 Utah's Daily Policy Resource, Brought to you by Utah Policy Message Center Become a sponsor of our award-winning podcasts!Promote your business and reach thousands of Utahns who download our shows and interviews every week.Email us for information. Situational awareness - March 14, 2019Good Thursday morning from Salt Lake City.Here are the stories we're following today:
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NATIONAL HEADLINESBeto is running. Democrat Beto O'Rourke announced he will run for president in 2020 following his near-miss Senate campaign in Texas. He joins an already crowded field seeking the Democratic nomination - https://cnn.it/2Jfd3NV
GOP Set to rebuke Trump. The U.S. Senate today will vote on a resolution to block President Donald Trump's emergency border declaration. There are enough votes to pass the measure, setting up what will likely be Trump's first veto as president - https://politi.co/2Jm0S1I
Manafort sentenced. A federal judge in Washington added another 43 months in prison to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's sentence, meaning he will spend 7 1/2 years in prison for financial crimes stemming from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation - https://nyti.ms/2JdaV9y
Trump appeared to dangle a pardon for Cohen. A 2018 email from an attorney who was speaking with Trump's legal team reassured Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal lawyer, that he could "sleep well tonight" because he had "friends in high places." The emails do not specifically mention a pardon from Trump, but Cohen submitted the documents to Congress to bolster his claims that Trump dangled a pardon before he agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors. The attorney who wrote the emails called Cohen's interpretation "utter nonsense" - https://cnn.it/2JbnXnV How lobbying has changed under Trump. Lobbyists are now paying shills for their clients to go on Fox News and hyper-targeting social media ads to get Trump's attention - http://bit.ly/2Jbr0N2 Grounded. President Trump directed the FAA to ground all Boeing 737 Max planes after a fatal crash in Ethiopia. The U.S. is the last country to ground the planes after several reports of problems with the aircraft - https://cnn.it/2JeqTjD
Facebook under criminal investigation. Federal prosecutors are looking at deals Facebook struck with some of the world's largest tech companies to share data about users - https://nyti.ms/2Jdc68Y
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY1794 - Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin. 1812 - The government authorized the issue of America's first war bonds to pay for military equipment for use against the British. 1900 - The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing U.S. currency on the gold standard. 1903 - The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the U.S. the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the Senate. 1950 - The FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" list appeared for the first time. 1964 - A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of President John F. Kennedy. 1973 - Navy pilot John McCain and 107 other American prisoners of war were released by North Vietnam. He spent more than five years in a prison camp after his plane was shot down. Policy News Wasatch Front CPI sees biggest month-to-month drop in more than three years as transportation prices slipThe Zions Bank Wasatch Front Consumer Price Index (CPI) fell 0.5 percent from January to February on a non-seasonally adjusted basis - the biggest month-to-month drop in 39 months. Year-over-year, the Wasatch Front Consumer Price Index has grown 3.9 percent, while the national Consumer Price index has increased 1.5 percent since February of last year. More National Headlines
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