National/Politics Obama Says He’ll Take Immigration Action With House Stuck Angela Greiling Keane and Derek Wallbank ∙ Bloomberg ∙ Jun 30, 2014 3:42 PM President Barack Obama said he’ll resort to executive action on U.S. immigration rules because House Republicans won’t hold a vote on legislation to revamp the system. ... The president said he has directed Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to move enforcement resources to the southern U.S. border, to focus on removing undocumented immigrants who have committed serious crimes from the country. Obama also is asking his advisers to find steps he can take in the next few months to change the U.S. immigration system for the millions of undocumented immigrants in the country who haven’t broken laws. Moodys sees limited impact from U.S. pension rules on states, local govs Reuters ∙ June 30 Mon 10:18pm Moodys Investors Service said new pension accounting standards for U.S. state and local governments were likely to have limited credit impacts. The new standards, Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) 67 and 68, require pension plans and issuers to disclose the sensitivity of liabilities to a 100 basis point change in the discount rate. States Intervene in City Fiscal Crises July 01, 2014 By Elaine S. Povich ∙ Pew Stateline .... Currently, 19 states have laws allowing them to intervene in a municipality’s financial crisis, according to a report by the Pew Charitable Trusts (Pew funds Stateline). But an increasing number of states are trying to monitor municipalities’ financial problems so they can step in before the problems become acute. ACLU: Supreme Court discriminates against women with Hobby Lobby decision Jesse Byrnes ∙ The Hill ∙ 06/30/14 04:06 PM Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s decision to reject ObamaCare’s contraception mandate is discriminatory toward women, an official with the American Civil Liberties Union said Monday. Louise Melling, the ACLU’s deputy legal director, said Alito went “out of his way” in his majority opinion to rule for something that specifically impacts women. Federal Pension-Plan Safety Net Faces Severe Funds Squeeze Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. Estimates the Program Could Collapse Within 10 Years JOHN D. MCKINNON ∙ Wall Street Journal ∙ June 30, 2014 7:07 p.m. The federal safety net for a type of private-sector pension plan common in the transportation, construction and other industries is at risk of collapse in coming years, according to a report released Monday. Such an outcome has the potential to affect more than a million people. Obama lauds former CEO as right choice to fix VA ASSOCIATED PRESS ∙ JUNE 30, 2014 | 11:08 PM President Barack Obama sought to turn the page Monday on a humiliating chapter in the history of the Veterans Affairs Department, tapping former Procter & Gamble CEO Robert McDonald to take over the sprawling agency.
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