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  • The apology speech Barack Obama will never deliver

    By Sean Higgins | 06/18/13 07:20 PM

    MEMO: Date: June 13, 2013, 5:45 pm To: VJarrett@EOP.WhiteHouse.gov From: POTUS@EOP.WhiteHouse.gov Subject: Proposed draft of nat'l security address Valerie, let me know what you think. I need to get this off of my chest, you know? Barry *** (Applause fades) My fellow Americans, a...

  • Workers charge Indiana unions not abiding by right-to-work law

    By Sean Higgins | 06/18/13 05:05 PM

    Two Indianapolis residents have filed claims with the National Labor Relations Board, stating that despite Indiana’s right to work law, they are still having union dues deducted from their paychecks against their wishes. Right to work laws ban such practices. Indiana adopted one last year, but...

  • Congressman calls for defunding National Sheep Industry Improvement Center

    By Sean Higgins | 06/18/13 03:40 PM

    No, I’m not trying to pull the wool over your eyes, the federal government really does fund a National Sheep Industry Improvement Center. It is part of the Agriculture Department. You can read a request for grant proposals here. Under the farm bill, the center gets $1 million dollars in...

  • AFL-CIO: We oppose any hard triggers in immigration bill

    By Sean Higgins | 06/18/13 02:40 PM

    In a statement released today, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said that US working families had “no higher legislative priority” for Congress than passing immigration reform. That reform must not not include any “hard triggers” for allowing immigration, the nation’s top union leader...

  • Telecom union: Immigration bill is bad for our workers, but we support it anyway

    By Sean Higgins | 06/18/13 02:30 PM

    My column today focuses on the strange bedfellows and ironic situations created by the immigration reform bill. I highlight the case of the Communications Workers of America and its concerns regarding the bill’s increase in H1B visas. CWA, which is the largest telecom worker union in the world...

  • Labor Department: Wage data used for Davis-Bacon may be flawed

    By Sean Higgins | 06/18/13 12:00 PM

    A top Labor Department official told the House Education and Workforce Committee  Tuesday that the underlying data they provide to calculate wage rates under the Davis-Bacon Act had several limitations and could include “large sampling error(s).” Davis-Bacon is a law that requires...

  • Congressman: Labor Department expanded wage rule without public comment

    By Sean Higgins | 06/18/13 10:40 AM

    Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., said at a House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing this morning that the Labor Department expanded the reach of Davis-Bacon Act without public comment earlier this year. Davis-Bacon is a law that requires contractors engaged in any federally-funded...

  • Sessions, Big Labor allies make case against immigration reform bill

    06/17/13 03:02 PM

    Usually it's unions arguing that a guest worker program favors Big Business, but this time an Alabama Republican senator is making the case.

  • Report: Lautenberg’s death may have cost Dems chance to change filibuster

    By Sean Higgins | 06/17/13 02:40 PM

    Washington Post blogger Greg Sargent, who is well-connected with Senate Democrats, reports that they now fear the death of 89-year-old New Jersey Democrat Frank Lautenberg earlier this month has undermined their plans to change the Senate’s filibuster rule. The rule requires the assent of 60...

  • It’s Cato scholar vs. Cato scholar on NSA surveillance

    By Sean Higgins | 06/17/13 01:45 PM

    Roger Pilon, the libertarian Cato Institute’s vice president for legal affairs and director of its Center for Constitutional Studies, has angered many over the years in the intellectual world of free minds and free markets by endorsing the war on terror’s intelligence gathering policies....


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