Sean Higgins

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Ninety-four percent of those represented by unions never voted for one, according to The Heritage Foundation. Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn, wants to change that by requiring periodic referendums on continuing with a union. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Illinois worker recounts ordeal to decertify union

Sean Higgins · June 14, 2017 10:55 pm

President Trump wants to penalize so-called sanctuary cities, or jurisdictions that do not cooperate with federal immigration officials. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

DC and Maryland’s corruption case against Trump hinges on hotel business

Sean Higgins · June 14, 2017 10:10 pm

"I think we will all win by playing tomorrow," Walberg agreed. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Rep. Tim Walberg says congressional baseball shooting victim ‘like a third son’

Sean Higgins · June 14, 2017 6:08 pm

"All of us are vulnerable. We're all public servants. If someone wants to target us, it can happen," Rep. Sanford Bishop, D-Ga., said. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

National Security

Rep. Sanford Bishop: ‘All of us are vulnerable’

Sean Higgins · June 14, 2017 3:26 pm

Spicer believes President Trump's business acumen can improve the administrative services at the VA. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

House sends VA reform bill to president

Sean Higgins · June 13, 2017 9:25 pm

Six in 10 people say the economy has improved under President Trump, and 38 percent give him some credit for it. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Automakers: Currency not issue in NAFTA, but put it in anyway

Sean Higgins · June 13, 2017 8:53 pm

Proponents of the system, including most U.S. big business groups, argue the system is necessary to ensure neutrality. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

US automakers break with business on key NAFTA issue

Sean Higgins · June 13, 2017 8:20 pm

Business lobby says adding policies explicitly favoring U.S. companies or products in negotiations with Canada and Mexico would do more harm than good. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Chamber of Commerce warns against ‘buy American’ in NAFTA

Sean Higgins · June 13, 2017 5:20 pm

Rosa Labonte works on a 2017 Chrysler Pacifica on the assembly line at the Windsor Assembly Plant, Friday, May 6, 2016 in Windsor. NAFTA's rules of origin are particularly important to automakers, who use supply chains spread across all three member countries. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Canada companies push to maintain NAFTA’s ‘made in America’ definition

Sean Higgins · June 12, 2017 8:20 pm

Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, June 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Budget cuts won’t hamper apprenticeships, Acosta says

Sean Higgins · June 12, 2017 7:13 pm

With a draft executive order in hand and a finger on the kill switch, President Trump was talked out of pulling out of NAFTA at the eleventh hour when Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the White House to get him to stop, saying America's sudden exit would be too much of an economic "shock to the system." (AP photos)

Can Trump reshape NAFTA?

Sean Higgins · June 12, 2017 4:01 am

House committee to hold hearing on bills that would change the rules for workplace organizing elections, setting higher bars for unions to win. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House GOP pushes labor reform

Sean Higgins · June 9, 2017 9:05 pm