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Report: House Dems Expand Businesses Eligible for Tax Breaks Under Stimulus
Another day. Another expansion of the Democrats’ stimulus proposal — and not in ways we might have anticipated.
The House Ways and Means Committee approved its portion of the $825 billion stimulus package Thursday afternoon, including $275 billion in tax cuts.
While the original bill would allow businesses to recover taxes paid over the last five years [...]
Conservation Scorecard Grades Congress
The League of Conservation Voters today released its 2008 National Environmental Scorecard, which rates members of Congress on energy and environmental issues.
Overall, says the group’s president Gene Karpinski in a press release, “in 2008, Congress went in the wrong direction” — that is, away from reducing our country’s dependence on oil.
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