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  1. House Republicans have filed an amicus brief in support of legal efforts to overturn the National Labor Relation Board’s poster regulation. Issued by the board in August 2011, the controversial regulation requires virtually every private employer to post in the workplace a biased and vague notice of employees’ labor rights. Learn more: http://1.usa.gov/SJdgXb
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    • Ron Kollman
      What has made the US great is independent inventors. It is great that we have focused on STEM to get kids interested but we are losing sight of the reasons that people do not stay in technology. Some continued to say in the 2000s that there were not enough engineers and technical people but it was largely a scam by companies to justify the cheaper foreign labor. How can we reduce out of the damage done by that? You can get kids interested in science and technology but if the financial rewards are not there, they will still get out of the field. They will not go into the field if it looks unstable or the potential for financial growth is not there. One can only get excited about technology so much and then one expects financial rewards. There is a basic truth: You get what you pay for.
      November 26 at 8:49am
    • If you think Obama is doing a good job read this from the house committee. He is taking our rights away illegally and getting away with it! Do we want to live in a free country or a communist country?
      October 24 at 2:29pm
    • You will be steaming after reading this story. Remember the person is a Obama recipient of this current administration. This is why we need to get rid of this president and the current administration. Please read it. Michael Nicholson Subject: Fwd: 2 cents for a grape? for a grape? YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS ........ At approximately 2:30 pm, September 6, 2012, I entered the Publix store on Main St. in Gainesville, FL to pick up a few items. I gathered my items and went to the 14 and under register to check-out. The person in front of me (a white female, approximate age 35-43, fake nails, big braided hair do, clean clothes, carrying a purse and a plastic drinking cup) put her purchase on the check out surface ONE GRAPE. Yes, that is correct ONE GRAPE. The cashier asked if that was all, she replied yes. The cashier then weighted the GRAPE and told the women the cost was $.02 (TWO CENTS), the women then pulled out her Food Stamp EBT card and swiped it through the credit card machine, requesting $24.00 in cash back. The cashier asked if she wanted the GRAPE, the woman replied no and the GRAPE was put in the garbage can. The register recorded the sale as .02, cash back $24.00. The cashier gave the woman $24.00 and she folded it up, put it in her pocket, and left the store. As the next person in line I asked the cashier as a tax payer what in the hell just happened here she said she was on the clock and could not comment. I then asked if I had actually seen this person purchase and discard a GRAPE, then get cash back on her Food Stamp EBT card. The cashier responded that it happens all day every day in their store. She also said that if the person buying the GRAPE has it ring up over .02 they get mad and make her reweigh it. My next comment was to ask the cashier if she planned to vote in November and she said she could hardly wait for 11/6/12 to get here as one tax payer to another. How many more of these insane programs can we taxpayers take. Personally, I've had it with ANY politician who doesn't have the intelligence to solve social problems EXCEPT by throwing our tax $$$ at losers and leeches who have zero interest in trying to help themselves. AAARRRGGG!!!! If we don't start fixing things with our votes in November, we can kiss our country goodbye!!
      October 21 at 2:16pm
    • their is work to be done there is progress , So never give up hope you are making steps forward
      October 6 at 5:14pm
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    • Billy Craig
      BACK TO SCHOOL, Everybody's at it again, LEARNING....Moving forward to bigger and better things in the world of knowledge.....and, we at the I LOVE THIS SCHOOL TOUR love being a part of that growing learning environment.....HAVE A GREAT SCHOOL YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! www.ilovethisschooltour.com
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  4. Late last week, the Obama administration quietly informed a Wisconsin newspaper it would not announce the results of the Head Start re-competition process this year. The admission came as a surprise to Republican leaders who have tried for ...
    months to learn the status of the re-competition process. Read more about the administration's pattern of delay and obstruction on important questions affecting needy families and low-income children: http://edworkforce.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=314325
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  5. Each year, the federal government spends more than seven billion dollars on Head Start, a program designed to help low-income children prepare for success in school and in life. In an effort to ensure the program is working for families and...
    taxpayers, congressional leaders in the House and Senate have attempted for months to obtain information on Head Start's effectiveness and implementation. However, the Obama administration continues to stonewall important congressional oversight of this program.

    An article in Education Week describes the unanswered questions surrounding Head Start:
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  6. U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna, a member of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, recently visited with middle school students in Johnson City, NY to discuss new school lunch standards.

    To learn about committee oversight of these controversial new requirements, visit http://1.usa.gov/QuLlb8.

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