Posts Tagged ‘Senate’

New York Senate Republicans sing dough-re-mi 

Albany — The Republicans are winning the money war as the battle for control of the state Senate heats up, the Daily News has learned.

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Santorum’s income has soared since he left Senate (AP)

Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum smiles during an event at the Keene Public Library, Friday, Jan. 6, 2012, in Keene, N.H. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP – Losing his Senate seat might have been the best thing that ever happened to Rick Santorum’s bank account.


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New York GOPers moving to add seat to State Senate

ALBANY — Republicans, at least the ones controlling the New York State Senate, have decided that bigger is better.

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Obama bypasses Senate, installs new consumer chief (AP)

President Barack Obama, accompanied by Richard Cordray, speaks as he visits with William and Endia Eason, not pictured, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012, at their home in Cleveland, Ohio.  In a defiant display of executive power, President Barack Obama on Wednesday will buck GOP opposition and name Cordray as the nation's chief consumer watchdog. Outraged Republican leaders in Congress suggested that courts would determine the appointment was illegal. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP – A defiant President Barack Obama, tired of Senate Republicans stalling his nominee to lead a new consumer protection agency, put him in charge Wednesday over their opposition.


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Boehner: House leaders accept Senate tax terms (AP)

House Minority Whip Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., is followed by reporters after holding a news conference on the payroll tax cut on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011 in Washington.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP – Their isolation complete, House Republicans on Thursday caved to demands by President Barack Obama, congressional Democrats and fellow Republicans for a short-term renewal of payroll tax cuts for all workers.


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AP sources: House leaders accept Senate tax terms (AP)

House Minority Whip Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., is followed by reporters after holding a news conference on the payroll tax cut on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011 in Washington.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP – In an abrupt about-face, House Republican leaders Thursday agreed to a two-month extension of a Social Security payroll tax cut and federal unemployment benefits, GOP aides said.


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House, Senate show no give in payroll tax fight (AP)

Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, right, and House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., hold a meeting with the conference committee on the payroll tax cut on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011 in Washington.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP – House and Senate leaders traded demands Wednesday but remained mired in a bitter holiday-season stalemate that is threatening 160 million workers with Jan. 1 tax increases and millions of the long-term unemployed with an end to their benefits.


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