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		<title><![CDATA[Move-Up Homebuyers Getting in on Tax-Credit Incentives]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rather than letting the $8,000 federal tax-credit for first-time homebuyer credit lapse, Congress appears headed to reauthorizing the incentive through April 30 and expanding it to "move-up" buyers with a $6,500 credit on home purchases up to $800,000, based on a Senate vote last night.    If you're...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:05:47 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Should Congress Extend the Tax Credit for Home Buyers?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congress is currently debating two bills that would extend the life of the $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers, which expires December 1. Is this a good idea? The answer recalls the joke about putting two economists in a room with a problem and getting three answers.  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:24:43 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Congress Upset That Earmarks Are Taxed By Federal Recipients]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It came to the attention of Congress due to a whining contractor that many Federal Departments hold back some of the earmarked money they get in order to administer the funds.  These "taxes" of money are not new as most higher headquarters hold portions of all the funds they...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:50:42 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How Wikileaks Can Factor into a New Business Model]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Wikileaks scored a journalistic coup by releasing what it characterizes as "nearly a billion dollars worth of quasi-secret reports commissioned by the United States Congress. The documents cache consists of 6,780 reports by the Congressional Research Service CRS, which is sometimes referred to as "Congress's Brain." This represents...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[U.S. House of Representatives Lynn Jenkins]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Carlson   THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL   Kansas Treasurer Lynn Jenkins is ready to step to the national stage in the U.S. House of Representatives after rising through the state Republican ranks, from the Kansas House to the Kansas Senate before becoming the state treasurer in 2002. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[CCAGW PAC Endorses Tom Rooney for Florida's 16th District]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste Political Action Committee CCAGW PAC today announced its endorsement of Tom Rooney for Congress in Florida's 16th Congressional District. Mr. Rooney is running against incumbent Rep. Tim Mahoney.  "Tom Rooney is a fiscal conservative who believes in less government and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[CCAGW PAC Endorses Andy Harris for Maryland's 1st District]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste Political Action Committee CCAGW PAC today announced its endorsement of State Senator Andy Harris for Congress in Maryland's First Congressional District. Sen. Harris is running against Frank M. Kratovil, Jr.  "Sen. Harris is a true fiscal conservative who has pledged...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: A depression by any other name would still stink]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve officials have been tap dancing around the R- word for the past year, unwilling to concede that the economy has slipped into that enigmatic condition known as "negative growth."   Part of their reluctance is politics. The reigning party hates to hobble its man with bad economic...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Retail Roundup: NRF Calls on Congress, Payless Goes Green, and More]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NRF seeks congressional action -- The National Retail Federation approached CongressÂ on Oct. 15 calling for a lame-duck session directly after November's electionsÂ to address the nation's gloomy economy. NRF officials are seeking tax relief for consumers, and the organization's CEO, Tracy Mullin, explained that "extraordinary measures are needed to address this...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:19:11 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[NRF Calls on Congress to Hold Lame Duck Session on Economy and Include Consumers in Stimulus Legislation]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The National Retail Federation today called on Congress to hold a lame duck session to address the nation's economy as soon as possible after the November elections, and to include tax relief for consumers in any economic stimulus package that is adopted.  "The United States is in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[CCAGW PAC Endorses Chris Hackett for Pennsylvania's 10th District]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2008_Oct_15/ai_n30906594]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste Political Action Committee CCAGW PAC today announced its endorsement of Chris Hackett for Congress in Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional District. Mr. Hackett is running against incumbent Rep. Chris Carney.  "Chris Hackett is a true fiscal conservative who has pledged to reduce...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[CCAGW PAC Endorses Tom McClintock for California's 4th District]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2008_Oct_15/ai_n30906611]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste Political Action Committee CCAGW PAC today announced its endorsement of state senator Tom McClintock for Congress in California's Fourth Congressional District. Sen. McClintock is running against Charlie Brown.  "Tom McClintock is a true fiscal conservative who has pledged to reduce...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[CCAGW PAC Endorses Sydney Hay for Arizona's 1st District]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste Political Action Committee CCAGW PAC today announced its endorsement of Sydney Hay for Congress in Arizona's First Congressional District. Ms. Hay is running against former state representative Ann Kirkpatrick.  "Sydney Hay is a true fiscal conservative who has pledged to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[CCAGW PAC Endorses David Schweikert for Arizona's 5th District]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2008_Oct_15/ai_n30906969]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste Political Action Committee CCAGW PAC today announced its endorsement of David Schweikert for Congress in Arizona's fifth Congressional District. Mr. Schweikert is running against Rep. Harry Mitchell.  "David Schweikert is a true fiscal conservative who has pledged to reduce the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tinsley targets industry issues: former NRA chairman aims to make D.C. hospitable for restaurant business]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ed Tinsley III, owner of the 19unit K-Bob's Steakhouse chain based in Santa Fe, N.M., is making a second attempt to win a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, running as the Republican nominee in New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District.  He ran unsuccessfully in 2002, losing in the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Boyda strikes independent tone during first term in U.S. House2008]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4179/is_20081012/ai_n30905013]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Nancy Boyda is fighting to retain a seat most say she shouldn't have won.   The reliably red 2nd District hadn't supported a Democratic president in decades. It was and still is composed of four Republicans for every three Democrats, and it had already dealt Boyda a 15-point...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Q and AUniontown once Indian trade postUpcoming guestsShe said, she]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4179/is_20081010/ai_n30904944]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Question: I have heard of a ghost town, Union Town, in western Shawnee County. Can you give me some history about it? -- L.A., Topeka   Answer: Uniontown, official spelling, has the distinction of once being the largest city in Kansas, back when it was not even a territory....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Congress and President Agree on Vital Renewable Energy Legislation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2008_Oct_7/ai_n29481658]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[New Law Extends Tax Incentives for Biopower Into 2011  PORTLAND, Maine -- USA Biomass, the nation's leading association of biopower companies, applauds the recent passage of federal legislation which extends through 2011 important tax credits for the biopower industry -- which "recycles" wood chips, forest waste, orchard prunings, sugar...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Congress Extends Refined Coal Tax Credit]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2008_Oct_3/ai_n29475414]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[DENVER -- The energy tax credits contained in the financial rescue package passed by Congress today include a one-year extension of the refined coal tax credit - an important incentive as well as endorsement of Evergreen Energy Inc.'s technology as a realistic, real-time component of U.S. energy policy.  That...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SEMI Commends Congress for Passage of Critical Tax Extensions]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pwwi/is_200810/ai_n29489803]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[SEMI joins many others in the business community in commending Congress for taking action to stabilize the economy through passage of the financial rescue package.  This package included extension of many tax measures, such as an eight-year extension of the investment tax credit ITC for solar energy through 2016...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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