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...
Legislation General Environment Minnesota: House Bill 2292 allows exemption for certain energy conservation investment expenses made by qualifying businesses. Sent to House Committee on Regulated Industries April 4. Minnesota: Hous...
Negotiating differences between parties on pending legislation often is a basic reason for an interim study of an issue by the Legislature, particularly if it is controversial. Other times it is no more than to give a perception something is being done. Which is the case with House Study #03-17...
Statement by Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, before a Joint Hearing of the Senate and House Committees on the Budget, January 10, 1995
HOUSE PANEL FAULTS CORPS BILL. A classic territorial clash has broken out between a key House committee and the U.S. Senate over the funding of Corps projects. The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has charged the Senate with loading HOUSE PANEL FAULTS CORPS BILL. A...
The House Resources Committee has included a provision in its budget reconciliation bill to allow Louisiana to begin sharing in royalties generated by oil and gas drilling off the state's shores. The provision would increase the state's percentage of drilling revenues to 40 percent of royalties by 2029. Louisiana presently...
A campaign finance reform bill (H.R. 3) has passed House committee. Thanks to the lobbying of the NAB, it is the lesser of two evils: an alternative to a far more onerous Senate version already passed and an improvement over an earlier House incarn ...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The American Public Health Association APHA is gravely concerned with the budget package passed early today by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which cut more than $11 billion from the Medicaid program overWASHINGTON, Oct. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The American Public Health Association...
In this month's "Inside Washington," (p. 10) we carry some cheering news. Both the House and Senate appropriations committees have found that the Title XI ship mortgage guarantee program deserves funding at a realistic level. The House comm In this month's "Inside Washington," (p. 10) we...
Milton Lyman Weilenmann, former Utah Democratic Party chairman, state economic development director and restaurant owner, died Nov. 21, 2008. He was 89. He had served as Utah economic development director under Gov. Calvin Rampton. Besides being the state Democratic Party chairman, he was also nominated to be...
OLDWICK, N.J. -- In the Democratic primaries earlier this year, they were rivals. But as President-elect Barack Obama begins work crafting what will have to be among his first initiatives--a new regulatory framework for financial services--he will do so with Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd as a linchpin to...
Senate of the U.S.; committees, rules and procedures. Ed. by Jason B. Cattler and Charles M. Rice. Nova Science Publishers 2008 397 pages $69.00 Hardcover KF4986 Taking its material from Congressional Research Service reports,...
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Azteca America is proud to feature Republican Party Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator John McCain on the Monday, October 27 broadcast of "Issues: Caras y Voces," hosted by veteran Latino journalist Armando Guzman. John McCain graduated from the Naval...
WASHINGTON -- The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste Political Action Committee CCAGW PAC today announced its endorsement of Bob Schaffer for election to the U.S. Senate from Colorado. "When Bob Schaffer was in the House of Representatives, he served the citizens of Colorado with distinction and had...
WASHINGTON -- The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste Political Action Committee CCAGW PAC today announced its endorsement of Dick Zimmer for election to the U.S. Senate from New Jersey. "When Dick Zimmer was in the House of Representatives, he served the citizens of New Jersey with distinction...
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...
WASHINGTON -- Earlier today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington ("CREW") filed a complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee against Sen. Christopher "Kit" Bond (R-MO) for his role in removing Todd Graves, the former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, from his position. CREW filed...
Advocacy Commends Introduction of the Home Office Tax Deduction Simplification and Improvement Act WASHINGTON -- Chief Counsel for Advocacy Thomas M. Sullivan today commended Representative Charles Gonzalez (D-TX) for introducing the Home Office Tax Deduction Simplification and Improvement Act (H.R. 7074). The bill will simplify the home office...
Excerpt: "Before providing $25 billion to the Big 3 in Detroit . . . consider setting aside 25% for smaller innovative companies across America who have been developing such technologies for years while Detroit continued inexplicably to ignore that the age of the gas guzzler is over." SEATTLE,...
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,...
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