Week Ahead: House, Senate Aim to Make Headway on Spending Bills
Jul 02, 2009 4:07 PM
Congress returns next week from the July Fourth recess with floor action focused on passing several fiscal 2010 appropriations bills.
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Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood
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Transportation Department Details $20 Billion Plan to Keep Federal Highway Dollars Flowing
Jul 02, 2009 5:24 PM
With federal highway and transit funds facing an imminent shortfall next month, the Transportation Department this week sent Congress more details on a $20 billion plan to keep surface transportation accounts flush with cash.
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Document of the Day: Senate HELP Health Overhaul Plan
Jul 02, 2009 9:33 AM
Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee have released the long-awaited legislative details of their plan for providing health care coverage to the nearly 50 million Americans who lack it. The proposal contains the most contentious portion of the panel’s health care reform bill — a public health insurance option. The committee is set to consider the provisions as it continues its markup of health overhaul legislation next week. Here is the legislative language along with a cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation.
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Tomorrow's Schedule Today
Jul 02, 2009 12:03 PM
A list of upcoming hearings and markups.
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Rep. Paul Kanjorski
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Kanjorski Sees Value in SEC Watchdog's Ideas for Financial Overhaul
Jul 01, 2009 2:17 PM
Ahead of markups scheduled for later this month on legislation to overhaul the financial services sector, Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.), a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, called the latest proposals by the Securities and Exchange Commission’s watchdog to enhance the agency’s ability to uncover fraudulent Ponzi schemes “valuable.”
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