Rep. Don Beyer today hailed a provision in the National Defense Authorization Act conference report which would guarantee twelve weeks of paid parental leave for all federal employees:
“This paid parental leave provision is one of the biggest victories for the federal workforce in my lifetime.
“Against all odds, Chairman Smith, Majority Leader Hoyer, and the House negotiating team won… Read more »
Democrats leveraged Trump’s fixation on Space Force to pursue parental-leave victory for federal workers
BY JEFF STEIN, LISA REIN AND JOSH DAWSEY - 12/8/2019
When Congress took up a must-pass defense bill earlier this year, President Trump saw it as a rare opportunity to win approval for the Space Force — his proposed sixth branch of the military — ahead of the 2020… Read more »
Wilbur Ross At The Center Of Another Political Storm, This Time About The Weather
BY SCOTT HORSLEY - 09/10/2019
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is under the microscope again, amid fresh allegations of meddling with a government scientific agency.
The latest storm to engulf the secretary began Sept. 1, when weather forecasters in Birmingham, Ala., issued a tweet saying… Read more »
Democrats call for Ross to resign for reportedly threatening to fire officials
BY MIRANDA GREEN AND JUSTINE COLEMAN - 09/10/2019
Two Democratic lawmakers are calling for Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross's resignation following a report that he threatened top officials for contradicting President Trump's claims Hurricane Dorian might hit… Read more »
Wilbur Ross 'Needs To Resign Now' If He Threatened To Fire Top NOAA Officials For Tweet Contradicting Trump On Hurricane Dorian, Democrat Says
BY SHANE CROUCHER - 09/10/2019
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is facing calls to resign over a report alleging that he threatened to fire top officials at NOAA for a tweet disputing President Donald Trump's claim that Hurricane Dorian would… Read more »
Wilbur Ross and the Trump War on Truth
BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD - 09/10/2019
After a quiet couple of months, Wilbur Ross, the secretary of commerce, appears set on distinguishing himself again as the most compromised member of an administration that at times seems defined by ethical and moral flexibility.
On Monday, The Times reported that Mr. Ross… Read more »
Proposed ban on Pentagon spending at Trump properties gets new push
BY CONNOR O'BRIEN - 09/09/2019
Democrats in the House are doubling down on proposed legislation to block military funds from being spent at properties owned by President Donald Trump, following reports that Air Force personnel stayed at the president's Turnberry resort in Scotland.
The House voted in July to bar… Read more »
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A group of Washington, D.C.-area Democrats are urging the Agriculture Department to reconsider its decision to offer $10,000 buyouts instead of the max $25,000, to USDA employees who opted out of the Kansas City relocation. The lawmakers said those employees were counting on the larger Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments, and that the switch is quote… Read more »
Today U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) led a bicameral letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue about the proposed relocation of the USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) and National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA).
He was joined on the letter by Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Sherrod Brown… Read more »
Rep. Don Beyer today hailed the passage of two measures to support the federal workforce, which were included in H.R. 2500, National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The bill, which passed in the House 220-197, included the legislative text of Rep. Carolyn Maloney’s Federal Employee Paid Leave Act, of which Beyer is a lead cosponsor. It also incorporated an amendment offered by Reps.… Read more »
