On November 22, 2024, President-elect Trump nominated Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) to serve as U.S. Secretary of Labor. Given her record in Congress, her nomination raises questions about the extent to which the Trump administration will regulate and deregulate at [...]

Flag image: Luke Michael/Unsplash Congress and Advocacy Groups in October requested additional H-2B visas after the cap for the first half of the fiscal year was reached in September. On November 15, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) [...]

Several TCIA members and staff posed for a group photo during TCIA’s Legislative Day in Washington, D.C., in September. TCIA photos by Christopher Hall. In September 2024, TCIA returned to Capitol Hill for the first time in five [...]

For the time being, “noncompetes” are legal. On August 20, a federal judge in the Northern District Court of Texas issued a ruling in Ryan LLC v. Federal Trade Commission to block the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from enforcing its [...]

On July 5, the Biden administration released the Spring 2024 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Action (Regulatory Agenda), providing insights on more than 3,500 rules at various stages of the rulemaking process across more than 60 federal departments, agencies [...]