by Rhyan Kronzer | Jul 11, 2013 | Business & Tech, Politics
WASHINGTON – The feud over the farm bill ended at least temporarily in the U.S. House Thursday with a narrow vote approving federal agricultural policy for the next five years — and leaving the future of the Food Stamp program for another day. Debate in the...
by Emily Hoerner & Amina Ismail | Jul 11, 2013 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON –U.S. telecommunications companies need to deploy the latest technology to improve consumer protection from unsolicited robocalls, the chairwoman of the Senate consumer protection subcommittee said Wednesday. But telecommunications industry officials were...
by Rhyan Kronzer | Jul 11, 2013 | Business & Tech, National Security
WASHINGTON– The Senate agriculture committee weighed in Wednesday on what would be the biggest Chinese acquisition of a U.S. company in history, saying the purchase of Smithfield Foods Inc. raises concerns about long-term effects on American markets as well as...
by Anthony Valentino | Jul 11, 2013 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — The provision in the Dodd-Frank banking reform law that gives the federal government the power to liquidate big financial institutions may be unconstitutional because it violates the banks’ due process rights, a leading legal scholar told a House...
by Sonali Basak | Jul 10, 2013 | Business & Tech, Topics
WASHINGTON — Maryland transportation leaders on Tuesday urged Congress to provide more federal rail funding as well as support for public-private rail partnerships. President Barack Obama has proposed a five-year, $40 billion rail reauthorization bill as part of the...
by Emily Hoerner & Amina Ismail | Jul 9, 2013 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – Republicans on a key House financial committee Tuesday criticized a top official of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for not revealing how many consumers have had their financial information collected by the agency. The hearing was in response to...
