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The U.S. House of Representatives has voted 364-62 to pass the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, a bill that aims to address the alarming surge in anti-Asian violence during the pandemic. The bill, which also includes the text of the bipartisan Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Act, will help improve hate crime
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Congressman Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) led a bipartisan effort to introduce and pass the Veterans' Camera Reporting (VCR) Act, a legislation aimed at improving patient safety at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care facilities. The bill, which has the Senate companion version introduced by Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.
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The Servicemember Parental Leave Equity Act, introduced by a bipartisan group of lawmakers, aims to significantly expand parental leave for military servicemembers and make other improvements for new parents serving in the armed forces. The bill would increase caregiver leave to 12 weeks, up from as low as 2 weeks
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In the wake of the recent ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline, U.S. Representative Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill.) has reintroduced two bipartisan bills to strengthen the security of America's energy infrastructure. The Pipeline and LNG Facility Cybersecurity Preparedness Act and the Energy Emergency Leadership Act aim to
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The End Speculative Oil and Gas Leasing Act, introduced by U.S. Representative Susie Lee (NV-03) and its Senate counterpart by Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), would prohibit oil and gas leasing on public lands deemed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to have little to no potential for
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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer has issued a statement condemning the Florida Republican voter suppression bill, which was passed by the state legislature with the aim of restricting access to the ballot box, particularly for Americans of color. Hoyer argued that the bill is a thinly-veiled attempt to suppress the
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U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan introduced the Clean Energy for America Act, a bipartisan legislation aimed at consolidating current energy tax incentives to promote clean energy and energy efficiency. The bill aims to address climate change by incentivizing investments in clean energy technology and reducing greenhouse gas
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The American Pharmacists Association and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists have hailed the introduction of bipartisan legislation in the U.S. Senate to give tens of millions of Medicare patients in medically underserved communities access to primary health care services delivered by pharmacists. The Pharmacy and Medically Underserved Area
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U.S. Senator Rob Portman and his colleagues applauded the House of Representatives for unanimously passing their bipartisan legislation, the Tropical Forest and Coral Reef Conservation Reauthorization Act of 2021. This bill reauthorizes the Tropical Forest Conservation Act (TFCA) program for five years, from FY 2022 through FY 2026, at
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U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), along with a bipartisan group of Senators, applauded the U.S. House of Representatives for unanimously passing the Tropical Forest and Coral Reef Conservation Reauthorization Act of 2021. This legislation reauthorizes the Tropical Forest Conservation Act (TFCA) program for five years, from FY 2022
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Congresswoman Julia Brownley, joined by Reps. Jackie Speier and Elise Stefanik, has introduced the Equal Pay for Servicewomen Act to address the long-standing issue of unequal uniform costs for women in the US military. The bill aims to implement the four legislative recommendations of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report,
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Congresswomen Julia Brownley, Jackie Speier, and Elise Stefanik have introduced the Equal Pay for Servicewomen Act, aimed at ending the gender-based inequity in the cost of military uniforms. The bill aims to ensure equal pay for all who serve in the nation's military, specifically targeting the "pink
