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With 10 days to go, payroll tax cut deal still uncertain
Pennsylvania Ave.House Republicans' unwillingness to accept the Senate version of a payroll tax cut -- a measure that secured most Senate Republican support, including from Pennsylvania's Pat Toomey, leaves Congress with just ten days to come to an agreement or else...... -
Casey, Toomey author bill to create medals honoring 9/11 victims
Pennsylvania Ave.At each of the three Sept. 11 memorials in Pennsylvania, New York and Virginia there will now be displayed a Congressional Gold Medal honoring the Americans that died there. The Senate cleared for the president’s signature Thursday night a bill........ -
From Casey, a box of Godiva
Pennsylvania Ave.It may arguably be the chocolate of the 1 percent, but we're sure New Mexico Democrat Tom Udall enjoyed it all the same. It was a gift after all. A gift from Pennsylvania's Bob Casey. Monday evening between votes, a...... -
GOP Senate candidate airs first TV ad of 2012 PA race
Pennsylvania Ave.Republican Armstrong County businessman, Tom Smith, is the first candidate out of the gate in the Pennsylvania Senate race with a 30-second television ad that began airing Thursday morning in certain Pennsylvania markets. It's mostly a bio spot to... -
Toomey to push for permanent earmark ban
Pennsylvania Ave.In the days following his 2010 Senate victory, U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey co-authored an op-ed in USA Today with an unlikely future colleague, Democrat Claire McCaskill. Together, the senator-elect and the Missouri senator called for a moratorium on earmarks.... -
Toomey teams up with Schumer
Pennsylvania Ave.Chuck Schumer lives in New York. Pat Toomey worked in New York in his 20s. And that's about where their similiarities end. But the outspoken, veteran Democrat and the fiscal hawk, freshman Republican teamed up Thursday on a jobs creation...... -
Policy pits candy against sugar
Some of Baltimore's best-known candy makers are pressing Congress to overturn a decades-old sugar policy they say is leaving a bad taste in their mouth. Goetze's Candy Co., Wockenfuss Candies and others want lawmakers to rethink long-standing...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Democratic Party, Barbara A. Mikulski, National Government, Globalization
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IRS officials still don't have full explanation of targeting
WASHINGTON – The outgoing head of the IRS said the agency still doesn’t know which staff members were responsible for using politically loaded language to screen out nonprofit groups, as senators pressed them to explain how certain...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Barack Obama, John Cornyn, Taxation, Sherrod Brown
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Toomey: It's hard to conclude that IRS scrutiny wasn't politically motivated
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey said Tuesday that without knowing who at the Internal Revenue Service is responsible for the extra scrutiny applied to tea party groups, it's impossible to conclude it was not politically motivated. Toomey made the...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Republican Party, Tea Party Movement, Occupy Wall Street
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Toomey, Casey to grill officials on IRS controversy
WASHINGTON – Pennsylvania's two U.S. senators both worry the controversy surrounding the Internal Revenue Service could slow progress in an already divisive and stymied Washington. Democrat Bob Casey and Republican Pat Toomey spoke out Monday...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Economy, Business and Finance, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Republican Party, Tea Party Movement
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Coats defends his vote on guns
Although polls nationwide and in Indiana show overwhelming support for tightening background checks for gun purchases,Sen. Dan Coats, Indiana's Republican senior senator, voted "no." He says most constituents who contacted him wanted him to do just that....
Tags: Gun Control, Public Finance, Dan Coats, National Rifle Association of America, Ted Cruz
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How could 31 Senators vote against debating expanded background checks?
How could it be that even a single U.S. senator — no matter how opposed to gun control — could vote to hold up consideration of a proposal to require background checks for gun purchases? This is an idea not only embraced by something in the...
Tags: Gun Control, Barack Obama, National Rifle Association of America, Interior Policy, Joe Manchin III
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