All Posts Tagged With: "U.S."
Immigration Enforcement Costs Billions
The White House administration spent close to $18 billion on the enforcement of immigration during 2012. That figure was substantially more than it spent combined, on all of the other law enforcement agencies. The information was taken from a report that was published on Monday by a research group known as Migration Policy Institute based [...]
Record Number of Hispanics Serving in Congress
The new 113th Congress will have a record number of Hispanics serving in Washington. Three Hispanic senators along with 33 Hispanic representatives will be a part of the legislators on Capitol Hill. Eleven of the Hispanic legislators, including one senator are participating for the first time in Congress. The vast majority, 28 in all, are [...]
Daunting Task in front of Lawmakers
Deadlines are common for Congress, but trying to avert increases of more than $600 billion in taxes and cuts in spending, in less than a week could prove to be even more than Congress can pull off. The current predicament Congress finds themselves in is due to their failure to act at an earlier time. [...]
Chavez’s Cancer Returns
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced on national television Saturday night that he is returning to Cuba for an operation because his cancer has returned. His speech was broadcast from the presidential palace and during the speech, he spoke for just the first time about a successor if the cancer incapacitates him. He told viewers that [...]
Democrats May Get Two-thirds Majority in California Senate
Due to a recent development, the Democratic Party has a legitimate chance of gaining two more seats in the California Senate to take a two-thirds supermajority in the state legislature. The last time a party held a majority of two-thirds in the Senate in California was when President Johnson was busy sending U.S. troops to [...]
Churches pushing Souls to Polls
Churches are not just passing around the collection pouch these days. At many churches, mainly Hispanic and African American, located in the battleground states for the presidential election, registration cards are being distributed. In an attempt to exhort congregational members to register for the presidential election, church leaders during services are passing out the cards [...]
New Obama Ads Target Women
The Obama reelection campaign is attempting to shore up its support from women voters through a new TV ad campaign in critical battleground swing states. The TV campaign is a set of positive ads that highlight the first bill that was signed into law by President Obama – the Lilly Ledbetter Act. The legislation, sponsored [...]
Romney Sticks To Pledge of Anti-tax
Mitt Romney the presumptive Republican presidential nominee appeared on Face the Nation Sunday and said he was standing by his pledge to not increase taxes. He says when there are lower tax rates there is more growth. Romney said the only solution was to tame government spending that at this time is completely out of [...]
Obama Urges Congress to Act on Stalled Jobs
President Obama has sought to deflect blame for the sluggish economy in the U.S. that could possibly hurt his attempt at being re-elected. He is therefore pressuring Congressional Republicans to work together over new policies that are designed to stimulate hiring. A jobs report from May that was disappointing and other data on the economy [...]
Disability Trust Fund for Social Security Could Run Out By 2015
An entitlement program will become insolvent within four years and is one the Congress is not even paying much attention to. The disability trust fund for Social Security is projected to become insolvent much sooner than the more well known Social Security retirement fund or Medicare. If the program becomes insolvent, there will be a [...]
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!