On Monday afternoon, President Obama convened a press conference in the Rose Garden to promote legislation that would counteract the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which held that corporate spending on campaign ads can’t be restricted under the First Amendment. The DISCLOSE Act would require corporations, unions and nonprofit groups More…
Late Thursday afternoon, President Obama signed into law a bill granting workers out of a job for more than 26 weeks additional unemployment insurance payments, paid for by the federal government. The benefits had been in place since November 2009, but had lapsed for seven weeks — an unprecedented More…
Britain’s prime minister, David Cameron, is slated to meet with four Senate Democrats today to discuss whether BP played a role in the release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, an allegation the company denies.
The senators called on BP to suspend all drilling operations in Libya so the More…
For 23 years, 58-year-old Cindy Paoletti of Salina, N.Y., worked in the corporate accounting division of J.P. Morgan Chase, balancing payroll accounts in an upstate office of the Wall Street bank. In December 2007, Paoletti was let go in a wave of layoffs that eventually shuttered the entire Syracuse operations More…
Sen. Charles Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) suggestion that the climate bill being drafted by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) might be introduced as an amendment to a weaker energy-only bill has left Lieberman at a loss for words:
“If you force us to put it on as
This afternoon, Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) called on BP, the British oil company responsible for the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico, to halt its dividend payments to shareholders until the well is capped and damages determined.
To discourage businesses from outsourcing their operator services, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is proposing legislation to tax businesses that set up help lines overseas. The levy, under Schumer’s bill, would be a quarter-cent per call. Reuters reports:
Customers calling 800 numbers are often transferred overseas, and in such
In response to the Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United decision earlier this year, Democrats are now pushing legislation designed to limit the influence of corporate money on federal elections — the very thing that the High Court had relaxed. But don’t go telling the country’s radio and television stations what’s More…
In short: no, it wouldn’t, according to Chris Calabrese, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, and Jim Harper, director of information policy studies at the Cato Institute, a libertarian-leaning research foundation.
No one is going to be excited by a proposal that involves “finger printing the entire U.S. working More…
A roundup of the top immigration stories of the week:
- If Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) don’t introduce an immigration bill in three weeks, Democrats will bring their own bill forward, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Thursday, according to aides and lobbyists. More…
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