By IWLA Washington Representative Pat O’Connor Appropriations Committees in the U.S. House and Senate advanced their Fiscal Year 2106 Labor-HHS spending bills this week. These bills each contain policy riders […]
The chairmen and ranking member of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), introduced a six-year highway reauthorization bill titled the Developing […]
On June 18 the U.S. Senate passed S. 808, Surface Transportation Board Reauthorization Act of 2015. As previously reported, U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Chairman Sen. John […]
It is true that we are one global supply chain; but only after you experience a conference in another country do you start to see the real picture. In early […]
IWLA Washington Representative Pat O’Connor met with the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee staff to review S. 1298, a bill to provide nationally consistent measures of performance in the nation’s ports. This bill is […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration published draft guidance in the Federal Register this week for the Voluntary Qualified Importer Program (VQIP) for food importers—a fee-based expedited review of food […]
The Transportation and Logistics Hiring Reform Act, S. 1454, introduced by U.S. Senators Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) hopes to set a national hiring standard for motor carriers […]
In response to a May 28 hearing focused on revisions to Division 62 of the Oregon Board of Pharmacy’s policy on pharmaceuticals, IWLA submitted comments to clarify the unique role […]
Deny, deny, deny. That was the stance of David Arian, vice president of the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners (and former long-time member of the International Longshore & Warehouse […]
As reported in IWLA1891 last week, two states have introduced drafted legislation that imposes statewide licensing standards on third-party logistics providers who store and/handle pharmaceuticals. In response, IWLA has signed […]
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