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Sunday, June 28, 2015

He's In!

June 28, 2015 Chris Christie , National Journal 0 Comments
Chris Christie Launches Campaign Website Three Days Before His Announcement 

By Nora Kelly, Jun. 27, 2015, National Journal

If the trips to New Hampshire and leaked announcement invitations weren't big enough clues, Chris Christie is in for 2016.

Like several other campaigns this cycle, Christie's team went for a digital-first approach ahead of any formal announcement: The New Jersey governor launched a campaign website on Saturday, just three days before he's expected to announce his White House bid from the gym of his high school alma mater in Livingston, N.J.

He signaled the site's launch in a series of tweets Saturday morning.

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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

"punished for defying leaders on rule vote."

June 17, 2015 GOP , House Majority Whip Steve Scalise 0 Comments
Three Booted From GOP Whip Team As Leaders Crack Down 

By Daniel Newhauser, Jun. 16, 2015, National Journal

House Republican leaders are cracking down on rebellious members after a near-disaster on a trade vote last week.

Reps. Cynthia Lummis, Steve Pearce, and Trent Franks have been removed from the whip team after they sided with GOP rebels to vote against a rule governing debate on a trade bill, according to sources close to the team.

Lummis, a deputy whip and a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, was perhaps the whip team's highest-ranking bridge to the conference's most intransigent members. Pearce and Franks also are very close to House conservatives.

But House Majority Whip Steve Scalise said earlier in the year that he would not tolerate members voting against rules and already has removed two other members close to the conservative movement.

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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

But, but, but what about all the RACISM!!!

June 16, 2015 Matt Vasilogambros , National Journal 0 Comments
Asians, Blacks and Latinos Mixing Up White Areas

By Matt Vasilogambros, Jun. 12, 2015, National Journal

Segregation is nowhere close to being over, but neighborhoods across the country are steadily integrating.

A snapshot by the Brookings Institution—using 2010 Census data—shows that Latinos, blacks, and Asians are starting to move more to multiracial or white-dominated neighborhoods. Among those three racial groups, the average person lives in a neighborhood that is at least one-third white. Asians, however, live in neighborhoods that are comprised nearly half of white people.

A look at where the average white person lives tells a much different story on the surface, as he or she likely lives in a neighborhood that is 77 percent white. But, as Brookings points out, there is more to tell here. While these neighborhoods are just 9 percent Latino and 7 percent black on average, those numbers are larger today than they were three decades ago. In 1980, the average white person lived in a neighborhood that was 90 percent white.

Neighborhoods are becoming less homogenous. As Latino and Asian migration expands to previously white-dominated areas—and blacks continue to move toward the suburbs and integrated communities—the culture of these neighborhoods will change with the shift, notes Brookings.


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Implicating Hillary?

June 16, 2015 House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , Keystone XL Pipeline 0 Comments
House GOP Threatens to Subpoena State Department for Keystone Docs 

By Ben Geman, Jun. 15, 2015, National Journal

June 15, 2015 A prominent House Republican says he's ready to play hardball to obtain documents about the Keystone XL pipeline from the State Department.

In a new letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz says State hasn't complied with a February request for copies of other departments' input on TransCanada Corp.'s project, which remains under federal review.

"If the department remains unwilling to work with the committee on a voluntary basis, we are left with no alternative but to consider the use of compulsory process to obtain the materials we requested on February 24, 2015," Chaffetz writes.

Chaffetz wants comments from other departments to State about whether the project is in the "national interest."

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Friday, June 12, 2015

We're Going To Need A Bigger Boat

June 12, 2015 National Journal , Republican Presidential Debate 0 Comments
Fox Plans Second-Tier Debate In Response To Threat From N.H. Newspaper 

By Tim Alberta, Jun. 10, 2015, National Journal

Fox News has changed its plan for the first Republican presidential debate to give second-tier candidates some airtime after a New Hampshire newspaper announced its own competing forum for B-list contenders.

According to plans announced late Wednesday, Fox now will host a 90-minute televised forum in Cleveland on the afternoon of August 6 for​ ​Republican candidates who fail to qualify for that ​evening's 90-minute debate.

RNC officials and campaign staffers had been pressuring Fox for weeks to do exactly this, some even predicting that the vacuum would be filled by another media outlet. A Fox spokeswoman challenged the notion that Fox had changed its plans, saying the cable network always intended to cover the candidates who did not make the prime-time cut.

The announcement capped a chaotic three-hour stretch that began when the New Hampshire Union-Leader published a story announcing it would host a forum on August 6.

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