Joe Mont

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) is asking Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar for an explanation of the decision to hire CVS Caremark Vice President Daniel Best to lead the agency’s drug pricing reform effort.

Smart strategies for influencing corporate culture include aligning incentives and recognizing that “tone at the top” needs to be supplemented by “tone at the bottom.”

In the pages of the CFPB’s semi-annual report, Acting Director Mick Mulvaney included four recommendations for legislative changes to the agency. “The Bureau is far too powerful, with precious little oversight of its activities,” he said.

The Treasury Department has announced recommendations for updating the Community Reinvestment Act. The stated goal “is to better align CRA activity with the needs of the communities that banks serve.”

As the initial batch of disclosures to meet requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s pay ratio rule trickle in, activists are already flagging concerns that companies may be a bit too creative with their calculations.

In response to media reports that the LGBTQ dating app Grindr shared information about users’ HIV statuses with third parties, Senators Edward J. Markey and Richard Blumenthal are demanding answers about the company’s data practices.

The EPA is looking to backtrack from Obama-era fuel emission standards imposed upon auto manufacturers. Administrator Scott Pruitt announced a determination that the current standards “are not appropriate and should be revised.”

In response to what the White House views as China’s unfair trade practices, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has announced a list of products that could be subject to additional tariffs. China has countered with a list of its own.