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Sep 02 2019
News
Trump Slams AFL-CIO's Trumka
President Donald Trump Monday launched a Labor Day Twitter attack against AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka after the powerful labor leader Sunday said the nation's unions won't have "any choice" but to block the "unenforceable" United States-Mexico-Canada trading deal.
"Just watched AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on @FoxNews and thought to myself how different he is on TV than he is
Newsmax (News)May 25 2015
News
'Ugly' Potential Fallout From Supreme Court Health Care Case
A Supreme Court ruling due in a few weeks could wipe out health insurance for millions of people covered by President Barack Obama's health care law. But it's Republicans — not White House officials — who have been talking about damage control.
A likely reason: Twenty-six of the 34 states that would be most affected by the ruling have Republican governors, and 22 of the 24 GOP Senate
HuffPostJun 01 2012
News
John Edwards, unresolved
Former North Carolina senator John Edwards was found not guilty of a single charge of breaking campaign finance law even as a judge declared a mistrial on the other five counts brought against him in connection with payments made to a former mistress during his 2008 run for president. That muddled decision offered neither the exoneration for which he hoped nor the stinging judgment for which
Washington PostFeb 04 2013
News
Lindsey Graham goes all-in on immigration
A red-state Republican senator up for reelection and seen as vulnerable to a primary challenge from the right embraces a plan to allow illegal immigrants to gain U.S. citizenship  a lightning rod for GOP primary voters if there ever was one. Seems unthinkable on its face. Yet thats precisely what Lindsey Graham did last week. And the remarkable thing is, theres no sign of a backlash in
PoliticoJun 04 2012
News
Medical Device Tax Repeal Bill Moving Through GOP-Led House
For Republicans, it's an irresistible trifecta: A bill that gives them an election-season chance to say they're fighting to protect jobs and cut taxes, even as it erodes financing for President Barack Obama's health care overhaul they despise.
HuffPostFeb 12 2014
News
In Governors’ Races This Year, Lessons for 2016
Three years after stripping public employee unions of the right to collectively bargain, Gov. Scott Walker began this election year by introducing workers who had found jobs since he took office. A dozen stood with him in the State Capitol, dressed for the workplace: a nursing assistant, an accountant, a maintenance technician at Milwaukee Valve.
New York Times (News)Jun 03 2019
News
Biden Declares LGBTQ Rights His No. 1 Legislative Priority
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden declared Saturday that the Equality Act would be his top legislative priority, an effort to enshrine LGBTQ protections into the nation’s labor and civil rights laws.
The former vice president shared his hopes of signing the legislation as part of a keynote address to hundreds of activists at the Human Rights Campaign’s annual Ohio gala on the
CBNMar 08 2013
Opinion
Does Crime Drop When Immigrants Move In? : NPR
Many elected officials say theres a link between immigration and crime and have even passed tough anti-immigration laws as a result. But some researchers say cities with large immigrant populations boast conditions that depress crime young families and active bustling neighborhoods.
NPR (Online News)Jan 31 2013
News
Obama Confident Immigration Reform Passes This Year
President Barack Obama expressed confidence on Wednesday that he would sign comprehensive immigration reform into law by the end of this year.
In an interview with Univision's Maria Elena Salinas, Obama explained that significant details of a bill still must be worked out by lawmakers, including the structure of a pathway to citizenship for many of the 11 million undocumented immigrants
ABC News (Online)Jan 31 2013
News
Chuck Hagel, John McCain clash on Hill
Chuck Hagel clashed with his old friend John McCain in his confirmation hearings as secretary of defense on Thursday before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Sen. McCain (R-Ariz.), the defense hawk and outspoken supporter of the Iraq war, who experienced a falling out with his former ally and fellow Vietnam veteran, grew irate when Hagel wouldnt say whether he believed the 2007 troop surge
Politico