On April 9, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer issued an expansion of a previously announced “Stay Home, Stay Safe” Executive Order (EO). The EO provides additional protections for Michigan citizens and workers through April 30, 2020.
The expanded EO contains physical space limitations by retail store size. The intent is to ensure social distancing
As the state deadline for bill signings approached, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announced many legislative signings on April 12. In proposing amendments and executing these bills, the governor referenced the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and taking action to help Virginia workers address the current crisis as well as plan for economic recovery.
Governor Northam
On Feb. 7, the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council released a report to President Trump demonstrating the impact of opportunity zones across America. The 157-page report comprehensively addresses many metrics suggested and achieved by opportunity zones to date, and makes two legislative suggestions to Congress to improve zone impact:
“1) In order to measure
The U.S. Mayors convened their 88th Washington, D.C. Winter Meeting and released the 2019 Menino Survey of Mayors, the sixth such survey, reflecting the views of 119 mayors of cities with populations at or above 75,000 residents. The 2019 survey was somewhat unique in that the mayors were surveyed about Opportunity Zones, a federal
Want to know what is hot in regulations for the end of this year and into next year? Then the bi-annual Unified Agenda is for you. The Unified Agenda was created to require federal agencies to transparently disclose twice a year to the public what rules and regulations they are pursuing.
A team of General
After receiving Senate confirmation for an undersecretary position earlier in the day, Chad Wolf was sworn in and placed as the next Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Since January 2017, there has been a mix of Senate-confirmed secretaries: John Kelly and Kristjen Nielsen; and acting secretaries: Elaine Duke, Kevin McAleenan, and
On Friday, Nov. 1, and as discussed in a previous Hot Off the Hill blog post, President Trump nominated Dr. Stephen Hahn, Chief Executive of the MD Anderson Cancer Center, for FDA Commissioner.
HHS Secretary Alex Azar also announced leadership changes to complement the president’s announcement.
This action brings significant executive leadership change into
On Oct. 17 a fiery debate occurred on the U.S. Senate floor. Two great supporters of immigrants and immigration reform, Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL, Minority Floor Leader) and Mike Lee (R-UT, Chairman, Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust) battled to a draw on an issue they both support – eliminating the per-country caps on employment-based
Due to federal rules applicable to “acting” agency heads, the current FDA Acting Commissioner, Ned Sharpless, or another person, should be nominated to be FDA Commissioner by month’s end. In order to be named FDA Commissioner, Senate confirmation is required.
This is a critical time for FDA as they face the ongoing fiscal