Business groups are weighing in on an ObamaCare proposal governing incentives for employees to stay healthy.

The White House is currently reviewing a proposed rule for wellness programs that give workers incentives to take part in healthy habits such as joining a gym, signing up for a weight-loss plan or participating in a scheme to stop smoking. The proposal is part of the Affordable Care Act. 

Proponents say that the programs have a documented history of lowering blood pressure, reducing cholesterol and making workers healthy. Plus, they make good business sense.

Twenty people and firms from around the globe are barred from the U.S. financial system under sanctions announced Thursday as part of an effort to crack down on Iran’s nuclear and missile programs.

The Treasury Department is moving to freeze all assets within its jurisdiction belonging to individuals and entities linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Naftiran Intertrade Company (NICO), and Iran’s Ministry of Defense for Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL).

Federal regulators will be asking the mining industry for feedback on safety regulations that studies have shown could be putting be workers at risk.

Marijuana should be illegal but drug users should not be treated purely as criminals.

That was the message from the Obama administration's drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske, on Thursday in pressing for a "third way" of drug policy that strikes a middle ground between legalization and criminal incarceration.

Kerlikowske discussed the strategy while unveiling a report showing a strong prevalence of drug use among men who have been arrested.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has asked the Supreme Court to uphold a court decision that ruled President Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) were invalid.

In a brief filed with the high court on Thursday, lawyers with the Chamber’s National Chamber Litigation Center said the justices should uphold a federal appeals courts decision that found NLRB members Sharon Block and Richard Griffin were improperly appointed to the labor board.

That decision came from a legal challenge filed by Noel Canning, one of the Chamber’s member companies. Lawyers from the Chamber’s litigation center will represent Canning at the Supreme Court — the first time they have represented a member company in that venue.

“The D.C. Circuit got it right — these so-called recess appointments are unconstitutional,” said Tom Donohue, the Chamber’s president and CEO, in a statement. 

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) should be investigated for the way it estimates new costs stemming from regulations and requirements, according to two prominent Republicans.

In a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the lawmakers express suspicion of the cost analysis measures used by the federal nuclear watchdog.

Industry groups that say the new meat labeling requirements will drive American companies out of business.

Rumors have long swirled that Obama might link approval of the pipeline to policies aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions.

The Senate rejected a farm bill amendment that would have clarified that states have the right to label genetically engineered (GE) food.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced the amendment, which failed on a 27-71 vote — the amendment was held to a 60-vote threshold.