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by Causes | 3.5.19

Welcome to Tuesday, (D)s, (R)s, and (I)s....

More like the Evergreen New Deal with how often it's reported on...

The Green New Deal currently commands much attention as one of the more prominent and controversial policy proposals to mitigate and adapt to climate change. It focuses on reducing or eliminating greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate scientists estimate that the world’s governments have about a dozen years left to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions if they hope to prevent the worst climate change impacts.

After recent annual declines in global carbon dioxide emissions, 2017 emissions increased by 1.6 percent and 2018 saw an even greater increase of 2.7 percent. U.S. carbon dioxide emissions rose an estimated 3.4 percent in 2018 after several years of decline.

Our partners at USAFacts have pulled together graphed U.S. emissions by sector, alongside a map showing a state-by-state breakdown.

We've got loads more info. Head over to ‘Green New Deal’ Targets Fossil Fuels, CO2 Emissions: Where Are We Now? then tell your reps:

Do you support the Green New Deal? Why or why not?

On the Radar

\nPresident Donald Trump has vowed to sign an executive order requiring colleges and universities to “support free speech.” Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference this weekend, Trump said he was “proud to announce that I will be very soon signing an executive order requiring colleges and universities to support free speech if they want federal research funds.” But Noah Feldman, a law professor at Harvard, argued in Bloomberg that Trump stopping \"campuses from making their own choices about speakers would infringe on their academic freedom, both with respect to determining the truth according to scholarly standards and creating an atmosphere of civility.” Do you support an order “requiring colleges and universities to support free speech”?\n

Under the Radar

\nTo “prevent atrocities like mass Japanese-American incarceration from repeating,” a trio of Asian-American lawmakers have introduced a bill to bar Americans from being forcibly interned based on their race or religion. The Korematsu-Takai Civil Liberties Protection Act of 2019 says that no individual can be imprisoned or detained based purely on an individual’s actual or perceived “protected characteristics.” “We cannot allow what my parents, grandparents, and 115,000 other Japanese Americans underwent during World War II to ever happen again in our country,” said Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA), who co-introduced the bill. SCOTUS formally repudiated its 1942 Korematsu ruling last summer. Should Congress pass a law against internment?\n

\nPresident Trump denounced Democrats as the party of “the socialist nightmare” and vowed America will never succumb to the threat of socialism. \"We believe in the American dream, not in the socialist nightmare,\" he said to boisterous applause at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. Read about democratic socialism here, then tell your reps if you support Trump's hope that \"America will never be a socialist country.\"

Your Gov at a Glance 👀

The White House: President Trump in D.C.

The House of Representatives: In

\nVoting on a bill to require the National Burn Pit Registry to track veterans' causes of death.
\nVoting on a bill to expand access to shadowing hours for pre-health students at VA hospitals.
\nVoting on a bill to improve access to Dept. of Energy programs available for schools to become more energy-efficient.
\nVoting on a bill to reauthorize radioactive waste cleanup at the West Valley Project in New York through FY2026.
\nVoting on a bill to keep a Dept. of Energy site for radioactive material open through 2031.

The Senate: In

\nVoting on the confirmation of Allison Rushing to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
\nTaking a procedural vote on the nomination of Chad Readler to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

What You're Saying

Here's how you're answering Should the National Burn Pit Registry Track Veterans’ Causes of Death?

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But wait, there's more!

And, in the End…

Before bills and nominations are brought up for a passage vote in Congress, they typically have to be considered and approved by relevant committees.

We take a thorough look at the hearings Congressional committees will be holding this week in our Committee Watch, but here are a few we're watching extra closely:

\nOn Tuesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will receive a closed briefing titled “Post-Hanoi: The Status of the North Korea Denuclearization Effort”. 3:00pm\n
\nOn Wednesday, the House Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing titled “The Way Forward on Border Security” featuring testimony from DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. 10am\n
\nOn Thursday, the House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing titled the “Trump Administration’s Response to the Drug Crisis”. 10am\n

Read this week's Committee Watch here.

Hope you all have a delicious Pączki Day,

—Josh Herman

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