内容摘要：Proponents, including some Republicans, say credits boost demand for technologies, such as solar or electric vehicles, that reduce harmful emissions and help drive down their cost.

Proponents, including some Republicans, say credits boost demand for technologies, such as solar or electric vehicles, that reduce harmful emissions and help drive down their cost.

is the highest diplomatic honor the U.S. reserves for its close allies.Comerford presided over 54 of these opulent affairs, including for

during Trump’s first term. Sometimes, guest chefs were brought in to help.give presidents the opportunity to bring together hundreds of guests from the worlds of government, politics and other industries for an evening in which the three-course meal, decor and entertainment are designed to help foster relations by dazzling the visiting foreign leader.The first lady’s staff and the social secretary typically have about two months to pull one together.

Comerford said her team started by researching the visiting leader’s likes and dislikes, then she used the information to create a menu using the best of American food while incorporating nuances from the country being recognized.. Then came tastings for the first lady to make a final decision.

Comerford, 62, started her career tending a salad bar at a Chicago airport hotel before working as a chef at restaurants in Austria and Washington. Scheib, then the White House executive chef, hired her in 1994 for a temporary gig preparing a state dinner for Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s newly elected president.

Scheib then hired her as an assistant chef in 1995, and she succeeded him a decade later, becoming the first woman and first person of color to permanently hold the executive chef’s position. Comerford is a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in the Philippines.But many Republican lawmakers, including Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, who co-sponsored the bill, were furious when the EEOC stated that the law covered abortions. The EEOC’s commissioners approved the rules in a 3-2 vote along party lines, with both Republican commissioners voting against it.

Joseph vacated the provision of the EEOC regulations that included abortion as a “related medical condition” of pregnancy and childbirth. However, the rest of the regulations still stand.“Victory! A federal court has granted Louisiana’s request to strike down an EEOC rule requiring employers to accommodate employees’ purely elective abortions. This is a win for Louisiana and for life!” Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said in a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press.

A Better Balance, the advocacy group that spearheaded a decade-long campaign for passage of the law, condemned the ruling.“This court’s decision to deny workers reasonable accommodations for abortion-related needs is part of a broader attack on women’s rights and reproductive freedom,” A Better Balance President Inimai Chettiar said in a statement.