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House House Passes USMCA Trade Deal On Dec. 19, the House passed H.R. 5430, the U.S., Mexico and Canada trade deal. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced a Senate vote on the new North American trade deal would happen in 2020, after the impeachment trial for President Trump in January. The deal removes 10-year patent...

Trudeau Visit Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Washington today for separate meetings with the President, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) that will primarily focus on the proposed US-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade agreement. Nominations With just a handful of legislative days remaining before the July 4 recess, the...

On April 6, 2017, New Mexico enacted a data breach notification law. The “Data Breach Notification Act” (H.B. 15) will take effect on June 16, 2017. The recent passage of this statute leaves Alabama and South Dakota as the only two remaining states with no law requiring companies to notify individuals of data breaches involving...

USA Today’s The Oval blog just finished live-blogging President Obama’s town hall meeting from New Mexico.  During the Q&A period comes the following entry: 12:55 – A man asks about the “employee free choice act,” which would help more unions form. Obama praises the contribution of unions to society, and worries about the decline in union membership....

People who have been following the debate over EFCA for some time are well aware that back in 2001, EFCA’s chief sponsor Rep. George Miller wrote a letter to a Mexican state government calling for the protection of secret ballot voting in union elections. The February 13, 2009 Washington Times carries an Op-Ed by F. Vincent Vernuccio highlighting another...