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A recently introduced bill could have far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 Midwest workers on Aug. 1.
The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.
The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.
Oil suspected to be coming from BP’s Deepwater Horizon gusher is now washing up on the white-sand beaches of western Florida, scrambling clean-up crews who hope to prevent the disaster from fouling the state’s $60 billion per year tourism industry.
The economy added 431,000 jobs last month, dropping the national unemployment rate from 9.9 percent to 9.7 percent, the Department of Labor Statistics announced Friday morning. But Republicans, who a month ago were saying that they’d recognize progress when the jobless rate fell, aren’t impressed. Indeed, Republican U.S. House Whip Eric Cantor just issued a [...]
The U.S. House on Friday approved legislation to extend the filing deadline for emergency unemployment benefits through November. It does not create new benefits. The vote was 215 to 204.
It’s pretty certain, at this point in the discussion, that Congress will leave Washington today for a week-long Memorial Day break without passing legislation to extend a number of tax breaks and emergency unemployment benefits. Not only have House Democrats — who’d hoped to have their bill wrapped up and delivered to the Senate by [...]
Officially, U.S. House leaders are saying they’ll have the support to pass an enormous jobs proposal that would extend the deadline to file for additional unemployment benefits (but not create new benefits) through the end of the year. “We will have the votes,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., told reporters Tuesday. Unofficially, though, they’re [...]
Having unveiled their plan to extend unemployment benefits through the end of the year (not to be mistaken for a plan to create new benefits), Democrats will no doubt be racing to pass the measure before June 1, which marks the current deadline to file for the next tier of jobless benefits. Budget hawks, however, [...]
It’s not the permanent fix they were looking for, but the American Medical Association, the nation’s largest lobby of doctors, said Thursday that it supports the Democrats’ proposal to postpone a pay cut for Medicare doctors until 2014 — a temporary solution that kicks the problem down the road rather than solving it.
U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., who heads the Senate Finance Committee, announced that an unemployment extension bill will be released Thursday. The bill would extend the filing deadline for the existing tiers of emergency unemployment benefits — not to be confused with the creation of additional tiers — through the end of 2010. Under current [...]
Care of the office of U.A. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., who’s among the most vocal critics of the White House plan to expand offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and along the Atlantic coast.
The gap between the wealth possessed by white and black families grew more than four times larger between 1984 and 2007 — and federal policy is only exacerbating the trend, according to a study released today by researchers at Brandeis University’s Institute on Assets and Social Policy.
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