Unless Congress passes new legislation changing the course on spending or taxation — changes that are a distinct possibility — projected deficits would “drop markedly,” a report says.
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Under Status Quo, Deficit Would Decline, Budget Office Says
Lawmakers passed legislation that would bar unions from charging nonmembers for representation.
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Indiana House Passes ‘Right to Work’ Bill
Yesterday’s Web site blackout — otherwise known as “The Day the LOLcats Died” — did a great deal of awareness-raising against the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act, also known as SOPA and PIPA . But for those who weren’t aware of the legislation, confusion reigned. Read full article > >
Support for two online piracy bills in Congress appeared to wane Wednesday after opponents of the legislation staged a dramatic protest in which vast swaths of the Web effectively went dark . Visitors to Wikipedia who tried to search the online encyclopedia’s usually trivia-filled pages were instead greeted by a message informing them that the bills could “fatally damage the free and open Internet.” On Craigslist, those looking to search the classifieds had to first read through a note urging them to contact their representatives to block the bills. And while you could still run searches on Google, a black censorship bar blocked the area where a cheery Google Doodle logo normally resides. Read full article > >
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Senators drop support of piracy bill after protests
Legislation to go into effect in 90 days.
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L.A. Mandates Condoms in Porn
Wikipedia, Reddit and Boing Boing are planning to black out their services Wednesday to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act by showing users the bill’s effect on Web companies. These companies object to language in the bills, which are aimed at stopping online piracy on foreign Web sites, that grant the U.S. government the right to block entire Web sites with copyright-infringing content on them from the Internet. Read full article > >
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SOPA: Twitter will not join Wikipedia, Reddit in blackout
The Obama administration said it wouldn not support central elements of Congressional efforts to enforce Internet copyrights, all but killing the current versions of legislation.
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White House Says It Opposes Parts of Two Antipiracy Bills
Former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation Lord Carlile is among five Parliamentarians to be honoured in the New Year’s Honours list.
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Terrorism watchdog appointed CBE
A month after joining Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi in a televised call to fight climate change in 2008, Newt Gingrich pivoted to a much different message: Increase domestic drilling and block legislation aimed at implementing a “cap-and-trade” system to curb carbon pollution. “We could drill here, drill now and pay less,” Gingrich said in a May 2008 video for his now-defunct nonprofit group, American Solutions for Winning the Future. Read full article > >
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Donations flowed to Gingrich’s nonprofit after he shifted on energy issues in 2008
Turkey halted diplomatic consultations and military dealings with France on Thursday after the lower house of the French Parliament approved legislation about the Armenian genocide in the early 20th century.
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Rift Between Turkey and France Over Genocide Bill Worsens
Your neighborhood post office slated for closure might be saved — at least for now. The U.S. Postal Service said Tuesday it will delay the closure or consolidation of thousands of post offices across the country in response to requests from lawmakers who said the process should be stopped while Congress debates legislation to overhaul the cash-strapped mail agency. Read full article > >
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Postal Service delays closing post offices
NEW DELHI — Hundreds of anti-corruption campaigners descended on New Delhi and several other Indian cities on Sunday for the third time this year to protest a new draft legislation that they say is powerless to fight corruption. Anna Hazare, the veteran activist who held two public fasts earlier this year, began a symbolic one-day hunger strike early Sunday. He called the new proposal “a betrayal,” and said he would begin a bigger, marathon hunger strike on Dec. 27. Read full article > >
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Anna Hazare resumes hunger strike against graft in India
After he left Congress, GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich made tens of millions of dollars from corporate clients, who paid his health-care think tank up to $200,000 a year for “access to top transformational leadership across industry and government.” Gingrich also bragged about his success in pushing conservative policies and legislation in Washington during his political exile. Read full article > >
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Donations flowed to Gingrich’s nonprofit after he shifted on energy issues in 2008
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