The Senate is kicking off its 2007 farm bill hearings this month, holding field sessions in Ga., then in Mo. and Pa. in July. The ag panel also plans summer hearings in Iowa and western states. It wants to hear producers' views before legislation is ...
During the past few years, several high-profile U.S.-based multinational corporations have changed their tax residence from the United States to Bermuda or some other tax haven. They have accomplished these expatriations, and the resulting millions of dollars of annual tax savings, merely by changing the place of incorporation of their...
Byline: Bruce Geiselman With the Democrats wrestling control of both the House and the Senate in 2007, environmentalists and business interests expect a change in the tenor and the agendas in Congress. However, there remains some...
Byline: DANIELLE JACKSON IN MID-MARCH, the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee held hearings to discuss whether Congress should intervene in one of the industry's most controversial topics: interstate waste. Similar hearings were Byline: DANIELLE JACKSON ...
The U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce in February launched a series of hearings to refocus attention on the nation's comprehensive energy needs. This is the first step to developing a new energy bill for the 109th Congress. The legislation, accoThe U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce in...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Congress should hold additional hearings next year on the administration's proposal to dramatically change the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act RESPA and the Department of Housing and Urban Development should WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Congress should hold additional hearings next year on...
WASHINGTON--Apr. 8--A House Agriculture Subcommittee that oversees agricultural research and land grant colleges has "postponed indefinitely" the rest of its series of comprehensive hearings on agricultural research, a key subcommittee aide hWASHINGTON--Apr. 8--A House Agriculture Subcommittee that oversees agricultural research and land grant colleges has "postponed...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Joseph Lieberman, a likely presidential candidate for 2004, called for congressional hearings to draw attention to what he called "more and more vivid and violent" videogames when Congress reconvenes next month, O WASHINGTON -- Sen....
Byline: Doug Halonen WASHINGTON - Efforts to fine-tune critical parts of the massive, new Pension Protection Act of 2006 could be stymied by political gridlock now that Democrats control Congress and both parties have begun positioning for the 200 Byline: Doug Halonen ...
White House says it will review no scripts before their airtime, Congress may hold hearings on practice The White House last week offered new assurances that it would review no TV scripts before they aired, but Congressional critics still thr ...
WASHINGTON -- Leading Democrats expect U.S. automakers will show Congress next month they are worth rescuing and are capable of returning to global pre-eminence. Skeptical Republicans said Sunday that Detroit's Big Three needed to convince taxpayers that they deserve an emergency $25 billion lifeline. With the survival...
OREM -- Under typical circumstances, the market governs itself better than the government can. But Congress wasn't facing typical circumstances when it approved a $700 billion bailout for failing financial firms. That's what Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, told nearly 100 Utah Valley University students who gathered Wednesday...
Lawrence Gottlieb, Chair of Cooley GodwardKronish LLP's Bankruptcy & Restructuring Group, appeared recently beforethe U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Lawto inform key members of Congress about the impact of 2005 bankruptcy codechanges on retailers filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. With the recent changes among investment banks and...
WASHINGTON -- For the second time this week, the federal judge hearing the corruption case against Sen. Ted Stevens berated the prosecution for trial errors, but he refused on Thursday to grant the senator's request to declare a mistrial or dismiss the charges against him. U.S. District Judge...
Deutsche Post Chief Executive Officer Frank Appel defended the company's DHL unit's pending deal with UPS Inc. under which DHL Express would contract out its North American air operations to UPS, the Wall Street Journal reported. Appel told the paper the deal was necessary to avoid huge losses at...
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the U.S. is facing "grave threats" to financial stability and warned that the credit crisis has started to damage household and business spending. "Economic activity appears to have decelerated broadly," Bernanke said Wednesday to a congressional Joint Economic Committee hearing,...
WASHINGTON -- From the start of Tuesday's hearing on Capitol Hill, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's urgent call for an unprecedented federal bailout of the U.S. financial system was met by skepticism, criticism and even anger among senators in both parties. Before long,...
NEW YORK AP -- A judge in New York has ruled that a former congressional aide accused of helping an Iraqi spy agency while Saddam Hussein was in power is mentally unfit for trial. U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska announced her finding in the case of Susan...
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