by Dionne E. Young | Apr 10, 2013 | Business & Tech, Immigration
WASHINGTON — Florida Sen. Bill Nelson has been on a mission for two years to speed up the time it takes the Internal Revenue Service to respond to victims of tax fraud — and with the help of two powerful senators, he might finally get some action. Sens....
by Megan Hickey | Apr 10, 2013 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – While scattered populations and difficult terrain make it hard to provide phone and Internet access in rural America, government regulatory burdens are an even bigger problem, the vice president of Arkansas-based Ritter Communications told a Senate...
by Mary Lee & Anderson Xia | Apr 10, 2013 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s nominee to be his next budget chief, Sylvia Burwell, faced her first round of confirmation hearings Tuesday, with senators from both parties expressing confidence in her abilities to lead during a time of high deficits and clashes...
by John Burfisher | Apr 8, 2013 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – Several thousand people gathered in Washington Monday to push Congress to restore more than $2 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health, warning that without the money, advances in areas such as breast cancer research may be lost. “Funding...
by GILLIAN WHITE | Dec 5, 2012 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — The real fight over the fiscal cliff is not about deficit reduction but politics and growing financial inequality in America, according to Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Sanders points to figures about the divide between the wealthiest one...
by JULIA ZHU | Dec 4, 2012 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – Federal Reserve Board Governor Daniel Tarullo on Tuesday called for stricter policies for the nation’s largest financial institutions and stronger enforcement from regulators. Tarullo, who has overseen the implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act, said he has...
