President Richard Nixon signed the National Environmental Policy Act on New Year’s Day in 1970. The law responded to demands for broad environmental analyses for major federal projects. Environmental concerns, such as a burning Cuyahoga River, fueled its overwhelming passage by Congress. NEPA, as initially drafted, made sense. Since then, however, NEPA has undergone a […]

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led a group of Democrats on Tuesday in introducing a bill requiring Congressional notification of any major layoffs at the State Department and other agencies under the panel’s jurisdiction.  The move comes as Secretary of State Marco Rubio has designated July 1...

President Trump on Tuesday said he was somewhat confident that his tax and spending megabill can pass the upper chamber, as senators head to the floor to vote. When asked about his confidence level, the president replied, “I don’t know, what does confident mean when you have one vote and you have 100 people going...

President Trump knocked AT&T after his conference call experienced glitches. “I’m doing a major Conference Call with Faith Leaders from all over the Country, and AT&T is totally unable to make their equipment work properly,” Trump wrote Monday in a post on Truth Social. “This is the second time it’s happened,” he continued. “If the...