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Reps DeSaulnier and Demings Ask Oversight Republican To Include Voting Machine Vendors In Cyber Security Hearing

Reps DeSaulnier and Demings Ask Oversight Republican To Include Voting Machine Vendors In Cyber Security Hearing

Washington, DC –- Representatives Mark DeSaulnier (CA-11) and Val Demings (FL-10) called on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee Chairman, Gary Palmer, to include vendors of election machines in the committee’s upcoming hearing on “Cybersecurity of Voting Machines.” While the hearing is on voting machines, the Republican Majority has yet to invite…

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Measure Curbing Exemptions To Smoke-free Law Advances

A watered-down bill to eliminate most of the exemptions to California's 17-year-old workplace smoking cigarettes ban cleared the state Senate on Thursday. Senate Bill 575, by Democratic Sen. Mark DeSaulnier, would add sites such as hotel and motel lobbies and banquet rooms, warehouse facilities, employee break rooms and small and owner-operated businesses to the list of smoke cigarettes-free zones. The measure originally targeted cigar and cigarettes retailers and lounges. But DeSaulnier decided to cut that provision from the bill this week after facing stiff opposition from shop owners and stogie lovers, including an international trade association based in Georgia. Critics argue that such a ban would unfairly hurt business and undermine the ability to serve customers who come to the sites to smoke cigarettes.

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California Behind On Workplace Smoking Laws

A new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows just how far California has fallen behind the rest of the country when it comes to cracking down on secondhand smoke cigarettes in the workplace. When the state passed a law in 1994 banning smoking cigarettes from enclosed areas of most workplaces, it was a groundbreaking idea. But in the past 10 years alone, 25 states and the District of Columbia have enacted total bans on indoor areas of private-sector workplaces, the CDC says in a report released Thursday. California built many exemptions into its law, allowing smoking cigarettes in certain areas of hotel and motel lobbies; cigarettes shops; warehouses; break rooms; and at businesses with five or fewer employees. The 1994 law gradually phased out smoking cigarettes in bars and restaurants, but that last exemption allowed some bars to continue to let patrons smoke cigarettes. All those loopholes would be closed under a bill introduced by state Sen. Mark DeSaulnier, a Democrat from the Bay Area city of Concord. DeSaulnier, who owned several restaurants before entering politics, says public opinion has evolved on smoking cigarettes, and California law must catch up. "There's a perception out there that we're already the toughest state in the country on cigarettes laws. We're not," DeSaulnier told me.