View a Hearing or Meeting. Congress ready to tackle postal reform - Mar. 27. Congress turns its focus on efforts to save the U.S.
Postal Service. WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) -- Congress is looking this week at ways to save the struggling U.S. Violence Against Women Act Divides Senate.
Speaking With the Speaker. On International Women's Day, Congress Debates Measure To Limit Reproductive Rights. WASHINGTON -- Thursday, March 8 is International Women's Day, and Republicans in Congress are celebrating by debating a new bill that would restrict abortion rights.
Empty Promises: Experts Say Keystone XL Won't Do Anything For Gas Prices. By Stephen Lacey on March 2, 2012 at 12:30 pm "Empty Promises: Experts Say Keystone XL Won’t Do Anything For Gas Prices" Top oil economist: Pipeline would increase gasoline prices in the upper Midwest 5 to 10 cents a gallon.
Amidst the mind-numbing array of hollow political promises to lower U.S. gas prices, there’s one really important point everyone should know: the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, which supporters say will “bring down prices at the pump,” wouldn’t be built until 2014. And that’s if everything went forward today without a hitch. Keystone XL has become a political mantra for supporters of the carbon economy.
What would be the impact of opening up that giant pool of carbon and piping it through America’s heartland? Other analysts are far more pessimistic. There is a lively debate among oil-industry analysts about whether Keystone will impact gasoline prices in the Midwest.
House passes bipartisan bill aimed at start-ups - Mar. 8. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor pushed to get a bill passed to make it easier for start-up companies to go public.
WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) -- In a rare moment of bipartisanship, the House overwhelmingly passed a bill Thursday aimed at making it easier for small companies to grow and go public. The House voted 390-23 to pass the bill easing certain rules that the Securities and Exchange Commission enforces on small companies going through the process of becoming a publicly traded company. The Senate is working on a similar version of the bill, and President Obama has indicated he supports it. The package is en route to becoming one of the few pieces of legislation aimed at boosting job creation and the economy to be signed into law in the past few years. That said, the bill isn't without critics. "This bill makes it easier for start-up businesses to happen again in America," said House Majority Leader Eric Cantor after the bill passed.
One year in, GOP Solyndra investigation remains a gigantic nothingburger. Rep. Bachus faces insider-trading investigation. The Office of Congressional Ethics, an independent investigative agency, opened its probe late last year after focusing on numerous suspicious trades on Bachus’s annual financial disclosure forms, the individuals said.
OCE investigators have notified Bachus that he is under investigation and that they have found probable cause to believe insider-trading violations have occurred. (Washington Post investigation: Capitol Assets) The case is the first of its kind involving a member of Congress. It comes at a time of intense public scrutiny of congressional ethics, with the House passing legislation Thursday to tighten rules against insider trading by lawmakers.
The impetus for the legislation, a version of which passed in the Senate a week earlier, came from a “60 Minutes” report and a book mentioning Bachus’s trades, “Throw Them All Out,” by Peter Schweizer. Ray LaHood: ‘The worst transportation bill I’ve ever seen’ Culture Connoisseur Badge.
Republicans’ agenda for repeal of Affordable Care Act. (J.
Scott Applewhite - AP) Ever since Republicans declared their intention to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, their agenda and rhetoric have tended to be heavy on repeal, light on replace. That’s often been to the dismay of health policy wonks, who want to hear more about not just what Republicans would do to get rid of the health reform law, but how they would fix our health care system.
“Republicans may have convinced the public that President Obama’s national health care law will make things worse, but they have yet to adequately explain how they’d make things better,” the Washington Examiner’s Philip Klein wrote this summer. No strip club spending for welfare recipients - Feb. 6. A bill passed in the House bans the spending of welfare money in liquor stores, casinos and strip clubs.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- If welfare recipients want to dole out the dollar bills at a strip club, they'd better make sure it's not government money ... at least if a bill in Congress becomes law. The House last week overwhelmingly passed legislation that would require states to ban the ability to access government benefits at strip clubs, liquor stores and casinos. The benefit program in question is Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), formerly known as welfare. North Carolina Democratic Rep. Heath Shuler to retire. Rep.
The 25 richest/poorest members of Congress: Why it pays to listen - Ask The Post. Posted at 02:35 PM ET, 01/03/2012 Jan 03, 2012 07:35 PM EST TheWashingtonPost @washingtonpost i think it'd be telling to see the 25 POOREST members of Congress.
@dabeard— cory provost (@coryprovost) December 27, 2011.