by Leo Gerard | Apr 26, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Jobs and Growth, This Is The GOP
Alan White couldn’t shout jubilation from the rooftop on March 25 when he heard that the U.S. Department of Labor, after decades of trying, had finally issued a stricter rule to limit exposure to potentially deadly silica dust in workplaces. He was happy, all right....
by Leo Gerard | Apr 19, 2016 | Blog, Trade
I went to Washington, D.C., last week to ask trade experts and lawmakers to stop the relentless, lawless, callous dumping of Chinese steel, aluminum, paper, rubber, glass, chemicals and other products, which has closed mills, killed jobs, destroyed lives, devastated...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 12, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth
Grandma skips meals. Her house is always cold. She barely skimps by, subsisting on just Social Security because of a bunch of pension-killing CEOs and self-dealing financial “advisers.” The U.S. Labor Department offered some rules last week to help grandma with half...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 5, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
For years, Republicans have kept a gambit going where they gin up hate for political gain. They condemn marriage equality. They throw a hissy fit about what bathroom transgender people use. They try every dirty trick in the book to prevent black people from voting....
by Leo Gerard | Mar 22, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Democracy, This Is The GOP
Senate Republicans are flipping off the President of the United States by refusing to conduct a confirmation hearing for his nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. By doing this, the majority party in the Senate is saying it doesn’t acknowledge that Barack Obama is the...
