Tag: Senate

In the name of "security," the government has claimed vast authority to monitor everyone. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Hands off our data!

Eric Peters · October 21, 2015 4:01 am

Union members marchÂ in the annual Labor Day Parade in New York, Saturday Sept. 12, 2015. In most states, workersÂ can still be forced to accept union representation.Â (AP Photo/Bryan R. Smith)

New speaker should make Employee Rights Act a priority

Washington Examiner · October 8, 2015 6:55 am

Volkswagen admitted that it manipulated emissions results in 482,000 U.S. diesel vehicles to make them appear to run cleaner. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)

Energy and Environment

Senators investigating if VW lied to get tax credits

Kyle Feldscher · October 7, 2015 2:44 pm

The right to vote on workplace unionization and the right to consent to funding political causes are more than justÂ issues of basic fairness for employees. (AP Photo)

White House summit is muzzle, not megaphone, of worker voice

Richard Berman, Newt Gingrich · October 7, 2015 4:02 am

Susan Lynch, a nurse practitioner, checks over a patients electronic medical records, at the Central Florida Family Health Center in Sanford, Fla., Monday, March 2, 2009. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Feds won’t delay electronic records rule

Robert King · October 6, 2015 10:01 pm

The White House's last-minute compromise on drug copyright protectionsÂ in the Trans-Pacific PartnershipÂ appears to have pleased nobody. (AP Photo)

Why everybody hates the drug deal in the trade pact

Robert King · October 6, 2015 4:01 am

"There is never going to be a perfect time to fix the tax code, but stalling for so long got us into this problem. We can't afford to wait any longer." (Washington Examiner File Photo)

GOP: New tax rules will drive businesses overseas

Joseph Lawler · October 5, 2015 11:59 pm

"When the presidentâs health law hurts the labor force at the same time it increases healthcare premiums and taxes, itâs clear the law is not working for the American people," Hatch said. (AP File Photo/Susan Walsh)

Top Republicans skeptical on trade deal

Sean Higgins · October 5, 2015 9:59 pm

Angel GurrÃa, Secretary General of the OECD, said that shifting profits offshore "is depriving countries of precious resources to jump-start growth, tackle the effects of the global economic crisis and create more and better opportunities for all."Â (AP Photo, PA, Chris Radburn)

Global rules proposed to crack down on tax havens

Joseph Lawler · October 5, 2015 4:13 pm

Vice President Joe Biden administers the Senate oath to Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, left, with wife Julie Sullivan, during a ceremonial re-enactment swearing-in ceremony, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, in the Old Senate Chamber of Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Washington Secrets

Senator: Obama ‘rolled’ by Putin, says Russia filling ‘vacuum of American leadership’

Paul Bedard · October 1, 2015 6:31 pm

Called the Improving Regulatory Transparency for New Medical Therapies Act, the bipartisan bill from Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., was approved unanimously by the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and next goes before the full Senate.Â (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

Senate panel OKs drug competition bill

Paige Winfield Cunningham · September 30, 2015 8:16 pm

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, will holdÂ a hearing on legislation dubbed the Protecting Local Business Opportunity Act. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Senate Republicans move against union power

Sean Higgins · September 30, 2015 4:01 am