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I am proud to be an original co-sponsor of JUSTICE Act legislation introduced in the Senate by Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C. and in the House by Rep. Peter Stauber, R-Minn. The bill incentivizes law enforcement agencies to implement best practices, enhance training, and reform use of force guidelines. It also includes other important reforms.
Democrats and Republicans continue to battle over how far to go with police reform. Pennsylvania Republican Fred Keller is all-in on the Senate Republican bill, that has the president’s support.
“Sen. Tim Scott had put out a good framework and a good bill and that’s the bill we’re really supporting,” Keller said of the JUSTICE Act.
U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia recently traveled to Beaver Springs, Pennsylvania, where he joined Rep. Fred Keller (PA-12) for a tour of Conestoga Wood Specialties and a meeting with employees and leadership to discuss workplace safety and reopening the economy. Earlier in the day, Secretary Scalia joined Small Business Administrator Jovita Carranza and Rep.
On April 13, 1918, a prisoner from the Los Angeles County Jail was sent north to the California State Prison at San Quentin. The prisoner was sick at the time he was transferred; he had suffered “pains over his body accompanied by fever,” a San Quentin doctor, a noted eugenicist, wrote in a public health report.
“I was disgusted by even the allegations,” Virginia Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger said.
Spanberger is talking about accusations that some lawmakers may have used insider information to profit during the coronavirus pandemic.