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This is an open invitation for employers, particularly those involving restaurants and hotels, to lower their employees' wages by combining traditionally tipped occupations with nontipped occupations. For example, they will be able to put…
Dear Members of Congress: The undersigned organizations dedicated to worker rights and building a just and inclusive economy write in opposition to H.R. 2988, Protecting Prudent Investment of Retirement Savings Act; H.R. 2270, Empowering…
Mr. Speaker, I was just looking over the internet and found a Reddit discussion board and found one entry that said: ``I am bothered by unpaid 2-day training, which is going to be 9 hours each day.'' This kind of crosses the line, and they…
Only Congress can declare war — or in the modern phrase contained in the 1973 War Powers Resolution, authorize the use of military force in hostilities.
Long past time for Congress to reassert its critical constitutional role in matters of war, peace, diplomacy and trade.
Where will this go next? Will the President deploy our troops to protect Iranian protesters? To enforce the fragile ceasefire in Gaza? To battle terrorists in Nigeria? To seize Greenland or the Panama Canal? To suppress Americans…
I think it is important on matters of this importance, especially war, when 200 combatants have been killed--and that number is climbing--when U.S. troops have been injured--two still in the hospital--when U.S. assets are arrayed around…
Earlier this year, House Republicans passed a bill that strips healthcare from millions of Americans and raises costs for millions more. That was a monstrous bill, but this is a cowardly bill. It does nothing to stop the skyrocketing costs…
The vast majority of the drug – particularly – this is all cocaine. This is not fentanyl. The vast majority is actually in the Eastern Pacific, yet most of the strikes have been in the Caribbean.
I think the president needs to make the case if he's going to try to put boots on the ground in Venezuela.
The vast majority is actually in the Eastern Pacific, yet most of the strikes have been in the Caribbean.
The president has not – and, frankly, Pete Hegseth even worse. Here's the guy who goes out and brags about the strikes, until there's controversy, and then he kind of runs for the hills.
Fix the crisis right now. Extend the subsidies, and then let's debate how we fix it.
The idea that a one-time $1,500 payment into your pocket is going to suddenly make up – I had a person on – the other day, her current insurance is $544 a month.
I think pulling out without a plan would be a mistake, but the president, again, has sent mixed signals.
The idea of these two survivors hanging on to remnants of a boat, and then America taking a series of additional strikes. The Congress needs to see it, at the very minimum.
I want to see the written execution order. I want to see the legal opinion that was about this specific strike.
The president needs to come and explain to the American people what the goal is here.