A group of GOP House members sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Monday demanding answers about a leaked memo describing what they called "blanket denial of religious accommodation" to the military's COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
Fifteen Republican members of Congress, led by Reps. Jim Banks of Indiana and Darrell Issa of California, were responding to a partially leaked internal memo by the Pentagon's Acting Inspector General Sean O'Donnell to Austin written in June, but circulated on Sept. 2.
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Richard L. Jackson recalls the decision he was weighing as he sat on an airplane traveling from Tri-Cities Airport back to Atlanta.
Jackson, chairman and CEO of Jackson Healthcare, had spent part of his weekend taking a whirlwind tour of an antibiotics factory in Bristol, Tennessee, after being urged to do so by a trustee he knew. When he arrived at the facility, Jackson was greeted by a handful of workers, whom he described as “salt of the earth, hard-working and very passionate about what they do and how they save lives.”
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Representative Diana Harshbarger (R-TN-01) joined her colleagues Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA-01) and Rep. Blake Moore (R-UT-01) to introduce the Pharmacist Conscience Protection Act, legislation that would strengthen the rights of pharmacists who object to abortion on moral, religious, conscience, or medical judgment grounds.
A group of House GOP members has introduced legislation that would give pharmacists the power to refuse to provide abortion-inducing drugs, undermining recent guidance from the Biden administration warning that pharmacists who do not provide the medications could face legal and financial penalties.
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A group of House GOP members has introduced legislation that would give pharmacists the power to refuse to provide abortion-inducing drugs, undermining recent guidance from the Biden administration warning that pharmacists who do not provide the medications could face legal and financial penalties.
WASHINGTON – Representative Diana Harshbarger (R-TN-01) introduced the Protecting Our Homeland From Chinese Espionage Act, legislation to safeguard American intellectual property and special intelligence from theft by the Chinese Communist Party.
This legislation follows a pattern of Chinese espionage attempts, targeting sensitive national security information.
Contractors and subcontractors are vulnerabilities that China may attempt to exploit for access to sensitive data at the Department of Homeland Security.
Rep. Diana Harshbarger, R-Tenn., told Newsmax on Monday that "China is the biggest national security threat that we face in this country," because there are "so many things that they can do to embed" spying software.
Harshbarger said on "National Report" that "we know from … previous interactions with the Department of Homeland Security that there have been breaches with subcontractors in China, where they embedded bugs for software to spy on us, and that leads to security threats all over the country."
SEYMOUR — Rep. Diana Harshbarger made a stop in Seymour on Friday morning to meet with some of her supporters and discuss issues facing the country.
Harshbarger represents District 1 in Congress, which includes parts of Sevier and Jefferson counties, and all of Carter, Cocke, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi and Washington counties.
For the first time in over two decades, Jefferson County is almost entirely in the First Congressional District – and incumbent Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-Kingsport) is more than happy.
“You all are a good fit with me,” she said Tuesday, during a visit to Jefferson City that included a stop at The Standard Banner. “I would have took it all, but they wouldn’t give it to me,” she added, referring to redistricting that earlier this year moved most of the county out of the Second Congressional District into the First.