More than 260 organizations urged President Biden
The Government Accountability Project, a nonprofit that works with whistleblowers and on whistleblowing legislation, led a letter on Thursday with other groups calling for Biden and congressional leaders to strengthen U.S. whistleblower laws to match or exceed those of other democratic nations.
“Truth shared by whistleblowers fuels oversight mechanisms by shining a light on existing weaknesses, inefficiencies, and injustices. We must protect those who courageously speak out about abuses of public trust that undermine our nation’s safety and security and threaten our democracy,” they wrote.
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They called for America’s whistleblower rights to include giving whistleblowers the right to challenge retaliatory investigations, extending whistleblower rights beyond protection from workplace retaliation and giving whistleblowers a legal defense against civil or criminal liability, among other provisions.
Clinton told Jennifer Palmieri, the communications director for her 2016 presidential campaign, that the filibuster “stands in the way of a lot of legislation, and whether or not it can be either reformed or eliminated is what we will find out in the next few weeks.” It certainly should be lifted for constitutional matters, and I would put election law matters at the top of that list, Clinton said on an episode of Palmieri’s podcast, “Just Something About Her,” published on Thursday.
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The current filibuster rules require 60 votes in the Senate to move forward with legislation. Calls for nixing the procedural tool have gained steam recently among Democratic lawmakers, and President Biden
I think today’s professional athletes are acting incredibly responsibly. I would strongly support them doing that, Biden told ESPN in an interview on the eve of baseball s opening day. The very people who are victimized the most are the people who are the leaders in these various sports. And it’s just not right, Biden added. This is Jim Crow on steroids . what they’re doing in Georgia.
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A number of figures within the MLB, including the head of the players association, have called for potentially relocating the All-Star Game in response to the Georgia voting law.
League Commissioner Rob Manfred told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he and union leader Tony Clark have discussed the idea, but would not elaborate on when the league would make a decision about the mid-July game.
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The proposal calls for spending $2.25 trillion over the next eight years to repair 20,000 miles of roads and 10,000 bridges, expand broadband access to rural and underserved communities, replace all of the nation’s lead pipes and service lines to ensure clean water, invest in research and development and manufacturing, and expand access to home and community-based care.
The package would also aim to weatherize buildings and retrofit them to become more climate friendly, while also investing in research to boost climate-friendly industries.
Biden is proposing paying for the legislation by hiking the corporate tax rate from 21 percent to 28 percent, which the White House says will pay for the investments over a 15-year period.
A group of 33 Democratic lawmakers is asking President Biden
The legislators wrote to Biden on Monday that he should shut down the pipeline while it faces a court-ordered environmental review.
“By shutting down this illegal pipeline, you can continue to show your administration values the environment and the rights of Indigenous communities more than the profits of outdated fossil fuel industries,” they wrote.
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“This is a critical step towards righting the wrongs of the past and setting our nation on a path of environmental, climate, and social justice,” they added, arguing that the way in which law enforcement removed protesters from the site in 2016 was “egregious environmental racism.”