H-2B Program Update; More Problems with/for Obamacare; Immigration Makes a Comeback; Welcome to the House of Representatives

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The Government Meets its Latest Fiscal Demand - Early; The New Healthcare Law Hits Home on the Hill; No WWU until 4/15

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The FY 2014 Budget Debate Begins; NLRB asks for Supreme Court Review; Comments Filed on Obamacare Regulations and “Seasonal Employees”

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Tax Reform Not Off the Table; Sequestration Alternatives Shot Down; Welcome to the House (Sort of); No WWU Next Week

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SOTUS Not That Great for Private Clubs; Welcome to the Senate; No WWU Next Week

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Newly Issued ACA Regulations May Exempt Seasonal Employees; Comprehensive Immigration Reform – Once More into the Breach; Debt Ceiling Raised; No WWU next week

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Court Strikes Down NLRB Appointments; The First of What is Likely to be Many ACA Delays; The Debt Ceiling Issue is Resolved—For Now; Inauguration Day

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Happy New Year; I’m Back and They Aren’t...; A New Leader at DOL; Right Back Behind Schedule; NCA Webinar This Thursday, 1/17/13; No WWU 1/21/13

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Tick Tock; NLRB Down to Three; One Leaves and Another Returns; The National Christmas Tree; Holiday Vacation – No WWU

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All By Himself; Both Leaders Showing a Little Muscle; An Opening for a Friend of NCA?

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Obamacare’s Essential Health Benefits Rules Released; They’re Getting Closer to the Cliff; It’s Official; The Lunch

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They’re Back…; Fiscal Cliff, Round 1; A Tsunami of Regulations; Welcome to the House…Early; No Washington Weekly Update Until 12/3

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Election Outlook: the House and Senate; Election Outlook: The White House; Reminder, No Washington Weekly Update Until 11/19

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The E-Verify Program Gets Extended; No Movement in Our Court Cases Against the NLRB; Happy Days (Sort Of) as the Government Stays Funded; No Washington Weekly Update Until 11/19

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The Other Shoe is About to Drop – New Regulations for PPACA; Fiscal Year 2013 Funding; Happy Days (Sort Of) as the Government Stays Funded; ClubPAC Event; The King Gets Some Gold

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One Fight Averted…We Hope; The House Takes Its Turn on Taxes; ClubPAC Event; The Good, the Unfortunate and the Ugly; August Recess – No WWU Until 9/17

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House Approps Does what Senate Approps Didn’t; Speaking of Government Funding for Fiscal Year 2013; Presidential Polling

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Once More unto the Breach; Good News for H-2B Users: No Government Funding Bills Until 2013; The House Schedule until August; An Amazing Milestone in the Senate; The Weekly Winner

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The Ruling We Did Not Want; Last Week’s Winner; Summer Has Arrived at the White House; The Boys of Summer Were at it Again; No WWU 7/9/12

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A Bipartisan Breakthrough … In An Election Year No Less; Senate Races Are Heating Up; Finally, The Date Has Been Set

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A Win Against the H-2B Regulations and a Loss Against the NLRB Rules; Welcome to the House

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The House Begins Repealing Parts of the PPACA; Dinner with Rep. Tim Scott; Three Out of Four Ain’t Bad

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The Awful Truth; It’s Good to Have Friends; This Week’s “Winner” in the Presidential Race

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The NLRB Suffers Another Blow; The Hoagie Summit; Not The Vote He Was Hoping For, Again

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The Presidential Election Comes Down to Having More “Good” Weeks than “Bad”; Some More Good News for the President; The U.S. Treasury Department Offers Some Good News (Sort Of)

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The NLRB’s “Quickie Election Rule” Starts Today; More Good News from Washington; Another One Bites the Dust; H-2B Visa Ruled Blocked; National Club Conference in NYC; No WWU Next Week

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The Tax Battle Begins;
The NLRB Poster Rule Gets Delayed and We Win in the Palmetto State; National Golf Day; NCC in NYC

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Will Wonders Never Cease; New National Debt Information; National Club Conference; No WWU until 4/23

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The Healthcare Reform Law is Now Two; The House Budget is Finally Released; The Second Casualty of 2012’s Redistricting

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The First Casualty of 2012’s Redistricting; Transportation Gridlock; House Budget Gets Closer to Passage; A Sad Day in the House; A Milestone Reached; No WWU Next Week

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The JOBS Act; The House’s Budget Plan Hits a Bump in the Road; The Senate’s 2012 Outlook just got Muddier

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The President's Budget Hit the Hill; The Payroll Tax Cut Passed; Opposition to the H-2B Regulation Starts Even Before it's Published; No WWU Next Week

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The Other Shoe Finally Dropped on the H-2B Visa Program; The Payroll Tax Cut and a Ballpark?; The STOCK Act Slows; Love is in the Air in the Senate…

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The Payroll Tax Cut Committee Off to a Slow Start; A Bit of Bipartisanship, Sort of; Welcome to the House; Love is in the Air in the Senate…

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The Senate Starts the Year with … a Break; Support for H.R. 1744; A Sad Day in the House

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Happy New Year!; They Were In and Then They Were Out; 2012 Starts Off with Good News from the NLRB; The Health Care Reform Law in 2012

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The Third, Fourth (and Fifth) Try at Extending the Payroll Tax Cut; The House Reins in Regulations; H-2B Help is Urged By Bipartisan Group of Congressmen

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The First (and Second) Try at Extending the Payroll Tax Cut; The NLRB votes on its Quickie Election Rule while the House Votes to Stop It

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The H-2B Wage Rule Gets Delayed Again; The Supreme Court Takes on the Health Care Reform Law; The Super Committee is Out of Time; No WWU 11/28

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The First “Minibus” Speeds through the Senate; Social Security Trust Fund; The Important Work of the House; No WWU 11/14

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The U.S. Supreme Court May Agree to Hear Health Care Law Case Soon; The Super Committee is Running Out of Time; The Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act Passes from Committee

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Legislation Prohibiting the H-2B Wage Rule from Taking Effect Introduced; The Super Committee May Focus on Corporate Tax Rates; The President’s Jobs Bill is Out but Certain Parts of It May Pass; Another Banner Year for the Federal Government; No WWU 10/24

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The NLRB Takes a Step Back and Delays “Poster” Rule; The President’s Jobs Bill gets a Makeover – to the Detriment of Private Clubs; Funding the Federal Government, Again

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Finally, Some Good News on the H-2B Front; E-Verify Bill Passes the House Judiciary Committee; Welcome to Congress; No WWU 10/3

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The H-2B Visa Fight Heads to Court; The House Strikes Back at the NLRB; Believe It or Not, Another Government Funding Bill is Due

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The NLRB strikes again; New Employer Mandate “Safe Harbor” Rule Does Little to Fix the Problem; The President’s New Job Plan and the Private Club Industry

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A Boost for Clubs That Use the H-2B Program?; And Now for the Really Bad News…; The Final Debt-Ceiling Battle…At Least for this Year; The August Recess is Upon Us, So No WWU until 9/12/11

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The First Legislative Response to the NLRB’s Actions; The Debt-Ceiling Debate Pushes Off Other Action Against the NLRB; Speaking of the Debt-Ceiling Debate ; And I Don’t Work Weekends …

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Legislation Introduced to Stop Regulations from Hurting Small Businesses; At Least Two Senators Get It; The Game Must Go On; Welcome to Congress

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H-2B Wage Rule Battle Heats Up; The NLRB Finally Gets Some Congressional Oversight; The Repeal of the Employer Mandate Penalties Found in the Health Care Reform Law; An NCA Connection in the White House?

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A “Temporary” Employer Tax Permanently Ended; The First Ruling on the Health Care Reform Law from an Appellate Court; Getting Serious about the Debt-Ceiling Crisis, Sort of;  Governor Moonbeam Did What?

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The National Labor Relations Board and the Department of Labor Strike Again; Another Disaster Relief Act and the Same Exclusion for Golf; Support Growing for Repeal of the Employer Penalty Section in the Health Care Law

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The Circuit Courts Take a Look at the Health Care Reform Law; The Next Provision of the Health Care Reform Law to Repeal

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Spending Cuts will not Include Entitlement Reform - Surprise; The Debt Ceiling Debate and Spending Cuts; Health Care Reform Regulations Hit the House; Welcome to Congress

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The Debt Ceiling and the Budget; It Isn’t Like They are Too Busy; They May Not Be Doing Anything, But We Are
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Here Come the Regulations; Let’s Give It another Shot; Welcome to the Senate
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NLRB Becomes Issue # 1; Help Save the H-2B Visa Program; The Debt Ceiling and Deficit Reduction Talks
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National Golf Day; The Deed is Done; Budget Deal Number 1 is Done; NCA’s 50^th Anniversary Celebration during the National Club Conference; No WWU Until 5/9/11
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Hip Hip Hooray; New EPA Rules on CO2 Emissions Survive Congressional Action; Oh Yes, There Was Something About Government Funding, Too…
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At Last an Answer to the 1099 Repeal Question; New H-2B Regulations Significantly Impact Private Clubs
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A Near Miss for the Speaker; The CO2 Battle in the Senate and House; The President’s 60th
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The 6th Stopgap Spending Bill, but Who’s Counting; The 1099 Repeal Saga Continues …
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Finally, the Repeal of the 1099 Mandate Passes the House; The Final Hiccup with the 1099 Repeal; The Government is Funded ... for Two More Weeks…
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The Health Care Reform Law and the FY 2011 Spending Bill; The House’s 1099 Repeal Bill; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the FY 2011 Spending Debate
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Let the Hearings Begin
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The 1099 Reporting Requirement is Finally Repealed; The Courts and the Health Care Reform Law
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The State of the Union and Private Clubs; The 1099 Repeal Movement; The House Moves on Deficit Reduction
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The Department of Labor’s New H-2B Wage Rule is Now Final; The New House Ways and Means Chairman Starts Looking at Changing the Tax Code; H.R. 2 Passes, but Now What
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The New Speaker and his First Legislative Action; Senate Republicans Pushing for a Balanced Budget Amendment  ; New Chief of Staff a Strong Business Supporter; Happy New Year
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The Long Kiss Goodbye; Finally, a Tax Deal; No WWU until 1/17/11
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The New Congress; The Tax Deal; ClubPAC Event with Sen.-Elect Marco Rubio
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The First Moves on Maintaining the Current Tax Rates; Maybe the Third Time will be the Charm; The Government is Funded -- for Now; Welcome to Congress; Thank You for Your Service, But You Have to Go 
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A Brave New World; The Lame-Duck Prognosis; Cash Those Government Checks Before December 3
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And They’re Off;  A Bipartisan Effort to Repeal the Health Care Reform Law?
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The Senate Fails to Stop “Card Check-like” Regulation; No Vote to Extend the Bush Tax Cuts until after November 2; Oh, and the Government Needs to be Funded, too.
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The Good and the Bad from the Senate’s 1099 Vote; Extension of the Bush Tax Cuts Sets Off Major Debate among Senate Democrats; The House is Back in Session – Sort of…; The President and Private Clubs.
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Speaker Pelosi Brings ‘Em Back for One More Vote;  First Test Vote on Tax Hikes;  ClubPAC Event.
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1099 Repeal to Get a Vote in the Senate, Loses in the House;  Energy Bill Finally Emerges.
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Movement on 1099 repeal;  First Look at the Expiring Tax Cuts;  Welcome to the Senate.
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Climate Change Legislation Making a Comeback?;  More Problems with President Obama’s Old Senate Seat;  The Senate’s Voice has Passed.
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The Health Care Reform Law and the Next New Regulation;  The COBRA Subsidy and Gridlock in Congress;   A Small Sign of Victory on EFCA.
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The New Health Care Reform Law and “Grandfathering”;  The New Health Care Law and Tanning Salons;  New H-2B Regulations are Coming.
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EFCA and the National Labor Relations Board;  Speaking of Regulating…;  Welcome to Congress.
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Tax Extenders Bill Delayed…Again;  An Uneasy Luncheon…;  Election Surprises in May.
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The 2010 Election Cycle Starts with a Wake-Up Call for All;  Simple Bills Become Political Tools;  EFCA Still on Hold.
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