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No Labels, No Primaries: North Carolina Voters Will Be Shut Out of Presidential Nomination Process

October 20, 2023 Process, labels, Presidential, voters, North, Nomination, Carolina, primaries, shut0 comment

Read the WRAL story here on the latest anti-democratic efforts from the No Labels Party Washington, D.C. – As reported by WRAL, thousands of registered voters with the No Labels Party won’t receive a ballot during primary elections in North Carolina, thus preventing voters from participating in their nomination process. Thousands of voters in other states such as Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon, South Dakota, Maine, and Utah may be similarly impacted. Former GOP North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory hasn’t even switched his voter registration, despite being a prominent No Labels Party supporter.…

Reintroduced bills aim to fix hiring process, Social Security benefits for feds

January 25, 2023 hiring, Reintroduced, security, Social, benefits, bills, Feds, Process0 comment

Lawmakers have teed up two familiar bills that differ in their priorities, but that both have implications for federal employees, as well as retirees from the public sector. The first bill, the Chance to Compete Act, aims to revamp longstanding challenges in the federal hiring process. The House passed the bill Tuesday evening in a vote of 422 to 2. The bipartisan legislation would expand the use of shared assessments among different agencies, in effect trying to expand cross-agency hiring. Also under the legislation, subject matter experts (SMEs) would be…

Cross-Dressing Book Given to Pre-K Pupils Forces School District to Revamp Vetting Process

December 12, 2022 vetting, CrossDressing, PreK, Pupils, District, school, revamp, Book, Forces, Process, Given0 comment

A school district that gave preschoolers a book on cross-dressing has changed its procedures for giving out books after news of the incident surfaced late last month. As first reported exclusively by The Lion and The Heartlander news sites, a 4-year-old preschooler in the Turner School District in Kansas City, Kansas, took home the book “Jacob’s New Dress.” It’s a picture book in which a little boy wears girls’ clothes and even competes with his friend Emily to be a princess. “I don’t think this should be, obviously, any kind of a subject for a…

Is the current nomination process hurting national security?

May 26, 2022 Hurting, Process, current, security, Nomination, National0 comment

The nation’s national security may be taking a hit because of the length of time it takes to fill lesser-known, Senate-confirmed positions in the Defense Department, FEMA, Department of Homeland Security and other areas protecting U.S. citizens. That’s according to a new study from the Partnership for Public Service, which studying the amount of time it took to fill security-related nominations in post-9/11 America. The result is that considering the demands faced by natural disasters, global threats and other worrisome aspects of living on earth, the government is taking too…

Congress is working to establish some order for the 2023 budget process

May 2, 2022 Some, working, Process, order, Establish, 2023, Congress, budget0 comment

Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on <a href=”https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/federal-drive-with-tom-temin/id1270799277?mt=2″>Apple Podcasts</a> or <a href=”https://www.podcastone.com/federal-drive-with-tom-temin?pid=1753589″>PodcastOne</a>. Members of Congress know the budget process, their primary mission in life, is a mess. But some efforts are brewing that at least some members hope will get the 2023 budget process under control. The <a href=”https://federalnewsnetwork.com/category/temin/tom-temin-federal-drive/”>Federal Drive with Tom Temin</a> got the latest now from Bloomberg Government deputy news director Loren Duggan. Interview transcript: <blockquote>Tom Temin: Tell us, Loren, what’s going on here with the…

‘Substantive Due Process’ Looms Large in Jackson Hearing

March 23, 2022 large, Looms, Jackson, Hearing, Process, ‘Substantive0 comment

When Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota questioned Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Tuesday afternoon, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont proved they have something in common in addition to being members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Neither of them was in the hearing room. Yet that did not necessarily make them outliers on the committee. A number of senators on the committee did not stay in the room to personally witness Klobuchar’s questioning of Jackson.…