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We've all heard or even sarcastically said, "It's a free country." With the current administration trying to control our lives with their health care and cap-and-trade power and money grab, we will be throwing that phrase...
AP: Urban members of Congress slow to nominate military recruits Kwameka Jones, an Air Force Junior ROTC cadet at the Polytechnic Institute in Baltimore, is one of a very low number of minorities studying at military academies....
Congressional Districts With The Fewest Military Academy Nominations In The Past 5 Years (AP) A list of congressional districts with the fewest military academy nominations for the classes of 2009 to 2013, the officeholders and...
Bloomberg - Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- House Democrats plan to move next month to renew about $30 billion in tax breaks before they expire at year’s end, including a research credit promoted by companies such as Dow Chemical Co.
WASHINGTON The same day the House of Representatives passed health care reform legislation, U.S. Rep. Steve Kagen introduced a bill to make permanent a tax credit for paper companies that burn black liquor.
Congressmen are getting cranky about the work of a new independent House ethics board, and that's a good sign. The nonpartisan Office of Congressional Ethics was created at the urging of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) in...
Tax-News.com: United States Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is understood to be drawing up plans for a new payroll tax on high-income earners to help fund the healthcare reforms called for by President Obama.
Wherever Obama's administration was when he left town, it looks to be going somewhere else fast and in a hand basket, if you will. Two Republican Representatives have joined with Democrat Peter DeFazio in wanting Treasury...
Nov. 15 — To the Editor: In reference to Wally Kilgore's and Barbara Broederick's letters in October regarding Carol Shea-Porter, I am happy to see some real discussion about her performance. In regard to the U.S. Rep. Charles...
Over 25,000 letters calling on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to conduct a civil rights investigation of the 28-year conspiracy to execute death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal were delivered to the doors of the...
