U.S. Senate News
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House lawmakers say ousted Internal Revenue Service chief Steven Miller failed to fully explain why he didn’t inform them for more than a year that small-government groups seeking tax-exempt status were subject to extra scrutiny.
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Apple is sitting on $40.4 billion in earnings overseas. The U.S. Senate wants to know what the company plans to do with it.
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It’s a contest driven by caricatures.
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China’s skies don’t have enough space.
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As the U.S. Senate works to rewrite immigration policy, the House of Representatives is spending floor time on legislation that won’t become law, voting today to repeal President Barack Obama’s 2010 health-care law.
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A Senate panel approved the nomination of Thomas Perez to be labor secretary, advancing President Barack Obama’s pick to succeed Hilda Solis as the nation’s top labor-law enforcer to the full U.S. Senate where Republican opposition is building.
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President Barack Obama’s failure to appoint inspectors general to five cabinet-level agencies, including the Pentagon, is putting taxpayer money at risk, oversight groups said.
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Women led eight of Washington’s 50 most politically active trade lobby groups and earned about $600,000 less than their male counterparts, according to salary data compiled by Bloomberg.
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The U.S. Senate will vote next week on whether to advance Richard Cordray’s confirmation to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to Adam Jentleson, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
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U.S. Senate Democrats today called for a two-year postponement of a scheduled increase in the interest rate charged on education loans to millions of college students.
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