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The charge that this would allow a woman's boss to prevent her from obtaining an abortion is a true outrage. It is a disgusting red herring. This bill would allow employers to continue to have the freedom to decline to pay for abortions…
Predictably, our colleagues are misrepresenting the contents of this bill. This bill does not affect any abortion provider who currently performs the procedure and who wishes to continue. If the Conscience Protection Act becomes law…
I introduced S. 3234, the Indian Community and Economic Enhancement Act of 2016, along with Senator McCain.
I think we have a moral obligation to make sure that every one of them has an equal opportunity, and that starts with a great education.
A U.S. Senator from the State of North Carolina
Mr. Meadows. I thank the gentleman. This has been a good hearing.
We need within a 60-day timeframe for you to get back to this committee on how you are going to resolve the outstanding issues with the IG.
But any time that we build two prisons 75 miles apart that really are not being occupied and really don't have--unless you are going to ship in Federal inmates from outside the Navajo territory, it is going to be very hard to fill it up.
Mr. Meadows. What concerns me is not just with the hard-working American taxpayer dollar that we are looking at in this $32 million discrepancy.
So, so they adjusted the master plan that they started with. I guess you adjusted it after the laws were passed, thinking that it was going to change.
Yes, I am very aware of those. Like I say, I have got Native American tribes in my area, and they actually lobbied for some of that. But it doesn't necessarily translate into additional inmates.
But with the lack of specificity with regards to, you know, it is almost like we have this unbelievable outbreak of crime on the Navajo facility that we start to build these huge facilities that we can't staff and we don't have enough…
I continue to get a disproportionate number of people who are saying their premiums are going up or their companies are going out of business.
I want whistleblowers, in the industry, to let us know.
Somewhere in the middle is where we need to be. Wouldn't you agree?
We are not going to tolerate this kind of chilling effect on this industry.
This retaliatory environment is very concerning.