Senator Kamala Harris Tours CA Sites Impacted by Trump Budget

Last Week Senator Harris Toured CA Sites Impacted by Trump Budget   Friend -  Senator Harris spent the Memorial Day state work period last week visiting key sites in California impacted by President Trump's budget and the GOP Health care bill. On Wednesday, Senator Harris, a member of the Senate Budget Committee and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, met with officials at the Port of Los Angeles. Harris was briefed by officials on the national and regional impact of the Port. The Trump Administration's proposed budget includes damaging cuts to transportation, goods movement, and workforce development. Harris also toured part of the Port. The Port of Los Angeles is the nation’s largest and busiest container port. It creates nearly 500,000 jobs within local counties and 1.5 million jobs nationwide. President Trump’s proposed budget would cut key programs it depends on, including workforce training programs, infrastructure development grants, and port security. As a member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Harris sent a letter of support to U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao for America’s Global Freight Gateway: Southern California Rail Project to secure a grant under the Department of Transportation’s Fostering Advancements in Shipping and Transportation for the Long-term Achievement of National Efficiencies (FASTLANE) program. This project will remove freight bottlenecks to the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach, which are the first and second busiest container ports in the nation.    *Hover over and click LA port photos for embedded video of her visit.  On Thursday, Senator Harris met with patients and physicians at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Outpatient Center in Los Angeles. At the clinic, Harris was briefed on the Center’s critical role in providing substance abuse treatment, including opioid addiction, to patients in Los Angeles, many of whom are covered by Medicaid. The GOP health care bill cut more than $800 billion from Medicaid. The President’s proposed budget would cut up to an additional $616 billion from Medicaid. Additionally, the GOP health care bill would result in 14 million Americans losing health care coverage next year. The Center for Disease Control estimates that more than 4,600 Californians die each year from opioid overdoses, including heroin, and that number is expected to rise. Medicaid is the largest payer for opioid treatment, and both the GOP health care plan and Trump’s proposed budget would potentially make substance abuse treatment more expensive or completely unaffordable for millions of Americans. Previously at the Center for American Progress Ideas Conference, Harris spoke out against U.S. Attorney General Jeff Session’s revival of the War on Drugs and outlined how we can effectively treat the current opioid epidemic. Harris urged policymakers to treat addiction as a public health issue and to fight “not a War on Drugs but a War on Drug Addiction.”    The Senator also met with Navy officials at U.S. Naval Base Coronado on Friday, where she toured the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt and visited the Navy SEALs at the Naval Special Warfare Command and training center.    On the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, Harris received a briefing on the ship’s capabilities, as well as the scope of Third Fleet operations in the Pacific and the role of the Carrier Strike Group. At the Naval Special Warfare Command, Harris was given an overview of Navy SEAL operations and capabilities, and their unique role in U.S. Special Operation Forces. Harris expressed her deep gratitude to all sailors and SEALs for the sacrifices of the men and women of the Navy, including fallen Navy SEAL, Special Warfare Operator First Class Remington Peters, who was memorialized at the base on Friday. The Navy is on the front lines of defending U.S. interests by sea and land. It is also a critical part of the San Diego community and economy, and the three naval bases in the region are responsible for roughly 300,000 jobs. The Navy, and its ability to operate in San Diego and Coronado, plays an essential role in our nation’s security, domestically and around the world.      Be sure to visit our newsroom for the latest updates and to learn more about what Senator Harris is doing back in Washington.    Thanks, Julie Julie Chávez Rodríguez  State Director  U.S. Senator Kamala D. Harris     Washington D.C.112 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Phone (202) 224-3553 Fax (202) 224-2200 Los Angeles312 N. Spring St. Suite 1748 Los Angeles, CA  90012 Phone (213) 894 - 5000 Fax (202) 224 - 0357 San Francisco50 United Nations Plaza Suite 5584 San Francisco, CA  94102 Phone (415) 355 - 9041 Fax (202) 224 - 0454 Fresno2500 Tulare Street Suite 5290 Fresno, CA 93721 Phone (559) 497 - 5109 Fax (202) 228 - 3864  Sacramento501 I Street Suite 7-600 Sacramento, CA  95814 Phone (916) 448 - 2787 Fax (202) 228 - 3865  San Diego600 B Street Suite 2240 San Diego, CA  92101 Phone (619) 239 - 3884 Fax (202) 228 - 3863

Senator Harris on NBC's Today Show,Questions Comey on Sessions’ Role in Russia Probe, Requests AG Rosenstein for Full Independence to Special Counsel   Today, Senator Kamala D. Harris, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, appeared on NBC’s Today Show for an interview with Savannah Guthrie to discuss today’s hearing with former FBI Director James Comey. During the interview, Senator Harris stated: “There is no question we have to get to the truth of what's going on. There are more questions to ask. The written statement validates some of the reports that we've been hearing that have led us to this point of even questioning whether there's been obstruction of justice. He outlines clearly there have been conversations initiated by the president that seem to be intended to interfere with the investigation at least at relates to Flynn. His letter in terms of his written statement validates that he was asked to take a loyalty oath. When I think about that, I was a District Attorney of San Francisco, the Attorney General of California, and now a United States Senator. I've taken the oath many times. The oath was to the constitution of the United States, not an individual. It's inappropriate.” Regarding the questions that Senator Harris has for Comey, she stated: “I have lots of questions including whether he spoke with Jeff Sessions about the investigation. Was that before or after Jeff sessions recusal? I have questions about what conversations were initiated by any other member of the staff around what was going on with the investigation. I have questions about whether there were any other conversations with anyone else initiated by those people with Comey about the nature of the investigation or asking him to slow down or stop”  Watch the full NBC’s Today Show interview HERE At the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, Senator Harris questioned former FBI Director James Comey about Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ continued involvement in the Russia probe despite having recused himself from the investigation. This included Sessions’ recommendation that the President fire Director Comey as head of the FBI, even though Comey was leading that exact investigation in which Sessions recused himself from participating.  Harris sought assurances from Comey that safeguards were put in place to ensure that Sessions was indeed abiding by his recusal. Harris asked, “aside from any notice or memorandum that was not sent or was, what mechanism or processes were in place to ensure that the Attorney General would not have any connection with the investigation to your knowledge?” Comey replied by saying he didn’t “know for sure.” Harris’ questioning of Comey came on the heels of yesterday’s Intelligence hearing where she pressed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to grant Special Counsel Robert Mueller full independence. Harris asked Comey whether Director Mueller should have “full independence,” and Comey agreed. In his prepared testimony, Comey said Trump told him, “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go.” During the hearing, Comey said he interpreted that as an order for the probe to be dropped. Senator Harris opened by comparing this to her time as a career prosecutor, stating, “in my experience of prosecuting cases, when a robber held a gun to somebody’s head and said, ‘I hope you will give me your wallet, the word ‘hope’ was not the most operative word at that moment.”  Watch Harris questioning Comey HERE Yesterday, Senator Harris pressed U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on whether he would provide full independence to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is overseeing the FBI’s Russia investigation. “[T]he greater assurance is not that you and I believe in Director Mueller’s integrity, which I have no question about Mr. Mueller's integrity”, Harris said. “It is that you would put in writing an indication based on your authority as the Acting Attorney General that he has full independence in regards to the investigations that are before him. Are you willing or are you not willing to give him the authority to be fully independent of your ability, statutorily and legally, to fire him?” Previously, Rosenstein wrote a memo that was used by the White House as justification for firing former FBI Director James Comey, a decision that has come under scrutiny. Rosenstein appointed Mueller as Special Counsel on May 17th and retains the authority to override Mueller’s decisions and to order his dismissal. In the hearing, Rosenstein refused to commit in writing to grant Mueller full independence from any officer at the Department of Justice. Harris noted that precedent had been established when in 2003, then-Deputy Attorney General James Comey appointed a special counsel, Patrick Fitzgerald, to oversee the investigation into the leak that led to the disclosure of Valerie Plame’s identity as a CIA officer. Comey granted Fitzgerald full independence from the supervision or control of any officer at the Department of Justice.   Watch Harris questioning AG Rosenstein HERE           Washington D.C.112 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Phone (202) 224-3553  Fax (202) 224-2200 Los Angeles312 N. Spring St.  Suite 1748 Los Angeles, CA  90012 Phone (213) 894 - 5000  Fax (202) 224 - 0357 San Francisco50 United Nations Plaza Suite 5584 San Francisco, CA  94102 Phone (415) 355 - 9041  Fax (202) 224 - 0454   Fresno2500 Tulare Street Suite 5290 Fresno, CA 93721 Phone (559) 497 - 5109  Fax (202) 228 - 3864  Sacramento501 I Street Suite 7-600 Sacramento, CA  95814 Phone (916) 448 - 2787  Fax (202) 228 - 3865  San Diego600 B Street Suite 2240 San Diego, CA  92101 Phone (619) 239 - 3884  Fax (202) 228 - 3863

Trump's Legacy will be on wrong side of history, science, civil rights, and everything else

Gov. Jerry Brown: While Trump is `AWOL,’ China is emerging a climate leader

By KATY MURPHY | kmurphy@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group

PUBLISHED: May 31, 2017 at 12:48 pm | UPDATED: June 1, 2017 at 3:30 am

Trump is on wrong side of history, science, civil rights, and everything else

 SACRAMENTO — Responding to news reports that President Donald Trump has decided to withdraw the United States from the historic Paris climate agreement, Gov. Jerry Brown said Wednesday that Trump is “on the wrong side of history” and that he hoped the president’s stance on global warming would be short-lived.

 “President Trump, he’s going off the reservation hopefully for a month, a year, not much longer,” Brown said. “If he stays on his present course California will just redouble its efforts and the people of the world will have to rise up and take action. And I think in a very paradoxical way, that’s exactly what Trump is stimulating — the very opposite of climate denial is climate activism.”

 Brown spoke to the Bay Area News Group in advance of a week-long visit to China to solidify climate and clean energy partnerships between California and Chinese provinces — ties Brown is trying to forge with other states and provinces in the U.S. and Canada. He leaves Friday.

The governor went on a similar mission to China in 2013, but a lot has changed since then. The Paris agreement was signed in 2015, and Trump was elected last fall. Trump has claimed global warming was a hoax devised by the Chinese to gain unfair trade advantages.

And on the campaign trail Trump promised to break from the 195-nation climate because it would hurt the U.S. economy. On Wednesday, he tweeted that he would announce his decision soon, followed by his campaign slogan, “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/02/news/economy/400-coal-mining-jobs-trump-paris/index.html

EbizMBA.com's Top 15 Most Popular News Websites | May 2017

Top 15 Most Popular News Websites | May 2017

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1 | Yahoo! News
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2 | Google News
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3 | HuffingtonPost
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4 | CNN
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5 | New York Times
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6 | Fox News
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7 | NBC News
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8 | Mail Online
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9 | Washington Post
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10 | The Guardian
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11 | WSJ
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12 | ABCNews
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13 | BBC News
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14 | USA Today
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15 | LA Times
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Melania Trump Is What A Stepford Wife Looks Like

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Vice President-elect Mike Pence will serve as Chairman of the Presidential Transition Team

WEST SACRMANETO CA (IFS) -- Attorney General Sally Yates gave a "Head's Up" on General Flynn, with information from Director Comey of the FBI, which in turn was passed up the change of command to the head of the transition team.   Vice President-elect Mike Pence  was the head of the team.  It appears that he was notified about General Flynn in the beginning.  But Flynn was fired for lying to the Vice President.  Of course this all started on the 9th of November, 2016.  Pence always knew about Flynn.  Why did it take over 65 days for Pence to get upset with Flynn and get him fired? - khs

AG Yates, Director Comey, Head of the Trump Transition Team, General Flynn 

(New York, NY) – President-elect Donald J. Trump announced that Vice President-elect Mike Pence will serve as Chairman of the Presidential Transition Team, and that Dr. Ben Carson, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich, Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, USA (Ret.), Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions will join the team’s Executive Committee as Vice Chairs.

President-elect Trump also announced that the following leaders will join the Presidential Transition Team Executive Committee:

• Congressman Lou Barletta
• Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn
• Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi
• Congressman Chris Collins
• Jared Kushner
• Congressman Tom Marino
• Rebekah Mercer
• Steven Mnuchin
• Congressman Devin Nunes
• Anthony Scaramucci
• Peter Thiel
• Donald Trump Jr.
• Eric Trump
• Ivanka Trump
• RNC Chairman Reince Priebus
• Trump Campaign CEO Stephen K. Bannon

President-elect Donald J. Trump also announced that Chief of Staff to U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions, Rick Dearborn, will join the Presidential Transition Team as Executive Director.

Richard Bagger, Executive Director of the Presidential Transition Team during the preparation phase, will return to the private sector but will remain with the Team as an Advisor, as will preparation phase General Counsel Bill Palatucci.

Joining Dearborn on the Presidential Transition Team’s Staff Leadership lineup are:

♦ Kellyanne Conway, Senior Advisor
♦ David Bossie, Deputy Executive Director
♦ Stephen Miller, National Policy Director
♦ Jason Miller, Communications Director
♦ Hope Hicks, National Press Secretary
♦ Dan Scavino, Director of Social Media
♦ Don McGahn, General Counsel
♦ Katie Walsh, Senior Advisor

The Vice President-elect has tapped his three senior advisors, Nick Ayers, Josh Pitcock, and Marc Short, to work alongside him in this process.

“President-elect Trump will bring about fundamental change in Washington, and these are the right people to make that happen,” added Vice President-elect Pence. “This team of experienced leaders will form the building blocks of our Presidential Transition Team staff leadership roster, and will work with elected officials and tireless volunteers to prepare our government for the transfer of power on January 20th.”