Category Archives: Congress

Clean air, water rules spark different responses

By doris | Published: November 26, 2011

Full Story at NBCPolitics.msn.com Large and small companies have told Republican-led congressional committees what the party wants to hear: dire predictions of plant closings and layoffs if the Obama administration succeeds with plans to further curb air and water pollution. But their message to financial regulators and investors conveys less gloom and certainty. The administration [...]

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Obama tells agencies to save on travel, coffee mugs

By doris | Published: November 9, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama asked government agencies on Wednesday to slash $4 billion in spending on things like travel, printing and coffee mugs, in his latest effort to sidestep Congress and help the economy. The White House order on cost-cutting is the latest in a series of small-scale initiatives [...]

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Man arrested for alleged threats to harm House majority leader’s family

By doris | Published: November 3, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A Tennessee man was arrested Wednesday and charged with making threats against the family of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, according to federal documents. Glendon Swift allegedly twice called Cantor’s office in Glen Allen, Virginia, on October 27 and left voice mail threatening to rape the congressman’s daughter and [...]

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Lawmakers open to changes in military benefits

By doris | Published: October 23, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — The government’s promise of lifetime health care for the military’s men and women is suddenly a little less sacrosanct as Congress looks to slash trillion-dollar-plus deficits. Republicans and Democrats alike are signaling a willingness — unheard of at the height of two post-Sept. 11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan [...]

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Congress set to take up trade, jobs bills

By doris | Published: October 10, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — Congress is embarking on a flurry of votes to show it is trying to do something about creating jobs. The prospects for legislative success, however, are spotty. One exception is in the area of trade. Congress is expected to approve free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama [...]

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Obama wants jobs bill vote this month

By doris | Published: October 3, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says he expects Congress to vote on jobs legislation this month and plans to press legislative leaders from both parties to act quickly on the $447 billion proposal he delivered three weeks ago. Speaking to reporters at the beginning of a Cabinet meeting Monday, Obama said [...]

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Congress dodges shutdown after disaster aid fight

By doris | Published: September 27, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com WASHINGTON (AP) — In agreeing to an emergency spending bill to avoid a government shutdown, Congress achieved the bare minimum while finessing a fight over whether emergency disaster aid ought to be paid for with cuts elsewhere in the budget. Democrats who spent weeks demanding additional disaster aid claimed victory even [...]

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Obama tells blacks to ‘stop complainin’ and fight

By doris | Published: September 25, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — In a fiery summons to an important voting block, President Barack Obama told blacks on Saturday to quit crying and complaining and “put on your marching shoes” to follow him into battle for jobs and opportunity. And though he didn’t say it directly, for a second term, too. Obama’s [...]

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Congress at it again

By doris | Published: September 24, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — To those still trying to salvage homes wrecked by natural disasters this summer, don’t worry. Congress has your back. There is just no way lawmakers would let funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency run out. Well, they probably won’t. They don’t want to anyway. But they’ve [...]

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‘Shared sacrifice’: Should Congress cut its pay, benefits?

By doris | Published: September 18, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Should members of Congress cut their salaries or raise the age at which they can draw a congressional pension when many Americans are making personal sacrifices during the country’s prolonged economic crisis? Sen. Sherrod Brown thinks so. In April, the Ohio Democrat introduced the Shared Retirement Sacrifice Act [...]

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Obama to exclude Social Security from deficits plan

By doris | Published: September 16, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will not include reforms to the Social Security retirement program in his deficits proposals to Congress next week, the White House said Thursday. Obama upset many fellow Democrats during this summer’s bitter negotiations with Republicans on raising the U.S. debt ceiling when he expressed a willingness [...]

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House Republicans oppose Obama’s method to pay for jobs plan

By doris | Published: September 14, 2011

Full Story atCNN.com Washington (CNN) — President Barack Obama said Monday his $447 billion jobs plan is a common-sense approach needed right away, but House Republican leaders said they opposed Obama’s intention to pay for it by ending tax relief for corporations and the wealthy. In a message accompanying the legislation he sent to Congress [...]

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