WHAT HAPPENED AT THE WHITE HOUSE ON March 27, 2017
March 27, 2017
6:00 P.M.
EDT
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Good evening to everyone who is
here. Just briefly, I just want to remind everyone that this is on
background. It's attributable to a senior White House official and is
embargoed until 11:00 p.m. this evening.
With that, I'm going to hand it over to [senior administration official],
who many of you have seen up here before, to talk about energy and
environmental policy. So I will turn it over. Those in the room
will be able to ask questions. The phone line does not take questions, so
following the opening remarks, we will take questions at the end.
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Thank you. So, as was
mentioned, I guess we've been waiting for this for a while. We're going
to get the executive order on energy independence out tomorrow. The
President will sign it. This policy is in keeping with President Trump's
desire to make the United States energy independent.
March 27, 2017
If confirmed, Makan Delrahim of
California will serve as an Assistant Attorney General (Anti-Trust Division) at
the Department of Justice. Mr.
Delrahim currently serves as Deputy Assistant and Deputy Counsel to
the President. Previously, he was a partner at a national
law firm in Los Angeles, practicing antitrust and intellectual
property law. He was also an adjunct professor of law at Pepperdine
University. Prior to private practice, he was Deputy
Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division at
the Justice Department. He served on the U.S.
Attorney General’s Task Force on Intellectual
Property, and as Chairman of the Merger Working Group of the
International Competition Network.
March
27, 2017
America has long led
the world in innovation and technological advancement. American ingenuity
has launched industries, created jobs, and improved quality of life at home and
abroad. To ensure that America remains the global innovation leader, I
hereby direct the Senior Advisor to the President to head an office in the
White House dedicated to American innovation.
March 27, 2017
Althea Coetzee, of Virginia, to be Deputy
Administrator of the Small Business Administration, vice Douglas J. Kramer.
Scott Gottlieb, of Connecticut, to be Commissioner of Food and Drugs,
Department of Health and Human Services, vice Robert McKinnon Califf.
William Francis Hagerty IV, of Tennessee, to be Ambassador Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Japan.
March 27, 2017
H.J.Res.
37, which nullifies the Department of Defense, the General Services
Administration, and the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration's Federal Acquisition Regulation: Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces;
Aeronautics and Space Administration's Federal Acquisition Regulation: Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces;
H.J.Res. 44, which nullifies the Department of the Interior's Bureau of
Land Management's final rule relating to resource management planning;
H.J.Res. 57, which nullifies the Department of Education's rule relating
to State accountability requirements under the Every Student Succeeds Act; and
H.J.Res. 58, which nullifies the Department of Education's rule relating
to assessing the quality of teacher preparation programs.
March 27, 2017
I’m
signing four bills under the Congressional Review Act. Before this
administration only one time in our history had a President signed a bill that
used the CRA to cancel a federal regulation. So we're doing a lot of
them, and they deserve to be done.
