Federal disability programs: www.ssa.gov/disability/
Congressional Budget Office projections: http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=12375
Government Accountability Office report: www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-724
Congress: in pro forma Session … until 9/6
The Senate will meet on the following dates and times for pro-forma sessions only with no business conducted:
– Friday, August 5th at 10:00am,
– Tuesday, August 9th at 11:00am,
– Friday, August 12th at 12:00pm,
– Tuesday, August 16th at 11:00am,
– Friday, August 19th at 10:00am,
– Tuesday, August 23rd at 2:30pm,
– Friday, August 26th at 11:15am,
– Tuesday, August 30th at 10:00am,
– Friday, September 2nd at 10:00am;
When the Senate convenes at 10:00am on Friday, September 2nd, it will adjourn until 2:00pm on September 6, 2011. Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will be in morning business until 5:00pm with Senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each.
Following morning business, the Senate will be in Executive Session to consider Calendar #109, Bernice Bouie Donald, of Tennessee, to be United States Circuit Judge for the 6th Circuit with 30 minutes of debate equally divided and controlled between Senators Leahy and Grassley.
The next roll call votes will be at 5:30pm on Tuesday, September 6th. The first roll call vote will be on confirmation of the Donald nomination. The 2nd will be a cloture vote on the motion to proceed to H.R.1249, the Patent Reform bill.
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The next meeting is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on August 23, 2011.
CURRENT HOUSE FLOOR PROCEEDINGS
LEGISLATIVE DAY OF AUGUST 23, 2011
112TH CONGRESS – FIRST SESSION
10:04 A.M. – The Speaker announced that the House do now adjourn pursuant to sections 3 and 4 of H.Res 375. The next meeting is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on August 26, 2011.
10:03 A.M. – DISPENSING WITH LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS – Pursuant to section 4 of H.Res. 375, the Chair announced that no legislative business would be conducted on this day.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG – The Chair led the the House in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.
10:02 A.M. – JOURNAL APPROVED – The Chair announced that pursuant to section 5 of H.Res. 375, the Journal of the last day’s proceedings was approved.
10:01 A.M. – Today’s prayer was offered by Reverend Mark Farr, Faith& Politics Institute, Washington, DCThe Speaker designated the Honorable Jeff Denham to act as Speaker pro tempore for today.
10:00 A.M. – The House convened, starting a new legislative day.
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Obama Administration provides some relief to immigrant communities
DHS’s announcement:
All current deportation cases to be reviewed
For the past few months, you’ve called and petitioned the White House and the Department of Homeland Security asking for them to show some courage and protect our immigrant communities. Our demands have been heard and the Administration has taken a step in the right direction to fixing our broken immigration system.
Yesterday, senior administration officials announced that all 300,000 cases currently in deportation proceedings will be reviewed by DHS, one-by-one, in an effort to focus purely on “high-priority” cases of criminals and individuals who pose a serious threat to the US. Cases deemed “low-priority” will be completely removed from the case log and, non-criminal immigrants once facing deportation, will have the possibility to obtain work permits.
The announcement is the first pro-immigrant procedural change that will provide some relief to DREAMers, LGBT spouses, victims of domestic abuse, and other non-criminal immigrants currently in deportation proceedings.
While the announcement is complicated, we’ve summarized the procedural changes DHS has announced they’ll make.
This is an important step in the right direction. We urge the Administration to enforce this policy vigorously and follow it through to its full logical and moral conclusion: suspend deportations of all those who work hard every day to create better lives for themselves and their families.
Congrats on this victory, and thanks for all you do,
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Working Families Defeat Two Walker Republicans …support Unions
The strike by some 45,000 Verizon workers, members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the Electrical Workers (IBEW), continued into its third day today as workers across the country offer support to the strikers, whose struggle reflects the situation for millions of workers.
Rather than reward the hard work of Verizon employees who have provided the quality service that earned the company more than $32.5 billion in revenue over the past three years, management continues to insist on cuts that total $1 billion. These workers have played by the rules—and now Verizon wants to break them.
Verizon’s concession demands would strip away the standard of living workers have gained through bargaining over the past 50 years, workers say.
It is all too common for workers to face the prospect of losing benefits even though you have worked hard and valued your work, IBEW President Edwin Hill says:
This is a company with a $100 billion dividend. The top five company executives were paid more than a quarter of a billion dollars over the past four years. If a company like this is not willing to provide wages and benefits to enable its workers to be part of the mainstream middle class in America, then all who work for a living have reason to fear.
Click here to demand that Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam value employees’ work and share his corporation’s success with those who make it possible. Click here for a list of picket sites in the New York and New Jersey area.
You also can click here to sign and tweet an act.ly petition demanding Verizon drop its outrageous concessionary demands.
To tweet about the strike, use the hashtag #verizonstrike and feel free to direct to @VZLaborfacts.
The company also paid nothing (that’s ZERO) in corporate income taxes. In fact, it actually received nearly $1 billion in tax benefits from the federal government during that time, according to the Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ).
In fact, if Verizon had paid its corporate income tax at the official rate of 35 percent, it would have owed more than $11 billion, according to CTJ. This alone would have been enough to avoid the recent cuts in the debt deal to student loan programs.
Read updates on the strike at www.cwa-union.org/verizon.
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