Omaha's sewer maintenance division has been busy assessing the damage from Saturday's flash flood.
"It's crucial get in and get eyes on what's going on," said Steve Andersen with sewer maintenance.
The City shared video of the inspection of the cave-in near 19th Street and St. Mary's Avenue. The sewer runs 20 feet deep.
"There is combined wastewater and sanitary flow in that… Read more »
Nebraska's congressional delegation tackled a host of questions during a legislative summit at the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum Thursday.
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On funding for the University of Nebraska Medical Center's $ billion Project NExT, Congressman Jeff Fortenberry, who sits on the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee, said they are on track but at a "delicate"… Read more »
U.S. Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI) this week joined members of the For Country Caucus in requesting a meeting with President Biden to discuss passage and enactment of legislation that would authorize construction of the Global War on Terrorism Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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U.S. Reps. Don Bacon (R-NE), Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), Brian Mast (R-FL), Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH), and Jared… Read more »
Don Bacon, U.S. Representative for the 2nd District of Nebraska, retired Brigadier General, and member of the House Armed Services Committee, discusses President Biden’s foreign policy as well as the Taliban’s sweeping territorial gains across Afghanistan.
Watch the interview here. Read more »
For at least a generation, policymakers have been talking about welfare cliffs. Federal and state governments have been waging this war on poverty but with little progress beyond an expansive (and at times, perverse) web of programs and trillions in spending.
Unfortunately, if one was born into this system, the odds are stacked against them on whether they navigate their way… Read more »
Congressional support for the bipartisan Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports (RPM) Act of 2021, H.R. 3281, rapidly expanded this week as a direct result of the letters that members of the motorsports parts industry, racers, and enthusiasts wrote to their lawmakers asking them to co-sponsor the bill.
The RPM Act now has 90 bipartisan co-sponsors, as eight members of the U.S. House… Read more »
Speaker Nancy Pelosi stunned the GOP on Wednesday by vetoing two of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's choices for a select panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, a move all but guaranteed to spark a Republican boycott of the probe.
Pelosi rejected Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), who was tapped to serve as ranking member, and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), both of whom voted to challenge… Read more »
U.S. Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) on July 9 unveiled bipartisan legislation that would end what he calls the preventable problem of separating groups of siblings who are in foster care.
“Keeping siblings together in the foster care system significantly increases their chance of having positive life outcomes,” Rep. Bacon said. “As a foster to adoptive parent of a sibling group, I believe this… Read more »
Sometimes wonderful, illuminating flashes of light can come from the most unlikely of places.
The US Congress is often a place of such strife, such acrimony and enmity but, for a small chunk of time last week, it was a place of tremendous kiddush Hashem and achdus!
Who would have believed that the millions of people watching C-Span would hear words of the deepest praise… Read more »
On Isru Chag, May 19, Rav Dovid Hofstedter called me from the United States Capitol and asked me to participate via telephone in a meeting he was having with Donald John Bacon, the representative for Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district. He had previously invited me to fly with him to Washington, DC, to meet a dozen or so congressmembers, but I was unable to make it.
When I got on the… Read more »
