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Right to Rise is a political action committee (PAC) created to support Jeb Bush in the 2016 presidential election. A Super PAC, Right to Rise is permitted to raise and spend unlimited amounts of corporate, union, and individual campaign contributions under the terms of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision. [1]
USA Freedom Corps was a White House office and fifth policy council (along with Domestic, Economic, National Security, and Homeland Security) within the Executive Office of the President of the United States under George W. Bush, who as President served as its chair. Bush announced its creation during his 2002 State of the Union Address, and ...
The union defied the extension of the strike deadline, and no other unions joined in the strike as a result. Even though the strike was confined to just one railroad, 40 railroads in the United States all responded by halting their operations, which unions said was an attempt by the railroad industry to force government intervention in the ...
Executive Order 10988 is a United States presidential executive order issued by President John F. Kennedy on January 17, 1962 that granted federal employees the right to collective bargaining. This executive order was a breakthrough for public sector workers, who were not protected under the 1935 Wagner Act .
APWU – American Postal Workers Union, representing 250,000 [639] ATU – Amalgamated Transit Union, representing 190,000 [640] CWA – Communication Workers of America, representing 700,000 [641] ILWU – International Longshore and Warehouse Union, representing 50,000 [642] NNU - National Nurses United, representing 150,000 [643]
President Bush avoided federal antipoverty issues, [165] and instead used Kemp to speak on the administration's low priority conservative activist agenda. [ 166 ] [ 167 ] Bush's contribution to the urban agenda had been volunteerism through his " Points of Light " theme, [ 168 ] and Kemp received stronger support for his ideas from presidential ...
George W. Bush: 2004: John Kerry: Lost "Time and again, history invited George W. Bush to play a heroic role, and time and again he chose the wrong course. We believe that with John Kerry as president, the nation will do better." [45] George W. Bush: 2008: Barack Obama: Won
The Partnership was founded in Waco, Texas, on March 23, 2005, by Prime Minister of Canada Paul Martin, President of Mexico Vicente Fox, and U.S. President George W. Bush. [1] It was the second of such regional-level initiatives involving the United States following the 1997 Partnership for Prosperity and Security in the Caribbean (PPS).