ASAToday for July 3rd, 2025

Sens. Thune (R-SD), Klobuchar (D-MN), Hoeven (R-ND), and Baldwin (D-WI) Urge Federal Maritime Commission to Carefully Implement Ocean Shipping Reform Act On December 9, 2022, Sens. Thune (R-SD), Klobuchar (D-MN), Hoeven (R-ND), and Baldwin (D-WI) urged Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) Chairman Daniel Maffei to provide additional clarity on the definition of “unreasonable” as it relates…

IRS Guidance on IRA Prevailing Wage and Apprenticeship Provisions On November 30, 2022, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published Notice 2022-61, which offers preliminary guidance on the prevailing wage and apprenticeship (PW&A) provisions attached to certain clean energy tax incentives introduced in the Inflation Reduction Act, Pub. L. 117-169 (IRA).  The IRA introduced a two-tier “base” rate…