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Senate Votes On Unemployment Benefit, Tax Extensions Today
The Senate will resume consideration of a $148 billion dollar tax extender bill which would also extend unemployment benefits and the 65% COBRA subsidy until the end of the year. The unemployment...
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Job Creation Tax Credit On The Way To Final Passage
Don’t look now, bit we’re about to get final passage on a modest-sized bill. In the United States Congress. In 2010. Crazy, right? The Senate achieved cloture yesterday on their now-$38 billion dollar...
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Senate Gives Final Passage to Jobs Bill
By a 68-29 vote, the Senate gave final approval to the HIRE Act, an $18 billion dollar measure that also includes $20 billion dollars of replenishing for the highway trust fund, the money for which is...
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Obama Administration Prefers One Stimulus Program – Handing Over Money to...
Yesterday, David Axelrod seemed to suggest that the White House would shut down all their stimulus efforts once the unemployment extension bill passed. But the Wall Street Journal noticed that they’re...
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Obama Administration Comes Back to Liberal Wonks for Job Creation Ideas
The White House wants you to believe that the American Jobs Act is loaded up with bipartisan solutions once preferred by Republicans. And to some extent, that’s true. But there are a number of Easter...
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Senate Democrats Attach Veterans Hiring Initiative to 3% Withholding Bill
The latest in a series of jobs measures that will get a Senate vote offers a twist on what we’ve seen over the past several weeks. First of all, the bill is not paid for with a surtax on millionaires....
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Senate Advances Veterans Hiring Measure, 3% Withholding Bill
The sort-of jobs measure announced Friday by Democrats had it all: paeans to veterans, tax breaks for businesses, an elimination of leverage for tax compliance with government contractors. Something...
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Veterans Hiring Bill Indicative of Impossibility of Eliminating Tax Expenditures
Within the hour, it’s likely that the veterans hiring measure, which offers tax credits of up to $9,600 to businesses for hiring returning veterans, will pass the Senate, attached to a measure that...
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Obama Brings Back the American Jobs Act From the Mothballs
Perhaps showing concern about the softening economic forecasts of recent months, President Obama has provided a to-do list for Congress that would, in his words, “create jobs and help restore middle...
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Today on the Fiscal Slopes
Politico’s VanDeAllen team have a exclusive inside must-credit-Politico rundown of the fiscal cliff talks that merely recycles known information and makes a bunch of guesses. Cut through the fog, and...
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