In the News
May 4, 2016
By SUNSHINE STATE NEWS
May 4, 2016
Looking to speed up the backlog of VA claims, two Florida congressmen teamed up this week on a bill giving congressional offices read only access on claims.
April 27, 2016
By: M.L. Schultze, WKSU
April 27, 2016
The U.S. House has passed the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Act, authorizing $300 million a year over the next five years to try to improve the lakes. It focuses on wildlife habitat, toxic cleanup, farm and city runoff and invasive species.
April 26, 2016
By: Sandusky Register
April 26, 2016
The U.S. House today passed by voice vote the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Act of 2016, a bill that is an integral piece of federal Great Lakes restoration efforts.
The bill, H.R.
April 26, 2016
By: AP
April 26, 2016
Ford Motor Co. is spending $1.6 billion to upgrade two U.S. plants for new products.
Dearborn, Michigan-based Ford is investing $200 million in its Ohio Assembly Plant, in Avon Lake, to build Super Duty chassis cabs, which are used for commercial vehicles.
April 25, 2016
By: Bruce Vail, In These Times
April 25, 2016
With a key deadline looming early next month, pension activists in the Teamsters union are turning up the heat to head off government action that will slash the incomes of hundreds of thousands of union retirees who receive benefits from the Central States Pension Fund, and set a
April 22, 2016
By: Deirdre Shesgreen, Telegraph-Forum
April 22, 2016
Legislation to address the nation’s heroin epidemic could hit the House floor as soon as next month, with Democrats and Republicans alike pushing for a sweeping response to the deadly scourge.
Lawmakers representing the hardest-hit stat
April 21, 2016
By: Elizabeth Ouzts and John Rumpler, Environment America
April 21, 2016
Today the U.S. Senate, by a vote of 56-42, rejected a move by Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) to block the Obama administration's landmark Clean Water Rule. Meanwhile yesterday, more than two dozen senators led by Sen.
April 21, 2016
By: National Farmers Union
April 21, 2016
After several years of proactively limiting farmers’ basic rights and protections, Congress appeared poised to finally let the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) implement a provision included in the 2008 Farm Bill to provide needed marketplace protections to contract farmers.
April 21, 2016
By: Alexandra Bradbury, Labor Notes
April 21, 2016
Over 2,000 retirees and Teamsters from 20 states rallied in front of the U.S.
April 21, 2016
By: Keith C. Burris, Toledo Blade
April 21, 2016
A friend said: “I think it’s a shame presidential campaigns turn on independents. I don’t get the independents.