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David Prosser: Lib Dem plan to hit the fat cats backfires
London :: United Kingdom | about 5 hours ago
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Which political party makes the following statement on the campaigns section of its website? "The council tax is an unfair tax, based simply on outdated valuations of property and with no link to ability to pay. It should be scrapped and replaced with...
Tags: lib dems, Liberal Democrats, mansion tax, United Kingdom, London, Politics, Tax, Nick Clegg, Finance, Business Finance, Income tax in the United States, Council Tax, Social Issues, Capital gains tax, Income tax, Taxation, Value added tax, Tax reform, Clegg, Income tax in Australia, Conservative Party, Democratic Party
Ohio House proposes $1 billion extension of state's Third Frontier program
Cleveland :: OH :: USA | about 8 hours ago
Credibility House Speaker Armond Budish, D-Beachwood, told Crain's Cleveland Business that he hopes to have the legislation passed in time to put a new Third Frontier bond issue on the ballot in May of next year. The Third Frontier program funds efforts by Ohio-based...
Tags: Ohio House, frontier program, Cleveland, Bob Taft, Politics, Ohio House of Representatives, Ohio General Assembly, Democratic Party, Ohio
Primaries will complicate 2010 Senate elections
Manchester :: NH :: USA | about 13 hours ago
Credibility Sen. Arlen Specter's decision to leave the Republican Party in April handed President Obama a key vote in the Senate, and Specter was rewarded by quickly being endorsed by the president and Democratic leaders in his bid for re-election next year.
Tags: Republican Senate, John Cornyn, GOP, Bob Menendez, Barack Obama, Arlen Specter, Democratic Party, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Republican Party, Kentucky, Manchester, Texas Attorneys General, John Cornyn, Jim Bunning, Prosecutors, Politics, 111th United States Congress, Bob Menendez, Arlen Specter
Health care issues: Using parliamentary maneuvers
San Luis Obispo :: CA :: USA | about 14 hours ago
Credibility If congressional Republicans continue to oppose Democratic plans to overhaul the nation's health care system, should majority Democrats employ a process called reconciliation to pass parts of it without Republican support? Reconciliation is a procedure...
Tags: health care, San Luis Obispo, Health Medical Pharma, Reconciliation, Politics, United States federal legislation, Republican Party, Political parties in the United States, Democratic Party
Ex-Con Counts on “Faith Community” to Pass Health Care
White House :: TN :: USA | about 15 hours ago
Credibility Creamer, is a friend of White House adviser David Axelrod and the husband of Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois. A major Democratic Party political strategist, he is the author of a 628-page book that describes how the Democrats can become the...
Tags: Robert W. Creamer, Barack Obama, Senate, Catholic Bishops, faith community, White House, USCCB, public option, federal funding, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Conservative Democrat, Politics, Jan Schakowsky, Republican Party, Social Issues, Political parties in the United States, Nancy Pelosi, Religion Belief, John Boehner, Democratic Party
Reid faces more pressure from unions on healthcare reform
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 17 hours ago
Credibility Reid has struggled to keep the more centrist members of the Democratic caucus in line during the healthcare debate. But the Senate leader will also have to improve the reform package in order to meet the specifications of the labor movement, a key Democratic...
Tags: Senate Finance Committee, excise tax, healthcare reform, insurance plans, labor movement, Harold Schaitberger, senator leaders, House Democrats, Washington, Taxation, Excise, Debbie Stabenow, Politics, Social Issues, America￢ﾀﾙs Healthy Future Act, Tax, Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO, Labor, Democratic Party
Still Outnumbered, but Council Republicans Count on More Clout
Rome :: Italy | 1 day ago
Credibility One minute, Councilman Lewis A...The next, two other Democrats from Brooklyn, Simcha Felder and Domenic M...Katz as the leader of the Land Use Committee. The man they are coming to see, Councilman James S. Oddo , a Staten Island Republican, can hardly...
Tags: Mr. Oddo, Mr. Koo, Mr. Halloran, City Hall, Ms. Quinn, Italy, Rome, International Democrat Union, Conservative Democrat, Politics, Republican Party, Political parties in the United States, Michael Bloomberg, Jackson Michigan, Democratic Party, Dennis P. Gallagher
Dems sour on stock transaction tax
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Three House Democrats are ripping a proposed tax on stock transactions, even as the idea gains traction among Democrats desperate to fund jobs creation. Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y), Mike McMahon (D-N.Y) and Debbie Halverson (D-Ill.) are asking members...
Tags: New York City, Politics, Business Finance, Labor, United States federal budget, Finance, Unemployment, 111th United States Congress, Presidency of Barack Obama, Late-2000s recession, Tax, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Financial market, Troubled Asset Relief Program, Public finance, economics, Climate crisis, Kansas state budget, Labor economics, United States federal banking legislation, Peter DeFazio, Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, Democratic Party
Letter From Washington: The Ballistics of the Health Care Shootout
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility The Ballistics of the Health Care Shootout Published: November 29, 2009 “Victory has a thousand fathers,” John F...Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, soon will rediscover this wisdom. If the Nevada Democrat gets a health care bill through the Senate...
Tags: Senate Democratic, Senate Democrats, U.S. Senate, Mr. Reid, public option, majority leader, Mr. Obama, New York City, Politics, Barack Obama, Roland Burris, Blanche Lincoln, Social Issues, Ben Nelson, Olympia Snowe, Jay Rockefeller, Harry Reid, Democratic Party
Ohio Democrats typify health-care discord
Bridgeport :: CT :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility To see the divisions among Democrats on reforming the nation's health-care system, look no farther than Ohio. Sen. Sherrod Brown and Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy of Columbus want any health bill to include a strong federal insurance plan...Clairsville will be...
Tags: Senate, House, Ohio, federal plans, Sherrod Brown, public option, insurance plans, Charles Wilson (Texas politician), Bridgeport, United States National Health Care Act, Politics, Social Issues, Healthcare reform in the United States, Medicare, Ben Nelson, George Voinovich, Joe Lieberman, Sherrod Brown, Democratic Party
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