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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?Laying the groundwork for the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a House committee on Thursday heard from parents whose tearful testimony sought to link government border policy to their daughters ; deaths and from a law professor warning off the effort.Committee Chairman Mark Green is heading steadfast toward a vote on Mayorkas ; impeachment by the end of the month, setting up action by the full House as soon as February 鈥?which would be a first for a Cabinet official in nearly 150 years.Green, a Tennessee Republican, opened the second impeachment hearing saying no American is safe under Mayorkas ; handling of the U.S.-Mexico border, with a record number of illegal c stanley espana rossings. He argued that the secretary egregious misconduct and failure to fulfill his oath of office are grounds for impeac stanley italia hment.But the panel top Democrat, Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, who has repeatedly insisted policy differences with stanley de President Joe Biden are not impeachable grounds, was backed up by one of the witnesses, Princeton University law professor Deborah Pearlstein. Policy differences, no matter how profound, is exactly not what impeachment is for, Pearlstein said.She argued that no branch of the U.S. government has more power than the Congress to set policy and that, with years of inaction on border legislation, those powers have gone unused. House Republicans have been anxious to impeach Mayorkas since seizi Vefk Edward A. 8220;Eddie 8221; Desmond
BIDDEFORD, Maine 鈥?A York County jury on Wednesday awarded stanley cup $489,775 to a Mexico, Maine, man severely injured in a 2009 industrial accident at the Maine Energy Recovery Company plant in Biddeford.Jurors ruled that MERC did not follow adequate federal safety regulatio stanley uk ns during a routine plant shutdown.Joseph Bordeau, a welder working in 2009 as a contractor at MERCs Biddeford waste-to-energy incinerator before the plant closed in 2012, suffered a serious back injury as a result of the accident, Bordeaus attorney, Peter Clifford, said Thursday.While Bordeau stood on an 8-foot ladder, a heavy metal debris pan that Clifford said was as big as two refrigerators came loose and swung on a chain, smashing into Bordeaus ladder and p stanley polska inning him to the I-beam for several minutes.An orthopedic surgeon determined that the injury was permanent, according to Clifford, and that Bordeau, 48, could only work four hours per day, with limitations.Bordeau contended that MERC was at fault for the accident because the company failed to follow safety regulations imposed by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, as well as MERCs own safety policies related to rigging and hoisting heavy objects.The jury deliberated several hours before issuing its ruling that Bordeau should receive $489,775 in damages because of MERCs failure to adhere to safety policies, according to Clifford. They should have known better, Clifford said Wednesday of MERC officials. It was pretty dangerous. Atto |
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