Budget
House OKs $3.5 trillion budget plan, allowing massive social change
August 25, 2021Vote described by AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler as “critical step forward for working families”
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House on verge of votes on infrastructure, budget, voting rights
August 18, 2021Groups mobilize across the country in a do-or-die effort to get Congress to chart a course that can re-make the country.
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Senate plows through budget, rejecting most GOP ‘social issue’ schemes
August 11, 2021The blueprint passed could produce historic pro-worker change if lawmakers respond to the mass movements and their election mandates.
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On human infrastructure and Biden budget, heavy lifting remains
August 10, 2021Senate passes trillion-dollar bill fixing roads, subways, lead pipes, and broadband, but this vote is only the beginning.
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Labor, green groups unite to push Jobs Plan and Families Plan
June 30, 2021Congress seems hell-bent on passing a stripped-down version of the Jobs Plan and—thanks to rigid Senate Republican opposition and filibuster threats—doing nothing at all about the Families Plan.
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