In the latest episode of our podcast about the Texas Legislature, Evan Smith talks to state Senate Transportation Chair Robert Nichols about Infrastructure Week and the challenges of getting people and goods from point to point in a fast-growing, rapidly urbanizing state.
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The Protecting the Right to Organize Act sailed through the House with bipartisan support, and labor leaders are hopeful about its prospects in the Senate, where Virginia Senator Tim Kaine is a co-sponsor.
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But a handful of Senate Democrats have yet to commit to supporting the bill. One of those is Senator Mark Warner, who says he has concerns about part of the bill aimed at solving the problem of worker misclassification. Warner spoke to reporters on a conference call Monday. When there were efforts, for example, in California, to turn all independent contractors, so-called gig workers, into traditional employees, the overwhelming majority of Californians voted that bill down, what was called in the PRO Act the ABC test.
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Officer William F. Evans of the Capitol Police, who was killed when a car rammed into him outside the Capitol this month, lay in honor on Tuesday in the building he gave his life protecting, the latest tragedy for a police force still reeling from the mob violence of Jan. 6.
In a ceremony beneath the soaring Capitol Dome, President Biden, grief-stricken fellow officers and leaders of Congress remembered Officer Evans as an unflappable 18-year veteran of the force, whose service was shaped as much by laughter as steadfast loyalty, and a doting father who loved Legos and Harry Potter.