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You have to hand it to Jeff Sessions. He knows his audience. Or at least he tries to. Yesterday Sessions…

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Yesterday’s House Appropriations hearing on the Labor Department’s FY 2019 budget was a fairly low key — mostly boring —…

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In honor of the dishonor of naming former President Ronald Reagan to the Labor Hall of Fame (better known today…

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In a fiery rebuttal of Republican and employer attacks on OSHA during the Obama administration, former Assistant Secretary Dr. David…

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