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U.S. / NEWS Fri Dec 28, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

MSNBC -- More than 3 million people will have to wait until February to get their tax refunds because of Congress’ late fix to the alternative minimum tax, the IRS said Thursday. Congress put a one-year freeze on growth of the alternative minimum tax last wee.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Sep 17, 2007 @ 8:28am neoform

USA Today -- Gay rights advocates expect Congress will soon move closer to approving a federal ban on job discrimination against gay, lesbian and transgender workers. Rep. Barney Frank, a leading proponent, predicts the ban will win House approval in coming weeks... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 28, 2007 @ 7:44pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Foes of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays hope for better results in their efforts to repeal it in the new Democratic-run Congress. Rep. Martin Meehan, D-Mass., on Wednesday revived legislation aimed at forcing the military to elimi.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Feb 3, 2007 @ 12:04pm neoform

SF Gate -- Keeping troops in Iraq for another year and a half will cost nearly a quarter-trillion dollars — about $800 for every man, woman and child in the U.S. — under the budget President Bush will submit to Congress Monday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 2, 2007 @ 4:43pm neoform

MSNBC -- The Bush administration will ask for another $100 billion for military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan this year and seek $145 billion for 2008, a senior administration official said Friday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jan 30, 2007 @ 8:38am neoform

thomas.loc.gov -- To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform national service, either as a member of the uniformed services or in civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, to authorize the induc.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jan 11, 2007 @ 9:32am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- The Democratic-controlled House voted Wednesday to increase the federal minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, bringing America's lowest-paid workers a crucial step closer to their first raise in a decade... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jan 4, 2007 @ 12:40am neoform

CNET -- The nation's soon-to-be largest telephone company may have caved to certain Net neutrality commitments for the sake of a merger blessing, but a renewed push for more sweeping rules could return to Capitol Hill as soon as this month... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Dec 4, 2006 @ 10:31am mrmdc

Washington Post -- A leader of the new Democratic Congress, business travelers and privacy advocates expressed outrage Friday over the unannounced assignment of terrorism risk assessments to American international travelers by a computerized system managed from an unmarked,.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Nov 25, 2006 @ 8:16pm neoform

USA Today -- From 1995 to 2001, Bogdan Dzakovic served as a team leader on the Federal Aviation Administration's Red Team. Set up by Congress to help the FAA think like terrorists, the elite squad tested airport security systems... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Nov 18, 2006 @ 8:54am neoform

MSNBC -- Nowhere is the shift of control in last week's US mid-term elections more dramatic than in the influential Senate environment committee... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Oct 29, 2006 @ 11:23am neoform

USA Today -- The only remedy to a series of Iraq policy failures by President Bush is a Democratic takeover of Congress in the Nov. 7 election, Virginia Senate candidate Jim Webb said Saturday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Oct 26, 2006 @ 8:18am neoform

Reuters -- More than 200 active duty U.S. armed service members, fed up with the war in Iraq, have joined an unusual protest calling for withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country, organizers said on Wednesday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 13, 2007 @ 8:22am neoform

BBC News -- The US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are costing nearly double the amount previously thought, according to a report set to be released by Congress. Democrats say the wars have cost $1.5 trillion - almost twice the requested $804bn (�402bn) - because o.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 8, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

USA Today -- The Pentagon has asked Congress for nearly $750 million to urgently airlift needed armored vehicles to troops facing roadside bombs in Iraq, according to budget documents. The emergency funding request would allow the military to fly many of the Mine R.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Aug 5, 2007 @ 4:51pm neoform

FOX News -- Two senators want to know why a $1 billion Sept. 11 insurance fund appropriated by Congress to help ailing ground zero workers has not been used to compensate those exposed to harmful substances. Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 22, 2007 @ 8:11am neoform

Washington Post -- Blackstone Group's business of buying and selling huge companies is all about making billion-dollar bets. And today, the private-equity giant is taking its biggest roll of the dice yet. In the face of a looming fight with Congress, labor union protests an.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 18, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

USA Today -- The Homeland Security Department is vigorously fighting a move by Congress to delay a requirement that U.S. citizens show a passport to re-enter the country by land or sea from Mexico, Canada, Bermuda or the Caribbean, saying it puts the nation's borders.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 6, 2007 @ 1:06pm neoform

SF Gate -- The globe-trotting tuberculosis patient now in quarantine insisted to Congress on Wednesday that doctors told him he wasn't contagious and didn't order him to stay in the United States for treatment — even as health officials painted a picture of a man.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Mon Jun 4, 2007 @ 4:52pm neoform

Washington Post -- The ambitious immigration overhaul package that Congress is studying has drawn criticism from conservatives who say it offers amnesty to lawbreakers, and from immigration advocates who say it will not do enough to bring millions of people out of the shado.. Read More