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This edition of Workforce Bulletin contains articles including: Congress Passes Debt Limit Extension On Wednesday, February 11, the Senate passed the Temporary Debt Limit Extension Act (S. 540), suspending the debt limit until March 15, 2015, without additional policy provisions. S.540 pas...

This edition of Workforce Bulletin contains articles including: Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Stalls in the U.S. Senate Legislation to extend the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program failed to gain the 60 votes necessary for the measure to move forward ...

This edition of Workforce Bulletin contains articles including: NASWA President Urges Senate to Minimize Changes to EUC Program If It Passes A Reauthorization In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), NASWA President Mark Henry (MS)...

Extension of EUC Remains Uncertain as Senate Returns Next Week from Recess As Congress returns to Washington, D.C. next week from its Martin Luther King Jr. Congressional recess, the Senate is set resume negotiations on an extension of the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program,...

Congress Approves Omnibus Appropriations Bill - Provides Federal Government Funding for the Remainder of FY 2014 This week, both the House and Senate completed work on the fiscal 2014 omnibus appropriations measure funding federal government operations until September, with the House of Re...

This edition of Workforce Bulletin contains articles including: Congress Likely to Pass Short-Term Spending Measure while Completing Details of Omnibus Appropriations Bill To avoid another government shutdown, the Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, Harold Rogers (R-KY), has...

This edition of Workforce Bulletin contains articles including: House and Senate Pass Two-Year Budget Agreement, Sequestration Relief Provided House and Senate budget negotiators reached a two-year budget agreement on Tuesday, December 10, 2013, to set overall discretionary spending levels...

This edition of Workforce Bulletin contains articles including: Budget Deal Not Yet Done, But House Majority Leaders Indicate They Are Prepared to Consider Measure Next Week House Majority leaders remain prepared to pass a budget conference compromise next week and are preparing for a Dece...

This edition of Workforce Bulletin contains articles including: EUC Extension Proposed Through 2014 On Wednesday, November 20th, House Committee on Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) introduced identical legislation, (H.R. 3546 and S. 1747) to extend...

This edition of Workforce Bulletin contains articles including: Budget Conference Committee Holds Second Meeting, Differences Remain on Spending Levels The budget conference committee, formed to resolve differences between House and Senate overall spending levels for fiscal 2014, held its ...