The White House
WASHINGTON – Today, President Joe Biden announced Celeste Drake as his choice to serve as the Nation’s first Director of Made in America at the Office of Management and Budget.
Celeste Drake, Made in America Director, Office of Management and Budget
As the Nation’s first Made in America Director, Celeste Drake will shape and implement Federal procurement and financial management policy to help carry out the President’s vision of a future made in all of America by all of America’s workers – including minority entrepreneurs and small businesses in every region in our country. Drake joins the administration from the Directors Guild of America, where she served as the Executive in Charge of Government Affairs, advocating for the economic and creative interests of the labor union’s more than 18,000 members. Prior to joining the DGA, Drake served as the Trade and Globalization Policy Specialist for the AFL-CIO, where she played an instrumental role in shapi
Texas Public Radio
Health care advocates in Texas say they see an opportunity to address the state’s rising uninsured rate after the Biden administration announced last week that it is rescinding a health care deal the Trump administration cut with Texas.
The 10-year extension of the state’s Medicaid waiver would have provided federal funds to help pay for the cost of hospital care for uninsured Texans through 2032. In a letter to the state’s Medicaid director, federal health officials said Texas hadn’t followed public notice rules when applying for the waiver.
“Upon further review, we have determined that [Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services] materially erred in granting Texas’s request for an exemption from the normal public notice process,” the officials wrote. They said the state didn t show an emergency existed to allow it to deviate from the normal process.
A crowded field
23 candidates file Congressional District 6 special election
JAMES RUSSELL | Contributing Writer
Twenty-three candidates have filed to run for Congressional District 6, a purplish district that includes southeast Tarrant County, as well as Ellis and Navarro counties. The seat opened up after former Congressman Ron Wright of Arlington passed away suddenly on Feb. 7 from COVID-19. Wright, known as much for his bow tie as he was his hardcore conservative views, including opposition to LGBTQ rights, had also been battling cancer. He has just begun his second term when he died.
Of the 23 candidates, 11 are Republicans, 10 are Democrats, one is Libertarian, and one is Independent.
Congressman Lloyd Doggettâs video in which he condemned the U.S. Capitol insurrection was not played at Texas Stateâs virtual Inauguration Day ceremony due to a lack of time to receive approval, according to the faculty member who made the decision.
Doggett (D-TX) was originally invited to provide remarks at the universityâs virtual program on Jan. 20, a non-partisan affair, after it was switched from an in-person format due to COVID-19 protocols.
While attending President Joe Bidenâs inauguration, he was notified that his pre-recorded video, which includes quoted remarks from Republicans in Congress also condemning the Capitol attack, would not make the university ceremony â news he later describes, to the Austin American-Statesman, as a disappointment and suppression of his free speech.
KUT
Congress members representing Central Texas condemned pro-Trump extremists who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday as Congress convened to certify the Electoral College votes and confirm Joe Biden’s presidential victory.
Republican Congressman Michael McCaul said on Twitter anyone who participated in violence should be arrested and prosecuted.
“We’ve heard gunshots. The Capitol police have been personally attacked, he said in a video from his office in Washington, D.C. This is a day by the Constitution that we are to certify the Electoral College. This violence cannot stand. It has to stop and we need to do our jobs here in the Congress and not incite this violence outside.”