MIL-OSI USA: Equal pay for equal work
Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan (Northern Mariana Islands) Fifty-five years after President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act, barring pay discrimination “on the basis of sex,” a woman still makes only 80 cents, on average, for every dollar earned by a man. To address this continuing injustice, I have […]
Read More →MIL-OSI USA: The Blue Wave was a White Wave
Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan (Northern Mariana Islands) The Blue Wave was a White Wave on Tuesday before the State of the Union address. Democratic women dressed in white—and men wore a white ribbon—to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote nationwide. […]
Read More →MIL-OSI USA: Child care help for veterans
Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan (Northern Mariana Islands) To make it easier for veterans to get mental health and other intensive health services, H.R. 840 provides for child care while vets are receiving treatment. On Friday, the House passed H.R. 840, the Veterans’ Access to Child Care Act, […]
Read More →MIL-OSI USA: Collected Department Releases: Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad Travels to Belgium, Germany, Turkey, Qatar, Afghanistan, and Pakistan
Source: United States Department of State Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad will lead an interagency delegation to Belgium, Germany, Turkey, Qatar, Afghanistan, and Pakistan from February 10 – 28. This trip is part of an overall effort to facilitate a peace process that protects U.S. national security interests and brings all Afghan parties […]
Read More →MIL-OSI USA: Press Releases: Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad Travels to Belgium, Germany, Turkey, Qatar, Afghanistan, and Pakistan
Source: United States Department of State Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad will lead an interagency delegation to Belgium, Germany, Turkey, Qatar, Afghanistan, and Pakistan from February 10 – 28. This trip is part of an overall effort to facilitate a peace process that protects U.S. national security interests and brings all Afghan parties […]
Read More →MIL-OSI USA: Honoring Chinese railroad workers
Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan (Northern Mariana Islands) Over 12,000 Chinese immigrant workers played a vital role in the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad, which transformed the way Americans traveled and how goods were distributed. As we come upon the 150th anniversary of the completion of the […]
Read More →MIL-OSI USA: 107 cosponsors for sharks
Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan (Northern Mariana Islands) The number of cosponsors for our Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act of 2019 has hit the century mark and continues to grow. There are now 21 Republicans among the 107 cosponsors. Saving sharks and protecting our ocean ecosystem is a bipartisan issue. […]
Read More →MIL-OSI USA: Meeting with Miami Students
Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan (Northern Mariana Islands) Fox News senior producer for Capitol Hill, Chad Pergram, regularly brings students from his alma mater, Miami University-Ohio, to talk with me as part of their Inside Washington program. On Wednesday, we had another of these frank, off-the-record conversation about […]
Read More →MIL-OSI USA: Tell your typhoon story
Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan (Northern Mariana Islands) We are continuing to collect Typhoon Stories from constituents who lived through Typhoon Mangkhut and Super Typhoon Yutu. To make it easier, we have set up a short survey that aims to capture the Marianas’ journey to recovery: how people […]
Read More →MIL-OSI USA: Governors lead on climate change
Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan (Northern Mariana Islands) Governors Charlie Baker and Roy Cooper belong to the bipartisan U.S. Climate Alliance, a group of Governors working on climate solutions. They testified on Wednesday, as the House Natural Resources Committee began a series of hearings on what we need to […]
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