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Legislation to force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes has put antitax activists like Grover Norquist in an unusual position: They're losing. The NYT reports.
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WASHINGTON, May 23- A top Republican senator on Thursday said that Commerce Secretary nominee Penny Pritzker had satisfactorily answered most of his questions about her role in the failure of an Illinois bank and her family's use of offshore tax havens.
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WASHINGTON, May 22- President Barack Obama's choice to be transportation secretary promised on Wednesday to work with Congress to figure out how to fund U.S. transportation needs during a time of tight budgets and faced lingering Republican anger over recent air traffic controller furloughs.
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WASHINGTON, May 14- The Senate Agriculture Committee approved a farm bill on Tuesday, costing $500 billion over a decade, that would expand the scope of the federally subsidized crop insurance program and modestly trim spending on food stamps for the poor. The 1,000- page bill now goes to the Senate floor, where a vote could be called as soon as this month.
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*House, Senate panels plan to draft farm bill next week. WASHINGTON, May 9- Lawmakers are preparing for a second run at writing the new U.S. farm law that ended in a stalemate in 2012, and the biggest obstacle is not likely to be soil conservation or crop subsidies, but the billions spent mostly in cities and towns.
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Legislation to force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes has put antitax activists like Grover Norquist in an unusual position: They're losing. The NYT reports.
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*Airlines, FAA say safety not affected by furloughs. Under bipartisan legislation that is all but ready to be presented to the full Senate, the Department of Transportation would be given new flexibility to take unspent funds and use them to cover the costs of air traffic controllers and other essential employees at the Federal Aviation Administration.
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The House of Representatives could vote soon after but leaders in that chamber first want to see what the Senate produces, fearing a retreat on this issue could open the door to easing other budget cuts. One option senators are exploring is attaching legislation to an unrelated Internet sales tax bill currently being debated, a Senate aide said on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON, April 25- U.S. Senate leaders are looking at ways to alleviate widespread airline flight delays- brought about by last month's automatic federal spending cuts- with legislation that could be voted upon as early as Thursday, a Senate aide said.
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WASHINGTON, April 23- The White House said on Tuesday it would be open to legislation to put air traffic controllers back to work full-time as key U.S. senators demanded more information about the impact of furloughs on safety and air operations.
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WASHINGTON, April 23- The White House said on Tuesday it would be open to legislation to put air traffic controllers back to work full time as key U.S. senators demanded more information about the impact of furloughs on safety and air operations.
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"We are now faced with substantial possible disruptions to the air transportation system," Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, a Democrat, and Senator John Thune, the top Republican on the panel, said in a letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Michael Huerta.
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The FAA plans to cut control-tower staffing by 10 percent at Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles and other busy airports starting on Sunday because of mandatory budget reductions required under so-called sequestration.
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WASHINGTON, March 20- Federal Communications Commissioner Robert McDowell, the senior member of the agency's Republican minority, said on Wednesday he will leave in coming weeks after a seven-year tenure that promoted deregulation of the Internet and the telecom market.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 13- The pomp and soaring rhetoric of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address roused his Capitol audience to standing ovations, but a day after, the U.S. Congress was no closer to achieving major accomplishments in 2013 than it was before Tuesday's speech.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 13- President Barack Obama's choice to be the next U.S. Tax reform took center stage at the Senate Finance Committee's confirmation hearing for Jack Lew, Obama's nominee to replace Timothy Geithner.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 13- President Barack Obama's choice to be the next U.S. Tax reform took center stage at the Senate Finance Committee's confirmation hearing for Jack Lew, Obama's nominee to replace Timothy Geithner.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 24- Four Republican farm state U.S. senators on Thursday expressed concern that possible free trade talks between the United States and European Union may not dismantle longstanding EU barriers to U.S. pork, beef, poultry and other farm products.
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*A123 takeover hinges on U.S. government approval. SHANGHAI, Nov 30- China's government has approved a plan by Wanxiang Group Corp, a major Chinese auto parts maker, to acquire bankrupt U.S. battery maker A123 Systems Inc, although a deal still hinges on the outcome of an auction next month and U.S. government approval.
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"It is not going to happen soon," Republican Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming, the Senate's fourth-ranking Republican, said in a Fox Business News interview Wednesday evening of an agreement to avoid the tax hikes and spending cuts that will be triggered on Jan. 1 without an act of Congress.