The Tap: Thursday, June 2, 2016

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The Tap covered election news, public policy, and other noteworthy events from February 2016 to February 2022.

Review of the day

The excerpts below were compiled from issue #19 of The Tap, which was published on June 4, 2016. READ THE FULL VERSION HERE.

Federal

  • House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) endorsed Donald Trump on Thursday in an op-ed for his hometown paper, The Janesville Gazette. “It’s no secret that he and I have our differences. I won’t pretend otherwise. And when I feel the need to, I’ll continue to speak my mind. But the reality is, on the issues that make up our agenda, we have more common ground than disagreement. For me, it’s a question of how to move ahead on the ideas that I—and my House colleagues—have invested so much in through the years. It’s not just a choice of two people, but of two visions for America. And House Republicans are helping shape that Republican vision by offering a bold policy agenda, by offering a better way ahead. Donald Trump can help us make it a reality,” Ryan wrote.
  • In a foreign policy speech, Hillary Clinton said that Donald Trump was unfit to be president because of his temperament. She said of his policies, “They’re not even really ideas: just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds, and outright lies. He’s not just unprepared, he’s temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and immense responsibility. This is not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes — because it’s not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin.” She also questioned Trump’s “bizarre fascination with dictators and strongmen who have no love for America,” such as Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
  • Trump called Clinton’s speech “pathetic” during a rally in California. “It was so sad to watch. She’s up there and supposed to be a foreign policy speech. It was a political speech, had nothing to do with foreign policy,” he continued.
  • Bernie Sanders responded to Clinton’s speech in a statement by criticizing her record as secretary of state. He said, “I agree with Secretary Clinton that Donald Trump’s foreign policy ideas are incredibly reckless and irresponsible. But when it comes to foreign policy, we cannot forget that Secretary Clinton voted for the war in Iraq, the worst foreign policy blunder in modern American history, and that she has been a proponent of regime change, as in Libya, without thinking through the consequences.”
  • A third insurer filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration over its failure to pay out the full amount of risk-corridor payments requested by insurers under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina filed a complaint in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims arguing that it is owed $129 million under the program, plus legal fees and interest. The complaint asserts that the federal government broke the law and violated its contract with the insurer. The risk-corridor program was established by the ACA to limit the losses and gains of insurers in the reformed individual market. In the fall of 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced it would only be making 12.6 percent of the payments insurers nationwide had requested for the 2014 benefit year. Two other insurers, Highmark Inc. and Health Republic Insurance of Oregon, have also filed lawsuits claiming the federal government still owes them millions of dollars.

State

  • The South Carolina State Legislature adjourned its regular session. South Carolina is one of 23 states with a Republican trifecta. Republicans control the governor’s office, the Senate by 10 seats, and the House by 30 seats with two vacancies.
  • The North Dakota Farm Bureau filed a lawsuit against the state’s 84-year-old anti-corporate farming law. The lawsuit comes less than two weeks prior to the June 14 election when voters will consider a veto referendum on Senate Bill 2351. SB 2351 was signed into law in March 2015 and would have lifted the anti-corporate farm law of 1932 when it went into effect on August 1, 2015. However, the North Dakota Farmers Union succeeded in getting a veto referendum petition on the ballot, delaying enactment of the law until the referendum could be voted upon. The North Dakota Farm Bureau supports a vote to uphold SB 2351 and now says that the 1932 anti-corporate farming law is unconstitutional and discriminatory. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court in Bismarck and named Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem (R) as the defendant.
    • Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina filed a complaint in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims against the Obama administration over its failure to pay out the full amount of risk-corridor payments requested by insurers under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The company claimed that it is owed $129 million under the program, plus legal fees and interest. The complaint asserts that the federal government broke the law and violated its contract with the insurer. The risk-corridor program was established by the ACA to limit the losses and gains of insurers in the reformed individual market. In the fall of 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced it would only be making 12.6 percent of the payments insurers nationwide had requested for the 2014 benefit year. Two other insurers—Highmark, Inc. and Health Republic Insurance of Oregon—have also filed lawsuits claiming that the federal government still owes them millions of dollars.

Local

  • In New Jersey, John Hallanan III was appointed to the Ward B city council seat in Jersey City. Hallanan, an attorney with the city since 2013, will serve until voters choose a replacement in a special election on November 8, 2016. He replaced Khemraj "Chico" Ramchal, who resigned after pleading guilty to two charges following a drunk driving accident in March 2015. The mayor and all nine seats on the city council are scheduled to appear on the ballot in 2017, although a referendum on November 8, 2016, will determine if those elections are in May or November.

Preview of the day

The excerpts below were compiled from issue #18 of The Tap, which was published on March 28, 2016. READ THE FULL VERSION HERE.

State




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