Obama spoke out strongly against Right to Work legislation when he appeared in suburban Detroit on Monday.
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Indiana, meanwhile, adopted similar Right to Work legislation, while Ohio adopted collective bargaining limits, only to see them repealed.
Over the past two years, Michigan and Indiana passed right-to-work legislation, and the latter phased out its estate tax.
Ron Paul has been running an ad noting Mr. Santorum's vote against federal right-to-work legislation, which would restrict unions from forcing membership and dues.
His popularity suffered late last year after he signed right-to-work legislation that weakened organized labor in the home of the United Auto Workers union.
Michigan has become the 24th state to adopt Right to Work legislation, which prevents unions from automatically collecting dues from employees in workforces that they represent.
But until late last year, he resisted efforts for Right to Work legislation, which would be the first passed by a state in two decades, and the first in the industrial Great Lakes states.
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So Rankin learned to work on legislation and lobby lawmakers, and now he is a member of the Democratic National Committee.
In order for this plan to work, legislation would need to take effect before the withdrawal of the FDIC guarantee in October, so that FDIC procedures for handling failed banks can be applied to bank-holding companies.
"In completing work on this legislation, Congress took heed of many of the serious problems identified by the Center in earlier drafts, " noted Frank J.
The ESA should work to back legislation that would help protect their IP without shutting down the very thing that their most loyal fans value most.
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said it was an interesting proposition as AMs would be "limited" to deal with all the work when more legislation has to be discussed and processed by the assembly in the years to come.
So while we begin this effort to shape bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform legislation, its passage is going to be dependent upon whether or not we can find Republicans that are -- that have shared this viewpoint in the past are ready, willing and able to work on this legislation in the present.
After the meeting, leaders in both parties said they would begin work on the legislation immediately, and House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Missouri, suggested Congress try to pass legislation creating the new department by the September 11 anniversary -- so that it could be up and running by the first of 2003.
Business leaders should work with the administration and Congress on tax legislation that would reward work and bolster investment, while retaining the tax system's essential progressivity.
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Health ministers from Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man will work together on new legislation.
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In short, it needs the mortgage buyers to be healthy for the housing legislation to work properly.
The blame-Congress strategy worked for Truman because he gave the Republicans an opportunity to pass their legislation and work with him.
The accomplishments we acknowledge and celebrate every October would not be possible without VAWA, yet Congress has not finished its work on this critical legislation.
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As Chief of Staff to Senator Kaufman, Connaughton had a unique opportunity to work on financial reform legislation without the fundraising worries and political obligations of a reelection campaign.
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He wants the European Parliament to work more closely with national Parliaments "on the design of legislation that is going to work" and on the implementation of policy.
Barney Frank had said something which I think is really important, that if the services don't work with people, then legislation will be passed to, you know, make things much more restrictive to them.
Last night, by a vote of 51-43, the United States Senate completed work on a landmark piece of legislation: H.
Mr. Bronin said the administration will have to work with state lawmakers to pass legislation this session authorizing such an arrangement.
This type of legislation simply does not work as long as other states refuse to force online retailers to pay taxes.
Paul Farmer, chairman of the Mental Health Alliance, said a lot more work was needed before the draft legislation became workable.
He said he was willing to work on specific concerns about the legislation, such as a tax-reporting provision said to be onerous to small businesses.
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We have a system of government in place precisely for this reason, that sides with opposing views come together, work out a compromise, pass legislation that the American people believe should be passed and support.
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