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• Ethics watchdog says two Republicans may have violated STOCK Act rules

  31-05-2022 22:35 via thehill.com
  
  The Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) said there is “substantial reason to believe” that Republican Reps. Pat Fallon (Texas) and John Rutherford (Fla.) failed to report financial transactions on time, which is a violation of House rules and federal law.In reports made public on Tuesday, the OCE — an independent watchdog that probes unethical behavior from lawmakers and refers incidents to the House Ethics Committee — outlined more than 100 financial transactions t
  
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• BTS joins White House press briefing | USA TODAY - youtube.com

  31-05-2022 22:34
  
  BTS joins White House press briefing | USA TODAY  youtube.com
  
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• BTS joins White House press briefing | USA TODAY - YouTube

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• BTS visits White House with call to end anti-Asian hate

  31-05-2022 21:24 via thehill.com
  
  K-pop group BTS is singing a message of inclusion, saying in remarks at the White House that it’s “not wrong to be different” and calling for an end to anti-Asian hate. “Equality begins when we open up and embrace all of our differences,” Suga, one of the group’s seven singing superstars, said through a translator on Tuesday.The South Korean chart-toppers, sporting matching black suits and ties, appeared in the James S. Brady Briefing Room as part of a vi
  
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• Biden meets with Powell, urges respect for Fed

  31-05-2022 20:45 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden met with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at the White House on Tuesday and urged respect for the Federal Reserve Board amid high inflation.“My plan is to address inflation, starts with a simple proposition: respect the Fed, respect the Fed’s independence, which I have done and will continue to do,” Biden said in the Oval Office.The president said that part of his job is to nominate people for the Fed and to “give them the space they need to do their jo
  
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• Trump reiterates calls for Pulitzers to withdraw awards to NYT, Washington Post

  31-05-2022 20:25 via thehill.com
  
  Former President Trump wrote to the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes on Friday asking again that the board rescind its 2018 prizes for national reporting awarded to The New York Times and The Washington Post. “There is no dispute that the Pulitzer Board’s award to those media outlets was based on false and fabricated information that they published,” the former president wrote to administrator Marjorie Miller in a letter dated Friday and shared by his campaign PAC on T
  
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• GOP bill would criminalize Supreme Court leaks

  31-05-2022 20:03 via thehill.com
  
  Republicans are responding to the bombshell leak of a draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade abortion rights protections by aiming to criminalize leaks of non-public Supreme Court information.A group of 12 House Republicans introduced the Leaker Accountability Act on Tuesday, which would bar any officer or employee of the Supreme Court from “knowingly publishing, divulging, disclosing, or making known in any manner” confidential information such as internal notes, draft opinio
  
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• HHS announces new office of environmental justice

  31-05-2022 19:33 via thehill.com
  
  The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Tuesday announced an Office of Environmental Justice (OEJ) within the department to address climate-related health issues particularly affecting poor and marginalized Americans. The office, which will be under the aegis of the HHS Office of Climate Change and Health Equity, will be responsible for developing the department’s  broader environmental health strategies and coordinating its annual environmental justice reports,
  
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• On the lawn: Biden set to take on inflation this week

  31-05-2022 19:30 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden will meet with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday to discuss high inflation, which has plagued Biden’s approval rating and which the president says is his top economic priority.Biden laid out a three-part plan earlier Tuesday for combating inflation, stressing that the Federal Reserve has the primary responsibility to control it.Tuesday’s meeting is the first between Biden and Powell since November and comes as the Fed has promised to raise interest rates
  
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• Biden pledges to meet with Congress on guns

  31-05-2022 18:05 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Tuesday pledged to meet with lawmakers about enacting gun legislation in response to recent mass shootings.  “I will meet with the Congress on guns, I promise you,” Biden told reporters during a meeting with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in the Oval Office.  Biden did not say with whom specifically he would meet or when. Lawmakers are currently on recess and scheduled to return to Washington, D.C., during the first full week of June.  The
  
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• House Democrats to move slate of gun bills this week

  31-05-2022 16:07 via thehill.com
  
  House Democrats are wasting no time taking up gun violence legislation following last week's school massacre in Texas, scheduling a special session of the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday to send a slate of tougher firearms laws to the chamber floor.The Judiciary panel will consider eight proposals during the emergency markup, a committee aide confirmed on Tuesday, including bills to curb gun trafficking; promote the safe storage of firearms; and raise the eligible purchase age for certain
  
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• Biden adviser says US in position of strength to deal with inflation

  31-05-2022 15:50 via thehill.com
  
  National Economic Council Director Brian Deese on Tuesday argued that the U.S. is in a position of strength to combat high inflation, following President Biden’s release of a three-part plan to lower rising prices.“The economy we have right now is in a transition from this period of historic economic growth to a period that can be more stable, resilient growth. That requires focusing on inflation and doing so from a position of relative strength,” Deese told CNBC
  
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• Biden lays out plan to fight inflation

  31-05-2022 13:43 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden laid out a three-part plan on Tuesday for combating high inflation, which has been a major strain on his job approval rating.“We now have a chance to build on a historic recovery with an economy that works for working families. The most important thing we can do now to transition from rapid recovery to stable, steady growth is to bring inflation down. That is why I have made tackling inflation my top economic priority,” he said in a Wall Street Journal op-ed ahea
  
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• The Memo: Guns and abortion threaten to become midterm issues

  31-05-2022 11:26 via thehill.com
  
  Two huge cultural issues — guns and abortion — are suddenly dominating the national conversation just five months out from midterm elections that were expected to be defined by the economy.A month ago, it seemed that a combination of rising gas prices, high inflation and general public discontent after more than two years of being battered by the COVID-19 pandemic would be the only things that really mattered. Those topics were also expected to provide Republican with a str
  
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