WASHINGTON, July 3 -- The Capital Research Center issued the following commentary on July 2, 2025: * * * Republicans and Big Labor: GOP-Union Outreach By Michael Watson Key Points * There is nothing new about Republican politicians trying to court labor bosses. * Before the second Trump administration, the Eisenhower, Nixon, and Ford administrations all appointed Big Labor supporters as Labor Secretaries. * Those efforts did not fundamentally change Big Labor's leftist political outlook.  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 3 -- The Capital Research Center issued the following commentary on July 2, 2025: * * * Republicans and Big Labor: Wagner and Taft-Hartley By Michael Watson Wagner and Taft-Hartley The outreach to organized labor by Republicans essentially became irrelevant after the election of President Franklin Roosevelt and massive congressional majorities with a mandate to enact his "New Deal" of central planning, government spending, and regulation. Among Roosevelt's and his Big Labor more PR

WASHINGTON, July 5 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Department of Transportation has issued a notice entitled "Procedures for Considering Environmental Impacts". The DOT is updating its long-standing order regarding environmental impact procedures which was last revised in 1985. This update is prompted by the rescission of the Council on Environmental Quality's environmental policy procedures, which the department's own guidelines were designed to supplement. The revisions also integrate provisions from var more PR

WASHINGTON, July 5 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has issued an interim final rule (Docket No. NHTSA-2025-0160) entitled "Recission of NHTSA's 1975 Procedures for Considering Environmental Impacts." This interim final rule removes the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's 1975 procedures for considering environmental impacts from the Code of Federal Regulations (49 CFR Part 520). The administration determined these proc more PR