Pete Sessions

Republicans are waking up to President Biden's call to return remote federal employees to work. According to a bombshell report late last year, all federal departments are less than half occupied, costing more than $2.8 million per day. That's a shocking figure considering that federal entities spend over $2 billion per year to operate and maintain federal office buildings — and more than $5 billion per year in leases.

Republicans in the House of Commons want to know more about federal government telework arrangements, including how managers are ensuring that employees are kept busy. Rep. James Comer and Pete Sessions' latest attempt came months after D.C. Mayor John Kerry begged for more federal employees to be reinstated in downtown Washington. According to Comer, only a third of federal employees have returned to work after the pandemic has started.

Rep. Chip Roy of Florida has introduced a bill to defund public schools that practice'racism teaching' by teaching students to 'divisive theories,' such as critical race theory. The Combating Racist Teaching in Schools Act, or CRT Act, would prohibit federal funding at K-12 schools that promote such "race-based theories." Any race is inherently superior or inferior to any other race, color, or national origin,' the legislation states; or that "the Declaration of Independence or Constitution of the United States are fundamentally racist books." It also targets instruction in areas such as race-based conscious or subconscious bias or teachings that members of one race are responsible for behavior committed by other members of their community.