Employees at the Department of Housing and Urban Development apparently were really interested in the Kavenaugh Senate hearing on Thursday.
They are so interested that HUD’s business operations were being affected by employees' streaming the hearing live through the department’s internet connection, according to a HUD memo forwarded on Twitter by Washsingtonian Senior Writer Andrew Beaujon.
That’s a lot of streaming:
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Biden tweeted afterward that “we’ve taken another step toward making our highest court reflect the diversity of America.”
While the Postal Service estimated in 2020 that gas would cost $2.21 to $2.36 per gallon, the national average in March was $4.24 per gallon, according to the AAA Gas Prices website.
The senators from Alaska and Utah announced their decisions Monday night ahead of a procedural vote to advance the nomination and as Democrats pressed to confirm Jackson by the end of the week.
The Justice Department declined to comment. But it is standard practice for department officials to reveal to defense lawyers that their investigations have concluded without charges rather than make that announcement themselves.
In her final day of Senate questioning, she declared she would rule “without any agendas” as the high court’s first Black female justice and rejected Republican efforts to paint her as soft on crime in her decade on the federal bench.
John Greenstein of Bluescape outlines the steps federal leaders can take to create a more equitable environment in the age of hybrid workplaces.
The White House released an action plan that calls for expanding the number of agencies that can track and monitor drones flying in their airspace.
Traditionally, the president observes the date with an annual Easter egg roll for children on the White House lawn.
The president also announced the nomination of Steve Dettelbach, who served as a U.S. attorney in Ohio from 2009 to 2016, to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Defense Department spending would see a 4% increase in fiscal 2023 under a plan released by the White House, significantly above what administration officials wanted last year but likely not enough to satisfy congressional Republicans.
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