News Source: Reuters
| about 8 hours ago
House Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer said the chamber will vote this week to permanently extend the estate tax rates scheduled to expire at the end of 2009. The House will take up a bill introduced by Democrat Earl Pomeroy last week to extend the
News Source: Gotham Gazette
| 1 day ago
Rep. Albio Sires of New Jersey, reflects the current thinking that parks and recreation are integral to broader efforts to rebuild the economic and social fabric of cities. At the same time, the Obama administration has created a partnership among
News Source: Spiked
| 4 days ago
Respond A little over a year ago, Barack Obama was elected president of the United States...Obama is bogged down with stubbornly high unemployment, stalled healthcare reform and accusations of dithering over Afghanistan. Last week his job-approval
News Source: The Nation
| 6 days ago
Yet this is where America, a nation often inclined to tell other nations how to practice democracy, finds itself as the debate about healthcare reform reaches its critical stage. We have a president who is prepared to sign legislation to expand
News Source: Fox News
| 7 days ago
Workers build the floor to a tent on the South Lawn of the White House for Obama's first state dinner. (Reuters) While the White House is mum about who will be among the 300 or so lucky invitees to President Obama's first state dinner Tuesday night,
News Source: The Journal Gazette
| 8 days ago
In a statement, Bayh's office said the modification was necessary to preserve more than 63,000 well-paying jobs in Indiana's life sciences industry, including thousands in Kosciusko County. The change to the Senate health-reform legislation was the
News Source: Taiwan News
| 8 days ago
More than 14,700 Americans disclosed secret offshore bank accounts to the Internal Revenue Service, ensuring billions of dollars in new tax collections and data for a crackdown on evaders, Commissioner Doug Shulman said yesterday. Shulman reported
News Source: Politico
| 11 days ago
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid moved closer to clinching the 60 votes needed to clear a critical test for health reform Friday – picking up a confirmed yes from one moderate Democrat and bullish signs from another on the eve of Saturday’s vote.