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Aeronautical Repair Station Association Executive Vice President Christian A. Klein released the following statement in the wake of Senate passage of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization bill (H.R. 302 as amended) on Oct. 3 by a vote of 93 to 6. The bill, which overwhelmingly passed the House on Sep.
The 50,000 Flight Attendants at 20 airlines represented by the Association of Flight Attendants–CWA, AFL-CIO (AFA), today cheered the passage of a five-year FAA Reauthorization Bill including a 10 hour minimum rest provision to combat Flight Attendant fatigue.
House Democrats are still holding out hope that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh isn’t confirmed, but if he is and they win the majority in November, they’ll launch investigations of their own.
It was reminiscent of women's support for Anita Hill in 1991. During an executive meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee the day after hearing testimonies from Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh, a group of House Democratic women protested the Kavanaugh confirmation vote. The group had been in the audience watching the committee's discussion about the Supreme Court nominee.
House Democratic women marched over to the other side of the Capitol on Friday to join their Senate colleagues in registering their opposition to the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh. As Democratic senators left the Judiciary Committee hearing room in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, their House colleagues assembled in a show of support. “Our call today is for mercy,” Texas Rep.
On the same morning Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about a high school party at which she says U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her, Congressman Jared Huffman called for his confirmation proceedings to be postponed.
The three women in Michigan's congressional delegation on Thursday expressed solidarity with Christine Blasey Ford as her testimony on Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination got underway before a U.S. Senate panel. Ford has accused the federal appeals court judge of sexual assault when they were both in high school. Kavanaugh has strongly denied the allegations.
The Human Rights Campaign is urging voters to support LGBTQ rights this November. As part of National Voter Registration Day, the Human Rights Campaign is pursuing a two-pronged approach asking Americans to become so-called “Equality Voters” in the 2018 midterm elections.
The Democratic Women’s Working Group has a Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) problem. A battle is brewing for control of the little-known caucus aiming to boost its profile and influence in the next Congress. “Pelosi and her allies deny the fight is about her,” Rachael reports. “But the mini-rebellion is emerging as another test of the minority leader’s newly strained hold on power ...
Fueled by rage and a surge of women naming those they say sexually harassed or assaulted them, the #MeToo movement has brought the swift downfall of many powerful federal officials over the past year. Among those dispatched: One senator, eight House members and three congressional candidates. One federal judge. Two White House aides.