Cong. George Miller (D-CA) and Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) of the House Education and Labor Committee sent a letter to the chair of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) urging him to take immediate action to make public all of their votes. It turns out that about 99% of the CSB’s votes are [...]
Public health officials say the H1N1 flu pandemic is exacerbated by employees going into work sick because they don't get paid time off. But a representative from the business community told Congress on Tuesday to stay out of it. House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller (D-Calif.) is pushing an emergency bill that would require employers with more than 15 workers to provide up to...
Like a lot of other Americans, I first took note of actor Edward Woodward in ‘Breaker’ Morant, which came as part of the late-Seventies, early-Eighties wave of Australian films that launched Bruce Beresford, Mel Gibson, Bryan Brown, Peter Weir, Fred Schepisi, and George Miller on international careers. As the title character, an Australian officer accused of atrocities against civilians...
The Connecticut Real Estate Investors Association (CT REIA) announces J.T. Foxx, Robert Shemin, Colin Andrews Egbert, and George Miller as guest trainers at the 6th Annual New England Real Estate Investors Conference and Trade Show in Rocky Hill, CT.
U.S. Representative George Miller, Democrat of California's 7th Congressional District, is the Chair of the House Committee on Education and Labor, and a supporter of H.R. 3017, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act . He will be presiding over the mark up of the ENDA bill this Wednesday at 10 am. You can view it as the Committee's website (see Live Webcast on the top right). " Markup " is...
By Allison Fletcher Acosta , on November 12th, 2009 If you’re one of the 57 million workers in the U.S. without paid sick days, chances are the answer is “yes”. Thirty-nine percent of us have a difficult choice to make when we’re sick: go to work and risk infecting our co-workers (and risk making our illness worse), or stay home and put our finances and our jobs in jeopardy....
House Committee to Take Action on ENDA Call in on November 18 Take Action! Take action today for the next bill that will positively impact transgender people: ENDA Sign the ENDA petition Write to your members of Congress Read our Toolkit on how you can take action NCTE Website November 12, 2009 "Now is the time that we must take action for ENDA! Whether you have never contacted your members of...
A Referendum on This White House' Obama's plan to nationalize the midterm elections may backfire. By KARL ROVE Republican victories in New Jersey and Virginia governors' races last week—despite eight campaign appearances in the two states by President Barack Obama—have unnerved Democrats. Over the weekend, White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod tried to calm jittery Democrats who might...
Premature Capitulation by digby Ezra Klein traces the origins of what he calls the "$900 billion mistake:" Barack Obama has not given much in the way of specifics for health-care reform. Few policies have been nonnegotiable and virtually none have been dictated. The exception is a number that was neither nonnegotiable nor dictated, but was received on the Hill as if it was both, and has...
Dennis Kucinich [D-MI] on the Ed Schultz Show, Monday (following George Miller [D-CA] who's also included in this segment). Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy The response by one so-called progressive American blogger: Bite me . The health insurance bill that passed in the house on Saturday nite was a watered-down, corporate-sponsored farce that included an...
Appearing on MSNBC today, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) declared: I am confident that the Stupak amendment will not be in the final version of the bill — we will be working very hard to eliminate it. The Stupak Amendment authored by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) was adopted by a bipartisan majority (240-194-1) and would prohibit federal funding of abortions under the House Speaker Nancy Pelosis...
Following the latest E.coli O157:H7 outbreak -- the 18th in the past three years, U.S. Rep. George Miller, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, has requested an investigation into how foods are approved as safe for the U.S. school meal programs, and consumer advocates are pressing for improved standards for testing meat for pathogens. Ground beef produced by Fairbank Farm in Ashville,...
One US legislator has proposed an investigation into whether or not a recent E. coli outbreak has reached food supplies for school lunches.Congressman George Miller, D-Calif., hopes the investigation will ensure the safety of school lunch programs after an E.
This evening, Leader Boehner again took to the floor to ask Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller (D-CA) if he would guarantee abortion opponents that Rep. Bart Stupak's (D-MI) amendment barring federal funding of abortion will not be jettisoned from the bill by Democratic congressional leaders in House-Senate conference negotiations if the Pelosi bill passes the House with the Stupak...
As more and more information comes out about the vote on the Stupak abortion amendment to the health care bill, the more I think the pro-lifers got suckered : POLITICO’s Patrick O'Connor and John Bresnahan: “[W]hen Pelosi announced late Friday that she would allow an amendment strictly limiting insurance coverage of abortions, it touched off an angry yelling match between [Rep. Rosa ]DeLauro...
Plot summary: Movie cover: Plot Summary: Alex, Jane, and Suki are three bored New England women left to live without their husbands. They innocently play tricks bewitch up a mystery body, who could fill the sum of their desires. A all-dancing bein moves into town - and he fits the bill thoroughly. Daryl Van Horne is faecal flush and fierce eyed, and within days the three women posses the sum of discovered...