Incoming White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain sent a Saturday memo to incoming White House staff outlining the “First Ten Days.”
He mentioned the following actions to be taken by President Biden.
January 20
▪ Rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement
▪ Reverse the ban on immigration from certain Muslim-majority countries
▪ Extend the “pause”
With the outcome of last week’s Georgia Senate runoff elections producing a 50-50 Senate ratio and giving Senate Democrats majority status, there is renewed interest in the Congressional Review Act (CRA) (5 U.S.C. 801 et seq.). Under the CRA, a new Congress can act within its first 75 days of legislative session to reverse
Please join Greenberg Traurig for a webinar to discuss the recently enacted Covid-Relief bill. We will provide an overview of the stimulus package and discuss eligibility and application criteria for the grant and loan programs that Congress incorporated in this legislation.
Speakers Include:
Samantha Ahuja, Shareholder, GT Hospitality Practice, Moderator
Monica Prahl Schulteis,
Please join Greenberg Traurig for a webinar to discuss the recently enacted Covid-Relief bill. We will provide an overview of the stimulus package and discuss eligibility and application criteria for the grant and loan programs that Congress incorporated in this legislation.
Speakers Include:
Warren Karp, Chair – GT Retail Practice, Moderator
Monica Prahl Schulteis
Please join Greenberg Traurig for a webinar to discuss the recently enacted Covid-Relief bill. We’ll provide an overview of the bill and discuss eligibility criteria for the grant and loan programs that Congress incorporated in this legislation. Topics will include:
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Presidential Race
After historic delays required to tabulate millions of ballots that were not sufficiently counted until four days after the election, former Vice President Joe Biden was declared the winner in the U.S. Presidential election on November 7th and will serve as the 46th President of the United States. In a victory speech
As Congress attempts to put together a “Continuing Resolution” this week to extend discretionary program funding and avoid a government shutdown on October 1, there has been talk of adding several seemingly unrelated provisions to the bill. These areas include highway programs, flood insurance, and Medicare and Medicaid demonstration programs.
Why? Each of these areas
Greenberg Traurig’s former Members of Congress Charlie Bass, Randy Forbes, Rodney Frelinghuysen and Albert Wynn discuss the top issues in the current negotiations to resolve differences between the House-passed Heroes Act and the Senate’s HEALS Act. Their in-depth discussion of specific topics can be found in this video at the following time-marks:
0:10 Liability Reform
The U.S. Mayors convened their 88th Washington, D.C. Winter Meeting and released the 2019 Menino Survey of Mayors, the sixth such survey, reflecting the views of 119 mayors of cities with populations at or above 75,000 residents. The 2019 survey was somewhat unique in that the mayors were surveyed about Opportunity Zones, a federal
Want to know what is hot in regulations for the end of this year and into next year? Then the bi-annual Unified Agenda is for you. The Unified Agenda was created to require federal agencies to transparently disclose twice a year to the public what rules and regulations they are pursuing.
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