All Posts Tagged With: "bill"
Senate Making Progress in Bill for Transportation Spending
Lawmakers for the U.S. Senate house committee are making great progress on finalizing a bill for transportation spending according to Sen. Barbara Boxer on Wednesday. This comes at a time of the provision that would fast-track the Keystone XL crude pipeline still being unresolved. A $106 billion bill to fund road, bridge and rail projects [...]
Recently Passed Cyber Security Bill Causing Controversy
The US House of Representatives has just passed a new cyber security bill that will make it possible for the government and companies to share information regarding hacking although this bill has also raised concerns about privacy as well as a veto threat coming straight from the White House. This bill caused the top Republican [...]
Signing Major Defense Bill by President Obama
The end of 2011 can be marked by signing a major defense bill by President Obama. This event happened in spite of serious reservations” on provisions concerning the relations of the Unites States of America and Russia, imposing sanctions against Iran and interrogations of terrorist suspects. But still there are representatives in Congress who consider [...]
Congress Passes Massive Defense Bill
Congress approved the $662 billion defense bill last Thursday after months of negotiating over how to handle arrested terrorist suspects without going against Americans’ constitutional rights. A compromise has been reached but it doesn’t mean that the fight is over. The Senate voted 86 to 13 in favor of the measure and it now requires [...]
Obama Urges Congress to Vote on Jobs Bill in October
President Barack Obama asked Congress to vote on his jobs bill within this month despite the signs that it would receive strong resistance from the Republicans. The president said that he’s ready to sign the measure. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia said that the legislators would vote on elements of the jobs bill [...]
President Obama Pressures Congress to Pass his Jobs Bill
President Barack Obama pressured Congress last Tuesday to consider his $450 billion jobs bill. He said that it has been two weeks since he gave the bill to Capitol Hills. He said that he wants it approved so that he can sign the bill and give people jobs. He spoke before the Abraham Lincoln Hill [...]
House Passes Debt Ceiling Bill
House Speaker John Boehner got the Republicans in the House of Representatives to approve the debt limit bill with a vote of 269-161. The compromise bill will give the federal government the ability to borrow $400 billion dollars more and let President Barack Obama ask for another $500 billion in the next couple of months. [...]
New York Lawmakers Vote on Same Sex Marriage
Supporters and opponents of same sex marriage made their last minute appeals last Sunday as state legislators are set to vote on making New York the sixth state in the United States to make gay marriage legal. Governor Andrew Cuomo introduced the measure that would make same sex marriage in New York legal. At present [...]
New York Governor to Legalize Gay Marriage
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo pushes for a bill that legalizes gay marriage in the state. It also gives several protections for religious organizations that opposed same-sex marriages. According to the Marriage Equality Act, married gay couples will have the same legal rights, protections and benefits of traditional married couples. Governor Cuomo’s bill states that [...]
Alabama Republicans Support the Stopgap Spending Bill
House Republicans from Alabama supports the bill that would fund the federal government for another week as the congressional leaders discuss further the budget for the rest of the present fiscal year. They said that the soldiers should be paid for protecting the nation. The vote for the stopgap spending measure was 247-181. The bill [...]
As the shareholders in Germany opposes the re-election of Mr Flint as Chairman and Mr Gulliver CEO of HSBC Holdings ...
Since Obama seems to never know anything about any issue at any given time on any given subject from any ...
a one year high of $63.82? On May 15th?
What a nonsense, the shares were at $77.11!