Cabbage News Network Week #83

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Monday 8/20

• FEC flags 180 illegal campaign contributions to DJT, including from his ex-lawyer (source).
  
• White House fires speechwriter for his appearance at white nationalist conference in 2016 (source).
  
• Union of Concerned Scientists report documents cancelled studies and self-censorship among government scientists under the DJT administration (source).

Tuesday 8/21

• Cohen pleads guilty to multiple counts of bank and tax fraud charges and campaign finance violations (source).
  
• Manafort found guilty on 8 counts of bank and tax fraud, judge declares mistrial on 10 other charges that the jury could not reach a verdict on (source).
  
• EPA proposes ditching Obama's Clean Power Plan and enacting new plan allowing power plants to bypass environmental regulations. EPA's own estimates are that their new plan would lead to 470-1,400 pre-mature deaths annually (source).
  
• Prisoners across the U.S. begin two week protest of prison conditions (source).
  
• Microsoft documents Russian hacker attacks on U.S. think tanks. (source).
  
• Treasury Dept. imposes sanctions on two Russian companies for cyber-attacks (source).
  
• Administration is proceeding with mapping petroleum deposits in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge despite Fish & Wildlife Service protests (source).
  
• Pentagon reports that denying Iraqi refugees entry to the U.S. poses a security risk (source).
  
• Dems prepare lawsuits over state's voter suppression efforts (source).
  
• The last "permanent" sea ice in the Arctic begins to break up (source).
  

Wednesday 8/22

• Cohen says he committed crimes on DJT's behalf (source).
  
• DJT continues to praise Manafort, apparently stealing millions of dollars should get you medal for bravery (source).
  
• An in depth look at what DJT is doing to the judicial system.
  
• DeVos wants to let schools use Federal funds to buy guns (source).

Thursday 8/23

Immigrant children that have turned 18 while in detention are thrown in jail, lawsuits are pending to get them freed (source).

• Corporations complain that DJT's immigration policy is hurting the economy (source).
  
• Lone holdout on Manafort jury prevented convictions on remaining charges, of note here, a DJT supporter saying the evidence was overwhelming in the 8 charges they did convict on (source).
  
• Senate committee approves Kathy Kranager, who implemented DJT"s family separation policy while at Homeland Security, to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (source).
  
• DJT goes full white supremacist in comments on South Africa (source).
  
• Senate passes spending bill covering Labor, HHS, Defense, and Education (source).

Friday 8/24

• Administration may be deregulating stuff without public comment (source).

Maps of the week

• Ellicott City flood mitigation plan, would tear down a row of buildings in old town (in purple) and add major new culverts to divert the water
  
  
• Air quality out west continues to be bad because of the wildfires
  
  

Legislative action this week - House still in recess

• Legislation signed into law
  
  
  
• Legislation awaiting DJT's signature
  
  • 2 minor bills
  
  
• Legislation passed in the House, awaiting Senate
  
  • 659 total pending bills
  
  
• Legislation passed in the Senate, awaiting House
  
  • Defense appropriations bill https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr6157
    
  • 6 minor bills
    
  • 129 total pending bills