Tag: Patty Murray

Many Republicans have problems with provisions dealing with immigrant farm workers, while others don't like the immigration reduction numbers and mandatory E-Verify, which are also opposed by the business community.

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Immigration reform faces high hurdle in the House

Susan Ferrechio · February 20, 2018 5:01 am

The budget proposal Trump's White House released days later would raise deficits by as much as $7 trillion over 10 years if enacted.

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Deficits drive a wedge between Trump and fiscal conservatives

Sarah Bedford · February 20, 2018 5:01 am

In this 2017 photo, President Trump arrives to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Trump is set to speak again at this year's CPAC, but some of his initiatives are unpopular among the movement conservatives who dominate CPAC. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Is Trump conservative enough, and does CPAC care?

W. James Antle III · February 20, 2018 5:01 am

On Thursday, the National Labor Relations Board stated that a business can be held liable for workplace law violations at another company only if it has "direct control" over the second businesses' workplace. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

Democrats seek to increase pressure on NLRB’s William Emanuel

Sean Higgins · February 14, 2018 9:45 pm

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House conservatives threaten to upend leadership over immigration

Susan Ferrechio · February 14, 2018 1:06 pm

Documents from a whistleblower suggest the Department of Health and Human Service received input from a conservative group a week before announcing new guidance on Planned Parenthood funding. (iStock)

Democrats slam Trump administration for conservative group input on Planned Parenthood defunding

Kimberly Leonard · February 14, 2018 12:37 am

Senate Majority Whip Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, has maintained the Republican Party is committed to bringing down the national debt, but timing is everything. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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John Cornyn: GOP hasn’t given up on reducing deficits and debt

Al Weaver · February 13, 2018 5:01 am

When do workers for those companies stop being contractors and become employees? Business groups are keen to limit those circumstances, which the Obama administration and court rulings have chipped away at. (Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg)

Trump administration to tackle ‘gig economy’ this spring

Sean Higgins · February 13, 2018 5:01 am

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Can the ‘Supercommittee II’ fix Congress’ dysfunction?

Susan Ferrechio · February 12, 2018 5:01 am

Freshman Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., has become a favorite of the media for his vocal defense of President Trump in the Russia investigation. (Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg)

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Matt Gaetz: The boy politician making the most of his Trump moment

Philip Wegmann · February 9, 2018 10:59 pm

House Republicans, led by Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, need political cover from President Trump, an immigration hawk beloved by the GOP base, if they're to risk crossing their most committed voters and supporting legislation that could provide amnesty to around 2 million people. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Paul Ryan, cornered on immigration, defers to Trump

David M. Drucker · February 9, 2018 5:01 am

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., (left) and Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., (right) of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee are two of the Advancing Cutting-Edge Research Act's cosponsors. It would give the National Institutes of Health more flexible authority to conduct research on how to address the opioid epidemic. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senators aim to spur creation of non-addictive painkillers

Robert King · February 8, 2018 11:38 pm