Former EPA Chief Scott Pruitt in 2018 proposed reversing the practice of relying on secretive data in crafting rules. Conservatives have-long lambasted such studies, noting that such “secret science” has been used to craft billions of dollars worth of environmental regulations.
The legislation at the center of Wednesday’s Supreme Court case was originally introduced by a black, pro-life, Democratic female state senator who says the legislation will “make sure women are protected.”
“We oppose this bill that is designed to shift the tax burden from residents to businesses,” David Juvet, senior vice president of policy at the Business and Industry Association of New Hampshire, said during the hearing. “It is the wrong road.”
Super Tuesday results show the race for the Democratic presidential nomination will come down to former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, something former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg realized as he announced Wednesday he was dropping out.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., won Colorado and California Democratic presidential primaries on Tuesday. A self-described democratic socialist, Sanders claimed 36.2 percent of the vote in Colorado, and about 33 percent in California.
Former Vice President Joe Biden will win Super Tuesday primaries in Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia, strengthening his position in the South. He’s also the projected winner in Oklahoma. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders won his home state of Vermont as well as Colorado, according to early projections.
The remaining Democratic presidential candidates will be chasing more than 1,600 delegates on Super Tuesday as voters in 14 states and one American territory make their decisions.
Leading Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden and Michael Bloomberg have paid a combined $466,000 to superdelegates that are likely to support their benefactors in the event of a contested convention, Federal Election Commission records show.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign has embraced a far-left group that seeks to abolish prisons and has promoted a group the U.S. State Department designated as a Palestinian terrorist organization.
Democratic 2020 candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders in 2011 promoted an editorial arguing that “the American dream is more apt to be realized” in Venezuela than in the U.S.
Sanders revealed his own Green New Deal in August 2019, promising everything from “virtually free” electricity and a “hunger-free” transition to green energy from fossil fuels.
“The Democratic presidential front-runner is an avowed socialist named Bernie Sanders,” Haley continued. “Only in a prosperous country like America can people be so flippant about capitalism and so naive about socialism.”