People who live in nice houses like this have pretty tulips-- and the clout to get out of paying their fair share of taxes The battle over the Estate Tax is heating up again. The simplistic way to look at it is that the defenders of wealthy elites-- the Republican Party and DLC and Blue Dog Democrats (particularly Blanche Lincoln )-- are opposing real Democrats, who want to reform a system that the...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/18/AR2009111802697.html Democrats' health bills depend on forcing individuals to buy insurance or face severe fines or imprisonment. In 1994, the Congressional Budget Office said forcing individuals to buy insurance would be "an unprecedented form of federal action," adding: "The government has never required people to buy...
Filed under: Employees , Politics , Recession U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, says he expects the House to vote on legislation that would create more jobs by the year-end holiday recess. "Clearly 10.2% unemployment is unacceptable and is causing great pain to literally millions of people around the country," U.S. Rep. Hoyer said, CNN.com reported Tuesday. Continue reading...
The national debt just clicked past $12 trillion and even Obama is making noises about deficit reduction (not by cutting spending but by taking more of your money , naturally). But in Congress? Better living through more deficit spending is still very much en vogue . House Majority leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday that he and other House leaders are pushing for a December 18 floor vote on another job...
(Nominee Mary Lou McDonough) Three officials nominated by Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson (D) to be permanent agency heads are going to get their posts. Nothing unusual there--nominees sent down from the exec's office pretty much always get confirmed by the County Council. What was highly unusual, however, is the route the nominations took: The council held public hearings in its final...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Afghanistan today “for a surprise visit on the eve of the inauguration of President Hamid Karzai.” Clinton, who is making her first visit to Afghanistan as secretary of state, “will attend Karzai’s Thursday inauguration to a second term, showing U.S. support for his government , after an election which was tainted by fraudulent balloting.”...
And sometimes it even brings several terrible ones. Today is one of these days. First, the Democrats are once again talking about a second stimulus , except this time they won't call it a stimulus (because the first one gave the word stimulus a bad name) but a "jobs legislation." I doubt it would make any difference to remind them that government spending can't create jobs ; that with government...
MOMENTUM ON THE HILL FOR A JOBS BILL.... House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said he expects the House to pass what he called a "jobs bill" before Christmas. He indicated that the legislation might include money for public jobs,...
The focus on the Hill is now jobs, jobs, jobs : Democrats hope to pass jobs legislation through the House before lawmakers leave for Christmas on Dec. 18, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has asked key committee chairmen for ideas on job creation, which Hoyer (D-Md.) said could be wrapped into one bill. “It's my hope we will adjourn by Dec....
Washington (CNN) – A top House Democrat told reporters Tuesday that congressional Democrats are moving ahead with plans to vote before the Christmas holidays on legislation intended to create more jobs. "Clearly 10.2 percent unemployment is unacceptable and is causing great pain to literally millions of people around the country." House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the House of Representatives aim to pass job-creating legislation before the end of the year to ease double-digit unemployment levels that threaten the economic recovery, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said on Tuesday.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told reporters that House Democratic leaders are working on passing a new jobs bill before the end of the year. Democratic - Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives - Steny Hoyer - United States - Maryland
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told reporters Tuesday that House Democratic leaders are working on passing a new jobs bill before the end of the year.
Pelosi Censors Republicans by Rep. John Carter Monday night Democrats voted to shut down the U.S. House of Representatives rather than allow a handful of Republican Congressmen to speak on the floor. What could have been so offensive or frightening about our comments that Speaker Pelosi felt she had to protect her party by gagging free speech in the House? In fact, we had planned to speak on the lack...
Senior House Democrat leadership aides say that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and majority leader Steny Hoyer were not concerned about the potential backlash from left-wing women groups, such as...
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