Category Archives: Congress

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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Washington’s gridlock tax in full effect

By doris | Published: September 10, 2011

Full Story at cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Washington is not helping the economy. In fact, the opposite. The economy is in the dumps and job creation has dried up. The best data indicates there is a significant risk of the economy falling into a second recession. And what has the 112th Congress done about [...]

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First Thoughts: All eyes on Perry

By doris | Published: September 8, 2011

Full Story at First Read.msnbc.msn.com *** All eyes on Perry: SIMI VALLEY, CA — Officially, tonight’s NBC-Politico debate here at the Reagan Presidential Library is the fourth of the GOP presidential race. But it also represents several firsts: It’s the first debate after Labor Day; it’s the first featuring Rick Perry; it’s also the first [...]

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Obama preparing $300 billion jobs package

By doris | Published: September 7, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — President Barack Obama is preparing to roll out a roughly $300 billion plan to strengthen the shaky economy and stimulate new job growth, Democratic sources said Wednesday. The plan would be paid for partly by closing corporate loopholes and raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans in the future, [...]

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Congress returns, unpopular as well as divided

By doris | Published: September 5, 2011

Full Story at Congress returns, unpopular as well as divided – politics – Capitol Hill – msnbc.com WASHINGTON — Congress returns to work this coming week, divided over measures to create jobs and scorned by the nation it was elected to help lead. After a five-week break, Republican and Democratic leaders alike promise action to [...]

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FBI investigates gunshots striking congressman’s Houston office

By doris | Published: September 1, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The FBI and local Texas authorities are investigating reports of gunshots Tuesday striking the north Houston office of U.S. Rep. Gene Green, authorities said. “We are looking into it,” said Shauna Dunlap, a spokeswoman for the FBI in Houston. It’s unclear if the congressman, a Democrat, or his office [...]

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