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On January 3, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (“NRC”) staff sent to the Commission SECY-23-0001, “Options for Licensing and Regulating Fusion Energy Systems” and three related...

Health care costs have been rising over the past century System reforms have also led to patients having to pay more at the point of care. Widespread medical...

More than 1.5 million payroll jobs, and nearly 2 million jobs onthe household survey, added over the past year; high output,manufacturing outlook, business confidence, and productivity;markedly improved long-term unemployment and manufacturingemployment outlooks; and a poverty rate that is low by historicalstandards: These are the facts that frame the debate on theeconomy.

The Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 ("HSR Act") requires parties to mergers and acquisitions, and certain other transactions, that exceed statutory...

On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed into law The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 (also known as The Omnibus Appropriations Bill), which includes the Merger...

Congress passed the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2022 ("Filing Fee Modernization Act") on December 23, 2022 as part of a broader omnibus spending bill. It was signed into law...

Most summaries and studies examine Social Security reform from theviewpoint of federal budget impact, tax rates, and thesurvivability of the system, but few consider the overall impact ofreform on the workers it was designed to benefit. Social Securityshould not be reformed or "saved" for its own sake, but only if itmore effectively provides the benefits workers need at a price theycan afford.

Millions of American seniors have worked hard their entire lives in the belief that they would receive health insurance benefits, including coverage for prescription drugs, from their employer after retirement. But if Congress does create a universal Medicare drug entitlement based on bills now before a House-Senate conference, the retiree drug coverage many seniors were promised by their employers will be in peril.

News Analysis After talking up a "Red Wave" throughout 2022, the Republican Party ultimately failed to take the ...

For many Americans a trip to Washington, D.C., to meet elected officials is a rite of passage that comes with living in a democracy. The school or family trip to