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- Parkland survivors call for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s censure
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At 10am ET today, Biden’s nominee for secretary of housing and urban development (Hud), Marcia Fudge, will appear before a Senate committee for her confirmation hearing.
Fudge is a Democratic representative for Ohio and the former chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus. If confirmed, she is expected to seek to improve fair housing protections, expand access to affordable housing and to address the urgent need for households at risk of eviction, according to her prepared remarks.
Must work to repair the significant harm done by the current administration – by reinstating and furthering fair housing regulations, reinforcing protections for LGBTQ+ people experiencing homelessness, protecting immigrant families in public housing, reinvigorating and reinforcing the purpose of HUD with a depleted and demoralized workforce, and advocating for the level of investments in HUD programs that match the scale of the need.
Survivors of the 2018 mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, are asking congressional Republicans to publicly censure Marjorie Taylor Greene for suggesting the school shooting was a “false flag” and for harassing a teenage survivor on Capitol Hill in 2019, reports the Guardian’s Lois Beckett.
Greene, the newly elected Georgia congresswoman who is known for her support of the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory, was filmed in March 2019 as she followed 18-year-old David Hogg, one of the students who survived the shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas high school, outside Capitol Hill.
Related: Parkland survivors call for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s censure after harassment
Read the original article at The Guardian