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WASHINGTON A year after Wall Street failures plunged the U.S. into recession, the House of Representatives on Friday passed the most ambitious restructuring of financial regulation since the New Deal of the 1930s.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Air Transport Association of America (ATA), the industry trade organization for the leading U.S. airlines, commented on the House of Representatives' passing of the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009.
WASHINGTON – On Wednesday the US House of Representatives passed H.R. 4213, the Tax Extenders Act of 2009, by a vote of 241-181.
SEAL BEACH, Calif.----The US House of Representatives on Wednesday voted in the “Tax Extenders” Bill to extend the tax credit of 50 cents per gallon of compressed natural gas and 50 cents per liquid gallon of liquefied natural gas used for vehicle fuel to December 31, 2010, according to Clean Energy Fuels Corp. .
Federal legislation that could lead to a college football playoff tournament will move a step closer to reality on Wednesday in a hearing before a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives.
The US House of Representatives in a late session late last week voted not to override President Bush’s veto of a large appropriations bill that would raise 2008 funding marked for the National Institutes of Health to $30 billion.
Retired Marine Staff Sergeant Daniel Gilyeat drove to Topeka to have his name placed on the ballot for U.S. Congress.
The US House of Representatives Tuesday adopted a bill asking the US president to report to Congress on incitement to anti-American violence on television networks in the Middle East.
WASHINGTON: The US Congress has appropriated the amount of $1.5 billion for Pakistan for fiscal year 2010 under the Kerry-Lugar Law. Of this amount $268 million will be used as military assistance.
Job-creating legislation being crafted in the U.S. Congress could cost between $75 billion and $150 billion depending on what the components are, House of Representatives Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer said on Tuesday.
Marianna farmer and Arkansas Farm Bureau president Stanley Reed will run for the US Senate in the Republican Party primary. Mr. Reed filed papers with the Federal Election Commission yesterday. Roby Brock of Talk Business spoke to Mr. Reed who said, “I’m in the race.” David Sanders, a columnist for Stephens Media and host of “Unconventional [...]
Thumbs up to Max Brantley and Jason Tolbert for picking up the story that Lt. Governor Bill Halter recently met with liberal bloggers in Washington, D.C. and mulled over a US Senate bid in 2010. “He was discussing it,” one of the people present said. “He gave a lot of reasons why he thought Blanche didn’t [...]
The US House of Representatives approved the most sweeping regulatory overhaul of the financial sector since the Great Depression of the 1930s, one of President Barack Obama's key goals.
Drug War Sea Change in the US Congress? The United States Congress set its sights on the drug war this week. Legislators have or will consider several important bills that address the drug war at home and abroad. According to decriminalization advocates, the news is mostly good.
The US Senate on Tuesday rejected an anti-abortion amendment to a health care reform bill, splitting the Democrats and complicating the chances of getting a 60-vote majority to pass the measure.
The House of Representatives just voted 223-202 to approve the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009
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