Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up, LABOR PULSE—‘Congress is so strange; a man gets up to speak and says nothing, nobody listens, and then everybody disagrees’, (Sep 28, 2026)

By Dr. Jim Castagnera, Esq.

“With hearings harnessed to the manufacture of sound bites, little time is left for a debate about doomsday.”

In this month’s Labor Pulse, Jim Castagnera takes stock of a mid-September hearing, of the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions, for insight into the current state of legislative inquiry, and posturing, regarding the state of the labor movement, collective bargaining, and associated policy making.

The GOP lawmakers who organized the hearing, Jim notes, “probably got what they wanted: allegations on the record that can be thrown at Democratic candidates and their union allies in the six weeks or so remaining of the mid-year election campaign.” Despite similarly politicized retorts from Democrats and their single hearing witness, however, nothing was said about another elephant in the room, notably AI. “[N]obody on the Hill,” observes Jim, “except Senator Bernie Sanders (an independent), seems to be paying much heed to the doomsday warnings coming out of Anthropic and OpenAI.”

To learn more about these developments, enjoy Jim’s latest Labor Pulse article, “‘Congress is so strange; a man gets up to speak and says nothing, nobody listens, and then everybody disagrees.’”

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