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Senate Republicans approved a variety of election-law changes yesterday, such as increasing the number of places where voters can cast absentee ballots and ending the one-week span when Ohioans could register and vote on the same day. The action came...
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As debate on a bill legalizing casino table games dragged on in the state House last night, Gov. Ed Rendell warned that if the Legislature doesn't approve expanded gambling by January, more state employees could face layoffs. Mr. Rendell said he had grown...
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The House is likely to vote to extend a package of tax breaks this week, but elements of the plan -- including higher taxes on investment-fund managers -- are likely to prove controversial, and the Senate could substantially rewrite the measure. The bill...
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The radio business has nothing to do with the plan to overhaul the nation’s system for regulating banks and other financial institutions. Except, it turns out, in Congress. One of most intriguing mysteries here in recent weeks is why members of the Congressional...
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In the battle for Congress, 41 is the crucial number. That's the number of seats the Republicans need to win back from the Democrats in next year's midterm elections to take control of the House of Representatives. Next November, all 435 seats in the...
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But the governor said lawmakers have made “significant progress” on the issues of the tax rate for table games and the licensing fees. House Democrats and Senate Republicans — the controlling parties — had been divided on those issues but have moved closer.
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The White House is lukewarm about proposals by congressional Democrats to introduce broad legislation to create jobs, instead favoring targeted measures that would be less likely to inflate the deficit, administration officials said. There is as yet no...
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Hispanic lawmakers say an old adversary, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, has his fingerprints all over a push to prohibit illegal immigrants from buying health insurance plans in a new market for people who don’t get insurance through their employers....
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November and December tend to be a typically slow time for Congress as it wraps up business before a new session begins...The Senate is expected to soon return to health care reform, the legislative lightning rod of 2009...But will Americans be paying...
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Although a procedural vote that would start the Senate's consideration could come as soon as Friday, Reid has promised not to unveil the bill until receiving the CBO's report. But the delay in CBO scoring has begun to complicate Reid's task of rounding...
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