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- Obama Turns to CEOs for Support on Stimulus
- Trying to muster help to break any possible Republican deadlock on his $825 billion stimulus package, President Barack Obama is turning to CEOs for help. Today, he met with a star-studded cast of 13 CEOs in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. Obama bucked up the...
- Blog posts 2009-01-28
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- The tax cut: Much ado about nothing?(economists say tax cut will take too long; Securities and Exchange Commission fines Tokyo Joe)(Brief Article)
- The Bush administration has been working overtime to convince the public and lawmakers on Capitol Hill that its $1.6 trillion tax cut will help spur the flagging economy. Many economists, however, say the tax cut will take too long to ripple throu The...
- Research articles 2001-03-12
- TAX BILLS DUE.(potential for big tax cut waning in Congress)(Brief Article)
- Prospects of a major tax cut this year, favored by business, should become clearer this month when both the Senate Finance and the House Ways & Means committees are due to report tax bills. But Congressional enthusiasm for a big cut seems to be w Prospects...
- Research articles 1999-07-05
- Senate Tax Cut Proposal
- The market was anticipating a massive tax cut coming out of the Bush administration of around $750 billion. Now the Senate wants to cut the package down to $350 billion, almost half of the originally expected amount.The Senate believes that due to widening budget deficits and future war funding, the...
- White papers 2003-03-28
- Tight votes end tax cut saga: President, Congress move on to broader economic issues. (Capitol Retail Report).
- The tax cut saga is over for the time being. President Bush signed the Jobs & Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act JGTRRA, ending a long, rancorous debate over how much taxes should be cut and for how long. The votes, reflecting the tenuous maj The tax...
- Research articles 2003-07-01
- Utahns' tax cut may grow
- One of the great battles of the 2006 Legislature, whether to adopt a "flatter-rate" state income tax, is taking shape -- and the tax cut is getting larger -- according to details released Tuesday by House and Senate sponsors. "We've decided to go a little bigger" on the...
- Research articles 2006-02-08
- Tax cut ballot/ Congress dances around deficit as it decides how to
- Has the war in Iraq torpedoed the chances of a significant tax cut? The U.S. Senate amended the budget resolution previously passed by the House to reduce the 10-year tax-cut proposal the Bush administration has put forward to $350 billion from $726 billion. The argument: with a war on and...
- Research articles 2003-04-06
- Industry responds to Bush tax cut and braces for new battles: the recently adopted federal tax cuts have caused concerns about the low income housing tax credit and the Section 8 housing choice voucher program. Kreisler reviews what has been done and what
- After months of heated debate in Congress and personal lobbying, President Bush in May signed the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003, a compromise $350 billion tax cut that represented an economic stimulus package far below the $726 billion tax cut he pressed...
- Research articles 2003-07-01
- Senate sends tax-cut bill to president
- On May 26, by a vote of 58 to 33, the Senate passed the final version of the tax-cut bill (HR 1836), saving Americans an estimated $1.35 trillion through 2010. The bill would reduce Income tax rates, phase out the death tax, alleviate the marriage penalty, and expand tax credits...
- Research articles 2001-06-04
- Tax-cut OK a prelude to debate
- Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON -- The Republican-controlled Congress defied a veto threat Thursday and gave final approval to a 10-year, $792 billion tax cut -- a bill that may not become law but will serve as an anti- tax manifesto for the party as it heads into the...
- Research articles 1999-08-06
- Size Uncertain, But A Federal Tax Cut Appears Likely.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Dec. 20--WASHINGTON--The question is not whether George W. Bush can get a tax cut through Congress. The question is how big a tax cut it will be. As the president-elect transforms his economic platform from campaign slogans into concrete legislation, he seems poised to...
- Research articles 2000-12-20
- Outlook for passing a tax cut this year.
- Republican dreams of passing a tax cut this year face a long road. Several reasons for this...why a '98 tax-cut measure is unlikely to get through both the House and Senate and be signed by the President: Republicans are sharply split over...
- Research articles 1998-07-24
- Cities and counties were disappointed that Congress cut $4 billion, earmarked for local governments, from the final version of the omnibus tax cut bill in May.(Washington report)
- Cities and counties were disappointed that Congress cut $4 billion, earmarked for local governments, from the final version of the omnibus tax cut bill in May. John DeStefano, president of the National League of Cities and mayor of New Haven, Connect Cities and counties were disappointed...
- Research articles 2003-08-01
- Cities and counties were disappointed that Congress cut $4 billion, earmarked for local governments, from the final version of the omnibus tax cut bill in May. (Washington Report).
- Cities and counties were disappointed that Congress cut $4 billion, earmarked for local governments, from the final version of the omnibus tax cut bill in May. John DeStefano, president of the National League of Cities and mayor of New Haven, Connect Cities and counties were disappointed...
- Research articles 2003-07-01
- Bush's Dividend Tax Cut: Glass Half Empty or Half Full?
- The final tax-cut bill the president signed into law at the end of May did not eliminate dividend taxes, but reduced the dividend tax to 15%, from a high of 38.6%, for investors in the top tax bracket. Is that enough to provide the benefits advocates had predicted? Here the...
- White papers 2003-06-04
- Forbes leads coalition in calling for big tax cut
- Congressional Conferees Deadlocked on Size of Tax Cut A broad coalition put together by Citizens for a Sound Economy CSE is urging Congress to pass dramatic tax relief this year. The coalition's formation comes at a time when chances on Capitol Hill for such a tax cut are waning. "While...
- Research articles 1998-09-18
- Senate refuses to take up Gramm tax cut
- On July 29, the Senate voted 46 to 54 not to waive the Budget Act and allow a proposal by Sen. Phil Gramm (R.-Tex.) to be taken up as a substitute for the Senate tax cut bill. Sixty votes were needed to waive the act. Gramm's plan was much closer...
- Research articles 1999-08-13
- House tries to stop fires, Senate passes tax cut bill
- President Bush began the year 2003 looking for a new tax cut worth $750 billion. He did not get that, but by starting with a big idea, Bush has apparently succeeded in getting about half the loaf.The U.S. Senate, under Republican control but still the hostage of a few weak...
- Research articles 2003-05-26
- Reverse Spin: So much for the House -- now for the Senate.(House of Representatives approves President Bush's tax cut plan)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- Chalk one up for the Bush Man. President Bush scored the first major victory of his administration Thursday when the House approved the bulk of his tax cut plan. The House approved the income tax reductions, the biggest part of Mr. Bush's $1.6 trilli Chalk one...
- Research articles 2001-03-12
- NAM Endorses Massive Republican Tax Cut.
- THE NATIONAL Association of Manufacturers says the 10-year, $792 billion tax cut passed by Congress this summer would provide an insurance policy for economic growth. Despite criticism by the White House, the trade group says the tax bill is not &q THE NATIONAL Association...
- Research articles 1999-09-06
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