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24 Aug, 5 tweets, 2 min read
.@JacksonLeeTX18 and @RepTerriSewell with a group of Texas House Dems for a presser on today’s #HR4 vote
Rep. Jackson Lee notes/gives the TX Dems some credit for wthe addition of an anti-regression provision to #HR4: “We will move next to the senate and make sure they uphold the banner of courage.”
.@NicoleCollier95: “we left Texas because the fix was in…we came to Washington because the answer is here….we are grateful for the action of the house to protect our freedom to vote.”
Rep. Jackson Lee says the group of TX Dems here today will be meeting with Speaker Pelosi today
Rep. Collier describes the current TX special legislative session as a “sham, COVID-laden” session

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Good morning from the Senate, where the group of 8 Senate Dems who have spent the last several weeks working on a revised voting/democracy reform bill are set to unveil their final product, called the Freedom to Vote Act, a slimmed-down HR1/S1 cnn.com/2021/09/14/pol…
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13 Sep
NEW from me on OSHA:
Legal challenges to Biden's vaccine/test mandate aside, experts described the federal agency tasked with enforcing them to me as "woefully understaffed" and "rather toothless" when it comes to exacting fines from offending employers
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OSHA has an estimated 1 inspector per 82,881 workers, nowhere near the resources to proactively enforce the vax/test mandate everywhere —this means it'll fall to 1) employers voluntarily complying and 2) employees actively filing complaints
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31 Aug
I have to say I love the bell they use in the Texas house #txlege
Texas house approves conference committee report of election bill #SB1 80-41 — heads next to the the state senate #txlege
TX house now discussing HR 123, which would express “the sense of the house” towards the the aim of the Cain amendment or Crystal Mason amendment to #SB1 (which was removed in the conference committee) to prevent people for being prosecuted for unknowingly voting while ineligible
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25 Aug
Wild story from WaPo: Reps. Seth Moulton (D-MA) and Peter Meijer (R-MI) “made an unauthorized whirlwind trip to Kabul early Tuesday, leaving less than 24 hours later on a flight used for evacuating U.S. citizens, allies and vulnerable Afghans.” washingtonpost.com/politics/congr…
The trip “was not approved as part of the normal process for congressional fact-finding trips — served as a distraction for military and civilian staffers attempting to carry out frenzied rescue efforts, according to two people familiar with the trip” washingtonpost.com/politics/congr…
I was wondering why those 2 voted by proxy earlier, now we know!
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