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Washington Weekly Update: 11-25-24

NCA Survey on Workplace Safety After the Thanksgiving holiday, the National Club Association will circulate a survey among members requesting information about best workplace safety practices. This survey will include questions about worker protections member clubs have in place to address extreme internal and outdoor

Washington Weekly Update: 11-12-24

Situational Awareness With Republicans projected to maintain control of the House of Representatives, House GOP leaders spoke in front of the Capitol to present their “America first” legislative agenda for the first hundred days of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term. Speaker of the House Mike

Washington Weekly Update: Breaking News on Overtime Litigation

Breaking News: Overtime Litigation Heating Up Late last week, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas announced it had scheduled a hearing on Friday, November 8 regarding the challenge of the Department of Labor’s overtime threshold regulation that went into effect on July 1,

Washington Weekly Update 9-23-24

Situational AwarenessOn Sunday evening, House Republicans unveiled a semi-clean stopgap spending bill to fund the government through Dec. 20. The compromise measure was the result of bipartisan negotiations by House appropriators spurred on by a failed vote last week on a six-month continuing resolution that

Washington Weekly Update 9-16-24

Situational Awareness Both the House and Senate are in session this week. Lawmakers in the House will consider dozens of bills this week covering various topics including academic freedom, funding for sanctuary cities, veterans/servicemember benefits, social security, telehealth and Medicare/Medicaid. Additionally, the House must come

Washington Weekly Update 9-9-24

Situational Awareness The House of Representatives and Senate are back in session this week. At a maximum, lawmakers have three legislative weeks before they depart for a month-long recess in October to campaign for reelection. During that time, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.)

Washington Weekly Update 9-3-24

Situational AwarenessBoth the Senate and House of Representatives return to Washington, D.C. next Monday, Sept. 9 for three weeks to complete work on a short-term spending measure that will fund the federal government for an undetermined amount of time to avert a government shutdown. The

Washington Weekly Update 8-5-24

Situational Awareness The Senate left Washington, D.C. last Friday after a failed procedural vote on a bipartisan tax package that would expand the child tax credit and roll back some changes to the tax code made by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The package was the

Washington Weekly Update 7-29-24

Situational Awareness The Senate is in session this week. After making the decision to pull votes on three FY 2025 appropriations amid intraparty GOP disagreements, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) sent House lawmakers back to their districts to start the August recess a

Washington Weekly Update 7-22-24

Situational Awareness Both the House of Representatives and Senate are in session this week. The House is slated to consider several President Joe Biden announced yesterday that he will no longer seek the Democratic nomination for president. The decision, made after a faltering few weeks

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