Anonymous ID: 12acf3 Feb. 27, 2019, 4:33 p.m. No.5424364   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4446 >>4652 >>4765 >>4775

FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb backs raising the minimum age for tobacco to 21

 

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb expressed support Wednesday for raising the minimum age to buy tobacco products from 18 to 21.

“We would support that," Gottlieb said in congressional testimony when asked by Rep. Robert Aderholt, R-Ala., if he would favor raising the minimum age.

“A lot of the youth access isn’t just 14-year-olds and 15-year-olds going into convenience stores and buying these products," Gottlieb explained. "This is enterprising 18-year-olds in high school buying them legally, and creating a business in their high school selling them back to 16-year-olds and 15-year-olds.”

 

As the Trump-appointed head of the FDA, Gottlieb has cracked down on sales of e-cigarettes to address what he termed Wednesday as a "sheer epidemic" of youth use of the products. Flavored e-cigarettes particularly appeal to minors, Gottlieb noted. Gottlieb expressed doubt that e-cigarette companies are doing all they can do to prevent young people from using their products.

“If we had a 21 age limit across the board on these products it would make it harder for that kind of activity to take place," he said. "So I think it could help me address the most immediate problem that i’m facing with respect to tobacco, which is the epidemic of youth use of these non-combustible products."

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fda-commissioner-scott-gottlieb-backs-raising-the-minimum-age-for-tobacco-to-21

 

Better up the age to join the military to 21 also…just sayin.

Anonymous ID: 12acf3 Feb. 27, 2019, 4:35 p.m. No.5424410   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4437 >>4525

Rashida Tlaib 'apologizes' for calling Meadows 'racist,' says he simply committed 'racist act'

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/rashida-tlaib-apologizes-for-calling-meadows-racist-says-he-simply-committed-racist-act

Anonymous ID: 12acf3 Feb. 27, 2019, 4:50 p.m. No.5424713   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4744 >>4765 >>4775 >>4796 >>4801 >>4850

Federal judge rules there is no widespread voter fraud in Texas

 

A federal judge is ordering officials in Texas to stop removing people from its voter registration rolls after declaring that the state has not seen widespread voter fraud.

 

U.S. District Judge Fred Biery made the order in a Wednesday ruling, stating that Texas had made a "mess" after the secretary of state's office flagged about 95,000 individuals for a citizenship status review, according to NBC News.

 

Biery told officials from the 18 counties named as defendants that they could not remove people from the rolls without the court's approval. He also ordered acting Texas Secretary of State David Whitley to advise officials in Texas's remaining 254 counties not to remove voters from their rolls without court approval.

Biery's ruling comes just over a month after Whitley's office announced that it had identified approximately 95,000 suspected ineligible voters. The office said at the time that 58,000 of those voters had cast a ballot in at least one election since 1996.

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/431929-federal-judge-rules-there-is-no-widespread-texas-voter-fraud-orders

 

Any digs on this judge?