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• Lame-duck Congress waddles to close

  - 2006-12-05

  One of the basic functions of Congress is passing spending bills to fund the operations of government. Congress regularly fails to complete this work in a timely way, but the 109th Congress is set to leave on an especially negligent note. Unless something dramatic changes, it will limp to a...

  Tags: Government, Leadership, SOFTWARE, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, upshot

• Lame-duck Congress waddles to an irresponsible close

  - 2006-12-05

  ONE of the basic functions of Congress is passing spending bills to fund the operations of government. Congress regularly fails to complete this work in a timely way, but the 109th Congress is set to leave on an especially negligent note. Unless something dramatic changes, it will limp to a...

  Tags: Government, SOFTWARE, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, upshot

• Congressional Descent: The Demise of Deliberative Democracy in Environmental Law

  - 2006-03-01

  ABSTRACT In recent years, the formal environmental lawmaking dimension of Congress has become effectively moribund. Earlier Congresses were, by contrast, celebrated for enacting sweeping, demanding environmental laws and for passing significant and increasingly detailed amendments in response to subsequent developments in executive branch agencies, federal courts, and the states. Now,...

  Tags: agency, Environmental, MARKETING, pollution, U.S. Congress, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Senate, upshot

• Bill Containing Stopgap PTC Stalls in Senate; IRS Keeps PTC Level at 1.8 Cents Per Kilowatt-Hour.

  - 2004-03-15

  March 25, 2004 - A corporate tax reform bill containing a stopgap extension of the wind energy production tax credit (PTC - through 12/31/04) became bogged down in the Senate this week over unrelated issues involving overtime pay for workers. Afte March 25,...

  Tags: Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Senate, upshot

• GOP must confront foes over judicial nominations

  - 2003-07-03

  Back off, say even some believers in constitutional governance. They think it would be a mistake for the Republicans to fight the kind of fight that might be necessary to obtain Senate confirmation for President Bush's nominees to the Supreme Court should a justice or two resign this summer. ...

  Tags: E-mail, Government, nominee, Republican, SOFTWARE, U.S. Senate, upshot

• The Taxonomist.(Brief Article)

  - 2001-06-18

  MORE TAX CUTS? Just in case you thought that Democrats won at least a small victory when Congress ostensibly agreed to scale back the 10-year cost of President George W. Bush's tax cut from $1.6 trillion to $1.35 trillion, consider this: ...

  Tags: Bush, FINANCE, Taxes, U.S. Senate, upshot

• Yankee, go home

  - 1991-11-18

  AS NATIONAL REVIEW goes to press the Aquino and Bush Administrations will begin talks aimed at phasing out the U.S. military presence at Subic Bay Naval Base over a period of three years. This three-year withdrawal period is the compromise formula reached after the Philippine Senate voted in September...

  Tags: FINANCE, Philippines, treaty, U.S., U.S. Senate, upshot