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June 29, 2021 Press Release Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats held a bill enrollment photo opportunity today for Congressional Review Act (CRA) Disapproval Resolutions S.J.Res. 13 to strengthen the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s ability to protect working people against discrimination, S.J.Res. 14 to restore Obama-era protections against dangerous methane emissions from the oil and gas industry, and S.J.Res. 15 to eliminate the Trump Administration’s predatory ‘True Lender’ rule. Below are the Speaker’s remarks: Speaker Pelosi. Good afternoon, everyone. This afternoon, by act of Congress, we are reversing damage inflicted on the families’ health and financial security – the damage caused by the last Administration. And we re reasserting the power of the People s House to deliver For The People, reclaiming the authority under the Constitution and upholding the balance of power that is the basis of ....
SBA Extends the HUBZone Map Freeze to June 30, 2023, May 5, 2021, Jon Williams and Anna Wright Today, the Small Business Administration (SBA) issued a direct final rule extending the HUBZone map freeze from December 31, 2021, to June 30, 2023. The direct final rule (available here) takes effect on June 21, 2021. This is the latest in a series of developments for the HUBZone Program in 2021. Read more here. COFC Denies DOJ/Microsoft Motion to Dismiss Amazon JEDI Protest, May 5, 2021, Lauren Brier On April 28, 2021, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims issued a sealed decision denying the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) and Microsoft’s motions to dismiss Amazon Web Services’ (Amazon) bid protest of the Pentagon’s $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract. Amazon claims repeated prejudicial errors against Amazon Web Services due to influence from then-President Donald Trump and other high-level government officials aiming to harm ....
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The novel coronavirus undergoes a mutation about once every 2 weeks, or half the rate seen in influenza. What to Know Mutations of the virus have given rise to thousands of variants, only a few of which currently appear as a major threat due to increased infectivity, lethality, or vaccine resistance. In the US, the current major variant is the so-called “UK” variant (officially “B.1.1.7”), which is about 35-50% more infectious or transmissible, and can give rise to a rather more lethal form of COVID-19. The doubling time of the “UK” variant in the US, where it is expected to become the dominant form of the virus by March 2021, is estimated to be 9.8 days. ....