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Congressional Research Service

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Name: Congressional Research Service

First reported 6 mins ago - Updated 6 mins ago - 1 reports

The IRS controversy isn't about taxes. It's about disclosure.

At some level, the scandal around the IRSs targeting of conservative 501(c)4 groups has nothing to do with taxes. That may sound weird 501(c)4 is a section of the Internal Revenue Code, the entire 501(c) section exists to list groups that are exempt from ... [Published Newsvine - 6 mins ago]

Entities: Taxes, Donor, Donations, Fred Wertheimer, Congressional Research Service

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

State Marijuana Legislation - Economic Impacts and Federalism Issues

Stateline has two interesting articles out related to the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington. The first article, Not So Fast: Tax Revenue Estimates from Legal Marijuana May Not Materialize, takes a look at the projected economic impacts ... [Published Council of State Governments - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Marijuana Legalized, Marijuana, Legalization, Jeffrey Miron

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

I Hate to Say "I Told You So" (Spying on the Press Edition)

Julian Sanchez On Friday, I wrote a piece for Mother Jones speculating that government spying on press communications may not be “unprecedented,” as Associated Press head Gary Pruitt put it, but simply rarely disclosed. The rules requiring disclosure ... [Published Cato @ Liberty - May 20 2013]

Entities: JAMES ROSEN, National Security, Subpoena, Julian Sanchez

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

SL Green Realty Corporation

The real terror

New Yorks commercial real estate market is facing a threat that could rock its foundations: the loss of federal terrorism insurance. The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, enacted a year after the 9/11 attacks, makes American taxpayers the backstop for private ... [Published New York Post - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Terrorism, SL Green Realty Corporation, Michael Grimm, Bennie Thompson

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

My Voice: Keystone pipeline will benefit economy

I would like to respond to several incorrect statements made in an opinion piece published May 13 by Dr. James Heisinger and provide the facts about TransCanadas proposed Keystone XL pipeline.Pipelines are by far the safest way of transporting petroleum ... [Published Argus Leader - May 20 2013]

Entities: Keystone XL Pipeline, Crude Oil, United States, Greenhouse Gas

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Congressional Research Service

Climate costs: Extreme weather one of largest non-defense budget items

Repetitive Flood Loss Properties in the National Flood Insurance ProgramJust in repetitive flood-zone losses alone, regional costs from 1978 through 2011 totaled more than $1.1 billion.Alabama — 4,833 properties at $484 millionGeorgia — 1,604 properties ... [Published Chattanooga Times Free Press - May 19 2013]

Entities: Climate, Congressional Research Service, Natural Resources Defense Council, Global Warming/Climate Change

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

In the Spotlight: 'Do no harm' to farm insurance

Hearings have started in Washington on the next farm bill. I count myself as one of the many farmers who will stand together and urge Congress to "do no harm" to crop insurance, which has become the frontline risk management tool for American farmers ... [Published PJStar.com - May 18 2013]

Entities: Drought, Andrew Bowman, Oneida (Illinois, United States), Risk Management, Disaster

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Entrants shipped to remote spots still try again

SAN DIEGO - A widely touted Border Patrol initiative to send migrants back to Mexico far from the points they are caught entering the U.S. illegally has one of the worst track records at discouraging people from trying again, according to a new study ... [Published Arizona Daily Star - May 18 2013]

Entities: Border Patrol, Bryan Roberts, Repatriation, Mexico

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 2 reports

Dems slam White House over student loans

Congressional Democrats have pounced on a nonpartisan government report showing the Department of Education this year is forecast to earn a record $51 billion profit off student borrowers, denouncing the Obama administration and urging for structural ... [Published Press tv - May 17 2013]

Entities: George Miller, John Tierney, Education, White House, student loan

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 4 reports

Republicans advance bill to tie student loan rates to markets

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in control of the House Education and the Workforce Committee voted on Thursday to advance legislation tying student loan interest rates to the financial markets, a plan they said would give borrowers a better sense ... [Published Hartford Courant - May 16 2013]

Entities: student loan, Virginia Foxx, John Kline, Bait-and-Switch

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Obamacare Repeal Votes Costs Tens Of Millions

CBO, CBS News, Congressional Budget Office, Congressional Research Service, GOP, Harvard, Health Care Spending, House of Representatives, Repeal Vote, Representative, Republican, VoteElection ReturnsLegislative Session CoverageWASHINGTON (CBSMiami) – ... [Published CBS Miami - May 16 2013]

Entities: Obamacare, Health Care, Congressional Research Service, Congressional Budget Office, Health Care Reform

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Never Mind the IRS, You'd Better Be Nice to Kathleen Sebelius

Michael F. Cannon ObamaCare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board is everything its critics say and worse. It is a democracy-skirting, Congress-blocking, powers-unseparating, law-entrenching, tax-hiking, fund-appropriating, price-controlling, health-care-rationing, ... [Published Cato @ Liberty - May 16 2013]

Entities: Kathleen Sebelius, Congressional Research Service, Price Control, Advisory Board

Quotes

"We have laid the groundwork to ask difficult questions of the Navy about the cost overruns on the Ford-class aircraft carrier" Forbes said in a statement

Aircraft Carrier’s Cost Increase Draws U.S. Lawmakers’ Concern [Published BusinessWeek - 3 hours ago]

...Research Service (CRS) has concluded that new laws legalizing recreational marijuana use in Washington and Colorado likely fall under the states "power to decide what is criminal and what is not.” The agency also concludes that there are a number of options to deal with state marijuana legalization—none of which are appealing. The state-federal rift over marijuana legalization and enforcement could be broader than the issue of marijuana commerce itself: the report says that if the feds decline to enforce a federal law it may “pose a threat to federal supremacy by acknowledging that states are free to make policy decisions in direct conflict with those made at the federal level.”"

State Marijuana Legislation - Economic Impacts and Federalism Issues [Published Council of State Governments - 5 hours ago]

...Nixon announced "Project Independence," in response to the 1973 oil cutoff by Middle East and other OPEC nations, with the goal of ensuring that "Americans will not have to rely on any source of energy beyond our own." His broad-based strategy begat the trans-Alaska pipeline (to get North Slope oil to Lower 48 markets), expanded onshore and offshore oil drilling, an...

Free Market Energy Policies can End Economic Malaise [Published Family Security Matters - 15 hours ago]

President Obama signed this Executive Order on August 18, 2011. The order, according to the White House, "blocks the property of the Syrian..."

Joint Press Conference by President Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan, May 2013 [Published Council On Foreign Relations - May 20 2013]

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Apple's Tim Cook To Propose Profit Repatriation... [Published Forbes.com - May 18 2013]
Federal Appeals Court: Drug Sentencing Disparit... [Published Think Progress - May 18 2013]
Entrants shipped to remote spots still try again [Published Arizona Daily Star - May 18 2013]
Sticker Shock: $1 Billion for New Icebreaker [Published National Defense Magazine - May 18 2013]
Dems slam White House over student loans [Published Press tv - May 17 2013]
Tim Cook's pitch for a corporate tax holiday su... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 17 2013]

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The IRS controversy isn’t about taxes. It’s abo... [Published Ezra Klein - 4 hours ago] The Tea Party is here to stay, even if groups lose 501(c)4 status. (Julie Jacobson/Associated Press) At some level, the scandal around the IRS’s targeting of conservative 501(c)4 groups has nothing to do with taxes. That may sound weird – 501(c)4 ...
@SenRandPaul Is Mostly Right In Defending Apple... [Published TechCrunch - 5 hours ago] “It’s absurd for Congress to vilify businesses like Apple for wanting to minimize their tax code just like every other American rightly does,” tweeted uber-Libertarian Senator Rand Paul, lashing out at his Senate colleagues for ‘dragging’ Apple ...
@SenRandPaul Is Mostly Right In Defending Apple... [Published TechCrunch Europe - 5 hours ago] “It’s absurd for Congress to vilify businesses like Apple for wanting to minimize their tax code just like every other American rightly does,” tweeted uber-Libertarian Senator Rand Paul, lashing out at his Senate colleagues for ‘dragging’ Apple ...
I Hate to Say "I Told You So" (Spying on the Pr... [Published Cato @ Liberty - May 20 2013] Julian Sanchez On Friday, I wrote a piece for Mother Jones speculating that government spying on press communications may not be “unprecedented,” as Associated Press head Gary Pruitt put it, but simply rarely disclosed. The rules requiring disclosure ...
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Audio/Video

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Opinion: Obama's Pants on Fire [Published WSJ.com Video - Digits - Mar 12 2013]
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Congressman Courtney seeks to correct historica... [Published Rep. Joe Courtney - YouTube Channel - Feb 06 2013]
Montana Rep: 20 Lashes or Prison? [Published The Young Turks - YouTube - Feb 03 2013]

Press Releases

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