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OMAHA, Neb. AP 鈥?President Joe Biden on Monday asked Congress to intervene and block a railroad strike before next months deadline in the stalled contract talks, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said lawmakers would take up legislation this week to impose the deal that unions agreed to in September. Let me be clear: a rail shutdown would devastate our economy, Biden said in a statement. Without freight rail, many U.S. industries would shut down. In a statement, Pelosi said: We are reluctant to bypass the standard ratification process for the Tentative Agreement 鈥?but we must act to prevent a catastrophic nationwide rail strike, which would grind our economy to
stanley cup a halt. Pelosi said the House would not change the terms of the September agreement, which would challenge the Senate to approve the House bill without changes.Hundreds of business groups had been urging Co
stanley cup ngress and the president to step into the deadlocked contract talk and prevent a strike.Both the unions and railroads have been lobbying Congress while contract talks continue. If Congress acts, it will end talks between the railroa
stanley cup ds and four rail unions that rejected their deals Biden helped broker before the original strike deadline in September. Eight other unions have approved their five-year deals with the railroads and are in the process of getting back pay for their workers for the 24 percent raises that are retroactive to 2020.If Congress does what Biden suggests and imposes terms similar to what was agree Iauu Rosenstein agrees to private meeting with House lawmakers
WASHINGTON AP 鈥?The United States is sending nearly 3,000 more Army troops to the Mideast as reinforcements in the volatile aftermath of the killing of an Iranian general
adidas campus in a strike ordered by President Donald Trump, defense officials said Friday.The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a decision not yet announced by the Pentagon, sa
asics id the troops are from the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. They are in addition to about 700 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne who deployed to Kuwait earlier this week after the storming of the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad by Iran-backed militiamen and their supporters.The dispatching of extra troops reflects concern about potential Iranian retaliatory action for the killing Thursday of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran Quds Force. But it also runs counter to Trump repeated push to extract the United States from Mideast conflicts. Prior to this week troop deployments, the administration had sent 14,000 additional troops to the Mideast since May, when it first publicly claimed Iran was planning attacks on U.S. int
af1 erests.The reinforcements took shape as Trump gave his first comments on the strike, declaring that he ordered the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani because he had killed and wounded many Americans over the years and was plotting to kill many more. He should have been taken out many years ago, he added.The strike marked a major escalation in the
