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Rangel to press for major tax overhaul
Santo Domingo :: Dominican Republic | 2 days ago
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Rangel told corporate executives attending a tax conference in Washington that he was trying to “persuade” Geithner and members of his committee that they would serve Congress and the country better “if we reform the tax system that we have.” “As a legislator,...
Tags: Charles B. Rangel, Tim Geithner, Congress, major tax, Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, Timothy Geithner, United States House Committee on Ways and Means, Politics, Tax Reform Act, Social Issues, Business Finance, Group of Thirty, Irma Rangel, Nancy Pelosi, Charles B. Rangel, Council on Foreign Relations
Tough questions greet Black appeal
Toronto :: Canada | 2 days ago
Credibility C onrad Black's fate was left in the hands of the United States Supreme Court this morning after a one-hour hearing that featured tough questioning from all nine justices. Lord Black's lawyer Miguel Estrada argued that the law used to convict Lord Black...
Tags: Congress, Lord Black, honest services, Canada, Toronto, Supreme Court of the United States, Prosecutor, Law Crime
High security for Hyderabad rally
Hyderabad :: India | 2 days ago
Credibility Students who demand separate status for the Telangana region have threatened to storm the Andhra Pradesh assembly...The demand for a separate state for the underdeveloped and drought-prone Telengana region dates back 50 years. The region is spread over...
Tags: Telangana, Andhra Pradesh Assembly, Congress, TRS, Manmohan Singh, P Chidambaram, prime minister, minister manmohan, trs chief, Hyderabad, India, Andhra Pradesh, Politics, Tulla Devender Goud, Konijeti Rosaiah, Hyderabad India, Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao, Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Indian National Congress, Veerappa Moily, Fasting, Nutrition, Osmania University, Prime Ministers of India, Telugu people, Telangana Rashtra Party, Sonia Gandhi, Diets, P. Chidambaram, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Health Medical Pharma
Congress paid price for letting Babri fall: Chidambaram
New Delhi :: India | 2 days ago
Credibility In a direct admission of its failure to protect the Babri Masjid, Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Tuesday that “both the Congress and then Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao paid the price” for it. Amidst continuous slogan shouting by BJP members, the...
Tags: BJP, Lok Sabha, Congress, P. Chidambaram, Babri Masjid, Ayodhya, India, New Delhi, Lal Krishna Advani, Bharatiya Janata Party, Politics, Liberhan Commission, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Kalyan Singh, Hindutva, Sindhi people, Prime Ministers of India, Ramayana, Janata Party, Sushma Swaraj, Kar Sevaks, Faizabad, Arun Jaitley, Tourism in Uttar Pradesh, Babri Mosque, Government of India, Third Vajpayee Ministry, Politics of India, Ram Janmabhoomi
Senators question rescheduling of joint session on martial law
Manila :: Philippines | 2 days ago
Credibility Senators on Tuesday questioned the failure of Congress to hold a joint session this Tuesday to discuss the imposition of martial law in Maguindanao province. "Aren't we violating the Constitution? The Constitution states Congress must convene within 24...
Tags: martial law, Congress, joint session, Maguindanao, Senate, House of Representatives, Estrada, factual basis, Aquilino Pimentel Jr., Miguel Zubiri, Philippines, Manila, Juan Miguel Zubiri, Politics of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos, Politics, Juan Ponce Enrile, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Law Crime
Cong officially launches campaign, MPP, BJP to support Jayadeva
Mumbai :: India | 2 days ago
Credibility Various political parties have started spelling out their political strategies to the ensuing bye-election to the 14-Yaiskul Assembly Constituencywhich is scheduled to be held on December 19 this month. Gaikhangam made a high profile launch of the party`s...
Tags: Congress, BJP, MPP, India, Mumbai, Indian independence movement, Subhas Chandra Bose, Okram Ibobi Singh, Politics, Indian National Congress
Can Shankersinh Vaghela pull off a Khajuraho again
Kheda :: India | 2 days ago
Credibility When Vaghela and another veteran leader Suresh Mehta donned their fatigues on for a power show rally to take up the cause of government employees, political top brass of both the parties in Gujarat was watching closely...After being ignored for an important...
Tags: Shankersinh Vaghela, Congress, BJP, India, Kheda, Vaghela, Bharatiya Janata Party, Hindutva, Politics, Gujarat, Suresh Mehta
Is 'opting out' a real option? Would Minnesota 'opt out'?
Washington :: DC :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility The idea that Minnesota could 'opt out' of the controversial government insurance program at the center of a proposed national health overhaul has received a push from no less a figure than Gov. Tim Pawlenty. But it will be up to a future Minnesota governor,...
Tags: public option, Minnesota, Senate, Congress, Tim Pawlenty, insurance program, U.S, Washington, Public health insurance option, Al Franken, Sarah Palin, Politics, Healthcare reform, Social Issues, Healthcare reform in the United States, Michele Bachmann
Despite Crisis, Raters of Debt Skirt Overhaul
New York City :: NY :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility It wasn’t just that Moody’s Investors Service , Standard & Poor’s and Fitch Ratings , played a crucial role in the epochal housing market collapse, affixing their most laudatory grades to billions of dollars worth of bonds that went bad in the subprime...
Tags: rating agency, Congress, Moody’s Investors Service, attorney general, credit rating, Fitch Ratings, Ohio, New York City, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Motion Picture Association of America film rating system, Fitch Group, Credit rating agencies, Subprime mortgage crisis, Credit rating agency, Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization
Congress urged to extend emergency jobless benefits
Las Vegas :: NV :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility One million workers could lose their benefits in January without the extension, according to a new report on the stimulus act unemployment benefits, written by several labor advocacy groups. "This is a lifeline," said Jim Garner, the secretary of the...
Tags: Congress, Kansas Department of Labor, jobless benefits, emergency jobless, stimulus act, labor officials, extend benefits, unemployment benefits, Las Vegas, Unemployment, 111th United States Congress, Labor economics, Kansas state budget, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Labor, Types of unemployment
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