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Senate Nixes Extending Low Student Loan Rates
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Student loan debt tops $1 trillion in the U.S.
Read more...House Approves Student Loan Bill, Defying Veto Threat In Senate
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Speaker of the House John Boehner. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)
Students are caught between desires for spending cuts and tax increases.
Read more..."Buffett Rule" Is An Exercise In Fairness
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Unsurprisingly, Republicans led the charge to kill President Obama’s "Buffett Rule"
Read more...Buffett Rule Dead On Arrival In Senate
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The measure was voted down Monday 51-45.
Read more...Senate Votes To Ban Lawmakers From Insider Trading
U.S Senate awaits House of Representatives' vote on the STOCK Act (photo courtesy of Creative Commons)
The U.S. Senate passed a law to ban lawmakers from using congressional knowledge for insider trading.
Read more...House Denies Another Debt Ceiling Increase
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Vote was seen as mostly symbolic
Read more...Obama Says He Won't Support Online Censorship
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President Obama in the White House last year. (Charles McCain/Flickr)
But doesn't reject SOPA, PIPA either.
Read more...U.S. Apology For Chinese Exclusion Act Comes Up Short
Charles Wong's family was destroyed by the Chinese Exclusion Act. (Corrina Liu Shuang)
Too little, too late for Chinese Americans.
Read more...House, Senate Approve Payroll-Tax Cut Extension
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House Speaker John Boehner (photo courtesy of Creative Commons).
Provision to change how payroll taxes would be deducted for higher-paid workers was eliminated.
Read more...House Leaders Accept Senate Tax Terms
The AP reports that House Republican leaders agreed to a two-month extension of a Social Security payroll tax cut and federal unemployment benefits.
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