by Family Voices, Inc. | Mar 3, 2022 | Family Voices, Washington Update
“If March comes in like a lion, it will go out like a lamb.” As both chambers of Congress kick off the March legislative work session this week there is likely to be a lot of roaring as they deal with a March 11 government funding deadline, a lengthy list of...
by Family Voices, Inc. | Feb 24, 2022 | Family Voices, Washington Update
Congress is on recess this week for the President’s Day work period. The Senate will return on February 28th and the House will return on March 1st. Although they did not finalize a budget before the recess, they did pass a temporary continuing resolution until March...
by Family Voices, Inc. | Feb 10, 2022 | Family Voices, Washington Update
“Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.” – Rebecca Johnson The Budget: Let’s hope that Congress is doing a lot of talking about the weather AND budget! As the February 18th deadline for the temporary...
by Family Voices, Inc. | Jan 26, 2022 | Family Voices, Washington Update
No Go on Voting Rights and Election Reforms While the legislation did not pass last week, there is a small group of Senators turning last week’s discussions into momentum for a narrower bipartisan effort to reexamine the 1887 law that governs how Congress counts...
by Family Voices, Inc. | Jan 25, 2022 | Family Voices, Vaccine Outreach
1.25.2022 – This chart made in collaboration with GISAID represents countries where genomic sequences are publicly released, so some large countries are not included. It takes about a week for laboratories to identify virus variants, so this data is always...
by Family Voices, Inc. | Jan 25, 2022 | Family Voices, Vaccine Outreach
Nearly 23 million eligible children have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine since the most recent group of 5-to-11-year-olds got the green light late last year and started rolling up their sleeves. Read more.