Posts Tagged ‘Senate’
Senate OKs jobs bill for Obama’s signature (AP)
AP – Companies that hire unemployed workers will get a temporary payroll tax holiday under a bill that easily won final congressional approval Wednesday.
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Senate poised to clear jobs bill for Obama (AP)
AP – Companies that hire unemployed workers get a temporary payroll tax holiday under a bill headed for likely Senate passage Wednesday.
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Peralta trounces Hiram in special election for state Senate seat
Hiram Monserrate has lost his long-shot bid to get his state Senate seat back in a special election.
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Senate, Obama spar over health plan’s pet projects (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ.
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Senate to take up unemployment insurance extension (AP)
AP – Legislation extending unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless faces a key test vote in the Senate, its momentum helped by about 60 popular tax breaks for individuals and businesses that expired at the end of last year.
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Senate returns to business tax break measure (AP)
AP – After buying time by resolving an impasse over jobless benefits and other programs that had briefly lapsed, the Senate is returning to a $100 billion-plus bill reviving popular tax breaks and extending longer and more generous jobless benefits through the end of the year.
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Senate votes unemployment benefits, highway funds (AP)
AP – The Senate on Tuesday passed a $10 billion measure to maintain unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless and provide stopgap funding for highway programs after a holdout Republican dropped stalling tactics that had generated a Washington firestorm.
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