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In a Fox Business Network interview yesterday with Trish Regan, new EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt spoke about how he is working to reform the previously broken agency so that it focuses on creating jobs AND protecting the environment:

Watch the new ad from Judicial Crisis Network that thanks Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for his leadership on the Supreme Court fight and ensuring that Justice Scalia’s seat was filled with a constitutional conservative

State Representative Mark Ellebracht (D – Liberty) desperately wants to protect his trial lawyer friends and scuttle critical tort reform legislation, but he has an ulterior motive

In another blow of bad news to organized labor, The Hill reports this morning that SEIU will be laying off staff from its headquarters in a further admission that their job-destroying policy push has been a failure:

America Rising released the following statement on the United States Senate’s vote today to confirm Judge Neil M. Gorsuch as Associate Justice to the United States Supreme Court:

The Senate will vote on giving Judge Gorsuch an up-or-down vote for the U.S. Supreme Court. While attention is being paid elsewhere, it’s crucial to remember that this is about Judge Gorsuch and the remarkable credentials he brings to the nation’s highest court.

More evidence is mounting to show that these plagiarism allegations launched against Judge Gorsuch are bogus

While Senator Merkley is pulling an all-nighter on the Senate floor, I wanted to flag some of his previous remarks about filibustering Supreme Court nominees and a comment from America Rising:

As two separate reports surfaced last night alleging Judge Gorsuch of plagiarism, the backlash to these baseless charges was swift and plentiful

Apart from the mountain of evidence debunking Politico’s story tonight & testimony from experts refuting these bogus charges, another key factor is that the so-called expert that Politico relies on in its piece is a dyed-in-the-wool and unbiased liberal: