correlation between student achievement and the level of competition created by the availability of school choice in the form of vouchers and/or charter schools.
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After last week's testimonies and revelations, Republicans are in a quagmire as to just how to defend the indefensible actions of a president who sought to withhold congressionally mandated military aid to Ukraine unless that country's government initiated an investigation into Trump's main political rival, former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenFive takeaways from the Democratic debate As Buttigieg rises, Biden is still the target Leading Democrats largely pull punches at debate MORE, and his son, Hunter Biden.
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What's odd about Trump's insistence on making nice with Putin is that administration has undertaken some aggressive actions, like providing weapons to Ukrainians fighting pro-Russia forces and expelling Russian diplomats in response to a poison attack in the UK. (The president has also been insufficiently harsh on the country to satisfy his critics—in January, he missed a congressionally-imposed deadline to sanction Russia.) Where Trump's Russia stance has been truly baffling is his rhetoric.
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Sen. Chris Van HollenChristopher (Chris) Van HollenDemocratic senator to force vote requiring Roberts to weigh in on witnesses GOP predicts Roberts won't cast tie-breaking vote on witnesses Democrats offer mixed reactions to Trump's Mideast peace plan MORE (D-Md.) released a slew of documents Thursday night that were either obtained during or related to the Government Accountability Office's (GAO) assessment that the Trump administration broke the law when it withheld congressionally approved aid from Ukraine last summer.
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Especially at a time when a U.S. president so blatantly tramples on Congress's spending power – withholding congressionally-appropriated foreign aid, transferring funds and canceling billions in military construction projects to pay for a border wall Congress expressly rejected, stealing disaster relief to bolster an anti-immigrant agenda, standing in the way of billions of dollars going to U.S. territories – we can ill-afford for the legislative branch to just hand over its most fundamental power to the executive.
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When someone like Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob CorkerRobert (Bob) Phillips CorkerTrump announces, endorses ambassador to Japan's Tennessee Senate bid Meet the key Senate player in GOP fight over Saudi Arabia Trump says he's 'very happy' some GOP senators have 'gone on to greener pastures' MORE (R-Tenn.), the lead author of the congressionally enacted 85033 Russia sanctions bill, says that "the concerns people have" about Tillerson and Russia "will subside in the hearings," that should tell us a lot.
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That version of a too-powerful presidency was then further augmented to "rogue presidency" after the attacks on 9/11 (although hints of it became apparent as early as 1999 during the Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson ClintonBen Shapiro: No prominent GOP figure ever questioned Obama's legitimacy The Hill's 12:30 Report: Trump tries to reassure voters on economy 85033 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 MORE's war over Kosovo, when he flagrantly disregarded the congressionally passed War Powers Resolution).
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Mr. Giuliani and the three amigos were reportedly part of the president's scheme to hold up $391 million in congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine in order to wring from the new president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, a public announcement that he would order an investigation of Joe Biden and Mr. Biden's surviving son, Hunter, who took an ill-advised membership on the board of one of Ukraine's largest natural gas companies while his father was managing Ukraine policy for the Obama administration.
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Sandy is a career non-political official at OMB and is expected to face questions about why the congressionally appropriated military aid was halted and how the decision was implemented — two key blind spots for Democratic investigators as they seek to make the case that Trump ordered the hold the military aid and refused a White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky until the country would publicly commit to investigations of Trump's political rivals, in particular former Vice President Joe Biden.
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House wants documents on McEntee's security clearances MORE, his ambassador to the European Union, who testified that there was a deal to released congressionally approved military aid in exchange for political damage to former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenAs Biden surges, GOP Ukraine probe moves to the forefront Republicans, rooting for Sanders, see Biden wins as setback Sanders says Biden winning African American support by 'running with his ties to Obama' MORE, the Democrat with the best chance to defeat Trump in the 2020 race.
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I would love to send Ambassador Sondland, a really good man and great American, to testify, but unfortunately he would be testifying before a totally compromised kangaroo court, where Republican's rights have been taken away, and true facts are not allowed out for the public.... House Democrats became interested in Sondland as part of their impeachment inquiry due to his interactions with other diplomats in which he may have discussed trading a Ukrainian investigation into Joe Biden and Hunter Biden for, first, a meeting between Presidents Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump, and later, congressionally approved military aid.
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Outlandish though her views are, she'll fit right in with the see-no-evil likes of Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, who has scrubbed references to climate change from the agency's website and barred its scientists from presenting reports on the subject; Rick Perry, the energy secretary with various oddball schemes to prop up coal plants; and all the others in high office who seem impervious to the real-time evidence of climate change — the wildfires, hurricanes and rising seas — as well as one authoritative study after another, the latest being a congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment that directly contradicts the administration's view that humans are not responsible.
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Jeanne ShaheenCynthia (Jeanne) Jeanne ShaheenDemocratic senator calls on Giuliani to testify over Ukraine scandal Congressionally appointed panel recommends US halt Syria withdrawal Russia: US denied visas to UN delegation members MORE (D) called on President TrumpDonald John TrumpWhistleblower complaint declassified on eve of high-stakes testimony Ocasio-Cortez on impeachment: 'I think the ground has shifted' Democrats ask Pentagon to probe delayed Ukraine aid MORE's personal attorney Rudy GiulianiRudy GiulianiMurphy: Background check talks continue despite Trump Ukraine criticism Hacker changes Seattle road sign to say 'Impeach the bastard' Pence: Trump has been 'completely vindicated' with Ukraine call readout MORE to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations committee in response to building accusations about his dealings with Ukraine, which he said were on behalf of the Trump administration.
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The House and Senate Intelligence committees should conduct historic nonpartisan hearings and request public testimony from former national security adviser H.R. McMaster, former Director of National Intelligence Dan CoatsDaniel (Dan) Ray CoatsThe Memo: Polling points to warning signs for GOP on Trump Brent Budowsky: Deep Throat's defending our democracy Meet the Trump-appointed IG at center of whistleblower drama MORE, former Deputy Director of National Intelligence Sue Gordon, former Secretary of Defense James MattisJames Norman MattisBrent Budowsky: Deep Throat's defending our democracy Meghan McCain: Trump, Giuliani 'blowing it on a JV level' Congressionally appointed panel recommends US halt Syria withdrawal MORE and former national security adviser John BoltonJohn BoltonThe Memo: Polling points to warning signs for GOP on Trump Giuliani rips ex-Trump official who criticized him Brent Budowsky: Deep Throat's defending our democracy MORE to give the nation the benefit of their views on great issues of democracy and security now being discussed across America and around the world.
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