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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>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>What Can Brown Do for Labor-Law Reform?</title>
		<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/washington/2010/02/08/brown_labor_law_reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schoeff Jr.</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It doesn’t take much snow to knock Washington off balance. The weekend blizzard has effectively shut down the town today, when the Senate had been scheduled to vote on the nomination of Harold Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board.
Becker is likely to be blocked by a successful Republican filibuster on Tuesday, February 9, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tweetup Turns Social Network Into Valuable Relationships</title>
		<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/washington/2010/01/29/tweetup-turns-social-network-into-valuable-relationships/</link>
		<comments>http://workforce.com/wpmu/washington/2010/01/29/tweetup-turns-social-network-into-valuable-relationships/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schoeff Jr.</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Workforce Trends]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Workforce Planning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nearing the end of a long day on Wednesday, I leaned back in my chair and considered whether I really wanted to attend a happy hour that night.
It was being held at a restaurant on the other side of downtown Washington and required adding an extra subway stop to my commute home. Depending on how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Populism Turns Focus to HR-Related Policy Issues</title>
		<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/washington/2010/01/27/populism-turns-focus-to-hr-related-policy-issues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schoeff Jr.</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[HR Policy &amp; Presidential Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics &amp; Work]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Workforce Planning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama isn’t dragging a cross of gold around the streets of Washington. Nevertheless, the populist tone he and members of Congress have adopted is probably putting a smile on the face of William Jennings Bryan in political heaven.
After a profound political setback in Massachusetts on January 19—a victory by Republican Scott Brown in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ticktock Grows Louder for Democrats</title>
		<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/washington/2010/01/18/ticktock-grows-louder-for-democrats/</link>
		<comments>http://workforce.com/wpmu/washington/2010/01/18/ticktock-grows-louder-for-democrats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schoeff Jr.</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Labor Relations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the HR of politics, you rarely see someone get voted out of office, or “fired,” by constituents. Over the last decade or two, redistricting has created House seats so safe in their partisan composition that they are almost hermetically sealed. It’s also enormously difficult to beat a Senate incumbent.
Usually, substantial change in congressional membership [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Labor Be Left in the Health Care Dust?</title>
		<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/washington/2010/01/05/will-labor-be-left-in-the-health-care-dust/</link>
		<comments>http://workforce.com/wpmu/washington/2010/01/05/will-labor-be-left-in-the-health-care-dust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rbell</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Workplace]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Labor Relations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Congress missed several White House-imposed deadlines for completing health care reform legislation in 2009. This year, Capitol Hill is poised to meet a timeline benchmark, producing a final bill prior to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech in early February.
In an attempt to accelerate the potentially arduous process of reconciling House and Senate [...]]]></description>
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