By Phil Kabler, The Charleston Gazette, W.Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 14--House and Senate budget conferees will do the heavy lifting today as they try to resolve remaining differences in a 2003-04 budget that will, for the first time in state...
A state that goes out of its way to promote itself as a haven for industry, led by a Republican administration whose credo might well be "business first, last and always," is ready to close the tap on one of its fastest-growing industries. All because of public outcry...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.--Nov. 2--Two companies leading a threatened exodus of home-insurers from hurricane-prone Florida said Monday they will stand by most of their customers if the state will help them guard against future catastrophes. The promises by Allstate Property and Casualty Insurance Co. and Auto- Owners...
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...
The U.S. Senate last month approved a two-year extension of the moratorium on new Internet-specific taxes. The original three-year moratorium, established in 1998, expired in October. The extension continues the ban on any new state taxes created for The U.S. Senate last month approved a two-year...
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...
The Senate was poised to vote on Internet tax legislation, following House passage of a measure last month that would extend the moratorium on new and discriminatory online taxes for two years. The Internet tax moratorium that was in place expired The Senate...
TALLAHASSEE--The Florida House of Representatives has approved a property insurance reform bill that is sure to draw fire from insurance industry interests as well as supporters of a Senate proposal that conflicts with the House in several key areas, sTALLAHASSEE--The Florida House of Representatives has approved a...
TALLAHASSEE--Members of Florida's two legislative houses were expected to take radically different property insurance reform proposals to floor votes this week, signiling the next skirmish in a bitter battle between Democratic Insurance Commissioner BiTALLAHASSEE--Members of Florida's two legislative houses were expected to take radically different property...
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...
EMERYVILLE -- U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama don't quite see eye-to-eye on offshore oil drilling, she said Tuesday. Boxer, D-Calif., said she understands that, as a presidential candidate, Obama would want "to have a far-reaching energy policy" and that "he'd be...
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. -- Colorado Sen. Wayne Allard has joined other Republican members of Congress in pushing for more domestic energy production by removing barriers to oil shale leasing in Colorado and other parts of the region. A bill introduced Thursday by Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., would...
To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Republican National Committee, +1-202-863-8614 WASHINGTON, March 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following isan Op-Ed by Rep. John Boehner: House Republicans have taken a stand against wasteful Washingtonspending by calling for a complete freeze on all "earmarks" and pork-barrel projects. While our challenge has largely fallen on...
Bankers urged a U.S. Senate panel to maintain the historic separation of banking and commerce by passing legislation that would restrict commercial firms' ownership of industrial loan companies. The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee heard testimony on Oct. 4 in Washington, D.C., by banking industry representatives and...
WASHINGTON -- Internet access, as well as e-mail and text messaging, will remain tax-free for at least another seven years if President Bush, as expected, signs a bill passed Tuesday by the U.S. House that extends a moratorium on such taxes. The final bill, on a...
WASHINGTON -- Internet access, as well as e-mail and text- messaging, will remain tax-free for at least another seven years if President Bush, as expected, signs a bill passed Tuesday by the U.S. House that extends a moratorium on such taxes. The final bill, on a...
WASHINGTON -- Internet access, as well as e-mail and text- messaging, will remain tax-free for at least another seven years if President Bush, as expected, signs a bill passed Tuesday by the U.S. House that extends a moratorium on such taxes. The final bill, on a...
To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS Contact: Brenda Jones, +1-405-516-9686, Brenda@JonesPRInc.com, forWIPP WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The grassrootseffort of Women Impacting Public Policy WIPP, with a membershipover half-a-million small business owners, was victorious in gainingpassage from both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives toextend the Internet Tax Moratorium for another...
The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to block Army spending on expansion of Fort Carson's Pion Canyon Maneuver Site in a move that could spell the end for Army aspirations to buy 418,000 acres of ranchland in southeast Colorado. The Army said it needed the land because...
To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Cheryl Aguilar, +1-202-360-7867, or Shu Ohno, +1-617-821-8990, both of Center for Community Change WASHINGTON, May 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the U.S. Senatedebates the future of immigration policy, real families caught in theteeth of America's broken immigration system will come to CapitolHill to testify before national...
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