Posted Tuesday, August 18, 2020 at 12:02 a.m.
Front ‘Op-Ed’ COVID-19 Relief in the Middle East, women’s suffrage marks an important step
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By Morgan Griffith
The coronavirus pandemic continues in our country and in the Ninth District of Virginia, and there is still an effect on the physical condition and livelihoods of our citizens.
Congress passed and President Trump signed several relief measures; However, negotiations on a new legislation circular have stalled, largely due to unreasonable demands from House of Commons Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on non-coronavirus-related articles.
He needs to use the crisis to force movements that would otherwise have no chance of conforming to the law. Its time table items, such as the Green New Deal and voting issues, are misclassified at all times.Prioritizing them at a time when many Americans suffer puts salt in the wounds that coronavirus has inflicted.
Genuine disorders want to be addressed in a new set of laws.For example, I think young people go back to school if the local situation and science allow it; schools that reopen may want federal assistance and we provide it.to sustain nepassations, they will not get any support.
Seeing little progress, President Trump has introduced several executive moves to provide relief.That acted within the authority granted through Congress to the executive branch.My preference is to regain the authority of the executive branch and return it to Congress, however, I cannot blame the president for using the authority that the legislature had given him in the past, even if this initial resolution of Congress to delegate his strength was not wise.
As I write this column, President Pelosi will vote in the House on U.S. Postal Service legislation.(USPS).
I help the USPS and I in that a postal reform is needed.In addition, I am pleased to return to Washington to vote, but we want to address the exceptional relief of coronaviruses before the long-standing monetary challenges of the office.speaker’s hammer for more than a year and a half, however, only recently has the USPS become his most sensible priority.
We have urgent problems to face – the reopening of federally assisted schools, a new direct payment circular, etc.- and I am in a position to respond. Once that’s done, if the president needs to stay in Washington to paint on postal issues, it would be understandable.
On August 13, President Trump announced a deal negotiated through his management between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), two U.S. allies in the Middle East, the two countries will normalize their relations, with ambassadors to exchange and the door to open cooperation.on many issues.
This agreement is historic. Before the United Arab Emirates concluded this agreement, no primary Arab state had identified Israel since the 1994 Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty.
Better ties between Israel and the Arab countries of the Middle East ensure Israel’s security, inspire economic and political partnerships in the region, and isolate neighboring countries, such as Iran, that threaten the interests of our country and our allies.
When Israel was established in 1948, neighboring countries attacked it within hours.Unfortunately, this has set a style for occasions in the coming decades.
Now that the UAE is fitting the 3rd Arab state and the first Arab Gulf state to recognize Israel, more countries may just stick to suit and a more lasting peace may just be established.The political sense of Israeli and Emirati diplomats and Trump management officials who negotiated the deal be applauded.
This August marks the centenary of the right to vote guaranteed throughout the country.
On June 4, 1919, Congress passed an invoice for an amendment to the Constitution that read, “The right to vote for U.S. citizens will be denied or abbreviated in the United States or in any state on the basis of sex.”
On August 18, 1920, the Tennessee House of Representatives met to approve the amendment.Thirty-five states had ratified it at the time, so only one state more than 48 was needed at that time for the amendment to take effect.the state Senate had already passed it.
The House had split equally, but a representative from eastern Tennessee, Harry Burn, who had opposed the amendment, replaced his position after receiving a note from his mother, Phoebe, which began with “Hourra, and votes for the vote!”
His mother’s leadership suggested Burn to the amendment.Together with Tennessee, three-quarters of the states have ratified the amendment.On August 26, 1920, she was qualified through the United States Secretariat of State and women would no longer be denied the right to vote.It was a wonderful and vital step forward for our country.
If you have any questions, considerations or comments, please tap myArray.You can call my Abingdon at 276-525-1405 or my Christiansburg at 540-381-5671.To succeed in my email, visit my online page at www.morgangriffith .house.gov.
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