What You Need to Know About New Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez
Both the House and Senate are in session this week. Over the weekend, President-elect Donald Trump met with several groups of House Republicans to discuss strategy to enact Republican priorities this Congress, including...more
Senator Shelly Moore Capito (R-WV), Chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), has scheduled a hearing on the Nomination of Lee Zeldin to be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...more
On December 10, 2024, Pesident-elect Donald Trump announced that FTC commissioner Andrew Ferguson will chair the agency, while nominating Mark Meador to fill the commissioner vacancy. Ferguson was sworn in as FTC commissioner...more
President-elect Donald Trump recently announced that Republican Commissioner Andrew Ferguson will chair the Federal Trade Commission during Mr. Trump’s second administration. Commissioner Ferguson is also a known critic of...more
On December 5, incoming President Donald Trump announced that David Sacks would be the “AI and Crypto Czar” under the next administration. A prominent venture capitalist, member of the “PayPal Mafia,” and co-founder of an...more
To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following....more
Coming up on a month since the presidential election, some things are starting to become clearer, though many questions remain. We will release a Viewpoints article in the next week that will be a more in-depth assessment of...more
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, we check in on the Nebraska ballot initiative situation. We have a status report on the DEA res-scheduling...more
State AGs in the News- Governor Newsom Nominates Rob Bonta for California Attorney General- •Governor Gavin Newsom nominated California Assemblyman Rob Bonta to replace Xavier Becerra as California AG. Bonta’s...more
The U.S. Senate voted to confirm three new nominees to serve as Commissioners of the Federal Election Commission (FEC or Commission). The nominees are Shana Broussard, Sean Cooksey, and Allen Dickerson. They are expected to...more
The US Senate has confirmed the nominations of Mark Christie (R) and Allison Clements (D) to fill the remaining Republican and Democratic vacant seats on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. These confirmations restore...more
Looks like she'll make it! The U.S. Senate will hold its confirmation vote on Judge Amy Coney Barrett next Thursday, October 22. Judge Barrett, currently serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, was...more
The authors of this blog post revisited Judge Amy Coney Barrett's opinions for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in her three years on the bench in light of her recent nomination for the U.S. Supreme Court. In...more
In the wake of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, President Donald Trump has nominated the Honorable Amy Coney Barrett, who sits on the federal U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, to the U.S. Supreme Court. A...more
This week, President Trump announced that he intends to nominate Nancy Beck as Chair and Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The five-person CPSC has been short a member since the end of September...more
Some are old, and some are new. Some are "red," and some are "blue." President Trump has announced his nominations for three seats on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and two seats on the National Labor...more
On March 3, 2020, FERC General Counsel James Danly’s nomination for FERC Commissioner passed out of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s business meeting with a recorded vote of 12-8 in support....more
Below is the Federal Policy team’s weekly preview, posted when Congress is in session. HEADLINES - • Congressional committees will begin reviewing President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2021 budget, out today....more
On January 3, 2020, James Danly’s nomination for Commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) was returned to the White House for renomination, due to the Senate’s failure to confirm or reject the...more
On January 30th the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee announced that it would hold a hearing on February 6th for several of President Trump’s nominees, including Scott Mugno, the President’s...more
The White House has re-nominated several safety agency nominees, whose nominations expired when the last Congress adjourned. These include Scott Mugno, nominated to serve as OSHA’s leader, and three nominees to be judges on...more
After a year and a half in limbo, Daniel Gade has apparently had enough. Daniel Gade, one of President Trump's nominees for Commissioner at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, has voluntary withdrawn from...more
Politico has reported that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell filed cloture this afternoon on President Trump’s nomination of Kathy Kraninger to serve as CFPB Director. ...more
In the constantly shifting post-election landscape, Holland & Knight's overview on what to expect on energy and environmental issues in the post-election lame-duck congressional session and the 116th Congress remains as valid...more
After confirming Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Senate Republicans resumed their push to confirm more federal appeals court judges and lower-court judges at a rapid pace. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell...more