Republicans in Congress are renewing pressure on the Biden administration to abandon its diplomacy with Iran following Tehran's recent drone strike on a U.S. military outpost in Syria, according to a letter sent Thursday to the White House.
Vice President, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute Command Master Chief Logan Johnson leads Sailors in reaffirming the oath of enlistment during a stand-down for countering extremism in the ranks, March 2, 2021.
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Recommending that sailors read books that trash the Constitution and denounce the country as irredeemably racist is not just absurd it’s downright dangerous.
Why recommend books staking out extremist positions when the Navy is newly embarked on an effort to drive political extremism from its ranks?
American sailors swear an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, “foreign and domestic.” We ask them to put their lives on the line to protect their country. Recommending that sailors read books that trash the Constitution and denounce the country as irredeemably racist is not just absurd it’s downright dangerous.
U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.), along with U.S. Representatives Sam
Graves (Mo.) and Emanuel Cleaver II (Mo.), led a bipartisan, bicameral letter
urging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to quickly and fully utilize
the tools and resources Congress provided in the Water Resources Development
Act (WRDA) of 2020 and the FY2020 Energy and Water appropriations bill to
reduce flood risk and improve flood protection along the Lower Missouri River.
In addition to Blunt, Graves, and
Cleaver, the letter is signed by congressional members from the Lower Missouri River
Basin states, including U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (Iowa), Deb Fischer
U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.), along with U.S. Representatives Sam
Graves (Mo.) and Emanuel Cleaver II (Mo.), led a bipartisan, bicameral letter
urging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to quickly and fully utilize
the tools and resources Congress provided in the Water Resources Development
Act (WRDA) of 2020 and the FY2020 Energy and Water appropriations bill to
reduce flood risk and improve flood protection along the Lower Missouri River.
In addition to Blunt, Graves, and
Cleaver, the letter is signed by congressional members from the Lower Missouri River
Basin states, including U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (Iowa), Deb Fischer
Female High School Students Appeal Ruling on Transgender Athletes Getty Images Alex Nester • April 26, 2021 1:20 pm
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Four female high school athletes in Connecticut will appeal a federal district court ruling that allows transgender athletes to compete in women s sports.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut dismissed on Sunday the plaintiffs challenge to a Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference policy that allows athletes to compete in sports based on gender identity. The women claim they ve been denied track and field titles and college scholarship opportunities because of the rule.
The Biden administration withdrew federal support for the Connecticut athletes in February, pursuant to President Joe Biden s executive order banning discrimination based on gender identity. Democrats have attempted to expand the Civil Rights Act to include transgender women in women s spaces. Opponents argue that doing so would eliminate protections for bio