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Lawmakers reach tentative deal to extend payroll tax break
Despite discomfort in the Republican ranks, House and Senate negotiators reached a deal in principle early Thursday to extend a payroll tax break, continue unemployment benefits and ensure that Medicare doctors do not get a pay cut this year.
As talks...Tags: Health, Pete Sessions, Harry Reid, Employment, Social Security
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Deal reached to renew payroll tax cut
Congressional negotiators ended a bruising election-year fight and sealed an agreement late Wednesday on legislation to renew a payroll tax cut for 160 million workers and jobless benefits for millions more, a top priority of President Barack Obama....Tags: Democratic Party, Illegal Immigrants, Social Security, Pension and Welfare, Career and Workplace
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Lipitor patent ends; generic available: What now?
Lipitor is the most prescribed name-brand drug in America — nearly 3.5 million people take it every day to control their cholesterol. Since the statin entered the market in 1997, it's earned New York-based pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. $81...Tags: Health, Lovastatin (drug), Companies and Corporations, Corporate Crime, Corporate Crime
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Congress in 2012: Whose brand of 'change' will it be?
Having concluded one last partisan melodrama — the fight over a stopgap extension of the payroll tax cut — Congress can now put a miserable year of bickering and brinkmanship behind it. Lawmakers may not have much to look forward to, however....Tags: Health, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Employment, Career and Workplace, U.S. Senate
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The new war on wolves
Congress removed wolves in Montana and Idaho from the protection of the Endangered Species Act in April. And this fall, the killing began.
As of Wednesday, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game reported that 154 of its estimated 750 wolves had been...Tags: Land Resources, Natural Resources, Butch Otter, Jon Tester, U.S. Presidential Election (2008)
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Consumer Confidential: Ticketmaster refund, Lipitor probe
Money & CompanyHere's your fool-to-cry Friday roundup of consumer news from around the Web: --If you bought a ticket through Ticketmaster between October 1999 and October of this year, you're due for some cash -- $1.50, to be precise. Because of a...... -
Obama keeps his distance as deficit committee effort set to fail
Washington BureauPresident Obama appears determined to publicly keep his distance from the congressional super-committee and its failure to put forward a deficit-reduction plan, despite Republican efforts to shift blame to his end of Pennsylvania Avenue. In his first...Tags: Patty Murray, Kevin McCarthy, Satellite and Cable Service, Jeff Sessions, MSNBC (tv network)
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Gas prices could fall by 50 cents this summer; Democrats try to end Big Oil's tax breaks
Top of the TicketGas prices are predicted to fall by at least 10% this summer, experts say which would save US drivers $189 million a day in gas prices... -
Western lawmakers set their sights on gray wolves
L.A. UnleashedBILLINGS, Mont. — Two decades after the federal government spent a half-million dollars to study the reintroduction of gray wolves to the Northern Rockies, lawmakers say it's time for Congress to step in again -- this time to clamp down...... -
How to know when your unemployment benefits will run out
Money & CompanyCongress failed to extend employment benefits by Nov. 30, meaning millions of Americans will stop receiving checks from the government. That could have very real consequences for the economy, a story in Wednesday's Times says. But unemployment benefits... -
Negotiations over gray wolves' endangered status continue, but with no consensus
L.A. UnleashedBILLINGS, Mont. — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and governors from three Northern Rockies states resumed negotiations last week to remove the region's wolves from the endangered list but reached no conclusions. Western lawmakers are pushing bills in... -
Muni bond market roiled by possible end of 'Build America' program
Money & CompanyMuni bond prices fall and yields jump on worries the Build America Bond program won't be extended...
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