May 18
Friday, May 18th, 2012
As part of a year-end budget deal, House Republicans are urging adoption of “fast-track procedures” to force lawmakers to complete a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. tax code in 2013.
House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) said Thursday that he has two goals with respect to the tax code: “One, block massive, job-killing tax increases” at the end of the year, when the George W. Bush-era tax cuts are set to expire. “And two, enact — not just pass — comprehensive tax reform.”
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May 18
Friday, May 18th, 2012
The Securities and Exchange Commission, which polices corporations, can usually count on support from Democrats and a rougher reception from Republicans. But, on Thursday, the agency found an issue on which its traditional friends are its critics and its traditional critics are its friends.
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May 18
Friday, May 18th, 2012
It’s never easy to re-enter the dating pool after years away — probably especially so if you’re one of the most famous men in the world.
But things seem to have worked out for Al Gore. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former VP has a serious girlfriend, we’ve learned.
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May 18
Friday, May 18th, 2012
The Obama administration granted a visa this week to the daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro but rejected visas for nearly a dozen other Cubans to attend an academic conference in California, angering both conservative Cuban American leaders and American scholars seeking to improve U.S.-Cuban academic ties.
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May 18
Friday, May 18th, 2012
Rep. Trent Franks’s district in suburban Phoenix is two time zones away from Washington, a fact not lost on D.C. leaders as the Arizona Republican presided Thursday over the latest in a long series of attempts to control social issues in the nation’s capital.
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