119 HJRES 21
Disapproving of the rule submitted by the Department of Homeland Security relating to "Modernizing H-2 Program Requirements, Oversight, and Worker Protections".
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Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
2025-01-16
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Hormuz friction is a household energy-cost event and a potential mortgage-rate event simultaneously; the CFPB rollbacks quietly remove fair-lending protections for the borrowers least able to self-advocate.
The legislative cluster on Iran matters to households in a way the vote-count frame undersells. The intel roundtable tells us what the bills are really about at ground level: if Iran moves from declaratory Hormuz interdiction to intermittent enforcement, the transmission mechanism is insurance and freight cost repricing on Gulf shipping — and that repricing flows directly into gasoline prices, home heating oil, diesel for freight, and LNG spot prices feeding European utilities. American households don't need to understand Hormuz geography to feel it at the pump. Analysts in the roundtable cite a 30-40% increase in shipping costs for Cape of Good Hope rerouting. That's not abstract — that's the difference between stable and spiking diesel costs for every small business owner running a delivery route. For renters and homeowners, the secondary channel is interest rates. If energy price spikes reignite inflation expectations, the Federal Reserve's rate path shifts, and mortgage rates respond. A household refinancing or buying in this environment faces compounding headwinds from a geopolitical standoff their representatives are producing resolutions about but cannot actually resolve legislatively. Rep. Slotkin's gas price tracker resolution (119hconres90) is politically shrewd precisely because it makes visible what consumers are already experiencing — but it is a thermometer, not a thermostat. On the CFPB front: the two disapproval resolutions (119hjres160, 119hjres161) are defending rules that directly protected borrowers from discriminatory lending and from predatory financial products. If those CFPB rule withdrawals are allowed to stand without congressional disapproval — which the math suggests they will be — the segments most exposed are first-time homebuyers, minority borrowers, and households with limited banking relationships who depend on CFPB oversight as their primary consumer protection backstop. The headline says 'regulatory reform.' The fine print says those borrowers lose a layer of protection with no replacement offered.
2026-05-13
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US Department of Labor to offer free webinars in May providing compliance assistance on youth employment ahead of summer hiring season
ATLANTA – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division is hosting a webinar series in May to provide information and resources on how to comply with regulations affecting youth employment, ahead of the summer hiring season.Employers, young workers, parents, school counse
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HONOLULU – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $171,897 in back wages from a physical therapy and rehabilitation clinic after an investigation determined the employer denied 32 employees full overtime pay at three of its facilities, in violation of federal law.Investigator
Read on dol.gov →Trump Administration proposes rule to expand access to fertility benefits with new legal pathway for employers to offer benefits directly to employees
WASHINGTON – The U.S. departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury announced a proposed rule that would create a new category of limited excepted benefits to further expand the ability of employers to offer meaningful fertility benefits to their employees. T
Read on dol.gov →Regulators (rule-making and recall language)
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Notice Announcing Teacher Quality Partnership Program Competition
The Employment and Training Administration at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is soliciting applications in support of the administration of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Teacher Quality Partnership Program (TQP), Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.336S, on behalf of the U.S. Depa
Read on federalregister.gov →Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) Rehabilitation Long-Term Training (RLTT) Program Payback Information Management System (PIMS)
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the Department is proposing a revision of a currently approved information collection request (ICR).
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Department of Energy: Action Needed to Approve Advanced Test Reactor Spent Fuel Plan
What GAO Found The Department of Energy (DOE) faces two challenges affecting Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) operations in the near term. First, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Office of Naval Reactors (Naval Reactors) is finding it increasingly difficult to mee
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What GAO Found The Black Lung Benefits Program provides benefits (income and medical benefits) to coal miners who are totally disabled due to black lung disease. These miners may also receive other benefits, such as state workers’ compensation payments, for their black lung disab
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