Updated Jan. 13, 2021 1:17 pm ET
President-elect Joe Biden has chosen more women for his cabinet than his six predecessors had at the start of their administrations, according to new research from the Brookings Institution, after women played a key role in his November election win.
The research from the Washington think tank, which was shared with The Wall Street Journal, also found that Mr. Biden’s planned cabinet nominations are on par with those of former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton when it comes to minority representation. Overall, Mr. Biden is on track to have the most diverse group of nominees for Senate-confirmed positions, including those that aren’t in the cabinet, the Brookings report said.
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DHS will start the COVID-19 vaccines in eight locations, but officials hope to expand the offering nationwide.
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The Homeland Security Department has begun vaccinating its employees against COVID-19, joining five other federal agencies that have received distributions for internal use.
DHS has partnered with the Veterans Affairs Department to get the shots into employees arms, so far setting up vaccination sites at eight VA facilities. The two departments reached an agreement to use DHS’ vaccine allotment provided through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but with VA staff administering the actual shots.
VA has already received its own distribution of nearly 940,000 vaccine doses and has initiated inoculations for more than 250,000. It has so far used about one-in-four of the vaccines it has received, lagging behind the one-in-three used by the nation as a whole. A VA spokesman said it has used 340,000
The director of Illinois' Veteran Affairs Department is leaving the post. Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Monday the departure of Linda Chapa LaVia was a ``mutual decision."
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) The director of Illinois’ Veteran Affairs Department is leaving the post, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Monday. Pritzker said the departure of Linda Chapa LaVia was a.
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In a party-line vote, commission members issued a final rule stripping union officials from access to official time to work on colleagues’ discrimination complaints and tried to exempt the regulation from the Congressional Review Act.
Members of the federal agency tasked with eliminating workplace discrimination voted 3-2 along party lines Thursday to strip union federal employees of their right to official time to work on discrimination complaints, undoing nearly 50 years of precedent.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guarantees official time to federal employees working on their colleagues’ discrimination claims, a policy intended to help victims feel more comfortable and navigate a complicated and difficult adjudication process.