Imperial Valley News Center
Attorney General Sessions Takes Further Action to Combat Opioid Crisis
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Washington, DC - Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo for the Acting Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration directing the DEA to evaluate and consider whether or not to amend its regulations governing the aggregate production quota where appropriate as expeditiously as practicable, including through a potential interim final rule. This is in response to studies indicating that the United States is an outlier in the number of opioid prescriptions issued each year.
Notice of the President’s Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Zimbabwe
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Washington, DC - On March 6, 2003, by Executive Order 13288, the President declared a national emergency and blocked the property of certain persons, pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706), to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign policy of the United States constituted by the actions and policies of certain members of the Government of Zimbabwe and other persons to undermine Zimbabwe’s democratic processes or institutions. These actions and policies had contributed to the deliberate breakdown in the rule of law in Zimbabwe, to politically motivated violence and intimidation in that country, and to political and economic instability in the southern African region.
Issues with the Penn-Wharton Budget Model
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Washington, DC - Analyzing the Penn-Wharton Budget Model’s estimates of the growth effects from the President’s infrastructure plan, CEA finds that the report is an unsuitable tool for estimating the new investment in infrastructure the President’s plan will generate. The Penn-Wharton Budget Model is flawed in at least two critical respects:
Executive Order on the President’s Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Venezuela
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Washington, DC - On March 8, 2015, the President issued Executive Order 13692, declaring a national emergency with respect to the situation in Venezuela based on the Government of Venezuela’s erosion of human rights guarantees, persecution of political opponents, curtailment of press freedoms, use of violence and human rights violations and abuses in response to antigovernment protests, and arbitrary arrest and detention of antigovernment protestors, as well as the exacerbating presence of significant government corruption.
Five Nominations Sent to the Senate
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Washington, DC - Five Nominations Sent to the Senate Friday:
President Donald J. Trump Announces Bipartisan Group of Nominees to the United States Sentencing Commission
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Washington, DC - Thursday, President Donald J. Trump announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to the United States Sentencing Commission:
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