Posts Tagged ‘congress’
More contests, more at stake, looser rules send election spending into the stratosphere Turns out politics, for all its focus on the gloomy economy, is a recession-proof industry. This year’s volatile election is bursting with money, setting fundraising and spending records in a high-stakes struggle for control of Congress amid looser but still fuzzy campaign
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Obama calls on Republicans to ‘drop the blockade’ on small business aid package President Barack Obama exhorted Congress on Monday to make passage of a long-languishing small business aid package its first order of business when it returns next month from its summer break. “I ask Senate Republicans to drop the blockade,” Obama said in
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Reputation on the line, Clemens heads to Washington for the first of his many days in court On this trip to Washington, Roger Clemens will be in a courtroom, not in Congress. His defiant stance is expected to remain the same, even if his statement is much shorter. Something along the lines of, “Not guilty.”
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As a battle over the Bush tax cuts looms in Congress, a new CNN/Opinion Research poll found on Friday that a large majority of the public wants them to expire for the wealthy. A whopping 69 percent said the tax breaks for individuals making over $200,000 – and families making over $250,000 – annually should
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A US grand jury charged former Major League Baseball superstar Roger Clemens on Thursday with lying to Congress in 2008 when he denied taking performance-enhancing drugs. But the legendary pitcher denied he lied to US lawmakers in a Twitter reply to the indictment, saying, “I look forward to challenging the Governments accusations.” Clemens was indicted
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China is extending its military advantage over Taiwan and increasingly looking beyond, building up a force with the power to strike in Asia as far afield as the US territory of Guam, the Pentagon said. In an annual report to Congress, the US Defense Department said that China was ramping up investment in an array
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Federal appeals court in NY tosses decision barring Congress from withholding funds for ACORN A federal appeals court in New York City has thrown out a decision that barred Congress from withholding funds from the activist group ACORN. The ruling Friday reverses a decision by a district court. That judge found Congress had violated ACORN’s
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