Tag: Senate

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)

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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

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.,Â argues that OSHA had no business adopting the NLRB's standards.Â (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Alexander alleges ‘coordinated effort to change the law’ by NLRB, OSHA

Sean Higgins · September 23, 2015 11:58 pm

Every day nearly 7,000 people are treated in emergency rooms for abusing painkillers, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (AP file)

Advocates push senators for findings of painkiller probe

Robert King · September 16, 2015 5:00 pm

Hospitals are "terrified" at the prospect of meeting new federal regulations for using electronic health records, Sen. Lamar Alexander said. (AP Photo)

Senator seeks delay of ‘terrifying’ health IT program

Robert King · September 16, 2015 4:00 pm

The last time Congress passed a long-term highway funding authorization measure was in 2005. Since then, it has punted using dozens of smaller measures, including the three-month, $8 billion bill Congress approved in July.

Highway bill tangled like spaghetti junction

Susan Ferrechio · September 14, 2015 4:01 am

The Los Angeles Times describes Sundheim as a fiscal conservative who "diverges from party orthodoxy on many core issues." (AP File Photo)

Silicon Valley Republican launches bid for Boxer’s Senate seat

Gabby Morrongiello · September 9, 2015 11:01 pm

"I think it's a good balance because this is the new battlefield that we're on. Cyber is a great risk," Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., told theÂ Washington Examiner. (Wikimedia Commons)Â

Lawmaker bucks conservatives on cyberlegislation

Rudy Takala · September 9, 2015 8:52 pm

Lamar Alexander said the NLRB should have been more definitive in defining the college athletes as students, not workers. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Top labor Republican says NLRB ruling fell short

Susan Ferrechio · August 17, 2015 6:27 pm

Orrin Hatch, Dean Heller back Jeb Bush

David M. Drucker · August 12, 2015 1:56 pm