16 December 2011 Last updated at 03:42 GMT Disagreement over payroll tax cuts is the latest impasse to hit Washington in recent months Democrats and Republicans in the US Congress have agreed a compromise spending bill to avoid a government shutdown. The deal averts the possibility of US federal agencies shutting down because of a [...]
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December 16, 2011
December 16, 2011
Obama: Congress Needs to Extend Payroll Tax Cut, Avert Shutdown
U.S. President Barack Obama says the federal government should not shut down because Congress cannot agree on a tax issue. In Washington Thursday, the president pressed lawmakers to extend the payroll tax cut before they leave for their holiday break, saying otherwise 160 million working Americans will see their taxes increase on January 1. Federal [...]
December 15, 2011
Shutdown fear hijacks US tax row
15 December 2011 Last updated at 13:17 GMT Disagreement over payroll tax cuts is the latest impasse to hit Washington in recent months The threat of a US government shutdown is looming for the third time in 2011 amid division in Congress over how to resolve a payroll tax cut dispute. Funding for federal programmes [...]
December 15, 2011
Senate stalls on payroll tax vote
15 December 2011 Last updated at 00:29 GMT Disagreement over payroll tax cuts is the latest impasse to hit Washington in recent months Senate Republicans are rejecting calls for a quick vote on a payroll tax cut bill that passed the House on Tuesday. The House bill would tie an extension of the tax break [...]
December 14, 2011
Barack Obama defied by House on payroll tax bill
The Republican-led House of Representatives has defied a White House veto threat and passed a bill to expedite approval of the Keystone XL Canada-to-Texas pipeline project and extend a payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans. Democrats oppose Republicans‘ efforts to link the two issues. The House measure will now go to the Senate, where [...]
December 14, 2011
December 11, 2011
Noriega Returns to Panama
Former Panamanian military dictator Manuel Noriega arrives Sunday back in his home country, where he faces the prospect of another two decades in prison for crimes committed under his rule. Noriega ruled the Central American nation with an iron hand during the 1980s, when he was also on the payroll of the U.S. Central Intelligence [...]
December 7, 2011
Obama speech declares ‘make-or-break moment for the middle class’
Barack Obama’s Kansas speech targets ‘fend for yourself’ stance of Republicans and corporations. Link to this video Barack Obama blasted his Republican foes and Wall Street as he portrayed himself as a champion of the middle class and laid out in the starkest terms yet the populist themes of his 2012 re-election bid. In a [...]
December 6, 2011
US politics live: Herman Cain denies endorsement rumours
Good morning: Herman Cain may have crashed out of the Republican presidential nomination contest but now the battle begins for his followers, donors and supporters, orphaned by Cain’s decision to drop out. Cain is said to be holding a press conference at 2pm today – supposedly to announce who he is endorsing – although Cain’s [...]
December 4, 2011
Obama Urges Congress to Extend Payroll Tax Cuts
U.S. President Barack Obama is urging the public to persuade members of Congress to extend a payroll tax cut that saved a typical middle class family about $1,000 last year. The tax cut is set to expire on December 31. Obama’s message during his weekly address Saturday comes a day after Americans got news of [...]
December 3, 2011
December 3, 2011
House GOPoutlines plan to extend payroll tax cut, jobless aid
(CNN) — After competing Republican and Democratic proposals to extend the payroll tax cut failed in the Senate on Thursday night, House Republican leaders assembled their own proposal to extend that tax cut aimed at the middle class and wrap other year-end policy proposals into one bill paid for with a series of spending cuts. [...]
November 22, 2011
Obama puts tax cut centre stage
22 November 2011 Last updated at 17:39 GMT The president will argue that failure to extend the tax breaks would hurt middle-class families US President Barack Obama is in the political battleground state of New Hampshire to challenge Congress to extend an expiring payroll tax cut. His trip comes a day after the failure of [...]
September 30, 2011
Was the Red Sox Collapse the Greatest of All Time?
With the third highest payroll in the league, 162 games ago the Boston Red Sox were an easy pick for postseason success. Yet, their final inning in Wednesday’s game against the Orioles—their final game in MLB’s regular season—was a summarizing exclamation point to a horrifying collapse. The Sox lost 20 out of their last 27 [...]