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Essentially, even though california has no history of the slave trade. The proposal suggests that every black person shall be paid $5 million. All debt shall be eliminated, home ownership will cost $1. The reparations act will continue for 250 years.

I'm personally for it. I think its idiotic and will crash the economy. Also, even though hardly anyone is 100% black in the US. I suppose it just means if you identity as black, it counts.

The idea is that it will end racism. Seems this will do pretty much the opposite. But i say, let's do it! I want to watch

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-congressman-who-broke-with-gop-is-censured_n_6403a289e4b029d87016807a#
Texas Congressman Who Broke With GOP Is Censured

Republican U. S. Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas was censured Saturday in a rare move by his state party over votes that included supporting new gun safety laws after the Uvalde school shooting in his district.

The Republican Party of Texas voted 57-5 with one abstention, underlining how the two-term congressman’s willingness to break with conservatives on key issues during his short time in office has caused GOP activists and some colleagues to bristle.

That independent streak includes opposing a sweeping House GOP immigration proposal over the U. S.-Mexico border, which includes a large portion of his South Texas district. He has also voted to defend same-sex marriage and was an outright “no” against a House rules package after Republican leader Kevin McCarthy became speaker.
Gonzales was defiant before the vote and did not attend the meeting of Texas GOP leaders and activists in Austin.
“We’ll see how that goes,” he told reporters in San Antonio on Thursday.

A spokesperson for the congressman did not immediately return a message for comment after Saturday’s vote.
The vote followed an hourlong, closed-door executive session in which party members were allowed to debate the resolution.

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/house-republicans-introduce-parents-bill-232810696.html
Parents would have new power over their kids' education under House GOP bill

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans on Thursday introduced The Parents Bill of Rights, which they say would give parents more insight and power into their children's education.

According to a breakdown of the bill from Rep. Julia Letlow, R-La., school districts would be publicly required to post curriculum information, provide parents with a copy of revisions to state education standards, provide parents with the list of books and reading materials available in the library and more.

"You have a say in your kids' education, not government and not telling you what to do," McCarthy said in his remarks.

Activists, parents and families from across the country gathered in the Rayburn Room to tout the new proposal alongside McCarthy, the House Republican Conference chair, Elise Stefanik, House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx and others.

According to Letlow, parents must also be allowed to address their local school board on issues impacting their children's education and must be given a say when schools update privacy policies while schools should be encouraged to consider community feedback in decision making.

The bill would require parental consent before medical exams take place at school, "including mental health or substance use disorder screenings," and inform parents of violent activity at school.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/political-stunt-trump-ohio-visit-130000146.html
Trump’s visit to Ohio derailment gives Biden’s team some breathing room

Donald Trump’s visit to the site of a toxic train derailment in Ohio is offering a political opening to battered Biden administration officials — by calling new attention to the former president’s record of rolling back regulations on both rail safety and hazardous chemicals.

Trump’s administration withdrew an Obama-era proposal to require faster brakes on trains carrying highly flammable materials, ended regular rail safety audits of railroads, and mothballed a pending rule requiring freight trains to have at least two crew members. He also placed a veteran of the chemical industry in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency’s chemical safety office, where she made industry-friendly changes to how the agency studied health risks.

These actions have mostly been a matter of Trump-era trivia amid the furor over the Feb. 3 derailment in East Palestine, which has brought fierce GOP criticism of the response by Biden appointees such as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. But Trump’s Ohio trip on Wednesday is provoking new scrutiny of his own track record — a development that some in the Biden administration were privately welcoming.
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Trump’s administration withdrew an Obama-era proposal to require faster brakes on trains carrying highly flammable materials, ended regular rail safety audits of railroads, and mothballed a pending rule requiring freight trains to have at least two crew members. He also placed a veteran of the chemical industry in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency’s chemical safety office, where she made industry-friendly changes to how the agency studied health risks.

Statistically public restoom incidents account for <2% of sexual assaults in America, but that doesn't mean no action could be taken to make the environment safer!

While neither of these proposals could be carried out in large, busy restrooms like at a concert or sports event—or schools—they could reasonably be practiced in settings like gas stations, retail and grocery stores, libraries, hospitals, churches, restaurants, etc. Where traffic is slower and you're more likely to be alone.

While there are certainly cases where either of these wouldn't work, which proposal do you think would prevent more assaults from happening?

https://apnews.com/article/biden-politics-united-states-government-us-republican-party-2022-midterm-elections-e34c8c31234725e110a7e4f83348ed68
Republicans to adopt loyalty pledge for debate participants

Republican presidential candidates will be blocked from the debate stage this summer if they do not sign a pledge to support the GOP’s ultimate presidential nominee, according to draft language set to be adopted when the Republican National Committee meets next week.

The proposal sets up a potential clash with former President Donald Trump, who has raised the possibility of leaving the Republican Party and launching an independent candidacy if he does not win the GOP nomination outright. While RNC officials and Trump aides downplay that possibility, such a move could destroy the GOP’s White House aspirations in 2024 and raise existential questions about the party’s future.

“After the primary, it is imperative to the health and growth of our Republican Party, as well as the country, that we all come together and unite behind our nominee to defeat Joe Biden and the Democrats,” RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel said in a statement to The Associated Press when asked about the loyalty pledge.

As many as a dozen Republicans are expected to enter the 2024 presidential contest as the GOP braces for an all-out civil war in the months ahead.

Much of the party is eager to move past Trump and his divisive politics, but in reality, Republican leaders have few, if any, tools to control the former president given his popularity with the GOP’s most passionate voters. RNC leaders are hopeful that a loyalty pledge, while ultimately unenforceable, would generate some shared commitment to unity, albeit a fragile one, as the presidential primary season takes off.