PA Bill Number: HB2235
Title: Providing for regulation of the meat packing and food processing industry by creating facility health and safety committees in the workplace; ...
Description: Providing for regulation of the meat packing and food processing industry by creating facility health and safety committees in the workplace; ... ...
Last Action: Referred to LABOR AND INDUSTRY
Last Action Date: Apr 25, 2024
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37th District: Reschenthaler is the reform-minded Senate choice :: 10/29/2015
There are campaigns and then there are fights. The contest to fill the vacant seat in the state Senate’s 37th District is the latter.
Blood Porn at The Trace and The Washington Post :: 10/29/2015
Tim Wheeler at Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership writes: As public opinion and consequently firearm policy have steadily tended toward affirming the Second Amendment, gun prohibitionists have reacted by becoming frantic. They now push the limits of decency, even in a popular culture that no longer sets many limits.
CNN's Deplorable Sally Kohn Lies About "Children" Killed With Guns :: 10/29/2015
CNN commentator and activist Sally Kohn took the lowest of the low roads today in an op-ed calling for more gun control. Kohn claims that CNN host Ashleigh Banfield made the claim that “10,000 children are killed by guns every year,” and so—of course—we need more gun laws.
CPRC: Americans aren't giving up their guns :: 10/29/2015
Despite several years of Michael Bloomberg and others spending hundreds of millions of dollars attacking the NRA, a new Gallup poll shows that non-gun owners have a favorable opinion of the NRA (by 7 percentage points). Moderates are even 17 percentage points more likely to have a favorable opinion.
Everytown demands Ben Carson apologize to gun violence victims :: 10/29/2015
Citing comments made by 2016 Republican Presidential candidate Ben Carson on how to respond to an active shooter incident, the group is petitioning for a public apology.
How we feel about gun violence :: 10/29/2015
In a recent discussion about gun rights vs. gun control on Twitter, I was presented with an image from a news story about a mother, Nardyne Jefferies, whose daughter, Brishell, was killed in a drive-by shooting in Washington, D.C. The mother holds what I understood to be an autopsy photograph showing her daughter’s injuries from rounds fired by what was identified as an AK-47.
Islamic invasion pulls trigger: Europe now scrambles for guns :: 10/29/2015
Austrians are arming themselves at record rates in an effort to defend their households against feared attacks from Muslim invaders.
Maine Cuts Reciprocity With Several States, Enacts Constitutional Carry :: 10/29/2015
Here’s an alert we received from Texas Law Shield:
New York Times Editorial Board Regurgitates Bad Study to Condemn Concealed Carry :: 10/29/2015
Back in June, I detailed a study by the Violence Policy Center that purported to show that private gun owners were far more likely to kill innocent people than to defend themselves. The study arrived at this conclusion by using woefully incomplete data sets from the FBI crime reports, which are voluntarily submitted (or not submitted) by law enforcement agencies.
NRA Responds to President Obama's Remarks in Chicago Today [VIDEO] :: 10/29/2015
The NRA isn’t letting any grass grow under its feet when it comes to countering the Obama administration’s stepped-up anti-gun rhetoric these days. Good to see. Here are a few helpful statistics they’ve provided . . .
Obama soft on crime, hard on gun owners? :: 10/29/2015
President Barack Obama is taking one on the chin this morning from a crime columnist in his hometown newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, for failing to use three important words in his speech yesterday to the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP).
The Insurrectionist They Would Have Me Be :: 10/29/2015
I have a confession to make. When I wrote Gun Confiscation Fantasies Are Fast-Tracking The Democrat Party To Destruction, I knew before I hit “publish” that it would drive the anti-gun left completely around the bend.
Washington Post Claims 29 Mass Murders By Concealed Carriers. . . But They LIED. :: 10/29/2015
Christopher Ingraham was apparently hired by the Washington Post to be the gun control propagandist for their so-called “Wonkblog,” and seems to find himself debunked on our pages with boring regularity.
Who Wants To Be Like Mexico? :: 10/29/2015
In our never-ending 24/7 news cycle, events can fade away quickly. So don’t feel too bad if you don’t remember the disappearance of dozens of Mexican college students last year in the city of Iguala, Mexico. The news disappeared from our airwaves within a couple of days, to be replaced by more horror stories of the drug cartels operating in Mexico and beyond.
Anti-Gunners: David Price, congressional Democrats to call for restoration of federally funded gun-violence research :: 10/28/2015
Such is the stranglehold that the NRA has over Congress that not only can we not do anything about the rash of mass shootings we’ve seen this year—294 in the first 274 days of 2015, with some 380 dead—or the spiking gun violence plaguing major American cities, we can’t even do research on them.
Austria feuds with Germany, reports gun sale surge amid refugee crisis :: 10/28/2015
Germany's top security official has sharply criticized Austria for dumping refugees at the border between the two countries Tuesday night.
Bill Introduced In Congress To Tax Gun Sales, Require Stolen Guns To Be Reported :: 10/28/2015
According to the National Rifle Association (NRA), Americans have acquired over 170 million new firearms since 1991. While it’s tough to pinpoint the number of guns currently in the U.S., a 2012 Congressional Research Service suggests that the number hit 310 million in 2009.
Duck Dynasty's Willie Robertson Slams 'Sweeping' Gun Control Calls :: 10/28/2015
Duck Dynasty's Willie Robertson slammed the calls by liberals for more gun control. Appearing on Fox News’s Outnumbered, the reality TV star insisted, “Guns are in hands of mostly good people, just like police officers are mostly good people. Yes, there are bad ones. But you can't make a sweeping take-away-the-whole-Second- Amendment over this.”
FBI Director Doubles Down On Linking Scrutiny Of Police With Rise In Violent Crime :: 10/28/2015
On Monday, FBI director James Comey reiterated that the rise of violent crime in certain cities may be a result of less aggressive policing due to increased scrutiny of officers in the wake of recent high-profile police killings of black men.
McKeithen blasts vote on open carry :: 10/28/2015
Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen has come out against what he called a “secret ballot” vote taken by the Florida Sheriff's Association (FSA) in which a majority of members opposed legislative action to allow open carry of firearms.
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