Video of the Day
5/2/17: Weekly Address
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Today’s Hill Action
Senate Floor Schedule
The Senate reconvenes at 3 p.m. and will consider a resolution (S Res 176) commemorating the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem. The Senate will vote on the resolution at 5:30 p.m.
Committee Hearings
05:00pm: ISIS Outside the Middle East
House Floor Schedule
The House is not in session.
Committee Hearings
None.
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Trump: I am calling it a ‘TRAVEL BAN!’
President Trump early Monday made clear the intent of a blocked executive order on immigration now being appealed to the Supreme Court.
“People, the lawyers and the courts can call it whatever they want, but I am calling it what we need and what it is, a TRAVEL BAN!” he tweeted.
Trump also said in a series of tweets that the Department of Justice (DOJ) should have fought for his original order, instead of “watered down, politically correct version” submitted to the Supreme Court.
He said the DOJ should ask for an expedited Supreme Court hearing for the “watered down Travel Ban” and then seek a “much tougher version.”
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Comey hearing consumes Washington
Washington is consumed by anticipation this week ahead of an expected Capitol Hill appearance by James Comey, with speculation across town focused on whether the ousted FBI director’s remarks could further damage President Donald Trump.
Comey is expected to be peppered with questions during his planned appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday about reports Trump pressured him to shut down an FBI investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn, which was part of a larger probe into Trump associates’ ties to Russian officials.
Comey hasn’t spoken publicly since Trump abruptly fired him on May 9, nor has he commented on a series of subsequent reports about his interactions with the president. In addition to the allegations about Flynn – who Trump fired in February amid questions about his relationship with Russian officials – news reports also said the president solicited a loyalty pledge from the then-FBI director. Comey, who reportedly did not make the pledge, is said to have kept detailed memos on the encounters.
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Scott Pruitt, outspoken and forceful, moves to the center of power within the Trump administration
Less than four months ago, Scott Pruitt arrived in Washington with few connections to President Trump’s inner circle and took the helm of an agency where many employees were openly hostile to him.
But the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency has emerged as one of the most influential policy architects in the president’s Cabinet, a skilled and sometimes brash lawyer who is methodically taking apart a slew of regulations and agreements affecting a range of issues, from manufacturing operations to landfills.
Many of these actions are works in progress: The United States’ exit from the Paris climate accord, which Trump announced Thursday, will take years, and EPA officials have just begun to rewrite many of the rules he has vowed to scrap. But their sweep – the most concrete manifestation of what the president vowed to do on the campaign trail – has come to define much of the White House’s domestic agenda.
Jeremy Symons, associate vice president of climate political affairs at the Environmental Defense Fund, an advocacy group, said that while Pruitt would appear “to be too far removed from the center of power,” he has already had an outsize impact.
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