Posts tagged Congressional Budget Office

    Op-ed / Commentary ● Labor PRO Act Unionization

    Sanders’ pro-union budget committee hearing shows Democrats’ true agenda

    May 6, 2022 // Ranking Member Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) observation during the hearing was exactly correct — under Sanders’s direction, the Senate Budget Committee has taken a dangerous and partisan turn. Instead of focusing on issues under jurisdiction, Sanders would prefer to use his chairmanship as a bully pulpit to push a pro-union agenda and target companies he dislikes for purely political reasons.

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    Op-ed / Commentary ● Unionization

    Bernie Sanders Announces Wasteful, Politicized Senate Budget Hearing

    May 5, 2022 // In reality, this hearing is designed to paint a single company in a bad light and gin up momentum for the nascent Amazon Labor Union (ALU). By any fair measure, this hearing is outside the Budget Committee’s jurisdiction and is part of a government-wide effort to expand organized labor’s power at the expense of American workers.

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    Press Release ● Labor

    Biden’s Proposed Davis-Bacon Act Reforms Are More Pork for Special Interests

    March 11, 2022 // “While ABC is still reviewing the 432-page rule, it appears the DOL missed an opportunity for meaningful Davis-Bacon reform. For example, the proposed rule reverts back to 1983 regulations that do not result in actual prevailing rates, as required by statute. Reversing course by 40 years is not modernization. Instead, it is even worse public policy catering to special interests embedded in the Biden administration that benefit from the broken status quo.

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    Op-ed / Commentary ● Labor PRO Act

    SOTU address shows Biden favors unions and spurns workers

    March 6, 2022 // Instead of focusing on policies that would help Americans deal with runaway inflation, Biden doubled down on Big Labor’s wishlist. No matter what organized labor is selling, implementing a $15 minimum wage alongside the PRO Act would be a doomsday scenario for American workers.

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    News Article ● Unionization

    Hill staffers are organizing. What could their unions look like?

    February 9, 2022 // Amid ‘overwhelming’ response, staffers run up against convoluted structure of Congress

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    News Article ● Unions

    Democrats might drop union bonus for electric vehicle credit

    November 16, 2021 // Neal said he’d consider a potential compromise that would allow the bonus credit for any electric vehicles assembled in the U.S., not just those subject to collective bargaining agreements. “I’d be open to something along those lines, yeah,” he said.

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