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Restoring parents’ voices in their child’s education
Congressman Jerry Carl Parents have the right to make decisions for their children, especially when it comes to their education. Unfortunately, countless school districts have been ignoring input from parents while special interest groups try to influence the education of our children and negatively label involved parents.Thankfully, the House is expected to take action this week on a bill introduced by my friend and colleague from Louisiana, Rep. Julia Letlow.…
Lower energy costs
Congressman Jerry Carl In each Congress, the majority party’s highest priority legislation is labeled as House Resolution 1 (H.R. 1), declaring it the most important issue facing America. Last Congress, Democrats controlled the House, and their H.R. 1 was called For the People Act. It really should have been named For the Politicians Act because it was an attempt to radically transform our elections by taking election decisions away from…
Complete transparency coming to Escambia County schools
Michele Collier instructs Connie Reeves, left, from Atmore Central Office, and Janet Brantley, right, from Flomaton Elementary By RANDY TATANOSpecial to Atmore News More than ever, parents want to know exactly what’s going on in their child’s school.By the middle of March, every school in the Escambia County School System will provide the access.Each website of the 12 schools is getting an extreme makeover that will give parents a real-time…
Protecting your pocketbook
Congressman Jerry Carl Last week, House Republicans took two very important steps to protect your pocketbook and pump the brakes on President Biden’s out-of-control spending habits.The first thing we did was vote to overturn a Biden Department of Labor rule that hurts retirees. On January 1, 2022, the Department of Labor published a final rule allowing retirement investment plan managers to consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors when making…
COVID-19 lab leak
Congressman Jerry Carl Over the weekend, the mainstream media began reporting on what we’ve all known for a while: COVID-19 likely originated in a lab in China. For over two years, so many of us have been saying the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) actively and purposely deceived the world about the origins of COVID since day one.To make matters even worse, our own government officials lied to us about the…