The Carl Vinson VA Medical Center announced new solutions Friday to improve wait times and work shortages with the aim of providing better care for our veterans.
According to Manuel Davila, Executive Director of the Dublin VA, recruitment and retention of staff is their biggest challenge. However, he emphasized veteran care is their top priority and said the VA is working hard to address… Read more »
BY REP. RICK W. ALLEN (R-GA.), OPINION CONTRIBUTOR - 03/15/23 5:35 PM ET
In 2021, life expectancy in the United States sadly dropped to its lowest levels in two decades, largely driven by the spread of illicit, opioid drugs, which killed more than 80,000 Americans (and more than 1,700 Georgians) last year.
That same year, federal… Read more »
Rep Rick Allen (R-GA), co-signer on H.J.Res.30 introduced February 7, 2023 by Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY), spoke on the House Floor against the Biden Administration Labor Department rule regarding ESG investment in long-term investment funds. Citing the Administration’s emphasis on supporting “its radical green new deal agenda” to the detriment of the American people and their financial… Read more »
By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times - Tuesday, February 28, 2023
The House voted to thwart a new rule from the Biden administration on Tuesday allowing 401(k) fund managers to consider climate change and social justice politics when investing clients’ savings, a move that could pave the way for President Biden’s first veto.
The GOP-led chamber voted 216-204, with… Read more »
By Renetta DuBose
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – It starts with an idea. And people who tap theClubhou.se in the Georgia Cyber Center for help launching that plan can eventually see it turn into a small business.
“The great economy that we had before COVID, 70 percent of those new jobs were created by entrepreneurs,” said Rep. Rick Allen, (R) Georgia.
Congressman Allen… Read more »
The House Communications and Technology Subcommittee in the 118th Congress has new leadership and members. Below we offer a brief look at the broadband priorities for this key panel.
The subcommittee has jurisdiction over “electronic communications, both interstate and foreign, including voice, video, audio and data, whether transmitted by wire or wirelessly, and whether… Read more »
By CHARLES CHIEPPO
THE LATEST real-life parable that reminds us why the Founding Fathers made secret-ballot elections a centerpiece of American democracy comes from a distinctly 21st-century source – the video game industry.
In recent months, the Communication Workers of America (CWA) has been working to unionize Proletariat, a Boston-based studio owned by gaming… Read more »
By T.A. DeFeo | The Center Square contributor
(The Center Square) — Like everything in modern political times, the reaction to President Joe Biden’s Tuesday evening State of the Union address fell along party lines.
U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Georgia, said Biden "failed miserably" when given "the world stage last night, with the opportunity to address the struggles our country,… Read more »
On February 2, Reps. Suzan Delbene (D-WA), Tim Walberg (R-MI), Angie Craig (D-MN), Ron Estes (R-KS), Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ), and Rick Allen R-GA) introduced bipartisan legislation to expand access to employer-sponsored telehealth benefits.
The “Telehealth Benefit Expansion for Workers Act” would allow employers to offer workers stand-alone telehealth benefits, like dental and vision… Read more »
By Ron Southwick
Democrats and Republicans in Congress are pushing a bill that they would said would provide a permanent expansion of access to telehealth.
Several House members are backing legislation that would allow employers to offer standalone telehealth benefits, similar to vision or dental plans.
Lawmakers said under the legislation, the telehealth benefit wouldn’t… Read more »
