ࡱ> :<9 jbjb$$ ("NN 'v &&&&&&&)*,j&&&&&%|&< %& &0'%,,$&& |:   Government in Action Monday, April 9 The F.B.I. raided the office, home, and hotel of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trumps long-time personal lawyer, seizing business records, emails and documents related to several topics, including a payment to adult film actor and director Stormy Daniels. David Apol, acting director of the Office of Government Ethics, sent a letter to the EPA questioning a series of actions by Administrator Scott Pruitt his below-market-rate rental of a condo on Capitol Hill linked to an energy lobbyist, the cost of flights home to Oklahoma, and reports that employees who raised concerns were transferred or demoted. U.S. District Court Amy Berman Jackson said in an order that Paul Manafort had again fallen short in the latest of several attempts to assemble money, property and pledges to meet the $10 million bail amount she set in the money laundering and unregistered foreign lobbying case brought against him in Washington by special counsel Robert Mueller. He remains on house arrest. Tuesday, April 10 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared before a Senate hearing to explain a data breach that compromised information of more than 87 million people, making it available to a big data firm, Cambridge Analytica, and ultimately to the Trump campaign organization. Several senators indicated they did not believe that Facebook could regulate itself. The New York Times reported that deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein personally signed off on the FBIs decision to serve multiple search warrants Monday on Trumps attorney Michael Cohen. Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert resigned, reportedly at the behest of new national security advisor of John Bolton. Wednesday, April 11 The Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, announced that he will not run for re-election. Republican Rep. Dennis Ross of Lakeland, Florida, also announced he will not seek another term in November. The two announcements make 38 Republicans in the House who are not running for re-election. The New York Daily News reported that Michael Cohen and his wife, Laura, owe $53,836 in unpaid taxi taxes, dating back to 2013. Thursday, April 12 Trump indicated he would reconsider his decision to pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a deal he pulled out of early in his presidency and which he criticized frequently during the 2016 campaign. Trump said in an executive order that he is empowering a task force to explore the operations and viability of the U.S. Post Office, in part vis a vis its business arrangement with Amazon. Mike Pompeo faced hard questioning from Democrats in his confirmation ings for Secretary of State before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Senators on both sides of the aisle urged him to be a check on Trump and fill long-standing vacancies at State. Two Democratic senators and three Democrats in the House sent a letter to Scott Pruitt about claims that he insisted on staying in luxury hotels costlier than allowed by government standards, pushed to fly on an airline not on the approved list so he could earn mileage points, and told staff to find me something to do in destinations he wished to visit. Axios reported that deputy National Security Advisor Ricky Waddell is leaving his post, reportedly because new National Security Advisor John Bolton wants to bring in his own deputy. The Washington Post reported that a new memoir by fired FBI Director James Comey, scheduled for release next week, describes Trump as obsessed with the prostitutes allegations in the Steele dossier. Friday, April 13 Trump issued a pardon for Lewis Scooter Libby, former chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, who was convicted in 2007 of perjury and obstruction of justice charges related to the leak of the identity of Valerie Plame as a CIA agent. The U.S., in conjunction with British and French forces, conducted air strikes on three sites in Syria in response to a suspected chemical attack in the town of Douma last week. The Wall Street Journal reported that the White House has called supporters outside the administration and urged them to attack Special Council Robert Muellers probe of Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, as well as Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, in television interviews. Saturday, April 14 Ambassador Nikki Haley said during a U.N. Security Council meeting called by Russia: If the Syrian regime uses this poisonous gas again, the United States is locked and loaded. Trumps lawyers went to court to try to block prosecutors from reading files seized from Trumps personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, in raids earlier this week. 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