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Creek Fire Damage Assessment and Briefing
Creek Fire damage assessment at Huntington Lake with the US Forest Service, CAL FIRE, and community partners. We appreciate the continued efforts of our first responders and are committed to rebuilding this community. -
Forest Health and Fire Prevention
Joined the Lake Tahoe Basin Fire Chiefs, Cal Fire, U.S. Forest Service Basin Management Unit and the Tahoe Fuels Partnership on August 11th for our annual field tour. I want to thank all of our partners who work tirelessly every day to protect Lake Tahoe. -
COVID-19 Constituent Services Update
During this time my office will remain open to constituents in need of federal assistance. -
Sanctuary Laws Imperil Communities
"At the end of those sentences they're supposed to be deported out of our country, instead they're being released back into our communities by these sanctuary laws..."
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Just how long is the road we keep kicking this can down? This is another continuing resolution that extends federal spending until December 11, 2020, in order to get past the election. It’s a good bet we’ll see another one to get past the inauguration. And then to get past summer recess. What’s not a good bet is that this Congress will deal with the horrendous deficit it has created by ignoring its budget responsibilities.
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 already prohibits discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or a related condition. This bill adds an undefined mandate for “reasonable accommodation” which opens a pandora’s box of litigation. Large corporations might bear this burden, small employers could find it devastating. Ironically, the unintended effect could result in employers avoiding the potential liability when making hiring decisions. It also cedes law-making authority to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to carry out this act – meaning the EEOC would make law, enforce the law, adjudicate the law and profit from fines imposed under the law – something the Founders sought to avoid by separating legislative, executive and judicial powers.
The U.S. Post Office currently has $14 billion in cash reserves, is funded until August of 2021, and has a $10 billion line of credit that it has not used. Although it is required to be self-supporting, it continues to operate at appalling deficits due to its antiquated processes compounded by a dramatic loss of business to the Internet and private carriers. Last year, the bi-partisan U.S. Postal Commission ordered its operations to be streamlined and modernized...
The so-called equal rights amendment passed the Congress in 1972 with a seven-year deadline for ratification. In that period, it failed to get the required 38 states to ratify it. This year, 40 years late, Virginia became the 38th state to ratify it, while five states have rescinded their earlier ratifications. No matter. With this resolution, the Democrats propose to retro-actively repeal the clear expiration date in the amendment, count all states that have ratified it AFTER it expired and ignore all the states that have since rescinded their ratifications and declare it the 28th Amendment to the Constitution. This is the stuff banana republics are made of.
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