Bid to bolster organized labor blocked in Senate
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Senate Republicans on Tuesday rejected a bill to make it easier to form unions, defeating a drive by newly empowered Democrats to shore up a key and shrinking constituency -- organized labor.
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As the U.S. Senate headed for a showdown vote on immigration, backers of a fragile compromise thwarted what they said on Wednesday was an effort to gut a provision to legalize millions of illegal immigrants and torpedo the bill.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has blocked appointment of Senate conferees on the stalled lobbying bill, casting doubt on the future of the biggest overhaul of ethics and lobbying legislation in a dozen years.
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Republican leaders in the House and Senate were blocked Wednesday by a senior GOP senator in their efforts to add immigration, handgun and Internet gambling measures to a defense bill.
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Backers of an initiative to change the way U.S. Senate vacancies are filled in Alaska on Monday asked a judge to block printing and distribution of the Nov. 2 ballots, contending the state's summary of the measure is misleading.
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A controversial immigration bill suffers a setback in the US Senate, as a bipartisan deal threatens to unravel.
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ONCE AGAIN Congress is trying to break the gridlock that has long prevented it from fixing and modernizing the nation's labor law. The last such effort was in the early 1990s, when a bipartisan Commission on the Future of Labor-Management Relations concluded that "labor law is not achieving its stated intent of encouraging collective bargaining and protecting workers' rights to ...
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Advocates of a bill promoting openness in government are fuming that a Republican senator is blocking a vote.
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The drive to pass a &#36;136 billion corporate tax bill hit a roadblock in the Senate on Friday when lawmakers upset about tobacco regulation, new overtime rules and combat pay employed delaying tactics to prevent a vote.
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By a narrow margin, the Senate today failed again to block a Republican-led filibuster on an energy bill as GOP leaders made a stand to prevent a $21.8 billion, 10-year tax package that would have extended incentives for wind and solar and reduced some tax breaks for oil companies.
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With spending bills apparently stalled, 54 senators have sent an appeal to the Senate leadership asking that the Social Security Administration receive adequate funding to avert workplace disruptions.
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The Senate rejected two attempts to limit annual payments to farmers Thursday, frustrating lawmakers who had hoped that this year's multibillion-dollar farm bill would scale back the government's massive subsidy programs.
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The Senate may attach language to the immigration bill that would prohibit city councils from requiring home improvement stores to maintain orderly day labor sites
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US senators fail to proceed to an early vote on a landmark immigration bill, in effect scuppering the measure.
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The 58-41 roll call by which the Senate voted to block action on a measure to add more than $40 billion in checks for the elderly, disabled veterans, the jobless and businesses to a bill for stimulating the economy.
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A proposed immigration overhaul survived a stiff challenge Wednesday as the Senate turned back a Democrat's bid to emphasize reuniting families more than job skills for many foreigners seeking to move to the U.S.
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The revival of the Senate's immigration legislation also resurrected a rare split inside organized labor.