News about Tammy Duckworth

The main event will be a second hearing featuring Sam Salehpour who claims that sections of the 787 Dreamliner jets are not properly secured. Salehpour's lawyer says Boeing has ignored his concerns and prevented him from talking to experts about fixing the problems. On Tuesday night, Salehpour told NBC News that the jets should be grounded on account of 'fatal flaws' that could cause the plane to fall apart mid air.

Every day seems to be a new mechanical disaster for the company, which employs 170,000 workers globally, which has left the company facing an existential crisis and shaken its reputation for safety. Since the turn of the year and near-fatal crash on an Alaskan Airlines flight early January, the $111.74 billion company has had to deal with its aging 737 Max series, which has caused safety issues to arise. The company also had to deal with the death of a whistleblower who said the company was concealing organizational wrongdoing and who murdered himself just days after giving evidence to a corporate lawsuit against Boeing. Boeing has also been accused of allowing safety to lapse as it obsessess over 'woke' diversity targets in recruitment, as well as over-paying employees who work remotely.

Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi opposed the passage of a bill to guarantee in-vitro fertilization (IVF) on Wednesday after Democrats threatened to force a vote following the Alabama Supreme Court's ruling earlier this month that embryos were embryos. The Republican senator characterized the bill as a 'vast overreach' that is full of poison pills that go way too far.' The legislation, she said, would repeal the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which would bring criminal and pro-life groups together.'

After fertility clinics began halting services after the Alabama Supreme Court announced that embryos are children, a group of Senate Democrats hopes to compel a vote on a bill to guarantee access to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and other fertility treatments. Senator Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., announced on Wednesday that she would ask the Senate to abandon procedure and pass the Access to Family Building Act quickly and unanimously on the Senate floor.

Jaelynn Chaney, a 25-year-old plus-size influencer, appeared on TikTok video that she had been meeting with a prominent US Senator's staff. She is requesting that overweight flyers be given as many free seats as they can fly safely. Chaney said she wasn't know who would fund the costs of the proposals, but that the changes were worth it. This week, Southwest Airlines released a new policy allowing obese passengers to get free extra seats

Mahmoud al-Zahar, a Hamas leader, revealed in December that the terror group intended to control a far greater area than Israel. Israel launched strikes on Gaza on Monday night as a result of the attack earlier this weekend. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced in the early hours of Tuesday that they had'more or less' regained complete control of their boundary fence with Gaza after Hamas attackers broke through it on Saturday. With airstrikes overnight, the Israeli Air Force claimed to have struck 200 Hamas and other terrorist groups in Gaza.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth is the latest Democrat to criticize Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville's decision to refuse military promotions and nominations in reaction to the Pentagon's refusal to reimburse abortions. Duckworth, a former Army National Guard lieutenant colonel who lost her legs in Iraq in 2004, was exacerbated as she said that Sen. Tuberville's stunt, she believes, is jeopardizing US national security. In a Sunday morning interview with NBC's Meet the Press program, Senator Ted Kennedy said that injecting politics into the defense process is not jeopardizing national security.'

According to a seven-month congressional investigation led by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, H&R Block, TaxAct, and TaxSlayer uses visitor tracking systems embedded in websites to share the details. The investigation discovered that data had been misappropriated for targeted ads in some cases, which may have resulted in a potential violation of federal law. According to the study, companies also published details regarding taxpayers' filing status, income, and tax refund amount, in addition to sharing numbers such as addresses and phone numbers. They even posted details about which buttons and text fields customers clicked on when filling out a tax form, which could reveal which tax exemptions they have claimed or if they are using any government services.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Maine has resigned from Sen. To Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and John Thune have drafted an amendment that would minimize the number of flying hours pilots will need to fly commercially. Duckworth accused Sinema, I-Ariz., and Thune, R-S.D., of becoming more concerned with 'corporate interests,' and "that if the change passes as part of the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) reauthorization, they will have 'blood on your hands.' Now is not the time to place corporate profits ahead of our constituents' lives,' said Duckworth, Ill., a former Army helicopter pilot who chairs a subcommittee on aviation safety.' A vote to [change the training standards] for pilots will result in a fatal accident owing to a poorly prepared flight crew.'