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The bill specifies that those members cannot be “an officer or employee of an instrumentality of government”—i.e. there can be no currently serving government officials on the panel. They must have “national recognition and significant depth of experience in at least two” areas: previous government service; law enforcement; civil rights, civil liberties, and privacy; experience…

Campaign Action In short, between the popularity of Biden’s proposals, the economic need that still exists, and voters catching on to the fact that Republicans live to kill progress, the Senate GOP has to at least pretend they are making an effort to work with Biden. They simply can’t ride into 2022 with the stench of…

The caucus’ endorsement comes as Padilla chaired a Senate committee hearing on Tuesday highlighting the critical role that immigrants stand to play in the nation’s economic recovery from the pandemic.  “Data from the Census Survey of Business Owners also shows that foreign born persons open about one quarter of new businesses, immigrants also innovate and account for…

At the time of the comment crash, Pai offered up that maybe John Oliver’s comedy show—specifically his call to send comments to save net neutrality—had crashed the system. Pai furthered his lie and said the FCC had been under a cyber attack, but that most of the comments seemed to asking for Ajit Pai to…

These guys aren’t happy that the pandemic is ending. The governmental response to the global deadly pandemic has been night and day since Joe Biden took charge in the White House, and the American people, by and large, get that.  Before Inauguration Day, American satisfaction with the pandemic response stood at a record-low 31% approve,…

Texas, like Florida, located no systemic problems with fraud in the 2020 election, and Trump won both states. In fact, the Texas attorney general’s office turned up just 16 cases of fraud in 2020 out of more than 11 million votes cast. Republicans’ fraud search was a complete bust, even after Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick floated…

How long you’ll be immune to COVID-19 could be written in your blood On Thursday, NPR reported a new kind of COVID-19 test being created at the University of Oxford. The university—which was also key to developing the AstraZeneca vaccine widely used outside the United States—is engaged in an experiment that involves deliberately exposing volunteers to the…

“It was just a big ordeal that he wanted me out of the store, basically that’s what he wanted from the jump,” Townsend told WTAE. “He didn’t want to argue. He already had what he wanted to do in the first place so I was just sitting there taking the rap for the whole mess.”…

In an interview with LGBTQ+ publication them. on Tuesday, Attig said they were shocked “sitting there in jail thinking that this is what happens when you speak to people about how their proposed laws are affecting your children.” Attig stressed that they “don’t want to hear it. They put you in jail.” While making their…

With 40.9% of Americans now having received at least one dose, that effect could be preventing a surge in the United States right now. We’re only now reaching the levels where that effect is significant, but as the vaccine numbers go up, the possibility of a return to normal draws ever nearer. The math and science…