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With a visibly aged Joe Biden duking it out with socialist Bernie Sanders, there are three very good reasons that President Trump's greatest opponent in November could be the Coronavirus. Long before the sun rose Thursday, British regional airline Flybe collapsed. Americans probably haven’t heard of it, but when an Englishman flew domestically there was a 40 percent chance it was with Flybe. Its final demise was swift and brutal: Passengers booked to fly as soon as that morning receiving a 2 a.m. text message informing them otherwise. The company employed 2,300 people, and its 1,300 pensioned employees are now...

SALT LAKE CITY — If Donald Trump becomes the Republican Party's nominee, Utahns would vote for a Democrat for president in November for the first time in more than 50 years, according to a new Deseret News/KSL poll. "I believe Donald Trump could lose Utah. If you lose Utah as a Republican, there is no hope," said former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, a top campaign adviser to the GOP's 2012 nominee, Mitt Romney. he poll found that may well be true. Utah voters said they would reject Trump, the GOP frontrunner, whether former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or Vermont...

Over the weekend, Politico broke the news that Mitt Romney had tapped Mike Leavitt, the former Utah Governor and HHS Secretary under George W. Bush, to lead the transition effort should Romney win the presidency. This is a very worrisome signal to conservatives holding out hope that Romney will live up to his promises to fight for limited government if elected. As Ben Domenech details, Leavitt is one of the few Republicans who has been actively campaigning for governors to implement Obamacare’s health care exchanges at the state level. [....] Leavitt has shown time and again that he is to...

The main message is the Sunday Shows.  Message 1 will be the Saturday Shows and message 2 will be the show guest links post.  Then I'll post the ping list.ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos) Meme: The battle is joined!  Place your bets!  How badly will the GOP lose? Topics: Power Politics: Two Sunday exclusives as former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, and DNC Chairman Howard Dean join me to discuss gas prices, the 2006 elections and the war in Iraq. Will record low approval ratings for President Bush and rising gas prices fuel a Democratic takeover of Congress in...

For Immediate ReleaseFebruary 11, 2006 President's Radio Address      Audio     In Focus: Medicare      THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Today I want to talk to you about the new Medicare prescription drug coverage that went into effect on January 1st of this year. When I came into office, I found a Medicare system that was antiquated and not meeting the needs of America's seniors. The system would pay tens of thousands of dollars for a surgery, but not a few hundred dollars for the prescription drugs that could have prevented the surgery in the first place. So working with Congress, we passed critical...

TODAY'S EVENTS: Vice President Dick Cheney met with South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon in private. The North's announcement and its decision to pull out of six-nation disarmament talks was "a matter of grave concern," South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon told reporters in Washington, where he arrived on a previously scheduled trip to meet Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. (The Foreign Minister had been scheduled to meet with the Secretary and members of Congress during this visit.) The Vice President and Foreign Minister discussed the North Korean situation. News reports from Seoul indicate that South Korea initially reacted with...

The new HHS Sec. will be Mike Leavitt to replace outgoing Sec.Tommy Thompson

WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) will make air pollution a top priority in Congress early next year, starting with "an aggressive push" to build support for his pollution-cutting plan, senior administration officials said Saturday. At the same time, the administration will hold off until no later than March on a rule to cut pollution from power plants that would accomplish some of the same ends as Bush's anti-pollution plan, the officials told The Associated Press. The White House on Saturday told the Environmental Protection Agency (news - web sites) of its game plan, which is meant to...

The White House called the shots when Christie Whitman was running the Environmental Protection Agency, and from the looks of things, the White House is still calling the shots. Michael Leavitt's first major action as E.P.A. administrator last week was to rescind a Clinton-era proposal to reduce mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants. The reversal came right out of the Karl Rove playbook, a long-promised payoff to President Bush's big contributors in the utility industry. Nobody blamed Mr. Leavitt personally. Still, the ruckus surrounding the announcement got his tenure off to a wobbly start, while overshadowing two positive initiatives on...

As far as the state of Utah is concerned, 50,000-plus residents with concealed-carry permits can legally pack guns into any church. That might come as a surprise to some of the state's religious leaders. Earlier this year the Legislature passed, and then-Gov. Mike Leavitt signed, an amendment to the concealed-carry law allowing religious organizations to prohibit firearms inside houses of worship. The change was added to legislation clarifying that those with concealed-carry permits can be legally armed inside public schools. The church gun-ban provision can be invoked by clergy pronouncing the policy over the pulpit or in a newsletter or...

WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats, facing an overwhelming vote against them, dropped their opposition Monday to Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt as head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Minutes before the Senate was to have held a procedural vote that would have ordered an up-or-down decision soon on Leavitt's confirmation, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., said the White House had satisfied her demands. Clinton and the Senate's three Democratic presidential contenders -- Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, John Kerry of Massachusetts and John Edwards of North Carolina -- led an effort for weeks to block a vote on Leavitt, protesting Bush administration environmental...

Live broadcast from the U. S. Senate. Leavitt to resign as Governor of Utah middle of next week.

<p>WASHINGTON — Satisfied that the Bush administration will address concerns over air quality in New York City following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, Sen. Hillary Clinton has removed her objections to the nomination of Mike Leavitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency.</p>

<p>Democrats ended their boycott against President Bush's choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency, voting overwhelmingly yesterday to send the nomination of Utah Gov. Michael O. Leavitt to the Senate floor.</p> <p>The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted 16-2 with one abstention to allow a floor vote on the popular three-term Republican governor, who was nominated by Mr. Bush in August to replace former EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman.</p>

WASHINGTON – Ending a boycott, Democrats on the Senate Environment Committee joined Republicans in voting overwhelmingly to send Mike Leavitt's nomination as head of the Environmental Protection Agency to the Senate floor for a vote. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted 16-2 today to advance the Utah governor's nomination. Democrat Sens. Hillary Clinton of New York and Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut voted no, and Democrats continued to voice strong concerns about the Bush administration's environmental policies. "We're not even treading water, we're going backwards," said Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev. .... Inhofe and the nine other Republican members on...

Senate Democrats Allow Leavitt Nomination to Proceed Oct. 15, 2003 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ending a boycott, Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee joined Republicans in voting overwhelmingly to send Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt's nomination as head of the Environmental Protection Agency to the Senate floor for a vote. The 19-member committee voted 16-2 on Wednesday to advance the Republican governor's nomination -- one senator, California's Barbara Boxer, didn't vote, saying Leavitt's answers were too vague for a decision -- though prospects for consideration of the nomination by the full Senate are uncertain. The list of senators who...

On August 11, President Bush announced his nomination of Utah governor Michael Leavitt to be the next administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. A popular three-term governor with broad bipartisan support, Leavitt should have had a quick and easy confirmation. It was not to be. On October 1, the Senate Environment Committee was scheduled to vote on the Leavitt nomination, but no Democratic senator showed. Lacking quorum, the committee chairman, James Inhofe, had no choice but to postpone the vote until later in the month. Senate Democrats claim not to oppose the Leavitt nomination, but they are blocking it nonetheless....

WASHINGTON -- On the same day in 1999 that retired diplomat Joseph Wilson was returned $1,000 of $2,000 he contributed to Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore a month earlier because it exceeded the federal limit, his CIA-employee wife gave $1,000 to Gore using a fictitious identification for herself. In making her April 22, 1999, contribution, Valerie E. Wilson identified herself as an "analyst" with "Brewster-Jennings & Associates." No such firm is listed anywhere, but the late Brewster Jennings was president of Socony-Vacuum oil company a half-century ago. Any CIA employee working under "non-official cover" always is listed with a real...

<p>Democrats, including two presidential hopefuls, boycotted a Senate committee meeting yesterday, preventing Utah's governor from being approved as head of the Environmental Protection Agency.</p> <p>"This has nothing to do with the nomination; this is all about Election 2004," said Sen. Craig Thomas, Wyoming Republican and member of the Environment and Public Works Committee.</p>

Democrats block EPA nominee vote in Environment Committee By Susan Davis, CongressDaily Senate Democrats Wednesday blocked the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee from voting on President Bush's nomination of GOP Gov. Michael Leavitt of Utah to head the EPA by boycotting a markup. "Unfortunately, the Democrats, in boycotting this markup, have publicly shunned committee precedent and insulted one of the most highly qualified people ever to be nominated for this job," said Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman James Inhofe, R-Okla. Senate rules require 10 members of the 19-member committee to be present to constitute a quorum, and...