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| House panel approves a paid-for AMT relief bill
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| AP - The ideological divide over tax relief got a little wider in Congress Wednesday as House Democrats, over the protests of Republicans, advanced their latest plan to shield taxpayers from the alternative minimum tax. -- read full article |
| Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:56:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Republicans on tax bill: Just say no.
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| AP - Unfazed by pressure from Democrats and the business community, Republicans for the second time in a week prevented the Senate from taking up a tax bill providing more than $50 billion in renewable energy credits and tax breaks for families and businesses. -- read full article |
| Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:04:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Senate blocks debate of clean energy tax credits
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| Reuters - The U.S. Senate on Tuesday blocked
debate of a bill to offer about $17.7 billion in tax incentives
for consumers to build renewable energy sources like windmills
and solar arrays, and buy plug-in cars that run on electricity
rather than gasoline. -- read full article |
| Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:33:37 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Senators jab OPEC over high oil prices
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| AP - Eleven senators called on the Bush administration Tuesday to file a complaint with the World Trade Organization against eight members of the OPEC cartel, saying they are violating trade rules by colluding to hold down global oil supplies. -- read full article |
| Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:21:04 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Countrywide revelations muddle housing rescue
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| AP - Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher J. Dodd acknowledged Tuesday that he knew in 2003 that Countrywide Financial Corp. placed him in a "VIP section" when the firm reportedly gave him preferential rates on two mortgages. -- read full article |
| Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:33:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Congress panel boosts consumer agency funds
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| Reuters - The Consumer Product Safety
Commission would get a $20 million funding boost next year for
oversight of domestic and imported goods under a bill that
advanced on Tuesday in the House of Representatives. -- read full article |
| Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:53:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| US senator ties harsh interrogations to top Bush officials
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|  AFP - Harsh interrogation techniques used at US "war-on-terror" prisons in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay were sanctioned by top US government officials in 2002 against the advice of lawyers from all branches of the military, a senior US senator alleged Tuesday.
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| Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:26:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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