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GOP senators on committee target three labor nominees from Buffalo
The Buffalo NewsThree men from Buffalo, one absent and two present, were the targets of grilling from Republicans on a Senate committee Thursday over matters that sometimes seemed personal but in the end are profound for every working person in America. The absent...Tags: Civil Rights, Employment, Justice System, Work Relations, Labor Disputes
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Senate panel clears Labor nominee Perez in close vote
Washington TimesWith no Republicans voting in support, President Obama's nominee to lead the Department of Labor cleared a big hurdle in the Senate Thursday. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee voted 12-10 along party lines to send the nomination...Tags: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC, Justice System, White House, Lamar Alexander
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U.S. Senate passes flood-protection bill vital to Cedar Rapids
The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, IowaThis city has been working for the five years since its $7-billion flood disaster to convince Congress to provide help for the city to build a flood protection system. On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate, on a vote of 83-14, approved the Water Resources...Tags: Bruce Braley, Chuck Grassley, Rivers, Floods, U.S. Senate
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US Senate confirms Tavenner as Medicare/Medicaid chief
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Marilyn Tavenner, a former nurse and hospital company executive, as the first full-fledged administrator for the Medicare and Medicaid healthcare programs since 2006. In a rare show of...Tags: Medicare, George W. Bush, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC, Kathleen Sebelius
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Senate approves Obama choice to head Medicare
WASHINGTON – In an unusual break in the partisan warring over healthcare, the Senate on Wednesday confirmed President Obama's choice to oversee the mammoth Medicare and Medicaid health programs. Marilyn Tavenner, a former hospital executive and...
Tags: Medicare, Medicaid, Health Insurance, Government Health Care, Barack Obama
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Monica Vernon likely will run for Braley's congressional seat
The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, IowaCan the talent pool for congressional candidates extend to City Hall? City Council member Monica Vernon is all-but-certain she is going to try to find out. Vernon, the city's mayor pro tem and a two-term council member, on Tuesday said she is nearly...Tags: Bruce Braley, U.S. Senate, Republican Party, Local Elections, Pat Murphy
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Labor official brings minimum-wage push to Baltimore
The fight over the federal minimum wage is coming to Baltimore. The head of the U.S. Department of Labor plans to swing into town Tuesday to talk to low-wage workers about how they make — or don't make — ends meet. Seth D. Harris, the agency'...
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Immigration reform debate under way
The Hawk Eye, Burlington, IowaU.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, will have his work cut out for him in the coming weeks, as his Senate Judiciary Committee began Thursday to take up an overhaul of the country's immigration system. The Border Security, Economic Opportunity and...Tags: George W. Bush, Immigration, Chuck Grassley, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), U.S. Senate
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Senators say they're close to writing a final pharmacy compounding bill
The Kansas City StarU.S. senators considering fundamental changes to how the practice of pharmacy compounding is regulated heard almost unanimous support for reform at a Washington committee hearing Thursday. And a top federal drug official, who has studied a fungal...Tags: Customs and Tradition, Pharmaceuticals, Chemical Industry, Meningitis, Pat Roberts
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Thune, Klobuchar introduce Sodsaver Prairie Protection Act
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) and Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) introduced legislation that would modify crop insurance premium assistance for insured crops grown on native sod converted to cropland and land that a producer cannot...Tags: Ducks Unlimited, Wildlife, Congressional Budget Office, National Wildlife Federation, John Thune
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Perez vote delayed as confirmation fight intensifies
WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee vote on Labor Secretary nominee Tom Perez was postponed hours before it was set to take place Wednesday, highlighting what appears to be a growing partisan fight over the confirmation of the former Maryland official. ...
Tags: Martin O'Malley, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Health and Safety at Work, Chuck Hagel, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013)
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Vote on Obama's choice to lead Labor Department delayed
WASHINGTON -- A vote on President Obama’s nominee to lead the Labor Department was delayed for an additional week, the latest roadblock for the controversial choice. The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions was scheduled to...
Tags: Mitch McConnell, Lamar Alexander, Labor Legislation, Thomas Edward Perez, U.S. Congress
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