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Legislation would provide service members with 12 weeks of paid parental leave per year and would extend the benefit to scenarios involving miscarriages and stillbirths.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers this week introduced a bill that would extend to military service members the recently implemented paid parental leave program available to federal employees.
On Tuesday, Reps. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., Stephanie Bice, R-Okla., Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., and David Joyce, R-Ohio, introduced the Servicemember Parental Leave Equity Act, which would grant members of the armed services 12 weeks per year of paid leave in the event of the birth, adoption or foster placement of a child. The program mirrors a similar benefit provided to civilian federal workers as part of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., has sponsored similar legislat
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Fight for Virginia GOP state attorney general nomination focuses on law-and-order themes Kerry Picket © Provided by Washington Examiner
The seven-way fight for the Virginia Republican gubernatorial nomination has garnered the bulk of state political media attention this spring, but it s hardly the only statewide contest.
Four candidates are competing against one another Saturday to earn the GOP nomination for state attorney general. Each is promoting a law-and-order and public safety message.
Republicans hoping to be nominated by their party are Leslie Haley, a Chesterfield County supervisor, Virginia Beach state Del. Jason Miyares, Virginia Beach attorney Chuck Smith, and Northern Virginia lawyer Jack White.