Senate Passes Bill to Aid Small Business
</p> But Republicans said the bill essentially creates a bailout for community banks, and further claimed the measure offered only temporary tax relief to small businesses.
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</p> But Republicans said the bill essentially creates a bailout for community banks, and further claimed the measure offered only temporary tax relief to small businesses.
</p> Consequently, the Senate bill would increase the department’s budget by $7 million over last year’s total to $335 million.
</p> The bill, passed by a vote of 371-36, would for the first time apply the 1933 Buy American Act requirements for federal agencies to Congress itself.</p> Rep.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday he will file a procedural motion on the defense authorization bill to work his way around a potential GOP filibuster.
</p> Murkowski has in mind a 13,895-foot mountain in Alaska’s Denali National Park.
That includes his support for the economic stimulus bill, which the National Republican Senatorial Committee attacks him for in a TV ad on the air in Colorado.</p> “I’ve been here for 21 months.
</p> Pelosi refused to commit to holding a vote on a tax cut bill before the midterm elections.
</p> In her acceptance speech, Brooks deadpanned that Allen, who nominated her for the award, “will get the bill for this dress.”
These included Congressional campaigns — “some with positive messages, some with negative messages” — and presidential campaigns for both Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bill Clinton, Jackson said.
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President Barack Obama on Wednesday cheered Senate progress in advancing a small-business jobs bill but chided Republicans for stalling a bill that “should not have taken this long to pass.”
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced Tuesday that he would add the DREAM Act to the defense authorization bill.
</p> The president said he “will do whatever it takes to support” passage of the bill, known as the DREAM Act.
John McCain vowed Wednesday to prevent Democrats from bringing the defense authorization bill to the floor next week.
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</p> Despite his defeat in the GOP primary, accountant Doug Hoffman’s name will appear on the November ballot as the Conservative Party candidate.
</p> “I’m sure that at the end of that meeting, we will be able to report to all of you that the president will be embracing the DREAM Act and will be calling on action by the Senate to pass it and pass
President Barack Obama will hold a previously unscheduled Cabinet meeting on Wednesday on the economy and will later make a statement on the tax cut debate and the small-business jobs bill advancing in