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Senate passes election changes
Akron :: OH :: USA | about 1 hour ago
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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...
Tags: Senate Bill, Senate Republicans Story, Ohio House, House Democrats, house bills, senate bills, Sen. Bill Seitz, absentee ballots, voting ones, passed elections, Akron
Debate on table games bill drags on
Harrisburg :: PA :: USA | about 8 hours ago
Credibility 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...
Tags: table games, House Democrats, Valley Forge Convention Center, Mr. Rendell, Senate, application period, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Ed Rendell, Politics, Casino, Delaware River Port Authority
House to Raise Taxes on Fund Managers
Singapore :: Singapore | 2 days ago
Credibility 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...
Tags: fund managers, House Democrats, Senate Finance Committee, Singapore, Finance, Politics, Hedge funds, Business Finance, Financial services, Corporate finance, Tax, UBS AG, Investment, Private equity
Black Caucus Seeks to Ease Radio’s Woes
New York City :: NY :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility 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...
Tags: House Financial Services Committee, White House, House of Representatives, House Democrats, Congressional Black Caucus, Barney Frank, chairman barney, cbc member, financial overhaul, house committee, New York City, Politics, Business Finance, Maxine Waters, Barack Obama, Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, Caucuses of the United States Congress, Federal Reserve System, Christopher Dodd, Social Issues, Subprime mortgage crisis, Timothy Geithner, Goldman Sachs, Commodity Futures Modernization Act, Gregory Meeks, Financial crisis, Congressional Wildlife Refuge Caucus, Rockefeller Center, YES Network, Ron Paul, Rahm Emanuel
41 is crucial number in 2010 battle for House
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | 15 days ago
Credibility 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...
Tags: health care, House of Representatives, House Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, Congressional Democrats, Atlanta, Republican Party, Democratic Party, Nancy Pelosi, United States House of Representatives elections 2006 - notable races, United States House of Representatives elections, Political parties in the United States, International Democrat Union, Jackson Michigan, Politics
Table game deal expected soon
State College :: PA :: USA | 17 days ago
Credibility 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.
Tags: tax rate, license fees, Senate Republicans, Rendell House, resort casinos, house democrats, slot machines, Pennsylvania, State College, Downtown, Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, Clark County Nevada, Casino, Slot machine, Politics, Business Finance
White House Weighs Jobs, Deficit
Singapore :: Singapore | 17 days ago
Credibility 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...
Tags: White House, Senate, Congress, House Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Singapore, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Late-2000s recession, Presidency of Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Punahou School alumni, Politics
Politico: Hispanics blame Rahm for immigrant ban
Wilson :: NY :: USA | 19 days ago
Credibility 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....
Tags: House-Senate, White House, House Democrats, House Judiciary Committee, Republican House, Rahm Emanuel, CHC, illegal immigration, health care, hispanic lawmakers, Wilson, John Conyers, Chris Van Hollen, Democratic Party, Nydia Velￃﾡzquez, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Xavier Becerra, Politics, Social Issues
Americans paying attention to health care debate?
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | 21 days ago
Credibility 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...
Tags: House Democrats, Senate, health care, Atlanta, Bernie Sanders, Public image of George W. Bush, CNN, Time Warner, Democratic Party, Politics, Social Issues
Timing of Senate health debate remains unclear as Reid awaits score from CBO
Washington :: DC :: USA | 23 days ago
Credibility 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...
Tags: Senate Banking Committee, Senate Republican, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, senator republican, major leaders, health care, CBO, senator health, House Democrats, Washington, United States Senate Committee on Banking Housing and Urban Affairs, Christopher Dodd, McConnell, Politics, Republican Party, Subprime mortgage crisis, Federal Reserve System, Social Issues, Long term care insurance, United States National Health Care Act, Insurance, Home care, Health insurance, Healthcare reform in the United States, Medicare, Medicaid, Health Medical Pharma, Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, 111th United States Congress, Max Baucus
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