Rep. Loudermilk’s Weekly Newsletter

Angels in Adoption Honorees are individuals whose contributions in the fields of adoption or foster care have an impact on a national scale.

“Committee on House Administration Republicans, led by Ranking Member Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), issued the following statement after introducing the Protect American Voters Act (PAVA), which will be the first major update to the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) in almost two decades. PAVA helps provide states with best practices and guidance to secure their election infrastructure and technology, parts of which were breached as a result of foreign interference in the 2016 election. Currently there is no clear security guidance on these parts of election infrastructure, which has created avoidable vulnerabilities.

Protect American Voters Act helps states protect their non-voting election equipment, like e-poll books and online voter registration databases that contain critical voter information, by directing the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to update HAVA’s testing and certification guidelines for election equipment that did not exist in 2002, allowing the election-related work of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to be more accessible and visible, and establishing an Election Cyber Assistance Unit to help prevent and/or address cyber-attacks.”

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“A powerful trade association representing the chemical industry is testing the air in seven Georgia locations to measure ethylene oxide, a toxic gas used for sterilizing medical supplies.

‘These sites were selected to get a broad range of data on background levels of (ethylene oxide) across differing environments,’ said Tom Flanagin, a spokesperson for the American Chemistry Council, who confirmed the testing in an email to Georgia Health News.”

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