Corporations are asking what the country can do for them. They now spend $2.6 billion a year lobbying members of Congress to write and change laws and regulations to benefit their businesses and increase their profits.
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As the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means committees are set to vote to allow the administration to fast track a bad international trade deal being negotiated behind closed doors, AFGE activists on Monday joined hundreds of activists from other organizations to make it clear that we will not let this happen without a fight.
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Just weeks after voting to cut your pay by 12%, Congress has already figured out what they want to do with your money: repeal the estate tax.
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AFGE joined more than a thousand other labor and environmental activists Wednesday in a rally to stop the Fast Tracking of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP).
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Members of Congress will return to Washington, D.C. next week to start working on various funding bills after a two-week recess.
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The House of Representatives this week voted to approve a funding bill that would make it harder for you to work and retire with dignity.
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House Budget Committee Ranking Member Chris Van Hollen and his colleagues are fed up with Robin Hood in reverse.
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Both the Senate and House budgets for fiscal 2016 would require federal employees to contribute substantially more of their wages toward their retirement without getting any additional benefits in return.
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Both Houses of Congress this week issued their budget proposals for fiscal year 2016. Who are they going to help and who are they going to hurt? Find out below and click the pictures to share them on your Facebook profile
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Congressional leaders in the House and Senate don’t think you’ve sacrificed enough. In fact, they think you could do with a 5.5% pay cut.
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Proposals to cut federal employee compensation, jobs hurts all Americans
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The agency that’s tasked with protecting the American homeland is still on the brink of a shutdown after the House of Representatives last Friday decided to fund the Department of Homeland Security for only one week instead of the entire fiscal year. The short-term funding measure runs out this Friday after midnight, sending Congress back to square one and crippling the important work of TSA, Border Patrol, ICE, FEMA, Coast Guard, FPS and other DHS agencies.
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Just days before Valentine’s Day, hundreds of federal employees descended upon Washington, D.C. demanding the respect and fair compensation they deserve. They marched to Capitol Hill for a Government Works for America rally and stormed the marble halls of Congress to make their voice heard.
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Official time is worker protection against discrimination and unlawful disciplinary actions, but some in Congress are working to undermine it.
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The AFL-CIO is urging Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski to keep in place the long standing prohibition against the use of the OMB Circular A-76 privatization process.
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