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Jackie Speier

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Name: Jackie Speier

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

John Cornyn

Capitol Hill appalled by sex-case data

After new accounts of retaliation against troops who report sexual assault emerged in a San Antonio Express-News series this week, Washington lawmakers and advocates condemned the military's handling of the issue and expressed growing urgency for ref ... [Published Houston Chronicle - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Sexual Assault, Military/Armed Forces, Jackie Speier, John Cornyn

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 1 hour ago - 2 reports

Rape and winning

_ Maybe the problem is that rape is an extension of military culture. And it's metastasizing, even as legislation to address it stays trapped in congressional subcommittee.Scandals and outrage come and go, but rape is ever-present. In 2011, a Pentagon ... [Published Chicago Tribune - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Military/Armed Forces, Rape, Sexual Assault

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 reports

Danny Davis

Quigley Transparency Bill Passes House Committee

Legislation makes congressional reports from federal agencies accessible online.WASHINGTON – Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform unanimously passed the bipartisan Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act introduced by Representative ... [Published Congressman Mike Quigley - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Mike Quigley, Danny Davis, Ron Kind, John Yarmuth

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 reports

Top IRS official pleads the Fifth during House hearing

WASHINGTON (FOX19) -Hearings continued on Capitol Hill Wednesday as members of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee delved further into the admitted targeting of conservative groups."I have not done anything wrong. I have not broken any laws. ... [Published Fox 19 - May 22 2013]

Entities: Jackie Speier, J Russell George, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subordination

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

GI sex-assault outrage grows

Entities: Sexual Assault, Military/Armed Forces, Joaquín Castro, gastrointestinal

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 2 reports

Military Sexual Assault Tackled by Flurry of Legislation

Spotlight on military cases increases pressure on lawmakers to take actionRoll Call StaffLawmakers last year gave the military the benefit of the doubt that its leaders were working hard to stop the epidemic of sexual assault within their ranks, opting ... [Published Congressman Michael Turner - May 22 2013]

Entities: Military/Armed Forces, Sexual Assault, Chain of Command

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Committee bill would change military judicial code

The Armed Services Personnel subpanel included the provision changing the military’s post-trial review process as well as several other measures in order to address the rise of sexual assault in the military.The legislation was released by Personnel Subcommittee ... [Published The Hill - May 21 2013]

Entities: Joe Wilson, Sexual Assault, Military/Armed Forces

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Thomas D. Elias: Big changes for California's aging congressional delegation

For most of their veteran colleagues remaining, reelection seems all but certain. Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker of the House and current Democratic minority leader, hasn't had a serious challenger since essentially inheriting her San Francisco-based ... [Published Press-Telegram - May 20 2013]

Entities: Thomas D, Nancy Pelosi, Sala Burton, Phil Burton

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Lawmakers introduce bill to extend pregnant workers' protections, cite nursing home case

Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have introduced a bill that would require employers to make reasonable job modifications for pregnant women. The lawmakers were motivated in part by the case of Victoria Serednyj, a nursing home ... [Published McKnight's Long Term Care News - May 20 2013]

Entities: Pregnancy, Workers, American Nurses Association, Susan Davis

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Political Blotter: Speier calls for independent IRS probe

This is a sampling from Bay Area News Group's Political Blotter blog. Read more and post comments at www.ibabuzz.com/politics.May 16Rep. Jackie Speier may be the first Bay Area House member to speak out for digging deeper into the IRS scandal that has ... [Published Marin Independent Journal - May 20 2013]

Entities: Jackie Speier, Kamala Harris, Gun Violence, Los Angeles, Organism

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Facebook shutters page that taunted lawmaker's push to curb military rape

By Bill Briggs, NBC News contributorA "direct threat" against a U.S. congresswoman — posted on a military-oriented Facebook page that graphically belittled her and her efforts to stem sexual misconduct within the branches — has been referred to U.S. Capitol ... [Published NBCNews.com - May 18 2013]

Entities: Jackie Speier, Facebook Inc, Rape, Sexual Assault, Military/Armed Forces

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Rep. Jackie Speier: Independent group should look into IRS

The Internal Revenue Service has had a rough week but the coming months could get even rougher for the agency as lawmakers such as U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, D-San Mateo, have called for an independent commission to investigate it after admissions it improperly ... [Published San Mateo Daily Journal - May 17 2013]

Entities: Jackie Speier, IRS Internal Revenue Service, Steven Miller, Barack Obama

Quotes

"i think we're at a tipping point" said Speier, who wants to create an independent commission that would investigate and prosecute sex-assault cases...

Capitol Hill appalled by sex-case data [Published Houston Chronicle - 1 hour ago]

...want this and the committee tends to be very deferential to what the military wants," Speier told Northern California public TV station KQED. "this is one of those issues where what the military wants is not good enough for all the men and women in the military who want to serve without being jumped by a sexual predator in the night." Note that Speier's legislation is several steps removed from actually identifying and eliminating the root causes of military rape -- which Michigan...

Rape and winning [Published Chicago Tribune - 14 hours ago]

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Capitol Hill appalled by sex-case data [Published Houston Chronicle - 1 hour ago]
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee... [Published Rep. Jackie Speier - YouTube Channel - 2 hours ago]
Lawmakers seek middle ground with new sexual as... [Published The Hill - 6 hours ago]
Quigley Transparency Bill Passes House Committee [Published Congressman Mike Quigley - 9 hours ago]
Rape and winning [Published Chicago Tribune - 14 hours ago]
IRS’s Lois Lerner Pleads the Fifth [Published Frontpagemag.com - 17 hours ago]
GI sex-assault outrage grows [Published MySanAntonio - 18 hours ago]
Top IRS official pleads the Fifth during House ... [Published Fox 19 - May 22 2013]
‘The fight against sexual assault in the milita... [Published NBCNews.com - May 22 2013]
Military Sexual Assault Tackled by Flurry of Le... [Published Congressman Michael Turner - May 22 2013]
Congress steps in to address sexual assault in ... [Published Examiner.com - May 22 2013]
Committee bill would change military judicial code [Published The Hill - May 21 2013]
First it's Sacramento, then local Realtors trav... [Published San Jose Mercury News - May 21 2013]
Thomas D. Elias: Big changes for California's a... [Published Press-Telegram - May 20 2013]
Lawmakers introduce bill to extend pregnant wor... [Published McKnight's Long Term Care News - May 20 2013]
Political Blotter: Speier calls for independent... [Published Marin Independent Journal - May 20 2013]
Democrats seeking office have their eye on Sacr... [Published Los Angeles Times - May 18 2013]
Facebook shutters page that taunted lawmaker's ... [Published NBCNews.com - May 18 2013]
Sexual assaults in military: 'Little monsters' ... [Published Los Angeles Times - May 17 2013]
ABC World News - Military Rape Epidemic [Published Rep. Jackie Speier - YouTube Channel - May 17 2013]
Rep. Jackie Speier: Independent group should lo... [Published San Mateo Daily Journal - May 17 2013]
TSV’s Guide to Fiscal Responsibility [Published Skyline View - May 17 2013]
Carolyn Livengood: Memorial Day to be marked at... [Published San Jose Mercury News - May 17 2013]
Military leaders need to get tough on sexual as... [Published Reading Eagle - May 17 2013]
Abuse of tax loophole led to IRS scandal [Published KGO San Francisco - May 17 2013]
Obama huddles with Hagel, Joint Chiefs on sexua... [Published The Hill - May 17 2013]
Military Justice Improvement Act Introduced in ... [Published Ms. - May 16 2013]
Exploring politics, advocacy [Published San Mateo Daily Journal - May 16 2013]
Congresswoman Speier on CNN's Newsroom with Car... [Published Rep. Jackie Speier - YouTube Channel - May 16 2013]
U.S. Rep. Speier visits Coastside [Published Half Moon Bay Review - May 16 2013]

Blogs

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Reid not ready to support legislation to crack ... [Published Raw Story - May 15 2013] In a gathering with reporters on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that the problem of rampant sexual assault in the military is something the military needs to handle but wouldn’t yet endorse legislation to take reporting ...
Programming notes [Published First Read - May 15 2013] *** Wednesday’s “Jansing & Co.” line-up : Guests include Rep. Karen Bass/(D) House Judiciary Committee on hearing with Eric Holder Today, Dana Milbank/The Washington Post and Matt Welch/Reason Magazine on DOJ and IRS controversies, Debbie Hersman/NTSB ...
House And Senate To Re-introduce Bill To Protec... [Published Think Progress - May 14 2013] The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act is expected to be re-introduced in the Senate and House today, a bill that would require employers to “ make reasonable accommodations to employees stemming from pregnancy , childbirth, or related medical conditions, ...
The Military Can't Handle the Truth [Published TAPPED - May 10 2013] Flickr/West Point Public Affairs The real scandal this week around military sexual violence isn’t the release of the latest in a string of Department of Defense (DOD) reports showing stunning levels of sexual assault—hell, even the DOD estimates ...
Starting to get real. Doing something about the... [Published The Moderate Voice - May 10 2013] This hellbent race to the bottom (“We’re Number 17! We’re Number 17!”) has been a group effort, but the three arms of government — the executive, legislative and judicial branches — that are supposed to be the custodians of our national interests must ...

Audio/Video

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House Oversight and Government Reform Committee... [Published Rep. Jackie Speier - YouTube Channel - 2 hours ago]
ABC World News - Military Rape Epidemic [Published Rep. Jackie Speier - YouTube Channel - May 17 2013]
Congresswoman Speier on CNN's Newsroom with Car... [Published Rep. Jackie Speier - YouTube Channel - May 16 2013]
Congresswoman Speier reacts to the Ft. Hood sca... [Published Rep. Jackie Speier - YouTube Channel - May 15 2013]
Ft. Hood Military Sex Scandal - Congresswoman S... [Published Rep. Jackie Speier - YouTube Channel - May 15 2013]

Press Releases

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FHLBank San Francisco Contributes $540,000 Gran... [Published PR Newswire: Financial Services - Apr 16 2013]