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This Week in History: June 19-25, 2017
for human events ever resemble those of preceding times.”
Machiavelli
June 19
1586 – English colonists sail away from Roanoke Island, North Carolina, after failing to establish England’s first permanent settlement in America.
1846 – The New York Knickerbocker Club plays the New York Club in the first baseball game at the Elysian Field in Hoboken, New Jersey. It is the first organized baseball game.
1867 – Ruthless wins the first Belmont Stakes horse race.
1910 – Father’s Day is celebrated for the first time in Spokane, Washington.
1912 – The U.S. government establishes the 8-hour workday.
1934 – Congress establishes the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to regulate radio and (later) TV broadcasting.
Retired D.C. Circuit Judge Thomas B. Griffith Joins Hunton Andrews Kurth
/EIN News/ Washington, Feb. 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce that former D.C. Circuit Judge Thomas B. Griffith has joined the firm as a special counsel in its issues and appeals practice. Judge Griffith will be based in Washington, D.C., where he will focus his practice on appellate litigation, Congressional and internal investigations, and strategic counseling.
Appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit by President George W. Bush in 2005, Judge Griffith served on the court for 15 years until his retirement in 2020. During his judicial tenure, Judge Griffith authored more than 200 opinions touching a wide range of issues, including administrative law, environmental law, energy law and congressional investigations.
Fox News correspondent Mark Meredith has the latest from West Palm Beach, Florida.
In the President’s signing statement, accompanying his signature of the COVID aid/government funding plan, he points out he wants far less wasteful spending and more money going to the American people in the form of $2,000 checks per adult and $600 per child.
Under the Budget Act of 1974, the President is required to submit a budget request to Congress in the winter. Many of the spending requests flagged by the President were consistent with his own budget request to Capitol Hill earlier this year.
But, the President goes on to say he is demanding many rescissions under the Impoundment Control Act of 1974. The Act provides that, whenever the President determines that all or part of any budget authority will not be required to carry out the full objectives or scope of programs for which it is provided, or that such budget authority should be rescinded for fiscal policy or other reasons (incl