A quick move, but not a surprising one. President Biden issued more than a dozen executive orders during his first day in office. One of them revokes President Trump’s Executive.
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National Defense Authorization Act
As we noted last month, House Armed Services Committee (“HASC”) and Senate Armed Services Committee (“SASC”) staff had been conferencing the National Defense Authorization Act (“NDAA”), Congress’ annual defense policy bill, since mid-August. On November 18, 2020, the Senate and House began formal conference committee proceedings to resolve and reconcile the remaining major sticking points of the House and Senate versions of the bill.
On December 8, 2020, the House passed the reconciled version of the bill, otherwise known as the conference report, by a vote of 335-78. The Senate followed suit on December 11, 2020, passing the bill by a vote of 84-13. The President vetoed the bill on December 23, 2020 as was widely expected. The President had long threatened to veto the bill if it did not include a repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which prevents social media websites from being held liable for users’ comm
Joe Biden Must Restore Civic Tradition
In the areas of civic education and public monuments, Biden has an opportunity to practice what he has been preaching about unifying the country, particularly regarding issues of race.
AS PRESIDENT-elect Joe Biden begins formulating his domestic policy agenda for the next four years, he might want to look beyond the end of his term in 2024 to 2026. That is the year the United States celebrates the 250th birthday of the Declaration of Independence, and as the nation prepares to celebrate that milestone, Biden has an opportunity to help heal some of the civic and institutional wounds that have been festering in the country for far too long.
Monday, December 28, 2020
As previously reported, on September 22, 2020, President Trump issued Executive Order 13950 on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping (Order), which barred federal agencies, federal contractors, and recipients of federal grants from conducting diversity and inclusion training that promotes “divisive concepts” involving any form of “race or sex stereotyping” or “race or sex scapegoating.”
The controversial Order, which took effect on November 21, 2020, also required the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) to establish a new complaint hotline and required affected employers to incorporate references to the Order in their government contracts and submit copies of their diversity and inclusion training materials to the OFCCP for review. The OFCCP subsequently published guidance addressing various Frequently Asked Questions and confirmed that training on unconscious or implicit bias was prohibited by the Order “t