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	<title>Workforce Washington</title>
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	<description>An insider's view of how legislation and government regulation influence workforce management.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Obama Takes His Eye Off the ‘Jobs’ Ball</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schoeff Jr.</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama will return from his trip to Asia just in time to see the Senate cast a procedural vote to begin debate on a sweeping health care reform bill. It may take quite a while before the world’s most deliberative body gets around to final passage.
Earlier in the year, Obama signaled that he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Employers’ Legislative Pain: It Only Hurts When You Smile?</title>
		<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/washington/2009/11/11/employers%e2%80%99-legislative-pain-it-only-hurts-when-you-smile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schoeff Jr.</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Late in the evening on November 7, I was driving through McLean, Virginia, listening to C-SPAN Radio coverage of a press conference by House Democratic leaders following the chamber’s narrow approval of a comprehensive health care bill.
At the time, it’s likely that I was passing the large homes of at least a couple business lobbyists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Election Losses Increase Health Bill Urgency</title>
		<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/washington/2009/11/04/election-losses-increase-health-bill-urgency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schoeff Jr.</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama won Virginia and New Jersey last year on his way to capturing the White House. But on Tuesday, November 3, voters in those states put Republicans in their respective governors’ mansions.
Republicans say that the results were a referendum on Obama; Democrats counter by pointing to their party’s victory in a special election [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wary of Nominees? Then Win the Election</title>
		<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/washington/2009/10/27/wary-of-nominees-then-win-the-election/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schoeff Jr.</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, October 26, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid may have initiated a turning point in health care reform.
He indicated that a government-run insurance program for people under 65, a so-called public option, would be included in the measure that goes to the Senate floor next month.
Now Washington pundits are furiously doing the math, trying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tortuous Journey to Unemployment Extension</title>
		<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/washington/2009/10/16/a-tortuous-journey-to-unemployment-extension/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schoeff Jr.</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Before casting the only Republican vote in Congress so far for a health care reform proposal on October 13, Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine cautioned that the journey toward final legislation has “miles to go.”
Now the two Senate bills and three in the House have to be combined into one in each chamber. The bills [...]]]></description>
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