GOP Congressional Hopefuls Debate How to Use SurplusByline: Jon Krenek Daily Herald Correspondent Taxes and campaign financing were two of the...Krenek, Jon
and about 90 percent of U.S. firms have fewer than 20 employees. While estimates vary, small businesses are also credited with creating the lion’s share of net new jobs. Small businesses are, in total, a big deal. Thus, it is no surprise that there is congressional debate going on ab...
Gay's academic writing got attention after she was strongly criticized for her answers to a Congressional committee related to freedom of speech. Critics found several cases of possible plagiarism in her 1997 doctoral paper. Harvard's governing board first supported Gay, saying a review of her sch...
Determining the tax rate at which productivity and revenues are both maximized is the subject of great political debate, as the Laffer curve does not provide a clear numerical answer to the taxation question; it merely suggests that such a hypothetical rate does exist. In politics, it all comes...
that performance under the conditions of an all-out war — this weekend’s salvo from Iran, clearly telegraphed in advance, was the opposite of a surprise attack — is an open question, as is Israel’s ability to defend itself without outside help,” WSJ’s Yaroslav Trofimov writes. And...
"Look, make no mistake about it, Trump had a bad night. He rose to the bait repeatedly when she baited him, something I'm sure his advisers begged him not to do ... in this debate we heard so many of the old grievances we thought Trump had learned were not w...
A $15 minimumwould benefit up to 27 million workers but cost an estimated 1.3 million jobs. At the same time, a similar number of people, 1.3 million, would see their annual incomes rise above the poverty threshold.8 Congressional Budget Office data suggests that raising the federal minimum ...
GOP Rep. John Duarte beat Democrat Adam Gray byfewer than 600 votesin the Central Valley’s 13th Congressional District. They’re now headed for a rematch, with Duarte playing defense over abortion. Democrats aretargeting himon his own votes to limit access and the broad assault on overall ...
Now, rate it on an extreme 1-10 scale, where 1 is “everyone involved in this movie should go to prison” and 10 is “the writer and director should get the Congressional Medal of Honor for this.” Think of a movie you’ve seen that ranks one step higher on the scale (e.g. if...
JOHN W. DEAN: I would say these people are going to cost, uh, a million dollars over the next, uh, two years. (Pause) NIXON: We could get that. Once the tapes were made public, Nixon got word from Republican congressional leadership that all but 15 Senators would likely vote against...