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On March 6, President Trump signed the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, an $8.3 billion emergency spending bill that, among many o

On March 4, the House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Investment held a hearing entitled 鈥淩eauthorizing the National Apprenticeship Act: Strengthening and Growing Apprenticeships for the 21st Century.鈥� The National Apprenticeship Act, also known as the Fitzgerald Act, has not been reauthorized since its enactment in 1937 and the Subcommittee released a discussion draft bill to reauthorize the act ahead of Wednesday鈥檚 hearing. 听

On Feb. 26, 老牛影视sent a letter calling on Congress to consider how its infrastructure investment agenda could impact merit shop contractors and the small business community during a hearing titled Moving America鈥檚 Infrastructure Forward. Convened by U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Small Business鈥� Contracting and Infrastructure Subcommittee, the hearing was timed to coordinate with the recent release of Democrats鈥� $760 billion infrastructure investm

On Jan. 16, the U.S. Senate approved听President Trump鈥檚 signature trade deal with Mexico and Canada, the USMCA, in an overwhelmingly bipartisan 89-10 vote. The agreement previously passed the House in December on a similarly bipartisan 385-41 vote and now awaits the president鈥檚 signature of the deal into law.

On Oct. 9, the Honolulu City Council passed a highly contentious ordinance that will require the city to negotiate a 鈥渃ommunity workforce agreement鈥� with the Hawaii Building and Construction Trades Council, the Hawaii Construction Alliance and their affiliated labor unions for certain public works projects. The city says the ordinance will apply to 鈥渃ritical city projects鈥� in which the city has a particular interest in timely and cost-efficient project completion. The CWA will largely apply to critical road, wastewater, drainage and park improvement projects.

On Tuesday, Sept. 10, Republican special election candidates Greg Murphy and Dan Bishop won their highly anticipated respective congressional campaigns in North Carolina.

On July 25, the ABC-led Coalition for a Democratic Workplace testified before a House subcommittee on the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (H.R. 2474), which would jeopardize workers鈥� privacy, constitutional rights and freedoms if passed. This legislation currently has 186 Democrat cosponsors and is essentially a 鈥渦nion boss wish list,鈥� as Ranking Member Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) described it in his opening statement.

On June 26, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee approved the Lower Health Care Costs Act (S. 1895) by a bipartisan vote of 20-3. This bill seeks to address several cost-driver issues within our nation鈥檚 health care system including protecting patients from surprise medical billing and increasing transparency within health care.