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Washington mdash;House Republicans are ramping up efforts to investigate the attempted assass stanley cup ination of former President Donald Trump and the apparent security lapses that allowed a gunman to get within striking distance of the GOP presidential nominee.Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have expressed alarm about how the gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was able to open fir stanley cup e at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania, striking the former president in the ear, killing one attendee and seriously injuring two others. Republicans ire has been directed at federal law enforcement leaders, with some sporadic calls for agency heads to step down.Speaker Mike Johnson announced on Wednesday that he will create a special task force within the House to investigate the attack on Trump, saying in a social media post that we need answers for these shocking security failures. Johnson elaborated on Fox News, saying that he plans to set the task force up on Monday and explaining that it w stanley cup ill work as a precision strike, able to move quickly by avoiding some procedural hurdles that other investigatory avenues face in Congress. Johnson said it would be a bipartisan task force, made up of both Republicans and Democrats. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks to reporters at the Capitol on June 28, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Lgya 8203;Changes lead to shorter sentences for 26,000 drug defendants
WASHINGTON -- A lawyer tapped to lead a task force at the Environmental Protection Agency overseeing cleanups at the nation s most polluted places worked until recently for a top chemical and plastics manufacturer with a troubled legacy of creating some of those toxic sites. Steven D. Cook has been named as the new chair of the Superfund Task Force, which EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt created last year to revamp how the agency oversees cleanups at the more than 1,300 toxic sites. Before beginning work in February as deputy ass nike dunk istant administrator for EPA s Office of Land and Emergency Management, Cook served more th mizuno an 20 years as in-house corporate counsel for LyondellBasell Industries -- one of the world s largest plastics, chemicals and refining companies. EPA records show that LyondellBasell and its subsidiaries are listed as being potentially responsible for at least three dozen Superfund polluted sites. An a stanley cup nalysis by The Associated Press shows that nearly half the political appointees hired at EPA under President Donald Trump have industry ties. Of more than 60 EPA hires tracked by the AP over the last year, about one-third worked as registered lobbyists or lawyers for chemical manufacturers, fossil fuel producers or other EPA-regulated companies. Trump promised as a presidential candidate to drain the swamp in Washington. An executive order signed two weeks after his inauguration bars former lobbyists and corporate lawyers from
Washington mdash;House Republicans are ramping up efforts to investigate the attempted assass stanley cup ination of former President Donald Trump and the apparent security lapses that allowed a gunman to get within striking distance of the GOP presidential nominee.Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have expressed alarm about how the gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was able to open fir stanley cup e at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania, striking the former president in the ear, killing one attendee and seriously injuring two others. Republicans ire has been directed at federal law enforcement leaders, with some sporadic calls for agency heads to step down.Speaker Mike Johnson announced on Wednesday that he will create a special task force within the House to investigate the attack on Trump, saying in a social media post that we need answers for these shocking security failures. Johnson elaborated on Fox News, saying that he plans to set the task force up on Monday and explaining that it w stanley cup ill work as a precision strike, able to move quickly by avoiding some procedural hurdles that other investigatory avenues face in Congress. Johnson said it would be a bipartisan task force, made up of both Republicans and Democrats. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks to reporters at the Capitol on June 28, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Lgya 8203;Changes lead to shorter sentences for 26,000 drug defendants
WASHINGTON -- A lawyer tapped to lead a task force at the Environmental Protection Agency overseeing cleanups at the nation s most polluted places worked until recently for a top chemical and plastics manufacturer with a troubled legacy of creating some of those toxic sites. Steven D. Cook has been named as the new chair of the Superfund Task Force, which EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt created last year to revamp how the agency oversees cleanups at the more than 1,300 toxic sites. Before beginning work in February as deputy ass nike dunk istant administrator for EPA s Office of Land and Emergency Management, Cook served more th mizuno an 20 years as in-house corporate counsel for LyondellBasell Industries -- one of the world s largest plastics, chemicals and refining companies. EPA records show that LyondellBasell and its subsidiaries are listed as being potentially responsible for at least three dozen Superfund polluted sites. An a stanley cup nalysis by The Associated Press shows that nearly half the political appointees hired at EPA under President Donald Trump have industry ties. Of more than 60 EPA hires tracked by the AP over the last year, about one-third worked as registered lobbyists or lawyers for chemical manufacturers, fossil fuel producers or other EPA-regulated companies. Trump promised as a presidential candidate to drain the swamp in Washington. An executive order signed two weeks after his inauguration bars former lobbyists and corporate lawyers from