Tag: Minusextra

"I spoke to President-elect Trump about this and said you have to get involved. You look at coal country - some 70 percent went for him," Sen. Joe Manchin said. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Manchin, Capito bill would clear the way to save retired miners’ benefits

Susan Crabtree · January 9, 2017 5:01 am

Right-to-work laws prohibit contracts between unions and management that force all workers to join the union or at least pay it a regular fee. Workers have no choice: They pay or are fired. (Russell Lissau/Daily Herald via AP)

Right-to-work laws pick up steam nationwide

Sean Higgins · January 9, 2017 5:01 am

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., promised a series of cyber-focused hearings this Congress, including the first last week that largely focused on Russian hacking of the U.S. election. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sequester battle is the biggest business item for new Senate Armed Services Committee

Jacqueline Klimas · January 9, 2017 5:01 am

States have passed a total of 338 abortion regulations since 2010, according to a report released last week by the Guttmacher Institute. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Abortion-rights activists quake over Trump’s judges

Paige Winfield Cunningham · January 9, 2017 5:01 am

Donald Trump's subsequent refusal to acknowledge the Russian role in election-related cyber attacks has put him at odds with hawkish GOP voices in the Senate, including Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain.

For Trump on the Hill, success as an outsider requires insider tactics

Sarah Bedford · January 9, 2017 5:01 am

Taylor Jordan works on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, which is focused on Environmental Protection Agency and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration policy issues. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Energy and Environment

Congressional staffer profile: For Taylor Jordan, slashing EPA regs is music to his ears

John Siciliano · January 9, 2017 5:01 am

The next five-year reauthorization of the farm bill comes up in 2018, which has groups set to make sure the bill's increased energy focus over the last decade doesn't face the cuts it experienced in the last Congress.

Energy and Environment

Energy, farm policy collide in the new Congress

John Siciliano · January 9, 2017 5:01 am

Kellyanne Conway unplugged

Salena Zito · January 9, 2017 5:01 am

The best way to respond to Russian hacking is by exposing the vast wealth of Putin and his Kremlin mafia. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin Press Service, Sputnik, via AP)

Embarrass Putin for hacking Democrats

Washington Examiner Staff · January 9, 2017 5:01 am

Aside from a few scapegoats, the VA employees who systematically manipulated the agency's computer system at more than 100 facilities, harming veterans to win themselves performance bonuses, were not fired. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Holman Rule will help improve civil service

Washington Examiner · January 9, 2017 5:01 am

"We have to face the fact that countries are going to lose jobs to robotics," Mark Cuban wrote in a December blog post. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg)

Donald Trump and Mark Cuban see promise in job-killing robots

Daniel Chaitin · January 9, 2017 5:01 am

Since September 2015, the labor force has swelled by nearly 3 million, and the participation rate has ticked up by 0.3 percentage points despite the thousands of boomers retiring every day. (M. Spencer Green/AP Images)

Trump could preside over years of falling unemployment rates

Joseph Lawler · January 9, 2017 5:01 am