In February, Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.) introduced the "Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act of 2007," seeking to extend the moratorium on Internet access taxes and duplicative taxes on e-commerce permanently. The moratorium applies to a variety of Internet services, including digital subscriber line DSL, cable...
Congress is poised to greatly expand the preemptive authority of the Internet Tax moratorium by amending the law to guarantee that digital subscriber line DSL services are not subject to taxation. "We are extremely concerned over Congress' continued willingness to preempt state and local...
ECONOMISTS IN GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY HOPE FOR AN UPTURN in business in the fourth quarter. They think lower interest rates will boost overall economic demand enough that businesses will have reason to increase their expenditures. That would allow economic growth to return to a healthy, sustainable pace. But it is...
Byline:Andrew Schneider There's no relief in sight for homebuilders and other developers whose plans are often delayed or blocked by the presence of threatened or endangered plants or animals. Despite a change in the White House and a renewed push in Congress to "fix"...
Stockes, Brian Indian Country Today Lakota Times 06-07-2000 Low funding levels and poor language plagues appropriations bill: Subcommittee forced to set priorities By Brian Stockes TODAY STAFF WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON, D.C. - On a vote...
Before he can reinvent the Forest Service, Mike Dombeck will have to outsmart Western Republicans on the Hill The showdown between Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck and Republican congressional leaders had been building for months. When it finally came, on March 26 of this year, Dombeck was summoned...
Back in February of 1996, normally easygoing Gary Ruskin was on the warpath. His call to arms: news reports that two of the most prominent Republicans in Congress, Representatives Bud Shuster and Tom DeLay, had handed out legislative favors to family, friends and financial contributors. As director of The Congressional...
Congress and the administration took a series of steps last week which could affect community budgets and financing, including tax-exempt financing, airport funding, block grant funds to cities for housing, privatization of municipal failities, and regulatory delays. Congress also opened hearings and moved toward...
With the current moratorium on Internet taxation set to expire in October, some members of Congress are seeking ways to extend the moratorium yet leave the door open for state and local authorities to collect sales taxes on e-commerce. Several conf With the current...
Originally enacted in 1998, the Internet Tax Freedom Act placed a three-year moratorium on the taxation of Internet access and other discriminatory taxes on sales of goods and services over the Internet. Essentially it exempted from taxation the fee Originally enacted in 1998, the Internet...
WASHINGTON -- A bill to extend a moratorium on Internet-access taxes moved through a key House committee last Wednesday while a Senate panel started considering similar legislation. - First enacted in 1998 and renewed for two years in 2001, the cur WASHINGTON -- A...
It is unlikely that Congress will rein-in the bank insurance regulatory powers of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency OCC despite progress towards a financial services industry reform bill. The insurance industry wants a moratorium on the OCC It is unlikely that Congress will rein-in the bank insurance...
More than 40 governors are calling for congressional approval of state sales taxes on Internet purchases. In a letter sent to all House and Senate members on Aug. 17, the governors urged Congress not to renew a 1998 moratorium on Internet access t ...
WASHINGTON -- The battle over Internet taxation is raging on Capitol Hill, giving cyberspace a front seat in Congress this year, just in time for the November elections. With a three-year moratorium on Internet taxation ending next year, lawm ...
WASHINGTON - Perhaps the best way to describe the first year of the 104th Congress, from the point of view of insurance industry groups, is "disappointing." That word has appeared in National Underwriter articles covering such major items asWASHINGTON - Perhaps the best way to describe...
Financial services reform legislation--which seemed to die a thousand deaths and yet managed to survive--appears to have finally drawn its last breath. Although at press time Congress remained in session working anxiously to wrap up a budget deal Financial services reform legislation--which...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. oil companies will need clarity from the next president and Congress quickly as to whether the recent lapse of the moratorium on offshore oil and gas drilling that opened more of the Outer Continental Shelf OCS to exploration is something other than a...
U.S. Reps. Steve Scalise, R-Jefferson, and Charles Boustany, R- Lafayette, said Friday that they will lead a delegation of other members of Congress from on the American Energy Tour: Part II in New Orleans. During the American Energy Tour: Part II, the delegation will visit an offshore...
JOHN MCCAIN is finally starting to exploit Barack Obama's weakness on the energy issue. With gasoline topping $4 per gallon, McCain reversed his stance on offshore drilling and called for Congress to lift a 27-year-old moratorium on coastal energy exploration. With this shift, McCain has put himself on the same...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The Premier healthcare alliance today honored U.S. Representative Sue Myrick (R-N.C.) for her outstanding leadership in advancing legislation to improve the quality of healthcare and supporting non-profit hospitals. Blair Childs, senior vice president of public affairs for Premier, presented the Healthcare Transformation Award to Rep....
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