Mostly with Democratic votes, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Tuesday voted for what the Obama administration said was “the most progressive income tax code in decades.”
The U.S. Senate has approved four new members to the board of directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, which will go on to the President's desk for his signature.The Senate on Tuesday approved the ...
ATLANTA - A law allowing billboard companies to clear trees blocking their signs comes before the Georgia Supreme Court Tuesday because highway-beautification groups are challenging its constitutionality.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted late on Tuesday to approve a Senate-backed deal aimed at averting the so-called 'fiscal cliff crisis' as well as the associated automatic tax hikes and huge spending cuts. The House approved the original version of the bill in a 257- 167 vote despite earlier demands by some Republican lawmakers to amend the measure to include huge spending cuts.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted late Tuesday to avert the fiscal cliff by supporting a Senate measure to hike income tax rates on only the wealthiest adults. The vote passed the House largely along party lines, 257 to 167. It is the first income tax rate increase in in the United States in 20 years.
A months-long battle over the U.S. "fiscal cliff" headed to a close on Tuesday as the House of Representatives moved toward final approval of a bipartisan deal meant to prevent Washington from ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate formally adjourned for the evening on Tuesday, which could further complicate the fate of a Senate-passed bill to avert $600 billion in tax hikes and spending cuts known as the "fiscal cliff." Democratic Majority leader Harry Reid adjourned the Senate, which hours before passed legislation raising taxes on incomes above $400,000 and other changes to prevent the ...
