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WASHINGTON â On Tuesday, Congressman David G. Valadao signed on as an original co-sponsor to the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, a bipartisan bill negotiated to provide long-overdue stability to the agriculture industry and agricultural workers alike. This legislation establishes a program for agriculture workers currently in the United States to earn legal status. This bill also changes the H-2A program to provide more flexibility for farmers employing immigrant farm workers, while also providing critical protections for the farm workers. In addition, this legislation would allow dairy farmers to have access to year-round workers through the visa program. âAs the son of immigrants and lifelong dairy farmer, I know firsthand how desperately our agriculture workforce needs meaningful reform,â Valadao said. âMany industries in the Central Valley rely heavily on immigrant labor. Our farm workers are absolutely critical to our collective mission of re ....
RANCHI: US representative Juan Vargas has urged US secretary of state Antony J Blinken to take up the matter of octogenarian Jesuit priest Father Stan Swamy, who is in Tajola jail in Maharashtra on charges of terrorism, with the Indian government as part of US foreign policy. Blinken has assured the Congressman to look into the matter. Rep. Vargas, a Democrat who represents the San Diego region in the US Congress, raised the issue before the foreign affairs committee that held a hearing on President Joe Biden administration’s priorities for the US foreign policy on Wednesday. Raising the issue, Vargas said Swamy was arrested from Bagaicha (in Jharkhand), a Jesuit action centre in India on October 8, 2020, by the National Investigation Agency for “instigating violence at Bhima Koregaon near Pune in 2017”. ....
2:32 Central Coast Congressman Salud Carbajal is re-introducing legislation to protect federal land on the Central Coast, saying he’s optimistic Congress will be more receptive because of a new Biden administration. Carbajal represents the 24th congressional district covering San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties, and parts of Ventura County. His bill would permanently ban future offshore oil and gas leasing off the California coast. The congressman first introduced H.R. Bill 455, the California Clean Coast Act, in 2017 but it never passed. He’s reintroduced it every year since then and thinks this time, he has a better chance with a new congress. ....
Congressman requests federal probe of Gov. Mario M. Cuomo bridge Span connects two sides of Democratic Rep. Mondaire Jones district FacebookTwitterEmail Broken defective bolt used in construction of the Gov Mario M. Cuomo Bridge which cracked during its assembly at the Port of Coeymans is pictured on Saturday, March 6, 2021, in Colonie, N.Y. Some of the high strength bolts would snap under the first stage of torquing. Many were delivered to the job site with cracks already visible in the heads. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less 2of5Buy PhotoA broken defective bolt used in construction of the Gov Mario M. Cuomo Bridge which snapped during its assembly at the Port of Coeymans is displayed on Saturday, March 6, 2021, in Colonie, N.Y. Some of the high strength bolts would snap under the first stage of torquing. Many were delivered to the job site with cracks already visible in the heads. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/ ....
Congressman Adam Kinzinger On COVID Relief, Voting, Politics 16th District Congressman Adam Kinzinger joined the WROK Morning Show on Thursday for his monthly visit, and as usual, there was no shortage of topics for us to get into. With the U.S. House of Representatives passing a massive legislative package on Wednesday, many voices are weighing in on whether or not the relief fund is really a relief fund at all. We asked Congressman Kinzinger, who voted no on the package, how it be can called COVID relief when less than 10% of the money is going toward actually helping people and things related to the pandemic. ....