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Presidential Nominating Process: Current Issues. Kevin J. Coleman, Analyst in Elections, October 6, 2011. “The presidential nominating calendar for 2012 is still unsettled, as some state and party officials continue to consider date changes for primaries and caucuses in response to recent scheduling changes. Consequently, the dates of the earliest contests in Iowa and New …
Options for Changing the Tax Treatment of Charitable Giving, October 18, 2011 – Testimony before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate “Under current law, taxpayers who itemize deductions may deduct the amount they donate to charities from their adjusted gross income (AGI) when determining how much they owe in federal income taxes. That deduction …
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission testified today before the U.S. House of Representatives on the agencys efforts to help address childhood obesity through its participation in the Interagency Working Group on Food Marketed to Children. The Director of the FTCs Bureau of Consumer Protection, David C. Vladeck, delivered the testimony on behalf of the …
News release: “The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday requested public comment on a proposed regulation implementing the so-called “Volcker Rule” requirements of section 619 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Section 619 generally contains two prohibitions. First, it prohibits insured depository institutions, bank holding companies, and their subsidiaries or affiliates (banking …
News release: “Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, released a report today, Repatriating Offshore Funds: 2004 Tax Windfall for Select Multinationals, that found that the 2004 repatriation tax break that allowed U.S. companies to bring $312 billion in offshore earnings back to the United States at an extraordinarily low …
Present Law, Data, And Analysis Relating To Tax Incentives For Homeownership, The Joint Committee on Taxation, September 30, 2011, JCX-50-11 “This document…provides general background on the tax incentives for homeownership. The first part of this document describes the tax provisions that offer incentives for homeownership. The second part provides a discussion of the economic incentives …
News release: “Congresswoman Louise Slaughter, Ranking Member of the House Rules Committee, together with 19 Members of Congress, today sent a letter to the Judicial Conference, requesting that the Conference follow the law and refer the matter of Justice Clarence Thomas’s non-compliance with the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to the Department of Justice. …
Intelligence Issues for Congress, Richard A. Best Jr., Specialist in National Defense, September 14, 2011 “Techniques for acquiring and analyzing information on small groups of plotters differ significantly from those used to evaluate the military capabilities of other countries, with a much higher need for situational awareness of third world societies. U.S. intelligence efforts are …
Obama Aims For $1.5 Trillion In New Tax Revenue To Reduce Deficit, September 21, 2011 “President Obama unveiled a $3 trillion federal budget Deficit Reduction Plan on September 19, 2011 including $1.5 trillion in tax increases. Th e Presidents Deficit Reduction Plan (Living Within Our Means and Investing in the Future: The Presidents Plan For …
House Committee on the Judiciary: Background on H.R. 1249, the America Invents Act: “On June 23 the House overwhelmingly approved HR 1249, the America Invents Act, by a vote of 304-117. H.R. 1249 updates our patent system to encourage innovation, job creation, and economic growth. The last major patent reform was nearly 60 years ago. …
CRS – Chinas Currency: An Analysis of the Economic Issues – Wayne M. Morrison, Specialist in Asian Trade and Finance; Marc Labonte Specialist in Macroeconomic Policy, August 3, 2011 “Chinas policy of intervening in currency markets to limit or halt the appreciation of its currency, the renminbi (RMB), against the U.S. dollar and other currencies …
Living Within Our Means and Investing in the Future – The Presidents Plan for Economic Growth and Deficit Reduction, September 19, 2011 “…The plan [The American Jobs Act – text included in this report] also realizes more than $1 trillion in savings over the next 10 years from our draw downs in Afghanistan and Iraq. …
