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Estes Wins in Kansas, Georgia, South Carolina and Montana Still to Come Kansas state treasurer Ron Estes (R) has won a special election to fill the House of Representatives seat previously held by CIA Director Mike Pompeo. The April 11 election gained national attention as this was the first major...

On April 3, President Trump signed H. J. Res. 83, the Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to nullify the Occupational Health and Safety Administration’s (OSHA) “Volk’s Rule” that would have expanded the statute of limitations to issue citations for recordkeeping violations from six months to...

The American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2016 (the Act) has established a new process for the submission and consideration of petitions for temporary duty suspensions and reductions. Under the Act, Congress has tasked the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) with collecting and...

The Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) is celebrating Earth Day 2017 by highlighting and applauding industry-wide achievements geared toward promoting and increasing sustainability. PLASTICS’ sustainability efforts, led by our Vice President of Sustainability Kim Holmes, are tangible...

The race to fill Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price’s old seat in the House of Representatives will proceed to a June 20 runoff after no candidate met the required 50 percent threshold during the April 18 special election. A traditionally safe seat for Republicans in recent years has...

Alexander Acosta was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to be Secretary of Labor on April 27 by a vote of 60 to 38.  Acosta served in the George W. Bush administration on the National Labor Relations Board and in the Department of Justice as assistant attorney general for civil rights and U.S. attorney...

President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order directing agencies within his administration to review the H-1B visa program, through which the government annually admits 85,000 foreign workers. The President ordered the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Labor and...

Calling it a “first draft,” White House chief economic advisor Gary Cohn and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin unveiled the Trump administration’s tax plan April 26. As expected, the plan is much like the tax plan on which Trump campaigned for president. Under the plan: Individual brackets...

By Perc Pineda, PLASTICS Chief Economist The advance estimate for gross domestic product (GDP) growth from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) came in at 0.7 percent for the first quarter of 2017. This is a slow start to the year for the economy, but according to Plastics Industry...

FDA Responds to PLASTICS’ Petition to Remove Potassium Perchlorate Regulatory Agency Agrees to Remove Potassium Perchlorate as an Additive WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today released a final rule, which will amend food additive regulations to no longer provide the use...