All Posts Tagged With: "bill"
President Obama Meets with House Speaker Regarding Budget
President Barack Obama called the Republican House Speaker John Boehner for a meeting in the White House to talk about preventing a government shutdown this weekend as Congress failed to reach an agreement with regards to the 2011 budget. The proposed bill that would have funded the federal agencies and impose spending cuts was stuck [...]
Wisconsin Judge to Consider Legality of Union Law
Judge Maryann Sumi in Madison will consider the request to temporarily stop the enforcement of the legislation that bars the collective bargaining by public workers in the state of Wisconsin. At present a suit was filed against the state legislators who passed the particular law. Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne filed the lawsuit claiming [...]
Ohio House to Hold Recess on Union Bill Hearings
Ohio faced union rallies in the past weeks after its House tried to pass a bill that would limit the collective bargaining rights of the state’s 350,000 public employees. The chairman of the House panel plans to take a break from the hearings regarding the bill. The break is meant to give the representatives some [...]
Americans Don’t Like Republican Anti-Union Bill
A Bloomberg National Poll found out that most Americans don’t like the Republican anti-union bill. The poll showed that the people are more concerned about unemployment than government deficits. People are divided on whether public workers should sacrifice their benefits to help states through their financial crisis. It also showed that half of the respondents [...]
Protesters around the US Support Wisconsin Unions
As thousands of protesters rally at the Wisconsin Capitol, there were several protests held across the U.S. in support of the union workers in Wisconsin. They let their voice heard to fight against the Republican-backed legislation that’s anti-union. The protest in Wisconsin is already in its 12th day and it has attracted the largest crowd [...]
Obama Gives the Wisconsin Labor Rallies a Miss
The Wisconsin assembly, which is dominated by the Republicans, approved Gov. Scott Walker’s bill, on Friday morning. The bill limits bargaining rights for the state’s 170,000 public workers on the subject of wages. However, this is still held up by the 14 Senate Democrats who had left the state to prevent a vote on this [...]
Republicans in Congress Pass Misogynous Bills
After the 2008 elections, the Republicans wanted to project an image that they welcome diversity by praising party raising stars such as Sarah Palin and Michael Steele. But now they have control of the House again, the GOP returns to becoming a white male only club. The Republicans in the House of Congress are passing [...]
Wisconsin Union Battle to Spill over Iowa
Wisconsin public employees have staged a weeklong protect as they are try to preserve 41 years of collective bargaining agreements. They got the support of Democratic Iowa state lawmakers Bruce Hunter and Kevin McCarthy, who went to Wisconsin and find out how they can prepare for a same type of union battle in their home [...]
House Republicans Push Spending-Cut Bill
A day after President Barack Obama unveiled his $3.7 trillion budget the Republicans in the House of Representatives are pushing for a bill that would cut the spending of the federal government. There wouldn’t be any compromise between the two groups regarding the government’s budget. The Republican Representatives patched up the bill after several weeks [...]
Democrats Looking Forward to Changes Regarding Senate Core Procedures
It is obvious by now that the Democrats are frustrated by routine filibusters and buzz kills that are flying in from all over. Seeing to the procedural blockades and with nothing better to do, the Democratic parties are urging their leaders to negotiate with Republicans to change the rules regarding the Senate’s core principles. Speaking [...]
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!