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    01-27-2021, 06:04 PM #41
    Today, President Biden signed an executive order re-establishing the President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology. The council will advise Biden on policy that affects science, technology and innovation. The previous President did not believe in science. Not at all. Meanwhile, Retrumplicans are objecting to Biden's pick to head the Department of Homeland Security, even though the Senate's Homeland Security Committee held an extensive hearing into the man's qualifications and voted yesterday to move his nomination forward.

    GOP threatens filibuster for Alejandro Mayorkas nomination to be DHS secretary

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/polit...dhs/index.html

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    01-29-2021, 05:05 PM #42
    Trump spent four years trying to undo everything Obama did. Biden is now trying to undo everything Trump did.

    DOJ pulls Trump administration's harsh charging and sentencing policy
    HuffPost, Jan 29 2021 10:00 AM

    Monty Wilkinson, the acting attorney general under President Joe Biden, has pulled the Trump administration’s charging and sentencing policy, which mandated that federal prosecutors almost always pursue the harshest charges and stiffest penalties.

    Wilkinson rescinded a May 10, 2017 memo from then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions. At the time, Sessions told federal prosecutors across the country to always pursue the harshest charges and penalties possible unless they received specific permission from their supervisors. “The goal of this interim step is to ensure that decisions about charging, plea agreements, and advocacy at sentencing are based on the merits of each case and reflect an individualized assessment of relevant facts while longer-term policy is formulated,” Wilkinson wrote.

    For now, the Justice Department is reverting back to a 2010 charing and sentencing policy issued by former Attorney General Eric Holder. Under Holder’s guidelines, federal prosecutors were encouraged to focus on “individualized justice” and decision-making based on “the merits of each case.”

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    02-02-2021, 04:13 PM #43
    Only four of Biden's 23 Cabinet-level nominees have been confirmed by the Senate so far. Hey, Senators, you need to speed up these confirmations!

    Senate confirms Pete Buttigieg as transportation secretary

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/02/polit...ote/index.html

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    02-07-2021, 06:40 PM #44
    Capital punishment – the death penalty – can be imposed for treason, espionage, murder or large-scale drug trafficking. Capital punishment is legal in 28 states, American Samoa, the federal government and the military. There are now 49 US inmates who have been sentenced to death, each for aggravated murder. They may wind up getting a reprieve.

    Biden is pressed to end federal death penalty
    Joe Biden, the first sitting US President to openly oppose the death penalty, has discussed the possibility of instructing the Department of Justice to stop scheduling new executions.

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    02-08-2021, 04:02 PM #45
    When Donald Trump took office in January 2017, 145,600,000 Americans were employed. By the time Trump left office four years later, the number of employed had fallen by three million. Trump is the first President since Herbert Hoover to see employment fall during his Presidency. Biden hopes to bring back full employment. Good luck, Joe.

    Yellen: Biden's plan could restore full employment by 2022
    The Associated Press, Feb 8 2021 6:26 AM

    Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday the country was still in a “deep hole” with millions of lost jobs but President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief plan could generate enough growth to restore full employment by next year. The House and Senate approved the legislation necessary to pass Biden’s package through a process known as reconciliation, which requires only 51 votes in the Senate. The Senate is split 50-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris the tiebreaking vote. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said she hopes to approve the specific budget details of the Biden proposal over the next two weeks, aiming to get the measure through Congress before current unemployment benefits run out in mid-March.

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    02-17-2021, 02:07 AM #46
    In a new Politico/Morning Consult poll of registered voters, 62% approve of Joe Biden's performance as President while 33% disapprove. He obviously is winning the support of many who voted for Trump.

    Joe Biden reaches higher approval rating than Trump ever had

    https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-...d-101120581661

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    02-18-2021, 06:21 PM #47
    When Democrats talk about "green," they're referring to environmenal programs and policies. When Republicans talk about "green," they're referring to the money they can make by allowing drilling on public lands.

    GOP Senators attack Biden’s Interior Secretary pick for wanting to protect land, air
    Deb Haaland, a Native American lawmaker determined to tackle climate change, scares Republicans bankrolled by the oil and gas industry.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-s...b6f38d06e77a24

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    02-20-2021, 07:13 PM #48
    Newsmax, Fox News and One America News spend much of their broadcast day attacking Democrats – but attacking President Biden's dog? That is really despicable.

    Newsmax airs whole segment attacking Biden’s senior dog, Champ
    A host on the pro-Trump network said the 12-year-old canine looked like a “junkyard” dog.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/newsm...b66da5dba1b64a

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    02-24-2021, 10:24 PM #49
    White nationalist and white supremacist Donald Trump truly enjoyed watching news coverage of the insurrectionists at the Capitol on January 6. After all, they were supporting him – and they believed his lie that he won the election but it was "stolen" from him. After they had rioted for three hours, Trump told them, "We love you." As for the protests against racial injustice in three cities with Democratic mayors, white nationalist and white supremacist Donald Trump strongly condemned the "anarchy, violence and destruction" and attempted to cut off federal funding. In Trumpworld, white pro-Trump rioters are good. Black Lives Matter protesters are bad. It's that simple.

    Joe Biden revokes Donald Trump’s order designating Democratic cities ‘anarchist’
    After racial justice protests erupted in New York, Seattle and Portland, Trump attempted to cut the cities’ federal funding by labeling them “anarchist.”

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    03-10-2021, 04:24 PM #50
    In 2016, President Obama nominated Garland to serve as a Supreme Court justice. Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans blocked his nomination. Today, 20 Senate Republicans joined Democrats in approving Garland's nomination as attorney general.

    Senate confirms Merrick Garland as attorney general

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/10/polit...ote/index.html

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