Sunday, April 23, 2017

TRUMPS FIRST 100 DAYS - LEGISLATION

President Donald Trump has signed more bills into law than I was aware of.  The first bill signed by President Trump into law was one to permit Gen Mattis to become Secretary of the Defense before being retired from the military for three years.  Time magazine has an article on Trump's first 100 days in office.  Trump promised to get 60 bills through in his first 100 days:
In fact, only 28 bills have been signed into law since Trump took office in late January. In contrast, Roosevelt signed 76 bills into law in his first 100 days. President Harry Truman, in second place on this list, signed 55 bills into law in his first months in the White House. Trump's predecessor and frequent target of derision, President Barack Obama, signed 11 bills into law, but the early days of his administration are considered productive because they include major legislation to ensure children in low-income households have health insurance as well as the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which fights wage discrimination.*

Most of the bills Trump signed take away protections, like the second bill Trump signed, the Obama coal mining rule.  The bill quashes the Office of Surface Mining's Stream Protection Rule, a regulation to protect waterways from coal mining waste that officials finalized in December.**
Then there was a bill to permit mentally ill people to buy guns.  Don't you feel safer?
The rule, which was finalized in December, added people receiving Social Security checks for mental illnesses and people deemed unfit to handle their own financial affairs to the national background check database. ***  Apparently President Trump was not proud of this bill because he signed it in privacy.
One scary bill he signed was to do away with online privacy.
The bill scraps a Federal Communications Commission online privacy regulation issued in October to give consumers more control over how companies like Comcast, ATT and Verizon share that information. Critics have argued that the rule would stifle innovation and pick winners and losers among internet companies.****
Though Planned Parenthood does perform some abortions, it is a small part of their medical services, but a bill has been passed saying that states don't have to reimburse Planned Parenthood for medical services:
President Donald Trump privately signed a bill on Thursday that allows states to withhold federal money from organizations that provide abortion services, including Planned Parenthood, a group frequently targeted by Republicans.
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The bulk of federal money Planned Parenthood receives, though, goes toward preventive health care, birth control, pregnancy tests and other women's health services. Federal law prohibits taxpayer dollars from funding abortions and Planned Parenthood says 3% of the services it provides are abortions.**** The abortions are funded through donations.

Trump's base has escaped the silver bullet because his repeal and replace health care bill was withdrawn, at least for the foreseeable future. (http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2017/03/trumps-base-escapes-silver-bullet.html)

Four more bills are described in an article in USA Today.****  Rather than continue here with the list, I suggest you Google - https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=Bills+signed+by+Trump&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-002 - to find other bills signed.

* http://www.newsweek.com/first-100-days-how-does-trump-compare-other-presidents-587828
** http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/319938-trump-signs-bill-undoing-obama-coal-mining-rule
*** http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-signs-bill-revoking-obama-era-gun-checks-people-mental-n727221
**** https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/27/trump-signs-four-bills-roll-back-obama-era-regulations/99690456/
http://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/technology/ct-trump-internet-privacy-20170403-story.html
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/13/politics/donald-trump-planned-parenthood-money/index.html

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