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The United States Postal Service has temporarily suspended activity at multiple Houston-area facilities until further notice due to the impact of Tropical Storm Imelda.
Despite damage experienced at the north Houston mail processing facility, USPS says it is "working daily to return to full operations, as soon as we can safely do so."
USPS released the following statement Monday:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – La congresista Sylvia García (TX-29) se unió a sus colegas en la Cámara de Representantes para aprobar la ley bipartidista FAIR (por sus siglas en inglés), que pondría fin al uso forzado del arbitraje en los conflictos de consumidores, trabajadores, derechos civiles, y antimonopolio. Actualmente, más de 60 millones de trabajadores no pueden demandar a su empleador en un tribunal público si han sido despedidos o se enfrentan a un acoso ilegal.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) joined her colleagues in the House of Representatives to pass the bipartisan FAIR Act, which would end the use of forced arbitration in consumer, worker, civil rights, and antitrust disputes. Currently more than 60 million workers are unable to sue their employer in public court if they have been terminated or faced unlawful harassment. Forced arbitration has permitted employers and corporations to create a privatized justice system where the constitution's protections are manipulated in their favor.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Hoy, la congresista Sylvia García del distrito 29 de Texas se unió a sus colegas en la Cámara de Representantes para aprobar su proyecto de ley, la Ley de Protección de Informantes de PCAOB de 2019.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) was joined by her colleagues in the House of Representatives to pass her bill, the PCAOB Whistleblower Protection Act of 2019. This is Congresswoman Garcia's first bill to pass the House of Representatives, and it would establish a whistleblower protection program at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), like a program at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
A new Congressional bill proposes to offer cash bounties to people who voluntarily provide original information on potential audit-related violations to the U.S. regulator of audit firms.
The bill, called "PCAOB Whistleblower Protection Act of 2019," proposes to establish a whistleblower program at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board that will be similar to the whistleblower program at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The bill was passed Thursday in the U.S. House of Representatives, and will be considered by the Senate next.
The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Sept. 18 on oversight of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), examining specifically whether to reauthorize four provisions of the act set to expire in December. One could be forgiven for missing the hearing amidst the deluge of news this week.
For Part Two of BELatina's Hispanic Heritage Month series "Know Your Latina Congresswomen," we're highlighting a few of the Latinas who are helming "majority-minority" communities, all of which happen to be located in Southern California.
IT'S IMPOSSIBLE to truly make an informed judgment or assessment about how HOUSE DEMOCRATS' JUDICIARY hearing with COREY LEWANDOWSKI went Tuesday. Because no one has any idea what the party's end goal is.