Gabby Dance

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday giving federal workers a 2.6 percent pay increase, nullifying President Donald Trump’s administration’s December 2018 decision to freeze federal employee salary rates. This pay increase will put executive branch employees at an equal level with military members in terms of pay raises. The measure reverses … Continued

U.S. Sen. Doug Jones, D-Alabama, sponsored a bipartisan effort to support innovative teacher leadership roles called the Teachers are Leaders Act. Jones introduced this legislation alongside Sen. Chris Coons, D-Deleware; Joni Ernst, R-Iowa; Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa; Cory Gardner, R-Colorado; Chris Murphy, D-Connecticut; Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island; Pat Roberts, R-Kansas; Jim Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, and Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island. … Continued

On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court made a dramatic decision to temporarily allow the Trump administration’s ban on transgender military members as legal battles over the issue continue in lower courts. The court stuck to partisan lines in a 5-to-4 vote to lift two injunctions blocking the policy. The court’s five Republican-appointed justices were in … Continued