Monday, February 10, 2020

Impeachment, USPS, Privacy, Pelosi, Non-citizens, Disaster Relief, Emergency Rooms

Today's News for February 10, 2020



Graham: Cloud Over The Presidency Has Been Removed
Source: Senator Lindsey Graham (R - SC)
February 5, 2020
This partisan-driven impeachment has done injury to the office of the presidency and was an injustice to President Trump
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Griffith Statement on President Trump’s Acquittal
Source: U.S. Representative Morgan Griffith (R-VA, 9th)
February 5, 2020
The Senate has finally ended an ordeal that never should have started. Democrats in the House brushed aside principles of fairness and impartiality in conducting this impeachment process, yet, in my belief, they failed to find impeachable offenses. The Senate agreed.
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The State Of Our Union Is STRONG
Source: U.S. Representative Sam Graves (R-MO, 6th)
February 6, 2020
While the President worked throughout this sham impeachment, securing better trade deals, eliminating terrorists, and ditching bad government regulations like WOTUS, Congress was basically at a standstill. Now, with this political circus finally over, it is my hope that we can get back to work.
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Rep. Grijalva Supports Passage of USPS Fairness Act
Source: U.S. Representative Raul Grijalva (D-AZ, 3rd)
February 6, 2020
The House of Representatives, with large bipartisan support, passed the USPS Fairness Act last week. The bill will repeal the retiree health pre-funding mandate that a Republican-led Congress imposed on the Postal Service in 2006. The mandate, which no other federal agency or private company must abide by, required the postal service to pre-fund decades of future retiree benefits while still paying for current retiree benefits—costing the USPS an annual average of $5.4 billion over the past dozen years.
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Grothman Statement on the Passage of the PRO Act
Source: U.S. Representative Glenn Grothman (R-WI, 6th)
February 6, 2020
Under this bill, the employer is forced to hand over the telephone number, the email and the address of each employee to the union,” said Grothman. “I believe in the importance of protecting people’s privacy. To say that unions have the right to know every member’s home address, and turn it over to who knows how many functionaries, I find very offensive. I would find it very scary if an employee came home one night to find someone waiting there for them to talk about a union election.
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Granger Resolution to Hold Pelosi Accountable, Honor American Heroes
Source: U.S. Representative Kay Granger (R-TX, 12th)
February 7, 2020
“Speaker Ryan and Speaker Boehner - they may have disagreed with the President on a multitude of issues, but they treated him with respect. Can you imagine the outrage if they had acted this way towards President Obama? What Nancy Pelosi did was shameful, and it degraded the proceedings of the joint session. The other thing, Mark, when she tore [the President’s remarks] up, it was a slap in the face to those heroes and their families that the President had honored.”
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Grassley Seeks Information on Noncitizens Working Without Authorization
Source: Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
February 7, 2020
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a letter to Social Security Administration (SSA) Commissioner Andrew Saul and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Secretary Chad Wolf seeking information on why SSA is not providing the statutorily required information to DHS regarding noncitizens working on and reporting wage earnings to non-work social security numbers.
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Congressman Al Green’s Statement on the Passage of H.R 5687, the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief and Puerto Rico Disaster Tax Relief Act
Source: U.S. Representative Al Green (D-TX, 9th)
February 7, 2020
In November of 2019, the Reforming Disaster Recovery Act of 2019 (H.R. 3702) – that I and Rep. Ann Wagner (R-MO) authored – passed the House of Representatives with strong bipartisan support. H.R. 3702 helps to ensure the Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program operates more efficiently, with few unnecessary delays. As the representative of a congressional district frequently impacted by severe flooding, I understand the need for legislation that works to improve the process of providing disaster-affected areas with appropriate relief funding.
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Rep. Green Cuts Red Tape with Rural ER Access Act
Source: U.S. Representative Mark Green (R-TN, 7th)
February 7, 2020
Green’s legislation repeals an onerous and burdensome federal regulation, the ‘35-mile rule’, which prohibits free-standing emergency departments (FSEDs) from operating more than 35 miles from a hospital. The bill would abolish this arbitrary and unfair mileage requirement, allowing free-standing ERs to serve the rural communities that are desperately in need of such care.
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