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Democrat Elijah Cummings chairs the House Oversight Committee, a tough job made tougher by White House stonewalling and by Republicans on the committee trying to torpedo an investigation into prescription drug pricing. Ranking member Jim Jordan of Ohio and his GOP sidekick Mark Meadows sent letters earlier this month to the CEOs of 12 pharmaceutical companies advising them not to cooperate with Cummings’ requests for information, alleging that the chairman would leak the information and tank stock prices. … [Read more...] about House Republicans Tell Big Pharma to Stiff-Arm Congress

Yemen is ripe for widespread transmission. Many families live in crowded conditions, unable to socially distance and without access to clean water for handwashing, which is important to help prevent transmission of the virus. The head of UNICEF, the U.N. children’s agency, said Thursday that because of budget shortfalls, her agency was even running out of soap. … [Read more...] about COVID-19 Spreading ‘Fast and Wide’ Across Yemen

MacKay Group acquired 27,310-square feet of freestanding office and warehouse space on 1.38 acres at 6220 Navigation Blvd. Zack Taylor and Tommy Erwin of Moody Rambin represented the buyer. Steven O’Connor and Marc Lawson of PrinGroup Commercial represented the seller, Kanprop Navigation East. … [Read more...] about Real estate transactions: Prologis lands tenant in north Houston industrial park

Clearly, capital has been redistributed at warp speed. The market lost trillions of dollars in the blink of an eye, but has begun to recover it remarkably fast. And many companies are gone and will not be the companies to whom investors return during the recovery. Many companies were poorly managed; many had terrible business models that were beginning to fail under the pressure of changing consumer tastes and new technology. Many were over-leveraged and on the brink of collapse, or simply had too many workers and too much bureaucracy that was grinding them down. All they needed was a small nudge to push them over the cliff. The coronavirus lockdown gave them that shove.  … [Read more...] about Coronavirus and America’s economic miracle

“Every single day of this crisis this State Government Committee in Pennsylvania has met so that their members could line up one after one after one and explain that it was safe to go back to work,” Sims said on Facebook Live Wednesday night. “During that time period, they were testing positive. They were notifying one another. And they didn’t notify us.” … [Read more...] about Pennsylvania lawmaker tears into GOP after colleague tests positive for coronavirus, doesn’t tell Democrats