Fire officials push Congress to help attack growing wildfire threat
Wildfires are a growing threat to every state and fire officials are asking the federal government to step in to help.
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Senators hear the case for cutting Americans’ work week to 32 hours
In 1955, Walter Reuther, head of what was then known as the United Automobile Workers (UAW), told a Senate hearing that coming technological advancements would make a four-day workweek possible.
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Opioid deaths spur push for kids to carry naloxone
ackson Taylor remembers when a peer passed out from an overdose across from his high school. He knows friends who have struggled with addiction. One has been in and out of rehab.
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Lawmakers may dash dreams of high-speed transit
But some Maryland lawmakers vow they won’t let the state pay for one inch of it. Del. Nicole Williams, D-Prince George’s, sponsored the measure this year that would have prohibited any state funding for the project, even though none has yet been requested.
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Maryland lawmakers urge Congress to spend more on Chesapeake Bay restoration
We have oyster crops that we never thought we’d be able to see starting to bloom in the Chesapeake Bay. We’re not at our historic levels, not even close. I understand that. But we’ve made progress.”
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NTSB: Probe of plane door incident hampered by lack of Boeing documents
The head of the federal agency investigating the door plug that blew off of a Boeing 737-MAX 9 in mid-flight in January testified Wednesday investigators do not yet have key documents from the aircraft manufacturer.
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Facing retirement from Congress, Ruppersberger says he is sad to leave
“I’m not happy and I don’t want to leave, but I got five grandchildren,” Ruppersberger, who turned 78 in January, said in an interview with Capital News Service in his memento-filled office with a view of the United States Capitol.
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Retirement crisis threatens current workers, analysts warn
The worsening retirement crisis impacting senior citizens will overtake current workers down the line if not fixed, according to testimony during a Senate hearing Wednesday.
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Deaths in federal prisons draw fire from Senate panel
More than 300 people died of suicides, homicides, and accidents in federal prisons between 2014 and 2021 — numbers that drew fire from a Senate panel Wednesday.
The deaths “too often have been the result of mismanagement and operational failures,” said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, who presided over a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Lawmakers propose task force to probe long-term inequities facing Black women
he persistence of economic, educational and legal disparities in the lives of Black women and girls would be the target of a federal task force recently proposed by a group of House members.
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