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March 10th, 2010
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The chamber is slated to vote today on the legislation that would also provide $25 billion in aid to states, extend a package of miscellaneous tax cuts, temporarily ease corporate- pension funding requirements and prevent cuts in Medicare reimbursements to doctors.
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March 10th, 2010
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The 14 senators agreed action was needed to promote U.S. energy independence, create jobs in clean energy and cut pollution, said lawmakers who attended the meeting with President Barack Obama.
“If this group continues to work together, we can get something done,” [...]
March 10th, 2010
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Senator Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, and Senator Bob Corker, a Tennessee Republican, are near agreement to create a mechanism that will dissolve companies in an orderly way without using taxpayer funds, according to two Senate aides who declined to be identified yesterday because the talks are private. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner met Warner and [...]
March 9th, 2010
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Abortion rights groups such as Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America say the House and Senate versions of the bill represent the biggest expansion of abortion restrictions in years, yet theyre not trying to defeat the measures. Instead, a bitter dispute among abortion opponents over which version is stricter could derail Obamas quest to remake [...]
March 9th, 2010
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The “Counting for Dollars” study by the Washington-based Brookings Institution was released today as U.S. households have begun to receive the 2010 census questionnaires that will help determine more than $400 billion in annual federal funding for the next decade.
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March 9th, 2010
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“I hope the indirect talks will be a vehicle by which we can allay that layer of mistrust that has built up over the past years,” Biden said in a Jerusalem meeting today with Israeli President Shimon Peres.
Bidens visit began yesterday [...]
March 9th, 2010
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The measure sought to trim Californias $20 billion deficit, mostly through reductions in spending on prisons. Schwarzenegger, a Republican, said the bill overstated how much could be saved, particularly by deporting illegal aliens now in jail, and urged the Legislature to take other steps to narrow the shortfall in the $87 billion annual budget. [...]
March 9th, 2010
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Obama told an audience outside Philadelphia yesterday that insurers have calculated that higher premiums can more than make up for the loss of customers who cant afford coverage. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius highlighted her call to insurers to post information justifying their rates.
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March 8th, 2010
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The National Federation of Independent Business and more than 40 business organizations wrote Senate and House leaders last week asking for quick action on a proposed 35 percent levy on inheritances worth more than $10 million per couple. The Associated General Contractors of America is urging members to contact lawmakers about the plan. [...]
March 8th, 2010
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North Koreas armed forces “should keep themselves fully ready to go into action in order to blow up the citadel of aggressors,” the countrys Supreme Command said in a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency. The U.S.- South Korea drills are raising tension on the Korean peninsula that “a war may break [...]