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This week, Rep. Dan Newhouse (WA-04) introduced The Federal Employee Return to Work Act to crack down on wasteful government spending and incentivize federal employees to return to in-person work. Federal employees who telework from home currently receive annual locality bonuses despite not being required to physically attend their offices located in a high-cost-of-living area. This bill is the House companion to U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana’s bill.
Over the past few years, our nation has grappled with an unprecedented surge in illegal border crossings. America is the land of immigrants, but our current system is broken and in need of serious reforms. Since 2021, there have been over 10 million illegal migrant encounters nationwide, and roughly 2 million known “gotaways” who were able to evade Customs and Border Protection (CBP). These are just the cases we are aware of.
With new and improving clean energy sources on the rise across the country, this Clean Energy Week I am highlighting our most reliable form of baseload energy: hydropower.