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</p> The rationale behind the new tax — that the $87 billion that it raises from small businesses to cover the out-of-control costs of the overall bill — is unfair and detrimental to investment and job
Ironically, many of the same partisans who now claim this provision to be unconstitutional previously proposed and supported a health insurance requirement when President Bill Clinton was trying to increase
</p> The central question that the Supreme Court will decide is whether the mandate is constitutional.
</p> At last count, the administration has issued 11,161 pages of new rules to implement its various provisions.
Unfortunately, the process has become so distorted that now every time any measure comes up, there’s a litany of Republican amendments — take-it-or-leave-it amendments — most of which have nothing to do with the bill
</p> The Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge Act, which passed 96-3, had long been stalled, with some version of the bill introduced in every Congress since 2006.
</p> “We will rue the day that we rammed this through the House and Senate,” Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said of the bill, adding that it rolls back stock disclosure requirements and holds
</p> The legislation also included limits on medical malpractice awards, which some Democrats cited as a reason for opposing the bill despite the desire by some to kill the Independent Payment Advisory
The first voting pool was modest — just more than 100 members weighed in, 63 percent of whom voted to punish Smith for introducing the controversial piracy bill.
</p> Officials say a new radio system is critical to efficient operations and overall security for lawmakers, staff and visitors to Capitol Hill.
</p> While it does not carry the stature of a national endorsement from President Bill Clinton, Edwards’ support has strategic and symbolic resonance of its own.
He doesn’t own a home in Indiana, and his office made taxpayers foot the bill for his overnight trips — accidentally, Lugar says.</p> A new Democratic poll</p> 4.
</p> It wasn’t just the stage that was dripping with public officials.
</p> The other honoree of the night, Cooper, who runs her own consulting firm, said she is proud to be an advocate. “I love what I do,” she said.
</p> The report’s cover is a sketch of a lawmaker’s family sitting down to dine on heaping plates of cash, lobster and caviar.
</p> “This is not a bill which would allow opportunities for new workers, but one which would create new opportunities for fraudsters and boiler room crooks,” Levin said.
</p> “I will introduce a short-term extension through June 30 to ensure continuity of current programs while I and House Republicans continue to work toward a responsible transportation bill that provides
</p> Led by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.), the Senators also announced plans for a Rules and Administration Committee hearing next week on the bill, which they advertised as the “DISCLOSE Act 2.0.”
</p> Well, apparently, Hoyer’s folks were a little annoyed, not by the app, but by the way Citizen Cosponsor rewrites bill titles.
</p> Crane & Co., the Massachusetts-based company that provides the paper for the nation’s currency, is rushing to the defense of the greenback now that Congress might actually eliminate the dollar bill