Carney Following Shinseki Out the Door in D.C., Clinton Defends Benghazi Response in Book, Ban Lifted on Using Medicare to Pay for Sex Change Surgery: P.M. Links

• Veterans Affairs Secretary
  
  Eric Shinseki is resigning amid the massive scandal about
  delays in medical care and its cover up, to the surprise of
  probably few. However, the White House also announced
  Press Secretary Jay Carney will also be stepping down, leaving
  Josh Earnest as his replacement to stand before the White House
  press corps and explain why he can’t answer any of their
  questions.
• Hillary Clinton’s forthcoming book, Hard Choices, has
  a chapter devoted to the deadly consulate attack in
  Benghazi, Libya, where she defends the State Department’s
  response and complains about the politicization of the
  incident.
• The Department of Health and Human Services today announced the
  end of a 30-year ban on allowing
  Medicare to help fund sex reassignment surgery for transgender
  people.
• The Obama Administration is streamlining the rules for the
  
  export of liquefied natural gas while at the same time planning
  a major crackdown on pollution from coal plants. Winners of
  government regulations, meet losers of government regulations.
• A meeting of officials to announce
  reforms to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has
  been canceled with no explanation.
• 
  Southwest Airlines was fined for advertising cheap flights to
  three cities but then not actually offering any seats at that fare
  rate. Southwest says the inclusion of those cities in the ads was a
  mistake.

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