Congressional budget plan cuts funds to union watchdog agency

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Congress’s proposed fiscal year 2014 budget cuts more than $2 million from the budget of the Labor Department division that investigates union fraud and corruption, the Office of Labor Management Standards. If enacted, the cuts would leave OLMS at its post-budget sequester levels and significantly less than the agency’s height under President George W. Bush.

The budget plan gives OLMS $39.1 million for the coming fiscal year, exactly what it got after the budget sequester went into effect. Prior to that, its fiscal year 2013 budget had been $41.3 million. That was about the standard for the agency under President Obama’s administration. During Bush’s the OLMS budget rose as high as $47.7 million in 2007.

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