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AFSC speaks out on executive orders, urges congressional action

By News release | January 25, 2017

Today, President Donald Trump announced sweeping executive actions that would expand the border wall, cut federal funding to sanctuary cities and increase the number of people Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will target for deportation. The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) – a Quaker organization that has worked for immigrant and refugee rights for almost 100 years – denounced these policies as dangerous and divisive.

Business & Economy

House Bill: Site Evaluation Committee Exceeding Authority

By Chris Jensen | January 25, 2017

The Site Evaluation Committee has exceeded its authority and is wrong to consider the visual impact of proposed utility projects on anything but wind farms, according to a bill scheduled for a hearing before a legislative committee on Feb. 1.

Business & Economy

Why Trump’s Meetings With CEOs Seeking Mergers Trouble Observers

By Justin Elliott and Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica | January 25, 2017

The president has flouted decades-old norms of antitrust by directly speaking with the executives of companies seeking to merge.

Video: Shaheen Calls Out Trump for ‘Rollback’ On Women’s Rights

By Sen. Shaheen press release | January 24, 2017

On Senate Floor, Shaheen Calls out President Trump and Republican Leadership in Congress for their “dangerous obsession with rolling back women’s reproductive rights.”

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Shaheen, Collins Lead Group To Introduce HER Act to Repeal Global Gag Rule

By Sen. Shaheen news release | January 24, 2017

One day after President Trump reinstates the harmful executive order, 43 Senators introduce legislation that supports women’s reproductive rights and international family planning programs.

News

Trump’s nominees face ethics, divestment challenges

By The Center for Public Integrity | January 22, 2017

A president-elect’s Cabinet choices provide an early and often-illuminating marker of where the new administration is headed in both tone and policy.

Business & Economy

Seven years later: Blurred boundaries, more money on Citizens United anniversary

By Emily Dalgo and Ashley Balcerzak | January 21, 2017

Among the inaugural festivities and protests this weekend, spare a thought Saturday for the seventh anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark Citizens United v. Federal Election Committee ruling — a decision that has left a deeper footprint with every election cycle.

Business & Economy

How Trump Could Kill a Plan to Get You Overtime Pay

By Justin Elliott, ProPublica | January 14, 2017

One of the first tests of Trump’s pledge to help workers will come in how his administration handles the complicated rules that govern who has the right to time-and-a-half overtime pay.

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Best new artist: Some celebrities wrote their first checks to candidates in 2016

By Andrew Mayersohn, OpenSecrets.org | January 13, 2017

While the entertainment industry does indeed lean well to the left, though, most of that money comes from producers and media magnates, not the people you see on screen.