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Obama’s Official History - 1/10/2013
The Wall Street JournalBy JAMES FREEMANThe White House was widely ridiculed last year for inserting references to Barack Obama into the biographies of other presidents on the White House website. But lately Mr. Obama seems to be airbrushing himself out of his own biography.The man who has held the nation'...
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Business Council Releases 2013 Fix New York Legislative Agenda - 1/10/2013
The Business CouncilFor Release – January 8, 2013ALBANY— In 2013, The Business Council of New York State, Inc.'s legislative agenda focuses on maintaining and building on the state's fiscal discipline, improving the state's overall business climate and reducing state-imposed business costs and barriers to new investmen...
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Cuomo to Press for Wider Curbs on Gun Access - 1/10/2013
The New York TimesBy THOMAS KAPLANALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, pushing New York to become the first state to enact major new gun laws in the wake of the massacre in Newtown, Conn., plans on Wednesday to propose one of the country’s most restrictive bans on assault weapons.New York is one of seven states that already ...
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Henninger: Obama’s Ruinous Course - 12/7/2012
The Wall Street JournalWhere in his career did Barack Obama ever learn the art of the political deal? Nowhere.By DANIEL HENNINGERA wise judge once wrote in dissent that the Constitution is not a suicide pact. Let us now extend that wisdom to presidential elections.Barack Obama says his election victory is a mand...
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GOP Deficit Plan Irks Conservatives - 12/6/2012
The Wall Street JournalDiscord Complicates Negotiating Position of Boehner, Who Punished Four House Members; Obama Calls for Higher TaxesBy NAFTALI BENDAVID And CAROL E. LEEWASHINGTON—Conservatives on Tuesday took aim at House Speaker John Boehner's deficit-reduction proposal in the fiscal c...
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Obama Appeals to Business for Support on Tax Plan - 12/6/2012
The New York TimesPresident Obama, who in a sense campaigned against corporate America, spoke to a group of leading executives on Wednesday.By PETER BAKERPublished: December 5, 2012WASHINGTON — After a campaign that drove a deep wedge between them, President Obama is now trying to rebuild relations with the business co...
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Cuomo Blames Albany Democrats for Losing Senate - 12/6/2012
The Wall Street JournalBy Laura NahmiasNew York Gov. Andrew Cuomo blamed Albany lawmakers in his own party for "squander[ing] the opportunity to pass any meaningful reform" in an op-ed released a day after Republicans in the state Senate agreed to share power with five breakaway Democrats.The essay, published...
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GOP Retains House Control - 11/7/2012
The Wall Street JournalBy JANET HOOKRepublicans retained control of the House Tuesday night, confronting President Barack Obama with a continuing partisan obstacle to his second-term agenda.The results left the chamber's balance of power intact despite a restive electorate. The House's dwindling band of conserva...
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Obama Wins a Second Term - 11/7/2012
The Wall Street JournalBy PETER NICHOLAS, CAROL E. LEE and JOHN D. MCKINNONPresident Barack Obama narrowly won re-election, overcoming public doubts about his performance on the economy—doubts that challenger Mitt Romney appeared well-positioned to exploitFor Mr. Obama, the victory sets up a...
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Democrats Rack Up Wins to Keep Senate Majority - 11/7/2012
The Wall Street JournalGOP Suffers Losses in Critical Contests: Massachusetts, Ohio, Maine and ConnecticutBy NAFTALI BENDAVIDDemocrats kept control of the Senate by winning a series of high-profile races, giving them a continued stronghold in Washington and disappointing early Republican hopes of retaking the ch...
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DISCLOSE Act Threatens to Limit Manufacturers’ Free Speech - 7/17/2012
CONGRESS SHOULD PROTECT ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS’ FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTSNational Association of ManufacturersContact:Matthew Lavoie (202 637-3085)07/16/12 - National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) Vice President for Infrastructure, Legal, and Regulatory Policy Rosario Palmieri issued this statement tod...
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In Tracing Romney's Role at Bain, a Convoluted Timeline - 7/17/2012
The New York TimesBy NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and MICHAEL D. SHEAR Published: July 15, 2012When Mitt Romney was running for governor of Massachusetts a decade ago, Democrats went before a state commission to demand that he be struck from the ballot. Their argument: After taking over the Winter Olympics ...
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Strassel: Obama's Imperial Presidency - 7/16/2012
The Wall Street JournalWhen Congress won't do what he wants, he ignores it and acts anyway.By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSELThe ObamaCare litigation is history, with the president's takeover of the health sector deemed constitutional. Now we can focus on the rest of the Obama imperial presidency.Where, you are wondering, have y...
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Ted Cruz Interview: On Obama, GOP and Big Business - 6/4/2012
The Wall Street JournalBy Elizabeth WilliamsonFormer Texas Solicitor General and U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz addresses a crowd of about 20 supporters at a barbeque restaurant in Temple, Texas, on Saturday.The Wall Street Journal interviewed Ted Cruz, a tea party-approved Republican candidate running for U.S. Senate ...
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Emails Describe Deal-Making on Obama Health Bill - 6/4/2012
The Wall Street JournalBy Alicia MundyNewly released emails give an inside look at how the White House struck a deal with the pharmaceutical industry in 2009 to get support for the health bill that ultimately passed the next year.Drug makers and their lobbyists believed they got a good bargain, the emails show. As The ...
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Romney Not Hoping for More Fed Action - 6/4/2012
The Wall Street JournalBy Kristina Peterson and Sara MurrayAt least one person on Friday wasn’t hoping that the Federal Reserve will start another round of bond-buying: Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.While Friday’s disappointing jobs report had economists and investors ratcheting up expectations that the c...
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Unshackle Upstate - Help Us UNLOCK New York! - 5/30/2012
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The ‘Crucify Them’ Presidency - 5/7/2012
Al Armendariz, the EPA official who resigned in disgrace this week, was no outlier among the Obama administration's regulators.The Wall Street JournalBy KIMBERLEY A. STRASSELAl "Crucify Them" Armendariz resigned from the Environmental Protection Agency this week, for the mistake of telling it like it is. All ...
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Final Approval by House Sends Jobs Bill to President for Signature - 3/29/2012
The New York TimesBy JONATHAN WEISMANPublished: March 27, 2012WASHINGTON — The House gave overwhelming final approval on Tuesday to a package of measures intended to ease access to capital and investments for entrepreneurs, sending the bipartisan legislation to President Obama, who has said he will sign it.The&#...
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Cuomo To Set Up Health Care Exchange - 3/29/2012
Pressconnects.com - A Gannett CompanyMandated agreement was left out of budgetALBANY -- A final state budget deal didn't include an agreement on how to set up a federally mandated health insurance exchange, a government-run marketplace where residents can purchase medical coverage.Now, Gov. Andrew Cuomo s...
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Business Bets on the G.O.P. May Be Backfiring - 3/29/2012
The New York TimesBy JONATHAN WEISMANPublished: March 28, 2012WASHINGTON — Big business groups like the Chamber of Commerce spent millions of dollars in 2010 to elect Republican candidates running for the House. The return on investment has not always met expectations.Even though money for major road and bridge project...
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Fund Manager in GOP Race - 3/1/2012
The Wall Street JournalBy ANDREW GROSSMAN Joseph Carvin, a full-time hedge-fund manager and part-time local leader who's trying to dissolve the town he runs, has decided to seek the Republican nomination for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's seat, he said in an interview Thursday.Mr. Carvin, the 57-year-old supervisor of the W...
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U.S. Pushes Target for Hiring the Disabled - 3/1/2012
The Wall Street JournalBy MELANIE TROTTMANEmployers and business groups are trying to stop an Obama administration effort that calls for federal contractors to hire a minimum number of disabled workers and could penalize those who don't by revoking their contracts.The proposal could reshape hiring at roughly 200,000 co...
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Romney Regains Momentum - 3/1/2012
The Wall Street JournalMitt Romney won primary elections in Michigan and Arizona on Tuesday, reasserting his dominance in a Republican presidential nominating race and holding off a challenge from a surging Rick Santorum.The win in Michigan was particularly important for Mr. Romney. A loss in the state where he was bor...
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Rep. Dreier Won’t Seek Re-Election - 3/1/2012
The Wall Street JournalBy Corey BolesRep. David Dreier, a California Republican who heads the House Rules Committee, announced he won’t seek re-election to a 17th term in Congress, the most high-profile GOP lawmaker to stand down this year.Mr. Dreier’s 26th congressional district north of Los Angeles is set to disappea...
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Ron Paul Takes Campaign Break to Bash Bernanke - 3/1/2012
The Wall Street JournalBy Jon HilsenrathTexas Republican Rep. Ron Paul took a break from the campaign trail today — fresh off Michigan and Arizona primaries — to turn to favorite issue in Washington: Calling for the end of the Federal Reserve.Mr. Paul is on hand at Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s semiannual testimony to Co...
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Romney’s Top 10 Wealth Gaffes - 3/1/2012
The Wall Street JournalBy Robert FrankMitt Romney’s wealth gaffes have become so common now they barely get noticed in the news. But that shouldn’t stop us from enjoying them.Over the past two days, Romney added some new classics to his already impressive oeuvre of out-of-touch rich-guy quotes. The “couple of Cadillacs...
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Gingrich as GOP Winner Might be a Good Newt/Bad Newt Situation for Obama - 1/23/2012
Newt is a divisive figure, but he is a talented talker and could make Prez look like a stiff by comparison NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, January 23 2012, 2:00 AM Should Newt Gingrich become the GOP nominee, it is quite possible that President Obama will crush him like a cheap beer can. On the surface, the former House s...
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In a Romney Believer, Private Equity's Risks and Rewards - 1/23/2012
The New York TimesIT was, the gossip pages would later report, the talk of the Hamptons — a midsummer night’s bacchanal in the playground of the 1 percent.Beyond the windswept dunes in Bridgehampton, at a $400,000-a-month oceanfront mansion, bright young things bubbled up and the Champagne flowed fast. Into the small h...
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Obama’s Keystone Delay Flouts the Law - 1/23/2012
The Wall Street Journal The president's decision to stop the project for further environmental review contravenes legislation he signed in December. Banana republics have trouble attracting capital because of a reputation for arbitrarily changing the rules whenever it suits the populist in power. With last week's decis...
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Capitalism and the Right to Rise - 12/23/2011
The Wall Street JournalIn freedom lies the risk of failure. But in statism lies the certainty of stagnation.By JEB BUSHCongressman Paul Ryan recently coined a smart phrase to describe the core concept of economic freedom: "The right to rise."Think about it. We talk about the right to free speech, the right to...
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Will China Break? - 12/23/2011
The New York TimesBy PAUL KRUGMANPublished: December 18, 2011 Consider the following picture: Recent growth has relied on a huge construction boom fueled by surging real estate prices, and exhibiting all the classic signs of a bubble. There was rapid growth in credit — with much of that growth taking place not through ...
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Extension of Tax Cut Stalls in House as G.O.P. Objects - 12/23/2011
The New York Times“How can you have tax policy for two months?” Representative John A. Boehner said.By JENNIFER STEINHAUERPublished: December 18, 2011WASHINGTON — The House Republican leader on Sunday flatly rejected a short-term, bipartisan Senate measure to extend a payroll tax break and unemployment insurance, setti...
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The Business Council on State Taxation says recent tax study is misleading - 12/19/2011
Written by Rob Lillpopp on December 9, 2011 – 6:29 am Citizens for Tax Justice Report Misleads Policymakers and the PublicCitizens for Tax Justice (CTJ), in conjunction with its sister organization, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), on December 7 released a report claiming that 265 of America’s larg...
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The Business Council - Update From Washington - 12/19/2011
Written by Rob Lillpopp on December 12, 2011 – 6:35 am House GOP Payroll-Tax Cut Bill Would Expedite Keystone XL.The AP (12/9, Espo) reported the President “vowed to delay Congress’ year-end vacation as well as his own Thursday for ‘as long as it takes’ to extend Social Security payroll tax cuts and long-term jobless b...
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Coalition for a Prosperous America - Foreign Currency Cheating - 11/8/2011
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Visclosky Slams Chinese Currency Manipulation - 11/4/2011
Posted on 03 November 2011 by Ellen Croibier. Reposted from the Daily Media Report of the American Iron and Steel Institute.Northwest Indiana Times | November 2, 2011 | Daily Media ReportU.S. Rep. Pete Visclosky, D-Ind., on Wednesday spoke out against Chinese currency manipulation on the floor of the House of Represent...
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NY Hopes Federal Grant Will Help Boost Export - 10/10/2011
The Associated Press ALBANY — New York State is aiming to increase exports to Chinese and Korean markets.The U.S. Small Business Administration has granted New York almost $900,000 to boost state exports to foreign markets. Cuomo administration officials say the grant, combined with state matching funds, will help incr...
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Medicaid overhaul saves $600M - 10/10/2011
Progress report says spending tracked as program grows by 72,000By CASEY SEILER State editorALBANY -- The first phase of the state's attempt to overhaul its health insurance program for low-income residents has achieved almost $600 million in savings in its first six months, according to a progress report released Wedn...
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Gillibrand: $3B Set For Jobs In State - 10/10/2011
Congress needs to put New Yorkers back to work, Democrat saysWASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood renewed the call Tuesday for the passage of President Barack Obama's $447 billion American Jobs Act, despite doubts that the measure is finding much traction in e...
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Harry Reid's Household Remedy - 10/7/2011
The Wall Street JournalEconomy got you down? Pass a millionaire surtax.When Republicans of a century ago repaired as they always did to raising tariffs, Joseph Schumpeter famously called it their "household remedy." So it is now with Democrats and the "millionaire surtax," which Senate Majority Lead...
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Why Taxes Will Rise in the End - 7/14/2011
The New York TimesBy DAVID LEONHARDTPublished: July 12, 2011 Polls show that most Americans are opposed to raising the federal debt ceiling. Even when the Pew Research Center included the consequences in its question — a national default that would damage the economy — slightly more people were against raising the ceil...
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Opinion: Debt Limit Harakiri - 7/14/2011
The Wall Street JournalRepublican Senate leader Mitch McConnell said yesterday he's concluded that no deal to raise the debt ceiling in return for serious spending restraint is possible with President Obama, and who can blame him? We've never thought the debt ceiling was the best leverage for a showdown over the entitl...
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Budget Solution: Squeeze the Middle - 7/14/2011
GLOUCESTER COUNTY, N.J.—Like many in this middle-class suburb, Chad Flexon sees the efforts of Washington politicians to cut the budget deficit as far removed from his life. I can't see myself, being where I am, being that greatly affected by anything that gets passed, says Mr. Flexon, a 26-year-old teacher who, with h...
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NTMA/PMA One Voice Advocacy Clips - 6/1/2011
Advocacy Clips is a weekly compilation of relevant news articles from around the country on subjects that impact the metalworking industry. These articles are compiled by Bracewell & Giuliani, NTMA and PMA's public relations firm. Please forward this e-mail to a colleague who may have interest in these topics. Stee...
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Tax cap deal announced by Gov. Cuomo criticized by those who say it doesn't provide relief to homeowners - 5/26/2011
By James M. Odato Capitol bureauPublished 12:56 a.m., Wednesday, May 25, 2011 ALBANY -- Tax reform activists say a proposed deal among state government leaders that would slow the rise of real estate taxes won't help people who can't afford the existing taxes on their property and won't end flight from New York .The te...
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Democrats Focus on Medicare - 5/6/2011
The Wall Street Journal By JANET HOOK and DANNY YADRON Congressional Democrats, on the defensive for months on federal spending issues, see an opportunity to seize the political initiative by pushing to the forefront a House Republican plan to overhaul Medicare.In a sign of the his party's emboldened posture, Senate Ma...
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The Business Council - Post Budget Priorities and Activities - 5/6/2011
Staff contact: Heather BriccettiMay 2, 2011 This memo summarizes our planned and expected advocacy efforts for the remainder of the 2011 legislative session, including both key legislative issues and administrative/regulatory initiatives.We look forward to working with you on these issues.Economic DevelopmentEnergyEnvi...
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Coalition for a Prosperous America Letter to Dept of Commerce: National Trade Strategy - 5/6/2011
Congress passed, and the President signed, a bill called the COMPETES Act in the 111th Congress. The Act requires the Department of Commerce to create:a national 10-year strategy to strengthen the innovative and competitive capacity of the Federal Government, State and local governments, United States institutions of h...
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Assembly 2011-12 Budget Resolution: Balancing Economic Realities with The Pressing Needs of New Yorkers - 3/28/2011
Bipartisan Conference Committees Set to Convene to Resolve Legislative Differences Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Ways and Means Committee Chair Herman D. Farrell, Jr., and the Assembly Majority today provided highlights of the Assembly's one-house budget resolution. The $133 billion budget proposal recognizes New Yo...
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State Senate Passes Responsible Budget That Reduces Spending, Invests in New York's Priorities, and Includes No New Taxes - 3/28/2011
Created 03/15/2011 - 5:36pmPosted by Majority Press on Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 The New York State Senate today passed its budget resolution [3] - - a fiscally sound plan that reduces spending, rejects tax increases and makes responsible investments in New York’s future. The Senate budget largely mirrors the prioriti...
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Cuomo Softens Power Claim - 3/24/2011
Wall Street JournalBy Devlin Barrett A day after Gov. Andrew Cuomo said New York would have power sources to replace what he calls risky nuclear reactors at the Indian Point power plant, the governor's office backtracked from claims there would soon be 3,000 megawatts of power production available. The operators of the...
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A Union Education - What Wisconsin reveals about public workers and political power - 3/3/2011
The raucous Wisconsin debate over collective bargaining may be ugly at times, but it has been worth it for the splendid public education. For the first time in decades, Americans have been asked to look under the government hood at the causes of runaway spending. What they are discovering is the monopoly power of gover...
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Union Contracts, Not Pay, Are States' Problem - 3/3/2011
By David LeonhardtWhen Ed Rendell became the mayor of Philadelphia in 1992, he started a fight with the city’s labor unions that will sound familiar to anyone who has been following the recent news from Wisconsin. In his inaugural address, Mr. Rendell, a Democrat, announced, “Philadelphia stands on the brink of total d...
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The Massachusetts Health-Reform Mess - 3/3/2011
The Bay State has shown the risks of ObamaCare.By John E. Calfee The biggest problem with ObamaCare is that it is bereft of proven ways to curtail increases in health-care costs. This has given rise to unending speculation about what will happen to these costs when the law's main provisions go into effect in 2014.To ge...
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Governors Scramble to Rein In Medicaid - 3/3/2011
By Sara Murray, Janet Adamy and Neil King Jr. More than half the states want permission to remove hundreds of thousands of people from the Medicaid insurance program, a move that would represent a rare cut to a national social program.Nearly every state has nipped at parts of the program, which currently insures 53 mil...
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Billions in Bloat Uncovered in Beltway - 3/3/2011
By Damian Paletta The U.S. government has 15 different agencies overseeing food-safety laws, more than 20 separate programs to help the homeless and 80 programs for economic development.These are a few of the findings in a massive study of overlapping and duplicative programs that cost taxpayers billions of dollars eac...
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Cuomo Seeks Speedy Change in Teacher Evaluations - 3/2/2011
By Thomas KaplanPublished: March 1, 2011ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Tuesday that he would introduce legislation to speed the implementation of a statewide system to evaluate teachers’ performance. His announcement came minutes after the State Senate passed legislation sought by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg tha...
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Assembly Will Push to Keep Tax Increase on High Earners, Defying Cuomo’s Wishes - 3/2/2011
By NICHOLAS CONFESSOREPublished: March 1, 2011ALBANY — The Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, said on Tuesday that Democrats in the chamber would seek passage of a budget bill that includes the renewal of a temporary income tax surcharge on high-earning New Yorkers, a proposal staunchly opposed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. ...
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U.S. Firms Decry China's Heavy Hand - 1/21/2011
By James T. AreddySHANGHAI—Almost one half of U.S. businesses surveyed in Shanghai complained of discrimination by domestic regulators, contradicting an assertion by Chinese President Hu Jintao that the playing field is level. David Wessel reports China's President Hu Jintao meets today with CEOs from Boeing, Microsoft...
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Sherrod Brown on Hu’s visit and China currency - 1/21/2011
Posted on 18 January 2011 by Michael Stumo. This is a press release from Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) on the currency issue.*****From the Office of U.S. Senator Sherrod BrownFor Immediate ReleaseTuesday, January 18, 2010Contact: Meghan Dubyak/Allison Preiss (Brown)202-224-3978Kathryn Bruns (Snowe)202-224-5344IN ADVANCE...
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Obama Courts Business Support - 1/21/2011
By Elizabeth Williamson and Jonathan WeismanOfficials said a primary aim of the review would be to lighten the burden on small businesses. Pictured, workers at Jelly Belly Candy Co. in Fairfield, Calif.WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama formally ordered government agencies to review hundreds of federal regulations to en...
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Hu Jintau and Barack Obama’s Theater of the Absurd - 1/21/2011
Posted on 18 January 2011 by Ellen. Tags: Energy, exchange rates, import tax, Subsidies, undervalued yuanThe following was written by Peter Morici, a professor at the Smith School of Business, University of Maryland School.resident Hu Jintau visits the United States, leader of an industrial juggernaut and heir apparent...
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Growing Criticism of Labor Council’s Leader - 1/19/2011
By STEVEN GREENHOUSEPublished: January 19, 2011Two years after Jack Ahern won the presidency of the New York City Central Labor Council on the strength of his pledges to clean up the troubled labor coalition, the council has fallen into disarray, with top aides leaving and union leaders expressing growing frustration o...
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U.S. Shifts Focus to Press China for Market Access - 1/19/2011
Doug Mills/The New York TimesBy HELENE COOPER and MARK LANDLERPublished: January 18, 2011WASHINGTON — A year ago, the fight over how China’s cheap currency was hurting American companies in marketplaces at home and abroad was shaping up to be the epic battle between the world’s biggest power and its biggest economic ri...
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Basic Questions, Elusive Answers on Health Law - 1/19/2011
By David M. Herszenhorn and Robert PearPublished: January 18, 2011WASHINGTON — As the fight over health care returned to the House floor on Tuesday, the debate could largely be stripped down to four questions that are relatively simple to ask, ifWill the health care law, approved last year by Democrats with no Republi...
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