Category Archives: Labor Leaders

Senate GOP leader takes aim at health care law

By doris | Published: November 4, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — The Senate’s Republican leader says congressional lawmakers can and should vote to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care law, repeatedly if necessary. If Obama should veto laws repealing the health care overhaul, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says, the House should cancel funding for its programs. As for the [...]

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‘Revolving door’ a bar to mine safety?

By doris | Published: April 18, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com More than 200 former congressional staff members, federal regulators and lawmakers are employed by the mining industry as lobbyists, consultants or senior executives, including dozens who work for coal companies with the worst safety records in the nation, a Washington Post analysis shows. The revolving door has also brought industry officials [...]

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Troubles brew for House Dems in 2010 election

By doris | Published: September 14, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW YORK – Despite sweeping Democratic successes in the past two national elections, continuing job losses and President Barack Obama’s slipping support could lead to double-digit losses for the party in next year’s congressional races and may even threaten their House control. Fifty-four new Democrats were swept into the House in [...]

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Organized labor gives Obama high grades so far

By doris | Published: March 21, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com So far, so good, union leaders say in assessing President Barack Obama’s performance in his first two months in office. But the furor over bonus payments made to some AIG employees has caused a note of wariness to creep into labor’s most recent assessments of Obama.

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