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disingenuousness - the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor. dishonesty - the quality of being dishonest. deceitfulness, guile, craftiness - the quality of being crafty. Here's a question for a rational mind.  If you were a congressional representative and claimed to be serious - NOT being disingenuous - about a true and reasonable attempt at crafting legis​lation on preventing gun vi

Yakima Bishop Joseph Tyson talks to KIT's Morning News hosts Dave Ettl and Lance Tormey about the DACA program.

Lots of opinions about the speech by President Donald Trump Tuesday night.  Fox News drew the biggest household rating of these networks, with a 6.4. It was followed by NBC (5.5), CBS (4.6), ABC (4.0), CNN (3.0), Fox Broadcasting (2.3), and MSNBC (2...

The U.S. House will again attempt to nullify the ‘Waters of the U.S.’ rule in 2016. Voting is planned on a Congressional Review Act challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency’s controversial rule in the House next year and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate is in the process of putting a WOTUS repeal on the President’s desk...

Dow Chemical and DuPont officially announced an all-stock merger on Friday valued at $130 billion combining two of the biggest and oldest U.S. chemical producers into DowDuPont. The deal could trigger more consolidation, is expected to please activist investors and generate tax savings...

Congress has until December 18th or two weeks, to pass tax extenders important to agriculture. The House earlier this year voted Section 179 expensing permanent, among other tax extenders, but the Senate Finance Committee has opted instead to revive the expired measures for 2015 and extend them through 2016...

The Obama administration wants Congress to vote on the Trans-Pacific Partnership before next year’s lame-duck session. Congressional aides are saying the vote is likely to take place during the lame duck session. White House press secretary Josh Earnest said “the timeline that we envision is shorter than that,” but would not specify when the President would like the vote to occur...

In a move that hasn’t happened in 40 years, fast food giant McDonalds will downsize. In the last week McDonalds announced it is planning to close 184 restaurants across the United States this year, 59 more than it is planning to open. The last time the company contracted was in 1970...

More and more lawsuits are being filed against the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers Clean Water Rule, known as Waters of the U.S. Coal giant Murray Energy Corp. is suing the Obama administration over its rule asserting power over small bodies of water...

President Barack Obama now has the necessary piece of trade legislation to complete the Trans-Pacific Partnership. On Monday, the President signed the Trade Promotion Authority bill that was passed by the U.S. House and Senate. TPA removes the ability of Congress to attach amendments to a pending trade deal, allowing only for an up or down vote...