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Higher Minimum Is No Threat To Businesses, Jobs
The Hartford CourantAlthough decades of research indicate that raising the minimum wage does not adversely affect employment, this untrue claim is recycled whenever the Connecticut General Assembly considers providing working people with a small wage increase. Businesses...Tags: Dannel P. Malloy , Layoffs and Downsizing, Executive Branch, Consumer Confidence, Thomaston
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Obama nominates Rep. Mel Watt to head Housing Finance Agency
WASHINGTON — President Obama nominated Democratic Rep. Mel Watt to be the top regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, moving to replace a career bureaucrat who has been sharply criticized by liberals for not doing more to help troubled homeowners....
Tags: Parties and Movements, Fannie Mae, Finance, Elections, Financial and Business Services
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Obama to nominate Democratic Rep. Mel Watt to head housing agency
WASHINGTON -- President Obama will nominate Democratic Rep. Mel Watt to head the federal housing agency that oversees taxpayer-owned Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a White House official said Wednesday. Watt, an 11-term congressman from North Carolina,...
Tags: Fannie Mae, Finance, Elections, Washington, DC, Politics
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Massachusetts Senate race pits Democrat Markey vs. Republican Gomez
This post has been updated, as indicated below.WASHINGTON – The race to replace John F. Kerry in the U.S. Senate will offer Massachusetts voters a familiar choice: a longtime Democratic officeholder against a fresh-faced Republican. Democratic Rep. Edward J. Markey and Republican businessman...Tags: Reince Priebus, Marth Coakley, Elections, Sports, John Kerry
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Lawmakers urge U.S. SEC to bar forced Wall Street arbitration
ReutersBy Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) - A group of 37 federal lawmakers urged U.S. securities regulators to prohibit Wall Street brokers from forcing customers to sign away their legal right to sue. "If arbitration offers investors an...Tags: Justice System, Parties and Movements, Arbitration, Lobbying, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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Republicans intensify pressure to limit powers of consumer agency
WASHINGTON — Republicans have stepped up their pressure to limit the wide-ranging powers of the nation's watchdog over consumers' money matters. The head of a key House committee overseeing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said he would no...
Tags: Parties and Movements, U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Mike Crapo, Finance, Jeb Hensarling
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Life Out Here: To Ruslan with love
In the worst of times we often see the best of people. Expected heroes, such as police officers, firefighters, paramedics, doctors and nurses, usually do what they’re trained to do in emergency situations and do so with valor. Then there are...
Tags: Heroism, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Fox News Channel (tv network), Sports, Hurricane Sandy (2012)
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Congress reacts to Boston Marathon bombings
WASHINGTON -- Congressional leaders reflected with grief on the tragic loss of life in the bombings at the Boston Marathon on Monday, but had few immediate answers as to the nature of the attack. The flag over the U.S. Capitol was at half staff and...
Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Congress, John Boehner
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Sen. Warren slams regulators' failure to prosecute crooked banks
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wants to know: How much money do banks have to launder to get charged with a crime? In a Senate Banking Committee hearing Thursday, Warren asked financial regulators why officials from banks weren't prosecuted even...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Eric Holder
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Gay marriage gets its day in court and on the Web
This post has been updated, as indicated below.Tuesday's U.S. Supreme Court arguments over whether gay and lesbian couples have the right to marry in California became a spectacle both in D.C. and on the Web. In Washington, demonstrators expressed both opposition to and support of same-sex...Tags: Executive Branch, Jim Himes, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Family, Gays and Lesbians
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Tom Coburn's campaign against government waste
Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma is a real-life Murray Blum. Blum, played by Charles Grodin, is the president's accountant in the comedy "Dave," which I think of every time we have one of these spending dramas in Washington. In my favorite scene...Tags: Apple iPhone, Kevin Kline, Chuck Schumer, Science and Technology, U.S. Congress
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Mitt Romney had 3 of top 2012 search memes, and not in a good way
Online news giant Yahoo! announced its top search terms of 2012 Monday and, no surprise, the 2012 election topped all other topics, including the iPhone 5, which registered the second-most searches; Kim Kardashian, who attracted the third most and...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Rick Santorum, Hillary Clinton, Executive Branch, Paul Ryan
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Apr 30, 2013
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Apr 23, 2013
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Apr 24, 2013
|Column| Imperial Valley Press Online
Apr 16, 2013
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Mar 26, 2013
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Mar 7, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Dec 3, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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