Diversity Management, News and Updates
Even though he has had a Korean American daughter-in-law for more than four decades, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley (who, at 88, is the oldest member of the Senate) still doesn’t appear to know how to avoid using racist or otherwise harmful language while at the Capitol. Kimmy Yam of NBC…
UPDATE: 2:15 p.m. ET Sen. Flake Calls for Delay of Kavanaugh Senate Floor Vote Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), who has a deciding vote, said he would not support final confirmation until the F.B.I. investigates accusations of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh. “I have been speaking with a number of people…
In response to a study that shows half of all autistic children wander away from their caretakers, the U.S. Senate Judicial Committee is moving forward with a measure that will allow and fund tracking devices to be placed in children with autism. Under this proposed bill Congress would allocate $2…
A bipartisan effort to prevent sexual harassment on Capitol Hill hit the Senate on Tuesday. The “Senate Training on Prevention of Sexual Harassment Resolution,” or the “STOP Sexual Harassment Resolution,” was proposed by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). The measure would require newly elected individuals to complete a proposed training within…
David Perdue, a Republican senator from Georgia, has described it as “a Rubik’s cube with five dimensions,” although it may, at times, seem more like a hostage negotiation. Republicans have talked about handling “Dreamers” (young undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children) more harshly than Obama’s administration had….
The war on drugs of the 1980s and mandatory minimum sentences have both contributed to the United States comprising approximately 25 percent of the world’s prison population despite representing about 5 percent of the world’s total population. However, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) is taking a stand against bipartisan legislation to…
