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Opportunity for republicans to outmaneuver democrats on their supposed working class bona fides. when you know, it nearly every house republican voted against the bill, getting blue-collar rail workers some paid sick days. the vote passed 2:21 to 207, thanks to party line support for the democrats. not a single day in the caucus, and only three republicans voted yes with them. exactly what you would expect from the party of the working class. now it goes to the senate, where rubio has a chance t...

Asked her repeatedly "where her people came from" at a reception at buckingham palace, despite the charity chief executive being born in the uk. for the second day running, the telegraph leads with a story on strikes. the paper reports that britain faces disruption from industrial action every day until christmas, with rail workers, nurses, teachers, security guards, and driving examiners taking part. the i: the "uk is playing with fire" when it comes to covid jabs, thats the headline on the fro...

He destroyed our energy independence. he doubled the price of gasoline in this country. he had a disastrous withdrawal from afghanis and he allowed vladimir putin to invade ukraine. he ha and and he ushered in, you know, eight eight percent inflation. and so, yeah, you know, maybee e he said the one true thing, thii nobody has done anything like this in history. let you ask steve , if you looke at the deal thats on the table for the rail workers , theyre going to get a twenty fourcrease percent ...

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Christmas is going to carry the day. >> reporter: the deal prevents a walk-off by 115,000 railway workers that could have cost the economy $2 billion a day, snarled holiday shipping traffic, and spiked inflation further. washington, d.c., hardware store manager charles hawkins was preparing for the worst. >> if youre a profitable business or just a business in general, once things start to sell you need to replenish so its very important to get things delivered. >> reporter: president biden who ...

Most members of Arizona’s congressional delegation joined the rest of the House Wednesday to give overwhelming bipartisan approval to a bill that would head off a national rail strike by imposing contract terms on rail workers’ unions.

Though the measure ultimately failed, it did receive some bipartisan support.

The upper chamber passed the measure in an expedited vote to avert a holiday season rail strike.

The president had called on Congress to act, saying a rail strike would "devastate our economy".

September between the railway workers an the industry that was silent on the issue of paid sick leave. but an amendment that would mandate a week of sick leave for those rail workers. but republicans also want their own amendment being offered too, to delay that december 9th deadline to avert a strike for about a month, try to force the negotiators to the table. but in order to get a vote on the underlying agreement and the two is a amendment, all have to agreed and today dick durbin indicated t...