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House Refers Rangel Resolution to Ethics Committee

Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Washington Post Staff Wednesday, October 7, 2009; 2:13 PM The House of Representatives voted this afternoon to refer to the ethics committee a privileged resolution that would have forced Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) to relinquish the chairmanship of...

Tags: Charles B. Rangel, House of Representatives, The House, Charles B. Rangel, Charlie Rangel, ethic committee, house ethic, windfall profits, Ways and Means Committee, Nancy Pelosi

Lawmaker offers to halve texting fee hike

Manila :: Philippines | 8 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

A lawmaker on Tuesday announced that he will push for an additional five centavo fee per text message, instead of 10 centavos as previously proposed. However, the amount – charged to mobile phone companies' broad spectrum usage fees – will also cover...

Tags: mobile phones, text message, windfall profits, House of Representatives

Obama Backs Off Promise

Posted by: cooldiponline  | 

Washington :: DC :: USA | 11 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Between this move and the move to wait to repeal the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, it looks like Obama is breaking some promises. Good news and bad news in the last day. The good news: Barack Obama has appointed a NAFTA critic, Rep. Xavier Becerra,...

Tags: obama, big oil, taxes, president-elect, windfall profits

Obama drops call for oil windfall profit tax

Miami :: FL :: USA | 11 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

President-elect Barack Obama has shelved his proposal to impose a windfall profits tax on oil companies now that prices have fallen from record levels earlier in the year, according to a transition aide. Obama in August called for the government to give...

Tags: president-elect barack, obama, president-elect, president, big oil, barack, oil price, windfall profits, profits tax, Barack Obama

‘Profits big because companies big’: A chief economist for the petroleum industry defends oil’s record profits

Naples :: FL :: USA | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

The American Petroleum Institute represents the interests of 400 oil and gas companies, including producers, refiners, suppliers, pipeline operators and marine transporters. API’s president and chief executive officer, Jack Gerard, issued a statement...

Tags: president, president-elect, obama, big oil, barack, elect, profits tax, windfall profits, oil companies

New York Times: Energy Fictions

Lyman :: WY :: USA | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

The Board Blog Additional commentary, background information and other items by Times editorial writers. The latest evidence comes from Senator Barack Obama, who in less than a week has reversed his stance on tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, softened...

Tags: Barack Obama, profits tax, working families, windfall profits, energy plan

Obama Proposes Energy Rebates

New York City :: NY :: USA | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Sen. Obama had earlier said the rebates should be part of a larger tax relief package. But now he says the slumping economy demands they be put in place immediately. Sen. Obama's remarks coincide with news that the unemployment rate climbed to a four-year...

Tags: obama, Barack Obama, oil companies, energy rebates, Barack Obama, windfall profits, emergency economically, economically plans

Outsourcing to India, China not reversible: Obama

Raleigh :: NC :: USA | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama says he would make the US economy strong and competitive again by expanding opportunity outward rather than clamping down on outsourcing to countries like India and China. "Revolutions in communication...

Tags: obama, Barack Obama, John McCain, Links Obama, North Carolina State Fairgrounds, George W. Bush, George W. Bush, windfall profits, democrat presidential, president george

Senate GOP blocks oil-profits tax legislation

Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

But both parties, caught up in election-year politics, seem more intent on blaming each other for the price spike. The sharp partisanship was on display in the Senate today as Democrats forced a vote on two bills to levy a windfall profits tax on the...

Tags: Senate GOP, Senate Republicans, Senate Blocks Oil Tax, Senate Democrats, Senate Finance Committee, Senate Fails, oil companies, profits tax, windfall profits, House GOP

'Impose more taxes on oil companies'

New Delhi :: India | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Wednesday suggested that the union government should impose more taxes on the private oil companies to meet rising world prices of petroleum and not burden the common man. "In no case can the UPA (United...

Tags: private oil, oil companies, windfall profits

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