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2013/06/19 01:45
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U.S. Companies Lobbying Furiously To Save Tax Loo...
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Elizabeth Turnbull Duke Energy Paris Citizens for Tax Justice Starbucks
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2013/06/19 00:49
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Deloitte agrees to one-year suspension
Deloitte agrees to one-year suspension Firm pays $10 million to New York state in crackdown on consulting companies New York’s Department of Financial Services cited Deloitte’s “misconduct,...
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2013/06/18 22:38
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155 workers in Elizabeth City unemployed after pr...
Elizabeth City, Va. – After winning a five-year, $200 million contract from the Coast Guard, one Elizabeth City company still has to temporarily lay off more than 150 of their workers. “This is the...
2013/06/18 22:27
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Former GAO chief pitches commission to transform ...
An independent commission could recommend cuts, consolidation or termination of individual government programs to Congress for an up-or-down vote, under a proposal by the former head of the Government...
CONGRESS David Walker Government Accountability Office House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Darrell Issa
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2013/06/18 22:27
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Costly Obama family trip to Africa under fire ami...
Costly Obama family trip to Africa under fire amid sequester cuts President Obama’s trip this month to Africa, with the first family tagging along, is projected to cost taxpayers as much as $100...
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Walker seeks Congressional OK for cost-cutting co...
Former GAO head seeks Congressional OK for cost-cutting commission David Walker, the leader of the Government Transformation Initiative, wants Congress to authorize a commission to recommend cuts to...
2013/06/18 18:06
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Marco Rubio Confronts the Uncertainty Principle
Welcome back, uncertainty. Readers with long memories may recall the era around 2010, when Republican leaders in Washington frequently railed against "uncertainty." In their telling, President Barack...
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2013/06/18 15:16
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Are 529s at Risk?
As Congress reconsiders various tax breaks it voted into existence (home mortgage deductions, etc.), could 529s college savings plans, which have exploded in popularity in the past five years, come in...
CONGRESS John Perdue College Savings Foundation College Savings Foundation John Hurley
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2013/06/18 14:19
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Hearing will examine ‘reinventing government’
A congressional hearing on Tuesday will pit leaders from the nation’s largest federal-employee union against proponents of smaller government to discuss how federal agencies can run more...
2013/06/18 12:02
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Book Questions Alternative Medicine
PHILADELPHIA - The 12-year-old girl arrived at the hospital wracked with abdominal pain. Doctors diagnosed her with acute pancreatitis, in which pancreatic enzymes begin digesting not just food, but...
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2013/06/18 01:37
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Tom Elias: Same old self-interest, wrapped in the...
Now it’s official: Despite happy talk about doing what’s best for America, Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg and the cadre of other Silicon Valley titans helping with his new lobbying organization...
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2013/06/18 00:20
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Another protest filed on $22B Y-12/Pantex contract
Nuclear Production Partners, the Babcock & Wilcox-led team that earlier lost its bid for the $22 billion government contract to manage the Y-12 and Pantex nuclear weapons plants, has filed a new...
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2013/06/17 22:56
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Cloud Peak seeks 198M ton coal lease in Montana
Published: Monday, June 17, 2013, 3:38 p.m. Cloud Peak seeks 198M ton coal lease in Montana BILLINGS, Mont. -- Federal and state officials will weigh in this week on a Wyoming company's application...
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2013/06/17 21:42
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DoJ Files Action to Collect Multiple 50 Percent C...
Numerous U.S. taxpayers with previously undisclosed interests in foreign financial accounts and assets continue to analyze and seek advice regarding the most appropriate methods of coming into...
2013/06/17 20:44
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IRS Could Begin Taxing Bitcoin and Other Virtual ...
The Internal Revenue Service plans to develop more guidance and training materials to inform taxpayers and tax preparers of the tax compliance risks associated with using virtual currencies like...
2013/06/17 16:45
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GAO Partly Blames Accounting Rules for Community ...
The current accounting rules for accounting for loan losses were in part responsible for the failures of community banks in the wake of the financial crisis, according to a report by the Government...
Government Accountability Office Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Deposit Insurance Fund Department of the Treasury Financial Accounting Standards Board
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2013/06/17 13:46
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The fallacy of talent shortages and H-1B visas
June 17, 2013, 6:15 AM PDT Takeaway: We’ve all heard about the tech talent shortage and the need for H-1B visas. But how do you reconcile that with the soaring unemployment rate of U.S. military...
2013/06/17 04:06
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McManus: Head-in-the-sand Congress
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., a former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is hopping mad. Sensenbrenner considers himself the father of the Patriot Act, the 2001 law that gave the federal...
CONGRESS National Security Agency Jim Sensenbrenner Obama administration Barbara Mikulski
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2013/06/17 00:42
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Congress Has A Duty To Delay IRS Funding To Block...
Internal Revenue Service (Photo credit: Tim Evanson) Americans already are fearful and confused about the sweeping changes that ObamaCare will inflict, and the widening IRS scandal deepens concerns...
Internal Revenue Service J. Russell George CONGRESS Government Accountability Office federal government
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Nuclear Decommissioning Surge Is Investor Guessin...
Nuclear utilities thrust into the spotlight after the Fukushima meltdowns have ordered 20 reactors shut, the most in a three-year span since Chernobyl’s aftermath, saddling the industry with a...
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