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call it the Reagan Rule instead of the Buffett Rule,” Obama said at a White House event flanked by millionaires — and their secretaries — supportive of a 30 percent minimum tax on income of more than $1
The source pointed out that Delta lobbied for and received a pension bailout from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. in 2007 for nearly $1 billion.
The White House released a new report today backing President Barack Obama’s proposed “Buffett Rule” to impose a minimum 30 percent tax on incomes of more than $1 million in advance of a speech on the
fourth-quarter fundraising In addition to the $350,000 raised, she now has more than $1 million in the bank, according to a campaign press release.
The survey was conducted from April 1-4 and polled 808 Empire State registered voters on landlines and cellphones by live telephone interview.
NH-02: Ann McLane Kuster raised $350,000 and has more than $1 million in the bank. NM-01: Michelle Lujan Grisham, one of three Democrats vying for the Albuquerque-based seat of Rep.
Rogers repeated during today’s call that his bill, which was approved 17-1 in committee last year, is only 13 pages long and was the result of dozens of meetings with private companies, industry groups
· The supermajority of Swing Independents think the system is already basically fair, and by 3 to 1 they call themselves “haves,” not “have nots.”
· The supermajority of Swing Independents think the system is already basically fair, and by 3 to 1 they call themselves “haves,” not “have nots.”
Strike 1: No one from PETA testified before the Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy and Poultry hearing on the date (May 8, 2007) in question. “They confessed they were vegetarians.
Under Senate rules, any Senator can force such a vote after April 1, and only 51 votes are needed to force a budget to the floor.
Altmire’s campaign announced he raised about $330,000 from Jan. 1 through April 4, which is the pre-primary reporting period.
Because the proposal targets people making more than $1 million, “it pretty well isolates who the Republicans are sticking up for, and that’s the very rich,” the Democratic aide said.
Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) only bill, the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act, cites “Clause 1 and Clause 17 of Section 8 of Article I.” But Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-Va.)
The House-passed map, titled “Bob Dole 1,” aimed to make the state’s four GOP Members safer under the new lines.
In the reporting period that began Jan. 1 and ended March 28, the Democrat raised almost $550,000 and had nearly $465,000 in the bank.
Although the law has been criticized for deregulating companies with up to $1 billion in revenue, Obama said that by encouraging those companies to go public, they would still face greater scrutiny.
The measure is aimed at implementing President Barack Obama’s principle that people who make more than $1 million a year should pay at least as high a percentage of their income in taxes as the middle
There is little expectation that Obama will match his 2008 margin in this far different environment and with the state’s two previous presidential contests decided by 1 point or less.
Credo, a for-profit company launched in 1985 as an alternative long-distance provider, has used progressive activism as a marketing tool, donating 1 percent of each customer’s monthly bill to liberal