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Cindy Chung takes over the top job after serving as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania since 2014.

Legislation to Promote Workforce Diversity in Allied Health Professions Re-Introduced in Congress (Washington, DC) US Senators Robert Casey (D-PA) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and US Representatives Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) and Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), introduced the Allied Health Workforce Diversity Act (HR 3320/S 1679) in the House of Representatives and US Senate. This legislation would provide grants to increase opportunities for individuals who are from underrepresented backgrounds, including students who are from racial and ethnic minority groups, in the professions of occupational therapy,...

Catherine Cortez Masto ( D-NV) introduced the bipartisan Supporting And Empowering the Nation to Improve Outcomes That Reaffirm Careers, Activities, and Recreation for the Elderly (SENIOR CARE) Act to lift the Ticket To Work Program's Medicaid age restriction and to allow for seniors over the age of 65 to continue to work and keep their Medicaid coverage. Senators Portman and Casey first introduced the SENIOR CARE Act in 2019. The Ticket To Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 brought in new opportunities to increase workforce participation, including the ability for people with d...

LebTown January 8, 2021 5 min read Corridors and chambers of the US Capitol were temporarily seized Wednesday, Jan. 6, in an unprecedented breach of the nation’s power center by an armed and politically-motivated mob. Doomed as it may have been, the apparent coup attempt served as a visceral reminder of the dangers of misinformation, leaving four dead. Misinformation also placed one local representative quite literally in harm’s way. In a tweet that has since been deleted, Lebanon County’s congressman Rep. Dan Meuser stated that he “stayed back trying to help secu...

Take up and pass the butch lewis act. we couldn't reach an agreement to do that, but now we have a process and potentially the means and motivation to get it done. there were so many senators, led by senator brown, who were responsible for this. i want to acknowledge him and senators casey and manchin, baldwin, and heitkamp who worked so long and hard on pensions. the budget deal also includes long-awa long-awaited disaster relief for texas, louisiana, florida, the western states, puerto rico, and the u.s. virgin islands. many of these places are still taking their first steps on the long marc...