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Office of Compliance logo. The Office of Congressional Workplace Rights (OCWR; formerly the Office of Compliance) [1] was created through the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 (CAA) which applied workplace protection laws to approximately 30,000 employees of the legislative branch nationwide and established the Office of Compliance to administer and ensure the integrity of the Act ...
[8] [9] [10] These include junior members of Congress, members of the minority party in the House, ideologically extreme representatives, or non-committee chairs. These members of Congress have little opportunity to shape the legislative process, and therefore rely on alternative mechanisms, such as one-minute speeches to represent their ...
The Constitution forbids Congress from meeting elsewhere. A term of Congress is divided into two "sessions", one for each year; Congress has occasionally also been called into an extra, (or special) session (the Constitution requires Congress to meet at least once each year). A new session commences each year on January 3, unless Congress ...
It required that a Commission be provided at every Parliament to "hear by petition delivered to them, the Complaints of all those that will complain them of such Delays or Grievances done to them". Then later, Article 5 Bill of Rights 1689 , which explicitly declared "That it is the Right of the Subjects to petition the King and all Commitments ...
A grievance is an official complaint by an employee about an employer's actions believed to be wrong or unfair. The grievance starts a timer that usually prohibits the employer from taking negative action against the employee (and union steward). For example, a whistleblower complaint prohibits negative employer action for 90 to 180 days.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testified Wednesday before Congress on the state of the economy, and, to paraphrase, Congress' Top 3 Complaints About the Slow Economic Recovery Skip to main ...
Concerned with the time-consuming nature of a contempt proceeding and the inability to extend punishment further than the session of the Congress concerned (under Supreme Court rulings), Congress created a statutory process in 1857. While Congress retains its "inherent contempt" authority and may exercise it at any time, this inherent contempt ...
The Congressional Research Service summarized the process in the following way: A Member may demand that the words of another Member be taken down. This typically takes place during debate when one Member believes another Member has violated the rules of decorum in the House.