Posts Tagged ‘Senate’
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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Senate GOP leader says budget impasse to end soon (AP)
AP – With a Senate impasse causing federal furloughs and threatening the unemployment benefits of thousands, the top Republican on Tuesday predicted quick passage of a stopgap measure to extend help for the unemployed and keep federal highway dollars flowing.
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Senate talks close in on deal for Wall Street regs (AP)
AP – More than a year after Lehman Brothers’ collapse set off a financial panic, Senate negotiators appear close to resolving a narrow dispute that was holding up broad legislation to set new rules for Wall Street.
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Senate panel to review Toyota recalls (AP)
AP – Toyota Motor Corp. faces more questions from Congress over its troubled safety record when top company officials testify Tuesday at a Senate hearing on the automaker’s huge worldwide recall of 8.5 million vehicles.
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Harold Ford to announce he will not run for U.S. Senate seat against Kirsten Gillibrand
Former Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford told a top New York Democrat Monday he has decided not to mount a primary challenge against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
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