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    <title><![CDATA[Chairmen Miller, Andrews Praise Enactment of Bill to End Unfair Retirement Tax on Seniors]]></title>
    <link>http://www.house.gov/apps/list/speech/edlabor_dem/rel122308.html</link>
    <description><![CDATA[President Bush signed bipartisan legislation today to temporarily suspend a tax penalty for seniors who do not take a minimum withdrawal from their depleted retirement accounts in 2009, such as 401(k)s. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>12/23/2008</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Woolsey, Hare Assail Cintas Settlement]]></title>
    <link>http://www.house.gov/apps/list/speech/edlabor_dem/1219Cintas.html</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), chairwoman of the House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Workforce  Protections and Congressman Phil  Hare (D-IL), a Subcommittee member and a leading advocate of  workplace safety, today released the following statements in response to the  settlement reached between the U.S. Department of Labor and Cintas Inc.  regarding the company&rsquo;s repeat workplace safety violations, including one which  lead to the death of a worker in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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    <pubDate>12/19/2008</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Miller Statement on US Trade Representative]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), the chairman of the House Education and Labor  Committee, issued the following statement today on President-Elect Obama&rsquo;s  selection of Ron Kirk for U.S. Trade Representative.
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    <pubDate>12/19/2008</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Chairman Miller Applauds Obama&rsquo;s Nomination of Solis as Secretary of Labor]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), the chairman of the House Education and Labor  Committee, today praised President-Elect Barack Obama&rsquo;s selection of U.S. Rep.  Hilda Solis as the next Secretary of Labor.
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    <pubDate>12/19/2008</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Latest Midnight Rule Could Fuel U.S. Unemployment]]></title>
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                                WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, in yet another affront to workers, the Bush administration issued a final rule that will lead to further exploitation of non-agricultural foreign guest-workers in the Department of Labor&rsquo;s H-2B program and fuel greater unemployment among U.S. workers in construction and service industries. Leading Democratic lawmakers who have vowed to work with the new Obama administration to overturn this and other midnight regulations that will gut wages, benefits and key protections for workers, issued the following statements. 
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    <pubDate>12/18/2008</pubDate>
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