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The largest public pension fund in Washington, D.C. has successfully purged its $6.4 billion fund of all direct holdings in fossil fuels, city council members and climate activists announced Monday.
The District of Columbia Retirement Board (DCRB) spent the last few years quietly selling off $6.5 million in oil, natural gas and coal investments, amounting to a mere tenth of 1 percent of the organization's total holdings, but made the public announcement at a press conference on Monday.
When Jeysson Minota bailed out of jail, he didn’t know within a week that he would end up on a respirator with a collapsed lung in the Intensive Care Unit at the Valley Medical Center. In jail, he didn’t know that the pain in his chest shortening his breath was actually a growing mass that was stretching his sternum, tearing wires inside of him from a previous operation.
He just knew, as someone who had made it through open heart surgery five years prior, that he needed medical treatment desperately, and he wasn’t going to get it in the Santa Clara County jail.
"I'm informed that, you think that within 30 minutes the seven of you could make the internet unusable for the entire nation, is that correct?"
That question came from Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) on May 19, 1998, while speaking with members of a Cambridge, Massachusetts hacker group known as The L0pht.
"That's correct. Actually one of us with just, a few packets," said Peiter Zatko, who is better known by his hacker pseudonym of Mudge.
WASHINGTON — When North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) signed HB 2 into law in March, with the swish of a pen, he overturned all of the state’s local ordinances that protected lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from being discriminated against.
But there was another consequence to the sweeping anti-LGBT law: It wiped out local anti-discrimination protections for veterans, too.
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PRESS CONFERENCE ADVISORY:
REP. TED LIEU AND ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE–LOS ANGELES PRESS CONFERENCE ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND FILIPINO IMMIGRANT GUESTWORKERS
On June 9, 2016, Congressman Ted Lieu along with Asian Americans Advancing Justice–Los Angeles (Advancing Justice–LA) will host a public press conference on the current state of human trafficking and Filipino Immigrant Guestworkers receiving Nonimmigrant Visas.
In recognition of Congressional Foster Youth Shadow Day, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Calif.) hosted a screening of the award-winning television show “The Fosters,” followed by a panel discussion for an audience of over 200 foster youth, national policy experts, congressional staff and Congress members.
Congressman Ted Lieu welcomed young constituents during Foster Youth Shadow Day. (photo courtesy of Congressman Ted Lieu’s Office)
Lieu also hosted a former foster youth who closely shadowed him and experienced the life of a member of Congress for a day.
South Bay Rep. Ted Lieu says the U.S. Postal Service has a “systemic” issue with mail delivery problems in parts of western Los Angeles County that repeatedly requires his district staff to assist frustrated constituents.
Lieu, D-Manhattan Beach, said that while the USPS resolves issues that include misdirected or nondelivered mail in 97 percent of the cases, complaints persist with no end in sight to the “spotty” delivery.
DALLAS—Stockholders at Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's largest private-sector oil company, passed a proposal yesterday to nominate outside candidates to the board, a move that could affect the company's decisions on climate change.
New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, the fiduciary for New York city's five public pension funds, which invests about $150 billion, filed the proxy access resolution, which received 62 percent support.
Today’s Washington Brief
Law360, New York (May 24, 2016, 10:22 PM ET) -- A bipartisan pair of House lawmakers on Monday pressed their colleagues to do more to protect the security of their online communications, including by using end-to-end encryption and employing more complex passwords, saying it was "frightening" how easily hackers could gain access to their devices.
In a "dear colleague" letter sent to fellow members of the U.S. House of Representatives, Reps. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., and Will Hurd, R-Texas, advocated for the improvement of the "security culture" within the lower chamber.