Talk of EFCA Compromise Surprises Senate Democrats

By Paul Williams, Senior Director of Government Relations, ALFA
This week at the AFL-CIO conference, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) announced that a compromise for the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) had been worked out in the Senate, and predicted the legislation would be passed by the end of the year. This caught several key Senate democrats [...]

ALFA’s 2009 Year of the Advocate Reaches Hundreds on the Hill

The Assisted Living Federation of America held its annual advocacy fly on March 31st and it was an overwhelming success. Sixty advocates from across the country came to Capitol Hill and met with over 100 congressional offices. The in-person fly in was supplemented by a virtual fly in that resulted in nearly one thousand messages sent electronically on key issues.

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