The ceilings were low and we were trying to soundproof.
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Success seems so close, but it's behind impenetrable, soundproof glass.
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Make sure radio signals can't penetrate, soundproof, all panels secure.
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How much do you think a soundproof phone booth would cost?
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No, not if it's a Scott Pruitt-branded soundproof phone booth.
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Whoever needs it steps inside the dark space with soundproof wall.
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A soundproof recording studio was recently installed near the company kitchen.
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The glass walls encapsulating the different narrators appear to be soundproof.
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He also had a $42,000 soundproof phone booth constructed for his office.
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He spent nearly $25,000 on a soundproof "privacy booth" for his office.
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There's also a glassed-in soundproof room used as a recording studio.
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Berkowitz, who is single, swears it's nice in there––and soundproof, too.
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A third bedroom was converted into a professionally designed soundproof screening room.
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Usually, one could hear faint, boundless music from the thick soundproof walls.
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I ended up paying to soundproof my bedroom ceiling and party wall.
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It's quieter than the Veyron, thanks to some amazing new soundproof glass.
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Morsy was then led back to a soundproof glass cage in the courtroom.
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The players are also housed in soundproof booths to further dampen outside noise.
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Behind a partition, Daddy is sitting in a soundproof cubicle, strumming his guitar.
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Past League of Legends World Championship events put both teams in soundproof booths.
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I remember thinking, 'These doors are not soundproof, we can all hear you.
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The toilet is made private by opaque glass but it's far from soundproof.
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Although not soundproof, the curtain at least dampens or muffles noise a bit.
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READ: Even the White House is investigating Scott Pruitt's soundproof booth now Rep.
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"When I worked with my dad and we would soundproof rooms for radio stations, we would use wooden frames that we'd wrap with soundproof fabric and staple down," he explains of the process that inspired his "aggressively tie-dyed" shirts.
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Last week, the EPA's inspector general confirmed it will investigate Pruitt's $25,000 soundproof booth.
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Once there, he was transferred to another soundproof wooden box with a mattress inside.
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And his office is under investigation for its purchase of a $25,000 soundproof booth.
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The bedrooms came outfitted with soundproof windows, which reduced the traffic noise from outside.
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All rooms at the Grand Hyatt at SFO have soundproof, floor-to-ceiling windows.
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He is also being investigated for a soundproof "privacy booth" that cost roughly $43,000.
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The room had to be soundproof with a few hooks installed up high, Wolf said.
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First, it was the unnecessary $43,000 soundproof phone booth he got installed at his office.
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Wixey tested his ability to take over devices in a soundproof room for his research.
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Meanwhile, he spent more than $40,000 to install a soundproof privacy booth in his office.
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A soundproof art deco cinema on the lower deck is outfitted with several large armchairs.
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What better time and place to do it than a completely private and soundproof tank?
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There are several devices on the desks in the glass-encased soundproof control room onstage.
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The soundproof studios, editing suites and equipment are available for YouTubers with over 10,000 subscribers.
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The Huffington Post reports the EPA already has a soundproof phone booth, just on another floor.
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And even better news, the new TechCrunch studio is big and soundproof and pretty nice, really.
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A sensory deprivation tank is a lightless, soundproof, pod filled with Epsom salt and salt water.
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"The school couldn't make accommodations to soundproof her academic world," her mother, Laurie Redmond, tells PEOPLE.
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Pruitt cited the $43,000 soundproof phone booth he had installed in his office as an example.
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But if they're true, Pruitt's $43,000 personal soundproof phone booth would make a lot more sense.
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It is unclear how many calls Pruitt may have received in the soundproof, secured phone booth.
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It fits tall pots in a tough satin-finished, stainless steel basin buffered by soundproof padding.
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Here's the chef in a soundproof room preparing a dish and serving it to a robot.
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Pruitt's soundproof privacy booth, which was first reported by the Washington Post in September, cost $43,20133.
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Brain biometrics present new opportunities for more soundproof methods of identification where current forms are faltering.
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The Cabinet room, located upstairs, is separated from the rest of the house by soundproof doors.
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Founded by Guillermo Jungbauer, the small company makes and sells soundproof studios that click together like LEGO.
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He installed a $43,6003 soundproof phone booth in his office, which was only supposed to cost $25,000.
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The GAO's investigation did not determine whether Pruitt needed the construction of the soundproof booth for privacy.
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The whole apparatus is housed in a soundproof chamber outfitted with microphones to record the fracturing sounds.
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The Richmond, Virginia-based company offers soundproof supplies ranging from acoustic panels and fabrics to sound diffusers.
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Those are secured rooms or facilities that are soundproof, and there are no electronic devices allowed in.
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GAO said that Pruitt's soundproof booth counted toward that cap, and the agency did not notify Congress.
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Who is paranoid enough to demand first-class airline travel and a soundproof booth in his office?
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The new designs often include "isolation rooms," soundproof phone booths, and even lounges where technology is forbidden.
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He spent $43,000 on a soundproof booth, which the Government Accountability Office found he had purchased illegally.
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The EPA acknowledges that it didn't tell Congress about the soundproof booth, but argues it didn't have to.
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But to ensure you don't disturb your neighbor's own screams, grab yourself one of these soundproof cardboard boxes.
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There is also a soundproof playroom, where Mr. Rosen and his son and daughter often play music together.
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He has installed a soundproof phone booth in his office, at a cost of forty-three thousand dollars.
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But Mr. Allen did not see him and did not hear the screams from inside his soundproof booth.
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They carry about 21 passengers and are tricked out with bedrooms, showers, offices, and a soundproof conference room.
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Beneath the new, lighter floors, they added soundproof subflooring, mindful of the habits of their two small children.
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In addition to lacking a teacher, the school doesn't have a soundproof room where students could play music.
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Instead, Democrats have focused on other controversies, like his travel spending, his soundproof booth and raises to aides.
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Still other reports contained revelations of unusual security spending, including a $43,000 soundproof booth for making private phone calls.
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Nothing drowns out the bass — not ear plugs, not white-noise machines, not even the soundproof windows we installed.
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But there was already a soundproof room for secure communications at EPA headquarters — it just wasn't in Pruitt's office.
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Or you can up your Netflix and chill game with a binge-watching marathon in the soundproof home theater.
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He's also been accused of excessive spending on his office, like an ornate restored desk and a soundproof booth.
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On Monday, a government watchdog announced the purchase of a $43,000 soundproof booth for Pruitt's office violated federal law.
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And per WashPo, he also used $43,000 in public funds to install a soundproof phone booth in his office.
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He ducked into a soundproof room to try them out and encountered two men inspecting an electronic drum kit.
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"Pruitt: $43,000 on soundproof office phone booth PLUS $6,85033 on biometric fingerprinting locks for the booth," Gallego tweeted. pic.twitter.
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A man who wanted a soundproof room Ajayi lived about five miles from the park where Lueck was last seen.
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Inside the shed, he constructed a 645 square foot, soundproof concrete bunker with double security doors equipped with electronic locks.
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After taking office, Pruitt requested his office be equipped with a soundproof phone booth where he could make private calls.
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He spent $25,000 to create a soundproof booth, perhaps because the organization under his tenure has leaked like a sieve.
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And all 90 rooms at theSouthampton Inn have been redone with paint, carpenting, lighting, soundproof flooring and Tempur-Pedic mattresses.
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The lounges offer complimentary chef-prepared meals, soundproof rooms for children and, in some, free 15-minute massages and manicures.
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Alongside other spending, like a nearly $25,000 soundproof booth in Pruitt's office, lawmakers are scrutinizing whether the costs are reasonable.
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While friends were building soundproof posting studios in their homes, I went with a rig I could take with me.
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He spent $3,000 for his office to be swept of hidden devices and installed a soundproof booth for another $25,000.
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Democrats also questioned the EPA's decision to pay $25,000 to build a soundproof, secured communications booth at the agency's headquarters.
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It was no coincidence, she noticed, that everyone else in the house was in the soundproof screening room at the time.
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"He was going to build a house on the property, and I was going to have a soundproof room," she said.
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The execution chamber was soundproof; witnesses would not be able to hear gasping, such as witnesses have reported in other states.
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In the studio he insisted she stay by his side in the control room, separated from everyone else by soundproof glass.
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Instead of just your regular storefront, the location is made up of soundproof pods, each one decorated like a living space.
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We ended up getting soundproof headsets for the patients because it gets incredibly loud, with a lot of shouting and screaming.
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"He was going to build a house on the property, and I was going to have a soundproof room," she said.
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And then there's his miscellaneous scandals, which included spending $1,500 taxpayer dollars on fountain pens and $43,000 on a soundproof booth.
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So as a fallback, let's encourage discussion of the $25,000 he's spending to put a soundproof phone booth in his office.
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In order to ensure that contestants couldn't hear what was going on outside of their pods, Kinetic made each one soundproof.
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White House staffers, working in the secure, soundproof Situation Room in the West Wing basement, listened in and chronicled the conversation.
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The top Senate Democrat overseeing EPA's funding said last month that Pruitt is not cooperating with inquiries into that soundproof booth.
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The EPA spent nearly $85033,000 to build a soundproof phone booth for Pruitt, despite already having one in the EPA building.
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They spent around $80,000 on renovations, including opening up the kitchen and turning half the garage into a soundproof music studio.
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EPA administrator Scott Pruitt spent $25,000 on a soundproof "privacy booth" inside his office to prevent eavesdropping on his phone calls.
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Regular day passes, for a chance to stand in a dark, windowless room looking into the players' soundproof fishbowl, cost $75.
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He also used public money to pay for a soundproof booth in his office and chartered private and military overseas flights.
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Homeowners can also choose to soundproof the room or add a movie theater–style snack bar, which can drive up the cost.
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So when the news recently broke that Ford Motor Co. designed a prototype for a soundproof dog kennel, my ears perked up.
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In addition to active noise control, the kennel includes noise cancellation panels, an automatic door, anti-vibration block risers, and soundproof ventilation.
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At least 170 members of Congress, however, called for Pruitt to resign on Wednesday — and the lawmakers specifically cited the soundproof booth.
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The government's top ethics watchdog on Monday said he had broken the law to buy himself a soundproof booth for his office.
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It's not quite soundproof; one of our producers is a particularly loud laugher and he ends up on the tape a lot.
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Pruitt is also under fire for frequently flying first class and purchasing costly items for his office, including a soundproof telephone booth.
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The whole experience was a shock, to be sure, but Metzger said he's not quite ready to soundproof his bathroom just yet.
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In April, the Government Accountability Office concluded EPA violated federal spending laws when it installed a $43,000 soundproof booth in Pruitt's office.
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Whatever kind of door Zinke bought, it certainly makes Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt's $25,000 soundproof phone booth look like a deal.
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Below the gazebo is a soundproof music room with a coffered ceiling and walls of windows on three sides overlooking a pond.
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The players will compete in a soundproof glass room, in front of 300 spectators plus VIPs, who will have a lounge area.
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The group took shelter inside a soundproof studio and were rescued more than three hours later by police and Red Cross workers.
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The EPA official who spoke to AP said Perrotta also arranged the installation of a $43,000 soundproof phone booth for Pruitt's office.
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A soundproof room where you can cry your eyes out—and a trusted friend or journal you can share your emotions with.
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The next time we sat entombed together in a fishbowl meeting room that at least felt, and may indeed have been, soundproof.
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Then comes the showstopping element: the cotton gin motor, encased in a soundproof vitrine and lighted to give it a ghostly presence.
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So they added double-glazed soundproof windows after a demonstration by a friend who had such windows in her Murray Hill apartment.
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The White House's Office of Management and Budget is now investigating the soundproof both as a follow-up to the GAO's report.
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The two of us, along with two other participants, were taken into a soundproof room with huge, comfy beanbags on the floor.
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If a man collapses and dies in a soundproof cage after six years of deliberate and sustained cruelty, what must we hear?
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Just a few of the jaw-dropping allegations from the former staffer: Pruitt's wasteful spending on security included a $43,000 soundproof phone booth.
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To create its soundproof haven for dogs, Ford took its active noise technology out of the car and put it into the kennel.
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T-Mobile's sacrificial lamb in this blood bath of a "holiday" is the T-Mobile Phone BoothE, which is a soundproof phone booth.
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These important meetings take place in "one of the loudest areas of New York," Sieck said, so designers had to soundproof the walls.
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And unlike Pruitt, Wheeler hasn't been making daily headlines for booking expensive first-class travel, keeping secret calendars, or installing $43,000 soundproof booths.
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From the soundproof classroom walls to the high ceilings and wide hallways, the lower school was constructed to provide a warm, welcoming environment.
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Reports then surfaced that EPA had installed a custom-made soundproof phone booth in Pruitt's office at a cost of $43,000 to taxpayers.
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Inside is a soundproof space where more than 214,215 LED lights bathe the interior in ever-changing color as soothing background music plays.
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Or, for that matter, much concern about the administration scandals about wife beaters, Saudi princes, Ben Carson's table or Scott Pruitt's soundproof room.
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Unless you've been hiding in a soundproof underground shelter, the catchy, sensual sound of "Despacito" has surely reached your ears at least once.
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The bed was soft (you can choose from one king or two queens for the same price) and the window thick and soundproof.
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It is as if the powers that turned off Mr. Morsi's microphone in his soundproof courtroom cage have turned off the national conscience.
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Meanwhile the agency is providing strange and costly accommodations, like a 24-hour security detail and a soundproof booth, for EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.
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Enter: Free-standing privacy booths that offer the comforts of a singular, private work station including a desk, soundproof walls, power outlets and ventilation.
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He's also an establishment Republican who is more likely to fly under the radar than Pruitt with his $43,000 soundproof booth and used mattresses.
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The question goes far beyond a $43,000 soundproof phone booth at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or a $85033,000 mahogany dining set at HUD.
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And for months, Pruitt has been criticized for spending taxpayer money on expenses like first-class travel and a soundproof booth for his office.
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Pruitt is also under fire for frequent first-class air travel and for purchasing costly items for his office, including a soundproof telephone booth.
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The company has worked with government offices since at least 2007 to soundproof rooms and provide acoustic insulation, according to the federal contract database.
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Scott Pruitt's infamous soundproof booth, an early indicator of the EPA chief's high-spending tendencies, is under scrutiny again, for breaking several spending laws.
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Known as "silent room," it had soundproof walls and housed the wireless telegraph transmitter developed by the Marconi Company and operated by company employees.
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EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt blamed agency lawyers for the controversy over his $43,000 soundproof privacy booth, saying that the attorneys believed it was legal.
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The flammable foam used to soundproof the venue caught fire, which quickly spread through the club, which at that moment housed about 400 people.
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Brian Wolf, a contractor, told CNN that Ajayi asked him to build a soundproof room in his home with a secret, thumb print protected door.
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Even our taste in music clashed, which is an unfortunate difference when sharing a small, not-at-all soundproof living space of 35 square meters.
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But at least he's finally on board with Archie's music career, outfitting their garage with soundproof walls so Archie now has a place to practice.
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When the untreated mice were put in a soundproof chamber and exposed to a pulse of loud noise, they didn't jump — they were completely deaf.
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Those investigations include Pruitt's reportedly buying a $85033,000 soundproof phone booth, improperly asking his aides do personal tasks and renting an apartment from a lobbyist.
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Other The $43,000 EPA spent to purchase and install a soundproof booth in Pruitt's office violated federal spending law, according to the Government Accountability Office.
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Nicetown claims its curtains will block 85-99% of the light from outside, plus they are thermal-insulated, soundproof, and resistant to stains and wrinkles.
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Pruitt ordered a $43,000 soundproof phone booth installed in his office and appears to have violated federal law by failing to inform Congress about it.
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The new 351-room hotel promises a spacious gym, a yoga studio and spa, and four food and beverage outlets, plus necessities like soundproof rooms.
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Pruitt shifted blame on a number of issues, including his use of first-class travel, unauthorized staff raises and construction of a soundproof privacy booth.
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Digital active noise cancellation creates a virtually soundproof experience, but quick attention mode and smart listening give you quick access to the noise around you.
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Most people suggest going to the bathroom for at least a little bit of privacy, but word to the wise: Those little rooms aren't exactly soundproof.
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It looks like they are in a soundproof area, presumably the recording studio, which can only mean that production of the film is in full swing.
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Above all, the Phantom is so loud that I had to lock myself in a semi-soundproof recording studio so that I wouldn't bug my coworkers.
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He spent almost $68,000 in tax payers' money traveling first class and staying in expensive hotels, and over $40,000 for a soundproof booth for his office.
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The 24 stand-alone modules have no bathrooms, but are soundproof spaces with mood lighting, Wi-Fi, and beds with memory foam mattresses, among other perks.
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By the second year, an entire unit of the Internal Revenue Service was chartered in a locked, soundproof room to harass a blacklist of antiwar activists.
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The Government Accountability Office last week found that the EPA had violated federal spending rules by its approval of a $43,000 soundproof booth for Pruitt's office.
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Pruitt's spending on travel, security and the soundproof room is "symptomatic of a troubling culture that appears to have swept through this administration," the Democrats wrote.
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Certain suites can be combined into larger spaces "by removing soundproof, blind wall sections," Douglas Prothero, Managing Director of the Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection, told Forbes.
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Washington (CNN)The $43,000 purchase of a soundproof booth for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's office violated federal law, the Government Accountability Office concluded Monday.
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It concluded in April that the $43,000 soundproof phone booth Pruitt insisted upon for his office broke two laws that restrict how agencies can spend money.
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Artists, musicians and thrill-seeking journalists are checking into anechoic chambers, or soundproof rooms, where it's so quiet that you go batty from hearing yourself breathe.
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WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency has signed a contract for nearly $25,000 to build a soundproof communications booth for the office of the administrator, Scott Pruitt.
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You'd be forgiven if you can't keep track of the first class airfare, the soundproof phone booth, his super pricey security detail, and, well, everything else.
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The U.S. Government Accountability office on Monday said the Environmental Protection Agency violated spending laws when it installed a $43,000 soundproof booth for agency Administrator Scott Pruitt.
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Pruitt paid $3,000 of EPA money to a contractor to do a security sweep of his office and approved a $43,000 soundproof privacy booth for his office.
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Now he avoids going outdoors, choosing instead to stay in his soundproof basement in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and communicate with his doctor mostly through an online patient portal.
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Agent Adams — who meets Archie, a teenage boy, in his soundproof garage (because the band, remember?!) — wants Archie to find out if Nick's accident was truly accidental.
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Pruitt also recently spent more than $25,000 for a soundproof communications booth for his computer and phone, which has never been requested by any prior EPA administrator.
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The Environmental Protection Agency violated federal laws by installing a $43,000 soundproof phone booth in the office of agency chief Scott Pruitt, a government watchdog said Monday.
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The EPA this summer signed a contract worth nearly $85033,000 to buy and have installed a soundproof booth in Pruitt's office, The Washington Post found last month.
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He also came under fire for constructing a $43,000 soundproof booth in his office, and for raises for two staffers that the White House had previously rejected.
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A Cold War battle has been playing out in Lower Manhattan for the last three weeks, in a soundproof glass chamber watched by partisans around the world.
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The EPA this summer signed a contract worth nearly $25,000 to buy and have installed a soundproof booth in Pruitt's office, The Washington Post found last month.
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Last year the administrator additionally requested a soundproof booth for his office so that he could speak on the phone without fear of being listened in on.
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The full extent of Mr. Pruitt's ethics lapses were incredible even to those normally supportive of the president — the $43,000 soundproof room, the multimillion-dollar security details.
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And speak with a noise consultant, who may be able to soundproof a room, giving your sister a less disruptive place to go when she needs one.
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Back in 2015, hidden in a tiny soundproof room at CES in Las Vegas, a demo for a cops-versus-giant robot game called Showdown blew me away.
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Then there's the $25,000 soundproof phone booth that is being installed in his office, the operational need for which is unclear even to the contractor that's designing it.
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The White House budget office has said it is investigating whether a $43,000 soundproof phone booth installed for Pruitt in his office at EPA headquarters violated the law.
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Some of the 739 defendants listen to their verdict from a soundproof glass cage inside a makeshift courtroom in Tora prison in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, July 28, 2018.
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I tried out the same "toybox" demo, but with the final consumer version of the Oculus Rift, inside of a soundproof room at Oculus VR's massive CES booth.
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They swindle taxpayers so that they can create barriers—private air travel, private dining, private soundproof booths—that will allow them to enact their agenda with minimal transparency.
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Přiklopil kidnapped Natascha when she was just 10 years old and kept her in a windowless and soundproof, 54 square-foot room underneath his garage for eight years.
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At that time, Hal had not expected to see much of Molly except through the soundproof plastic that divided the Tech Center from the rest of the studio.
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An early investigation into Trump's EPA found that the agency violated the law by installing a $43,000 soundproof phone booth in Pruitt's office without seeking approval from Congress.
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" He adds: "Too many bars and clubs have been forced to close because they can't afford to soundproof their premises once new residential developments have been built nearby.
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Pruitt had acquired a custom S.U.V., biometric locks on his office door, a forty-three-thousand-dollar soundproof phone booth, and a retinue of round-the-clock guards.
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I was after all on his premises, and the members of his household, the potential witnesses, were all (strategically, it seems to me now) in a soundproof room.
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And I read through some of the very first G-Man lines that we're recording for Half-Life: Alyx and I can't hear because it's a soundproof room.
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Pruitt shifted blame on his use of first-class travel, unauthorized staff raises and construction of a soundproof privacy booth to staffers, his security detail and oversight authorities.
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Perrotta also reportedly coordinated the installation of a $43,000 soundproof phone booth for Pruitt's office, despite the EPA headquarters already having such a booth elsewhere in the building.
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The steering wheel-less, pedal-less prototype was retired in 2017, but some op center employees still use it as a phone booth (albeit a non-soundproof one).
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Finally, the Government Accountability Office concluded this week that Pruitt's office broke the law by spending $43,000 on a soundproof booth meant to up his security and privacy.
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After the revelation that the EPA bought the soundproof booth illegally, the White House's Office of Management and Budget opened its own probe of the purchase on Wednesday.
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But he gained so much in the short time he was in office, including first-class travel, a $43,000 soundproof booth, and a summer job for his daughter.
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The recovery of Lueck's body follows reports that Ajayi allegedly tried, in early April, to hire an independent contractor to construct a secret, soundproof room beneath his front porch.
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There's nothing wrong with songs that are fully about having sex when the writing is good—see Elle Varner's "Soundproof Room"—but on this, I'm afraid, it is not.
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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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It's also occasionally beyond absurd, as when Joe's bookstore has a soundproof glass vault in the basement, where he can repair antique books or imprison people, and sometimes both.
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The Government Accountability Office completed one this month that said the EPA violated two laws by installing a $43,000 soundproof phone booth for his office without telling lawmakers first.
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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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The office is also looking into Pruitt's April meeting with a coal mining industry group and his decision to have a $25,000 soundproof phone booth installed in his office.
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Cover: Egypt's ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi sits in a soundproof glass cage inside a makeshift courtroom at Egypt's national police academy in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, April 21, 2015.
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If I wanted to skip a class, I'd sneak into the soundproof cubicle in the music room and write songs for a couple hours without ever being heard or spotted.
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Wolf says when he asked why Ajayi wanted to soundproof the room, Ajayi said that he wanted to be able to listen to music as loud as he wanted to.
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The new agents will join an unprecedented security apparatus for Pruitt, which includes a 24/7 detail and a soundproof communications booth in his office that cost $25,000 to install.
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A federal watchdog on Monday said the Environmental Protection Agency broke the law when it spent more than $43,000 on a new soundproof phone booth for its chief, Scott Pruitt.
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This latest development in the case follows reports that Ajayi allegedly tried in early April to hire an independent contractor to construct a secret, soundproof room beneath his front porch.
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A Government Accountability Office probe concluded last month that the EPA had violated the law by spending $43,000 on a soundproof phone booth for Pruitt's office without first notifying lawmakers.
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Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zied, known by his nickname Shawkan, gestures in a soundproof glass cage inside a makeshift courtroom in Tora prison in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, July 28, 2018.
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"I was after all on his premises, and the members of his household, the potential witnesses, were all (strategically, it seems to me now) in a soundproof room," she explains.
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The Government Accountability Office ruled that the soundproof booth expenditure was illegal, because the EPA did not notify Congress that it would exceed a $22019,000 cap on furnishing officials' offices.
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At those hearings, Pruitt told lawmakers the $43,000 soundproof booth installed in his office is not rated for classified materials, the explanation he had previously used to defend the purchase.
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After taking office, Pruitt began receiving around-the-clock protection from an EPA security team, and a closet in his office at EPA headquarters was converted into a soundproof booth.
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Pruitt also reportedly had a $43,000 soundproof phone booth installed in his office and paid $2,000 to refurbish a desk many compared to the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.
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Records show millions of taxpayer dollars have gone to providing Pruitt with less-than-austere amenities like first-class flights, a 24-hour security detail, and a $43,21 soundproof booth.
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Records show millions of taxpayer dollars have gone to providing Pruitt with less-than-austere amenities like first-class flights, a 22018-hour security detail, and a $43,000 soundproof booth.
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A separate Government Accountability Office report found the agency had violated the law by approving $43,000 in expenses to install a soundproof phone booth in Pruitt's office without seeking congressional approval.
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And a Dutch staging of the opera "De Materie" at the Park Avenue Armory in New York this spring featured 100 sheep, who had a custom-built soundproof dressing room backstage.
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Or Scott Pruitt, the remaining head of the Environmental Protection Agency, whose bill for noncommercial flights topped $50,000 and who spent nearly $25,000 on a soundproof communications booth of ambiguous necessity.
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Pruitt has long been under scrutiny in the press for his lavish spending on office accoutrements (including a $22017,22018 soundproof booth), first-class travel, and a larger-than-usual security detail.
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Pruitt has long been under scrutiny in the press for his lavish spending on office accoutrements (including a $43,000 soundproof booth), first-class travel, and a larger-than-usual security detail.
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The Government Accountability Office said Monday that the EPA didn't follow proper notification rules when they went ahead with the $43,33 secure, soundproof phone booth, installed in his office last fall.
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The Government Accountability Office said Monday that the EPA didn't follow proper notification rules when they went ahead with the $43,000 secure, soundproof phone booth, installed in his office last fall.
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For a couple of bucks, you and a friend can squeeze into a soundproof glass box and sing your hearts out for 15 minutes before going back to your normal lives.
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The EPA was charged with violating a legal requirement to notify Calvert's committee before exceeding a $5,000 cap on furnishing Pruitt's office when it built a $43,000 soundproof booth for Pruitt.
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He is under investigation for first-class travel at taxpayer expense, his elaborate security detail and the installation at a cost of $43,000 of a soundproof booth for making telephone calls.
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The Shed's aggressive fund-raising and hefty gifts have covered the projected $475 million cost of the building, which has crept up because of soundproof shades being added to the McCourt.
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WATCHDOG LOOKING INTO PRUITT'S SOUNDPROOF BOOTH: The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Inspector General is reviewing Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE's purchase of a nearly $220006,2202 soundproof booth for his office.
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Egypt's first democratically elected leader, Morsy, 20133, had just been led back to a soundproof glass cage inside the courtroom when he fell unconscious, Egypt's public prosecution office said in a statement.
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But you won't mind sharing it, because said employer will make sure you have a private room with green leafy plants, soundproof walls, and warm light between 2 and 2:20 p.m.
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READ: Scott Pruitt broke spending laws to get his infamous soundproof booth If Mulvaney's office finds Pruitt to have broken the law also, it's not clear what the next steps would be.
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Pruitt also purchased a secure soundproof communications booth for his office at a cost of nearly $25,000, purchasing records show, even though EPA already has a similar room elsewhere in the building.
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He was criticized last year after it was reported that the EPA installed a $43,000 soundproof phone booth in his office, despite there being a similar facility elsewhere in the agency headquarters.
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The third plate includes a soundproof movie room, a living room and a partial galley kitchen, as well as a wet kitchen appointed with functional but not high-end appliances and cabinets.
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The 51st floor includes a club room, two private dining suites, a soundproof screening room, a golf club lounge, wine storage and a tasting room, a business center, and a coworking space.
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Elkins's office has opened numerous high-profile investigations into EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, including probing his travel spending and his decision to spend about $2628,28503 on a soundproof booth for his office.
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In the heart of London, the Hoxton Dungeon Suite promises discreet and soundproof rooms, as well as a whipping bench, a vac bed, a full-length cage, and a St. Andrews Cross.
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Away from courtly protocol and beyond the Inquisition's reach lie intrigue-filled chambers that Annette Murschetz, the stage designer, represents as a soundproof recording studio outfitted with blue pyramids of acoustic foam.
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Pruitt, 50, and his office, which he led since 2017, had come under fire for extravagant spending habits, including on first-class travel, pay raises to top aides and a $43,000 soundproof booth.
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Once again, couples are getting into a big soundproof box in front of a live studio audience, having sex, then coming out of the box and talking about the sex they just had.
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Standing in the soundproof glass booth on the set of "Twenty-One", NBC's flagship quiz show during the winter of 0003-57, he'd bite his lip, furrow his eyebrows, blow out his cheeks.
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From his paranoia about personal security and that $43,000 soundproof telephone booth to sweetheart lodging deals with lobbyists and big pay raises for young aides, Pruitt will be answering some skeptical House members.
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WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency violated the law when it installed a soundproof phone booth for the administrator, Scott Pruitt, at a cost of roughly $2164,2200, a congressional watchdog agency ruled on Monday.
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The EPA inspector general is already investigating Pruitt's travel habits, and the White House budget office is looking into the agency's decision to spend $28500,6900 to install a soundproof phone booth for Pruitt.
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Residents also brought up other grievances and needs: a request for soundproof windows, a more courteous and helpful on-site contact with the company, and more transparency from the company about its activities.
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The EPA inspector general is already investigating Pruitt's travel habits, and the White House budget office is looking into the agency's decision to spend $43,000 to install a soundproof phone booth for Pruitt.
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The Government Accountability Office ruled in April that the $43,000 soundproof phone booth he had installed in his office violated a congressional cap of $5,000 on the costs of furnishing federal officials' offices.
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He's been chastised for costs associated with his security detail and first-class travel and received criticism for hefty staff salary raises and the commission of a $43,000 soundproof booth in his office.
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The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) said the Environmental Protection Agency violated the law when it approved a $43,000 soundproof phone booth last year for Administrator Scott Pruitt without seeking approval from lawmakers.
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He was criticized last year after it was reported that the EPA installed a soundproof phone booth for $85033,000 in his office, despite there being a similar facility elsewhere in the agency headquarters.
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The groups also point to the installation of a soundproof communications booth in Pruitt's office, which reportedly cost more than $25,000 and is the subject of an investigation by the EPA's inspector general.
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The mattress caper was, at least, more exotic than Mr. Pruitt's usual shopping misadventures — the nearly $10,000 to decorate his office, the dozen customized fountain pens for $1,560, the $43,000 soundproof phone booth.
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Occasionally, they make headlines: Last year, the GAO ruled that the EPA ran afoul of the Antideficiency Act when it installed a $43,000 soundproof phone booth, at the behest of acting Administrator Scott Pruitt.
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Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt, a man who spent $43,000 in government funds on a soundproof phone booth, apparently also wanted to buy an old mattress from Washington, D.C.'s Trump International Hotel.
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Those include shelling out $3 million on security since taking office, including during a personal trip to Disneyland; traveling first class on taxpayer money; and paying $43,000 for a soundproof booth for his office.
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" Hesitating, wincing, biting his lip, adjusting his earphones in a soundproof glass booth, mopping sweat from his brow, Mr. Van Doren, after an apparently excruciating mental struggle, responded: "The Straits of Bosporus and Dardanelles.
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The studios will be soundproof, have enough space for four people to record, and will sync with another company called Spreaker's technology so people can get discounted access to its hosting and distribution services.
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Pruitt's agency spent some $2200,1003 on a soundproof booth, and another $2100,251 making arrangements for its arrival, including about $2887,600 for a two-foot-thick slab of concrete whose purpose the EPA wouldn't clarify.
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Pruitt spent roughly $231,2000 on first-class tickets, the Daily Beast reported Tuesday, for example, and another $25,2000 installing the soundproof phone booth, which none of his predecessors required, according to the Washington Post.
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Pruitt spent roughly $105,000 on first-class tickets, the Daily Beast reported Tuesday, for example, and another $43,000 installing the soundproof phone booth, which none of his predecessors required, according to the Washington Post.
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Those issues included the installation of a $43,000 soundproof phone booth in Pruitt's office and routine use of first-class flights - both of which the EPA has argued were important to Pruitt's safety and privacy.
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The open plan office has soothing touches such as an indoor garden, meditation room, a reading space, a nap room, Zen-like soundproof rooms inspired by Japanese aesthetics, along with a bar, minus the alcohol.
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A Swedish doctor is facing charges of rape and kidnapping after he allegedly confessed to drugging a woman and locking her up in a soundproof bunker because he "wanted to have a girlfriend," officials said.
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The number of investigations into his conduct has expanded to five, and the government's top watchdog determined last week that the agency violated the law by installing a $43,000 soundproof phone booth in Pruitt's office.
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Inside a soundproof room with egg-crate walls and eggplant-colored carpeting, the flotsam of creative efforts was scattered around: drums, amps, pedals, a percussion gourd, a disco ball, an eight-foot-tall stuffed giraffe.
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GAO found in April that Pruitt's installation of a $43,000 soundproof phone booth violated federal spending laws because EPA didn't notify lawmakers that it exceeded the $5,000 limit for agency heads to improve their offices.
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Pruitt has previously been scrutinized for his use of a 85033/7 security detail, and for the EPA installing a soundproof "privacy booth" in his office suite at agency headquarters, reportedly costing more than $43,000.
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The EPA head said he requested a secure phone line, but blamed career employees at the agency for what it became: a $43,000 soundproof booth on par with the kind used for classified information communications.
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In an era when Ben Carson buys himself a $31,000 dining room set for his office and Scott Pruitt builds himself a $43,000 soundproof phone booth, maybe it all just seems like business as usual.
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The house is massive and spooky, but at least the walls appear to be more soundproof than those at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel, and these guys are more respectful than the screaming New York Republican Delegation.
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Anyone who uses particularly soundproof headphones has experienced the dance of a friend or co-worker desperately trying to get your attention while you blissfully ignore them from the depths of your musical Fortress of Solitude.
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He's faced a barrage of criticism for allegedly spending extravagantly on security, building a soundproof booth in his office, approving raises for staffers and renting a condo from a lobbyist who had business before his agency.
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The company declined suggestions to soundproof the open-floor workspaces used by the SIU team, two individuals told CNN, making it difficult to conduct sensitive conversations on the phone without office chatter seeping into the calls.
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The couple bought the unit four years ago for nearly $4 million, then commenced a full renovation that included new soundproof windows, custom lighting, and oak and stone flooring, according to the listing with Warburg Realty.
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Mr. Pruitt recently took the unusual step of installing a $25,000 soundproof booth in his office to conduct secure communications, and Mr. Mnuchin inquired about using a military plane for his honeymoon in Europe last month.
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And its ceilings are 9 feet 8 inches high — just enough so that insulating layers could be added to the floor and ceiling of what would become the broadcast studio, making it as soundproof as possible.
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The perks many Trump officials demand — the gratuitous first-class travel, the double super-secret soundproof phone booths, and so on — are outrageous, and they tell you a lot about the kind of people they are.
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The suspect wanted to build a secret room A contractor who was referred to a job at Ajayi's home by a friend told CNN the suspect asked him to build a secret soundproof room in his home.
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He'd call in from the road, first to the Yearning for Zion ranch in Texas, where he had a soundproof bedroom, and later to R-23, the FLDS compound hidden in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
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The Office of Management and Budget announced Wednesday that it's opening an investigation into Pruitt spending $43,000 on a soundproof phone booth for his office, which the government's top ethics watchdog found to be illegal last week.
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The Government Accountability Office ruled last month that another expense in Pruitt's office, the construction of a $85033,000 soundproof booth, broke the law that establishes the price cap because the agency failed to get prior congressional approval.
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Since taking the role, he's enlisted a 24/7 security detail, he's requested the construction of a soundproof booth in his office, and he prefers to work a three-day workweek and to meet with political allies.
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Week after week, she sat next to him in the tiny soundproof broadcast booth at the back of the Met, where they both had binoculars to watch the action on the stage and headphones to listen in.
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"The installation of a dedicated communications booth in the administrator's office raises questions regarding why such equipment is needed and what types of conversations Administrator Pruitt is having that would warrant a private soundproof booth," they said.
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My own ringing isn't nearly as bad as it was a year ago, but it sure seems loud in the complete silence of the soundproof booth in the downtown Toronto clinic where my hearing is being assessed.
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The absurdity of his demands is a feature, not a bug: I have doubts about whether he ever uses that $43,000 soundproof phone booth, but he surely took pleasure in making his staff jump to provide it.
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It's obvious this is the model when listening to the show: the audio doesn't sound like it was recorded in a soundproof studio, and listeners can hear the audience clapping and ooh-ing in response to topics.
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Manchin won't vote for Trump's mine safety nominee EPA spending almost $25,000 for soundproof booth Trump to visit hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico Park Service report: Obama water bottle sales ban had 'significant' benefits View the discussion thread.
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The phone booth is slightly more than 4 feet wide, 3 feet long, and 7 feet tall, according to contract information provided by EPA, and it includes "silenced ventilation" and is made of soundproof material on all sides.
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During his 17 months in office, he faced several investigations into his first-class plane travel, a room that he rented from a lobbyist at $50 per night and the installation of a soundproof booth in his office.
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In a small ceremony at halftime of the game between the Summer League entries from Robinson's Knicks and the Minnesota Timberwolves, three Summer League interns ceremoniously tacked the jersey to a soundproof baffle behind one of the baskets.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the Senate environment committee said on Monday the Environmental Protection Agency must give a full public accounting of its approval of $43,000 for a private soundproof phone booth for agency chief Scott Pruitt.
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Neither has he used his department's staff to run personal errands, solicited jobs for his wife, nor spent public funds on a $43,000 soundproof phone booth à la Scott Pruitt, the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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We would meet in one of several soundproof glass-paneled cubicles, set our laptops up, adjust our body language to seem convincingly professional, and have a 30-minute "meeting" about who fucking sucked the most that particular week.
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The ladies of these elite offices swing their statement necklaces (ID badge lanyards) around while screaming into their speakerphones, and are easily heard by the rest of the office because a thin layer of frosted glass isn't soundproof.
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The rooms are dotted with soundproof enclosures that serve as 21st-century phone booths, a Cornell official said, in that they have no phones, but offer privacy, a place to sit down and little shelf for a laptop.
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Pruitt has been involved in a handful controversies in his time at EPA, including spending more than $85033,000 in taxpayer funds on first-class travel and paying more than $40,000 to put a soundproof booth in his office.
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We lived in a five-bedroom house with a swimming pool, an actual full-on home cinema, I had my own soundproof recording studio and rehearsal room, and we had too many cars for the four garages we owned.
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"He was going to build a house on the property and I was going to have a soundproof room, and he'd let me have the run of the property eventually when he trusted me," she said he told her.
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And Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, spent $25,000 on a soundproof booth for his office and about $5,500 on biometric locks for his office door, all in service of providing additional security to the administrator.
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We kept young, intelligent monkeys separated from their families and others of their kind for many months in soundproof cages that remained lit 24 hours a day, then measured how their potential for complex social and intellectual lives unraveled.
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He's wasted thousands in taxpayer dollars on a soundproof phone booth, he's kept his schedule out of public view, and newly-revealed emails show his staff works overtime to keep him from answering questions from reporters and the public.
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Pruitt is currently facing 10 investigations by the EPA inspector general's office and last week the Government Accountability Office dealt a rough blow to the administrator, finding that EPA's construction of a soundproof booth for Pruitt violated the law.
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A Swedish doctor has been charged with rape and kidnapping after he confessed to drugging a woman with sedative-laced strawberries and locking her up in a soundproof bunker where he had intended to keep her for years, prosecutors said Monday.
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And so we return to Wilcox, who called a reporter "a piece of trash" for doing her job — that is to say, not trying to find her boss a swank deal on D.C. rent or a $43,000 soundproof phone booth.
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"[W]e conclude that EPA violated section 710 when it obligated $43,238.68 for the installation of a soundproof privacy booth without providing advance notice to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate," the GAO wrote.
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Pruitt has already drawn public criticism, as well as internal review and congressional scrutiny, for his expensive practice of traveling with a large security detail and flying first class, as well as for spending $2700,21 to install a soundproof phone booth.
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More than a month before his arrest, the man charged with murdering 23-year-old University of Utah student MacKenzie Lueck allegedly tried to hire an independent contractor to construct a secret, soundproof room beneath his front porch, according to reports.
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In a last ditch attempt to instill some form of proper test conditions, the trance snowman was placed next to a mini speaker blasting out Armin Van Buuren mixes, and the other one was confined in a soundproof mesh bin.
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Read more: The suspect in the case of missing student Mackenzie Lueck wanted to build a secret, soundproof room under his front porch, a contractor saysInvestigators uncovered disturbing pieces of evidence that led them to charge AjayiBy 3:07 a.m.
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The investigations surround a number of Pruitt's dealings, including his $50-a-night condo deal from the wife of an energy lobbyist and his construction of a $43,000 soundproof booth that was found to be in violation of congressional laws.
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We're expecting lawmakers from both parties to hammer Pruitt with tough questions regarding his spending of taxpayer money on expenses like a soundproof booth, raises for aides, a new SUV, bulletproof vests, bringing his security detail on personal trips and more.
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Pruitt himself has defended his actions during multiple congressional hearings this year where he often shifted the blame to EPA career staff for signing off on his office's $43,000 soundproof booth and onto the media for spreading a false narrative.
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Additionally, Pruitt has been questioned on his spending of taxpayer dollars, including first-class travel, spending nearly $3.5 million on round-the-clock security throughout his first year, and on ordering a $45,000 soundproof booth built in his personal office.
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The administrator has also faced questions on his spending of taxpayer dollars, including first-class travel, spending nearly $3.5 million on round-the-clock security throughout his first year, and on ordering a $43,000 soundproof booth built in his personal office.
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There were like, 40 people watching us through soundproof glass while we were on a tour, and nobody could know that's what we were shooting, so we had to sneak into rooms and rejoin our tour group before it moved on.
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For example, when Henry Deaver returns to his mom's house after a night trapped in a soundproof box in the woods, he finds a lurking Kid, Alan Pangborn's dead body and a gun pointed at him by a white local cop.
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I mean, asking officials at DNC (ph) to get his wife a $22018,0003 job at Chick-fil-A and others, $2000 a night room owned by a lobbyists, $22018,22018 soundproof phone booth, aides driving with sirens and lights to get his favorite lotion.
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He also doled out $6900,2628 for a soundproof booth for his office, had a round-the-clock security force costing $28503 million in his first year and had the agency get him a new SUV and bulletproof vests, all on the taxpayers' dime.
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Rounding out this triumvirate is EPA Secretary Scott Pruitt, who spent nearly $60,000 in taxpayer money on private air travel and who reportedly also spent $25,000 building a soundproof booth so he could talk to people without being overheard by potential leakers.
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He has racked up millions in security and travel expenses, and came under fire for renting a Capitol Hill condo from the wife of an energy lobbyist for $50 each night he stayed there, and constructing a $43,000 soundproof booth in his office.
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Recent weeks have brought a compendium of stories about Cabinet members treating public money as a personal privilege—thirty thousand dollars for Ben Carson's office dining set, forty thousand for Scott Pruitt's soundproof phone booth, a million for Steven Mnuchin's military flights.
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The one-person booth is a soundproof, eco-friendly, American-made box that's about 36 inches wide and 34 inches deep, with an insulated glass door, a ventilation fan, power outlets and a skylight — and it can be assembled in roughly an hour.
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He demoted or fired people who challenge him on his lavish spending, including a former Trump campaign staffer In addition to the $43,000 soundproof booth, Pruitt apparently also wanted to spend $70,000 on two new desks, one of which would have been bulletproof.
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"Instead of trying to erode the rights of federal employees and whistle-blowers, the administration should focus on the abuses of cabinet officials taking charter and first-class flights and buying $31,000 dining sets and $43,000 soundproof booths," Mr. Van Hollen said.
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His office also took on probes into Pruitt's $85033,000 soundproof booth, his cut-rate rental of an apartment from the wife of an energy lobbyist and allegations that he improperly had staff members handle personal tasks for him like buying a mattress.
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His office also took on probes into Pruitt's $28503,22019 soundproof booth, his cut-rate rental of an apartment from the wife of an energy lobbyist and allegations that he improperly had staff members handle personal tasks for him like buying a mattress.
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Asked to respond to the letter Monday, EPA spokesman Jahan Wilcox referred to his statement a week earlier when the Government Accountability Office said the EPA broke the law when it spent $43,000 to install a soundproof privacy booth in Pruitt's office.
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On his demand, EPA shelled out $28503,22019 to build a soundproof phone booth in his office, though neither he nor the agency provided any explanation for why he needed it, given the existence of a secure communications center in the same building.
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"Your letter does raise issues about whether those agency decisions comply with appropriations law, that is, are appropriated funds available for the purchase of 'construct[ing] a secure, soundproof communications booth in the offices of Administrator Scott Pruitt' " Elkins wrote to Rep.
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According to Politico, Pasquale Perrotta, the head of security at the EPA, encouraged some of Pruitt's more questionable spending decisions, including urging the EPA chief to fly first class to avoid hostile passengers and his request for a $43,000 soundproof phone booth.
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A source who was in the court at the time told Reuters that Mursi spoke for around 15 minutes and concluded with a line of poetry about his love for Egypt, before collapsing as the other defendants began banging on the soundproof cage.
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Known for his fiercely frugal stance on government spending, Pruitt's counter-surveillance measures since his confirmation in January also include a 24-hour security detail, costing upwards of $800,000, biometric locks costing $6,000, and a soundproof phone booth for classified phone calls, costing $25,000.
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President Trump's Cabinet chiefs have come under fire for their spending over the past year, from EPA head Scott Pruitt's $43,000 soundproof booth, to Health and Human Services chief Tom Price's estimated $900,000 in private and military jet travel (he has since left the administration).
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Rather than go through that rigmarole, Cabin is betting that some passengers will instead choose an overnight bus, on which they crawl into sleeping pods, stacked like bunk beds but ensconced behind curtains and soundproof walls, and wake up eight hours later at their destination.
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In an eight-page letter to lawmakers, Thomas H. Armstrong, the G.A.O.'s general counsel, said the agency did not send advance notice to Congress when it paid $43,238.68 from its Environmental Programs and Management budget to pay for the installation of the soundproof booth.
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His statement left everyone involved upset: The women who instantly labeled him a misogynist mansplainer, and the man who thought the women weren't actually hearing or talking to him, but instead hearing what they've heard in the past and putting him in a soundproof box.
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The Oklahoma Republican suggested that Pruitt got tripped up with various ethics charges because he naively didn't know how some decisions, such as the around-the-clock security detail Pruitt requested or the $22019,000 soundproof booth he had built in his office, would be received.
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He has also come under fire for renting a Capitol Hill condo from the wife of an energy lobbyist for $50 each day he stayed there, approving raises for staffers that the White House previously rejected and constructing a $43,000 soundproof booth in his office.
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In addition to renting the Capitol Hill condo, Pruitt also sought to help get his wife a Chick-fil-A franchise, had staffers buy him personal items and seek out a used Trump Hotel mattress and had a $43,000 soundproof booth installed in his office.
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A soundproof—or anechoic—chamber in the Orfield Laboratory in Minnesota holds the Guinness World Record for "Quietest Place on Earth," and while it's mainly used by manufacturers to test the sound of their products, the lab does allow supervised visits from the public.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House budget office said on Wednesday it was probing whether a $43,000 soundproof phone booth installed for Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt violated the law, while dozens of Democratic senators called for him to resign over allegations of ethics lapses.
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The men, sitting in orange chairs in the soundproof recording room around a table topped with green felt and several microphones, chatted and laughed as two podcast producers and one editor prepared for the session in the adjoining control room, visible behind a picture window.
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Udall, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations subcommittee overseeing the EPA's budget, asked in a letter to the agency Thursday for a full accounting of expenses by the Office of the Administrator since January and the purpose of Pruitt's soundproof booth among other information.
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He has a 24-hour security detail involving dozens of employees; he's installed a soundproof booth in his office for phone conversations; he had his office swept for surveillance bugs; and his staff frequently refuses to disclose his schedule in advance, among other measures.
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Among others issues, Pruitt is likely to be questioned about his $43,000 purchase of a soundproof booth for his office suite, his travel expenses and his rental of a Washington, D.C., condominium from the wife of an energy lobbyist with ties to the EPA.
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He rented a condo co-owned by the wife of an energy lobbyist for $50 for each day he slept there, frequently flew first class on the taxpayers' dime and spent more than $85033,000 on a soundproof booth for his office, among other controversies.
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He was referring to allegations, now the subject of several federal investigations, about Pruitt's lavish spending on travel and security, including a $43,000 soundproof telephone booth, and claims that he misused his office for personal gain, including seeking a fast-food franchise for his wife.
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In January 2019, Washington Dulles International Airport will debut a 16 room micro-hotel, Sleepbox, in Concourse A. The rooms are eight-feet tall and 30 to 45 square-feet in size, have work spaces, are soundproof and have beds with memory foam mattresses.
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In addition to surrounding himself with a full-time 20-person security detail that costs $3 million a year and building a $43,000 soundproof phone booth in his office, Administrator Pruitt doesn't release his public schedule, leaving the press to determine his whereabouts after the fact.
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He spent lots of taxpayer cash on first-class airline tickets, tripled the size of his security detail (which accompanied him on holiday to Disneyland) and installed a soundproof phone booth in his office, costing $43,000—which the Government Accountability Office says violated federal spending laws.
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The administrator has displayed a pattern of expensive paranoia, from spending close to $543,000 on a soundproof phone booth for his office to spending more than $105,000 on first-class air travel to avoid uncivil passengers as he travels to tout his agenda for right-wing media.
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These new disclosures add to a growing list of allegations: a $43,000 soundproof booth that violated federal spending laws; pay raises that circumvented the normal government process; the hiring of a staffer who failed to show up for work; and reprisals against whistleblowers who questioned his spending.
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In the months since, it has been reported that Pruitt also sought to help get his wife a Chick-fil-A franchise, had staffers buy him personal items and seek out a used Trump Hotel mattress and had a $43,000 soundproof booth installed in his office.
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Pruitt was previously the subject of scrutiny and several ethics probes over a deal to rent an apartment in Washington from the wife of an energy lobbyist and spending more than $40,000 on a soundproof phone booth for his office at the EPA, among other incidents.
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The calls for Pruitt to vacate his position as EPA head come amid a flurry of reports on Pruitt's use of taxpayer money at the agency, including his decision to spend thousands building a soundproof booth in his office, and his repeated use of first-class travel.
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The calls for Pruitt to leave his position as EPA head come amid a flurry of reports on Pruitt's use of taxpayer money at the agency, including his decision to spend thousands building a soundproof booth in his office, and his repeated use of first-class travel.
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Among his spending decisions that were being examined: a $50-a-night condominium rented from the wife of a lobbyist with business before the agency; a $43,000 soundproof booth installed in his office; and $3.5 million in expenses for his security team in his first year.
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Even before her international bestseller, "Room" (2010), in which a sociopath keeps a mother and her young son prisoner in a soundproof shack, Ms Donoghue was writing short stories and novels (set in her native Dublin) about relationships and households that defy conventional definitions of family.
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In addition, recent reports have revealed his travel and security habits have cost taxpayers millions of dollars, that he approved raises for two staffers despite the White House rejecting the requests for pay increases and that he spent thousands on a soundproof booth in his office.
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That he died in an Egyptian courtroom inside a soundproof cage designed to silence him, almost exactly six years to the day he took office and almost completely forgotten by all but his family and human rights activists, is a reminder of the bathos that surrounded him.
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" Under questioning, Pruitt admitted that the soundproof phone booth he had built in his office is not a sensitive compartmented information facility, and when asked why he didn't use the two SCIFs already installed at the EPA's headquarters, Pruitt said, "They aren't close to my office.
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Questions about his conduct arose almost immediately after he was sworn in, when Pruitt displayed extreme paranoia by refusing to release his schedule to the public like past administrators, surrounding himself with a 24-hour security detail, and building a soundproof phone booth in his office.
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He referred specifically to criticisms about a $43,000 soundproof phone booth EPA built in his office, saying, "that was a process where there were not proper controls early to ensure a legal review of the obligation of the agency to inform Congress" and the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
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It added a new wrinkle to the controversy surrounding spending at the EPA that Democrats and critics of the Trump administration say is wasteful, such as spending nearly $85033,000 on a soundproof booth for Pruitt's office and a 24-hour security detail for the administrator that employs 18 officers.
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He referred specifically to criticisms about a $6900,2628 soundproof phone booth EPA built in his office, saying, "that was a process where there were not proper controls early to ensure a legal review of the obligation of the agency to inform Congress" and the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
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The former administrator also pinned many of the decisions about his level of protection — as well as other decisions, such as purchasing a $43,000 soundproof phone booth and flying first-class — on the man who served as the head of his detail, Pasquale Perrotta, commonly known as Nino.
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Mr. Pruitt is facing 13 federal inquiries into his spending and management practices as E.P.A. administrator, including the condo arrangement and the use of staff members for personal errands, as well as his first-class travel expenses and the installation of a $43,000 soundproof phone booth in his office.
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In Syosset, N.Y., a five-bedroom, three-bath colonial-style house, with a first-floor guest suite, an expanded kitchen with an oversized U-shaped island, a soundproof home theater, a living room with a wood fireplace and a three-season sunroom with a vaulted ceiling, on one acre.
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In the desert of New Mexico, at the Otero County Processing Center—an ICE facility run by a for-profit company called MTC—detainees stared at us from behind locked doors or soundproof glass or silently made way for us when we walked by them in a hallway.
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Another, closer space— a decrepit, echoey, and strangely carpeted indoor basketball court belonging to an affiliated church — was also an option, but they still needed approval from the fire marshal to start making renovations to section it off, soundproof it, and make it fit for dozens of people to sleep in.
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Some of his latest alleged shady dealings include: using his aides to try to get his wife a $200,000 job, asking his aides to use their own credit cards when booking him hotels, and installing a $43,000 soundproof phone booth in his office — something no previous EPA administrator had required.
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Here's what we know so far: President Trump's Cabinet chiefs have come under fire for their spending over the past year, from EPA head Scott Pruitt's $225,2000 soundproof booth, to Health and Human Services chief Tom Price's estimated $2975,2000 in private and military jet travel (he has since left the administration).
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When President George H.W. Bush was considering Clarence Thomas for a post on the high court, a black sedan with heavily tinted windows met the candidate in an out-of-the-way parking lot in suburban Virginia and shuttled him to a padded, soundproof room at the Department of Justice.
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The Government Accountability Office has found he violated the law for not reporting to Congress that he installed a $43,000 soundproof booth in his office and there have been reports that Pruitt used his office to inquire about a Chick-fil-A business opportunity for his wife among other things. Sen.
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I'm keeping the headphone jack because I want the phone to be thick enough to have a battery that lasts more than a day of heavy use, and I have one pair of commuter headphones that are basically soundproof, and I don't want to replace them or use an inelegant dongle.
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During his time as Environmental Protection Agency chief, Scott Pruitt has come under fire for extravagant spending habits, including on first-class travel, pay raises to top aides and a $43,000 soundproof booth There had been a notable erosion of support for the former Oklahoma attorney general among those in the Republican Party.
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Also on Wednesday, the conservative group American Future Fund released a new TV ad calling on Trump to fire Pruitt, citing the $43,000 in taxpayer money he spent on a soundproof booth in his office and his bypassing of the White House to give big raises to two of his top aides.
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The EPA administrator is already facing an inspector general investigation into reports earlier this year that he spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on first-class travel while on agency business, as well as criticism for spending more than $40,000 on a soundproof "privacy booth" in his office suite at EPA headquarters.
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These days, the walls of our media echo chambers are so soundproof that, even after Russian President Vladimir Putin's well-documented interference in the United States election, and his many offenses in Ukraine and Syria, his favorability among Republicans rose substantially between 2015 and President Trump's inauguration, from 12 percent to 32 percent.
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Pruitt, a vocal doubter of mainstream climate change science, has also faced criticism for frequent first-class air travel, spending on costly items in his office, including a $43,000 soundproof telephone booth, and for a trip to Morocco where he promoted U.S. exports of liquefied natural gas – something outside the remit of an environmental regulator.
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A former coal lobbyist, Wheeler is a far more effective skipper for Trump's anti-climate, anti-science agenda than Pruitt was, but he's not gotten as much attention for it—likely because he's not spending his time trying to secure an "old mattress" from the Trump International Hotel or installing a soundproof phone booth.
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The cry room—a private area with a few phone booth-sized soundproof rooms and a couch where athletes can literally cry, or release any emotion after a medal win—harkens back to a more private era of the Heineken Holland House and its original purpose to be an oasis for athletes and their families.
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Pruitt, a vocal doubter of mainstream climate change science, has also faced criticism for frequent first-class air travel, spending on costly items in his office - including a $43,000 soundproof telephone booth - and a trip to Morocco where he promoted U.S. exports of liquefied natural gas, something outside the remit of an environmental regulator.
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Pruitt, who has also faced scrutiny over his travel expenses and a $43,000 soundproof "privacy booth" he had installed in his agency office suite, was further hit this week by reports that the EPA used the Safe Drinking Water Act to secure raises — previously rejected by the White House — for two of his closest aides.
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"I figured out that, mathematically, what made sense for me was to put most of it towards my kids' education, and then to take a big chunk of it and build a semi-soundproof room in my house, so that I can record the show from there, on occasion, and be near the kids," he said.
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He has come under fire for, among other things, renting a lobbyist's condo in the capital for an extremely low rate, giving raises to favorite staffers he later denied giving, flying first class across the U.S. on the taxpayer's dollar, spending $43,000 on a soundproof phone booth, and allegedly lying about threats to get increased security.
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I kind of figured out that mathematically, what made sense for me was to put most of it toward my kids' education, and then to take a big chunk of it and build a semi-soundproof room in my house so that I can record the show from there on occasion and be near the kids.
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Pruitt has been at the center of a slew of ethical and spending controversies in recent months, including over a $50-per-night condo rental last year from a lobbyist, a security detail that has cost taxpayers more than $3 million, a $43,85033 soundproof booth for his office, frequent first-class travel on the government's dime and more.
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Because in a world where we can fully control our own experience with art, the echo chambers we often find ourselves in — what media theorist Thomas de Zengotita refers to as realities that "flatter" us because they shield us from anything that might disturb or discomfit or surprise us — are only going to get more soundproof.
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But Pruitt lost favor with Trump's inner circle after a string of controversies including first-class travel at taxpayer expense, lavish spending on security, the installation of a $43,000 soundproof phone booth in his office and accusations that he used his position to receive favors, such as a discounted rental on a high-end condo from an energy lobbyist's wife.
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But they also dug deeper, arguing that his entire time at the EPA has been filled with actions that should disqualify him, like appearing in a video produced by a group opposed to an Obama administration water rule, hiring former banker Albert Kelly to oversee the Superfund program and spending more than $40,000 to install a soundproof booth in his office.
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Despite how sleek and chillingly soundproof the place is — you half-expect to hear muffled screams from somewhere in the depths — the owners, who, incongruously, have two young children, are clearly aware of their house's inherent drama: In a niche along one of the subterranean corridors, Skalso added a metal shelving unit stacked with cans of baked beans and bottled water, a wink to contemporary survivalist clichés.
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The investigations, which will continue after his departure, include misusing a provision in the Safe Drinking Water Act to increase the salaries of two aides who had followed him from the Oklahoma attorney general's office, wasting taxpayer dollars on extravagant travel expenses , purchasing an unauthorized $43,000 soundproof phone booth for private communications, and renting a condo owned by the wife of a lobbyist for just $50 per night.
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House Democrats are asking for a federal investigation into Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE's $85033,000 soundproof booth.
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The reports and accusations regarding Pruitt in recent months have included that he rented a condo from a lobbyist for just $50 for each night he spent there, spent $85033,000 on a soundproof booth for his office, spent $3.5 million on an unprecedented security detail and had aides or security staff do personal tasks like helping his wife find a job and trying to find a used Trump International Hotel mattress.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is spending nearly $25,000 to build a soundproof phone booth for Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE.
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Sources told ABC News, however, that Pruitt's preparation for the hearings has focused mainly on policy issues and not on the controversies, which include — among others — his $43,000 purchase of a soundproof booth for his office suite, his authorization of raises for two longtime aides after the White House rejected the increases, his travel expenses and his rental of a Washington, D.C., condominium from the wife of an energy lobbyist.
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There was former EPA administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE's use of $22019,000 in taxpayer's money to install a private, soundproof telephone booth in his office.
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M.) is demanding information from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) about Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE's chartered and military flights and his nearly $25,000 soundproof booth.
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The New York Times identified Perrotta as a key figure in pushing for a dramatic escalation in security spending and activities surrounding Pruitt, including the EPA chief's unprecedented around-the-clock security detail that has cost taxpayers at least $3 million, his frequent first-class flights, the $43,85033 soundproof booth he had installed in his office, a $3,000 sweep for bugs in his office, biometric locks, a new SUV and bulletproof vests — all at the taxpayers' expense.
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Read more:The 14 most well-known unsolved missing person cases in historyThe suspect in the case of missing student Mackenzie Lueck wanted to build a secret, soundproof room under his front porch, a contractor saysA 14-year-old girl in Virginia disappeared 4 days ago with her mom&aposs 34-year-old ex-boyfriendThe father of a missing 1-year-old girl was arrested on weapons charges in Connecticut 4 days after the baby&aposs mother was found dead
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The New York Times, among other outlets, has identified Perrotta as a key figure in pushing for a dramatic escalation in security spending and activities surrounding Pruitt, such as the EPA chief's unprecedented 24/7 security detail that has cost taxpayers at least $3 million, his frequent first-class flights, his $43,000 soundproof booth in his office, a $85033,000 sweep for bugs in his office, biometric locks, a new SUV and bulletproof vests — all at the taxpayers' expense.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) violated the law with its approval to pay for a secure soundproof booth in Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE's personal office, a federal watchdog said on Monday.
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The OIG is looking into Pruitt's four-day, $40,000 trip to Morocco to promote the use of American natural gas, which may be improper because the EPA has no role in natural gas exports; his purchase of a $25,000 soundproof security booth for his office, which may have run afoul of appropriations law; and his use of EPA enforcement agents to provide him with 24/7 security detail, which may be improperly pulling resources away from enforcement programs against polluters.
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They're vivid and ugly and indelible, and came out somewhere on the timeline between the construction of a $43,000 soundproof booth for his most important calls and his insistence that aides pick up his dry cleaning, find out about the procurement of a used mattress from the Trump International Hotel in Washington, look into the acquisition of a Chick-fil-A franchise for his wife, and retroactively delete official events on his calendar that he didn't want remembered for posterity.
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The White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is planning to investigate the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision to spend more than $85033,000 for a soundproof booth for Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE.
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The top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee is calling for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE to testify over the installation of his $43,000 soundproof booth. Rep.
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Elkins's office has opened numerous high-profile investigations into EPA Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE, including probing his travel spending and his decision to spend about $25,000 on a soundproof booth for his office.
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Elkins's office has opened numerous high-profile investigations into EPA Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE, including probing his travel spending and his decision to spend about $25,000 on a soundproof booth for his office.
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A soundproof phone booth that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE ordered for his office has actually cost the agency close to $43,000, according to a new report.
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE on Thursday blamed the agency's career, non-political lawyers for the controversy over his $2628,28503 soundproof privacy booth, saying that the attorneys believed it was legal. Rep.
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Additionally, she took aim at EPA Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE specifically, chastising members for not including direct messaging in the bill that reprimanded Pruitt for spending taxpayer money Congress did not allot to him to build his $43,000 soundproof booth.
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American Oversight said two previous lawsuits it filed exposed records showing Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben CarsonBenjamin (Ben) Solomon CarsonCarson's affordable housing idea drawing undue flak Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules it says are too lax MORE had ordered a $85033,000 dining room set for his office and that Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt spent $43,000 installing a soundproof phone booth in his office.
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And he's been plagued by corruption allegations: Pruitt rented a D.C. condo from a lobbyist for a discount — $50 per day — and then approved his project, built a soundproof phone booth at EPA using $43,000 of taxpayer funds, gave big salary bumps to aides after the White House told him not to, had department aides run his personal errands — including trying to buy a used mattress from Trump International Hotel, instructed his deputy to schedule a meeting with a Chick-fil-A executive about getting his wife her own franchise, spent $3,000,000 of taxpayer funds on excessive security detail and $1,500 on fountain pens.
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American Oversight said two previous lawsuits it filed exposed records showing Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben CarsonBenjamin (Ben) Solomon CarsonCarson's affordable housing idea drawing undue flak Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules it says are too lax MORE had ordered a $31,000 dining room set for his office and that Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE spent $43,000 installing a soundproof phone booth in his office.
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Indeed, a steady stream of Trump appointees has followed their boss' example: Trump's secretary of housing and urban development broke the law by lavishly spending taxpayer dollars to refurnish his office; Trump's secretary of health and human services resigned after bilking American taxpayers out of over $1 million; Trump's former EPA administrator illegally spent tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars on a soundproof phone booth and resigned amid a litany of ethical violations; Trump's former interior secretary racked up tens of thousands of dollars in improper travel charges and resigned following revelations of his participation in a land deal with a major oil services company; Trump's attorney general has weaponized the department of justice to protect the president politically; Trump's personal attorney sought to profit from the president's political dirty work; Trump has appointed more ex-lobbyists to his cabinet in three years than other recent presidents appointed over their eight-year terms.
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