Three days after House Republicans presented a plan for transportation funding, the bill had weathered a hail of criticism, including charges that it would gut the funding guarantees on which mass transit has relied for 30 years. Read full article > >

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House Republicans’ transportation bill survives a beating in committees

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Monday morning that the House is poised to defeat a Senate-passed bill to extend the payroll tax cut for two months and instead will send the bill to a bicameral conference committee, because, Boehner said, the Senate bill “creates uncertainty” for the U.S. economy. Read full article > >

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Boehner reaffirms that House will defeat Senate payroll tax bill, sending it back to conference committee

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Friday that would block a number of broad regulations to reduce unhealthy air emissions. Passage of the bill was expected in the Republican-controlled House, where lawmakers have targeted Environmental Protection Agency air rules, saying they would kill jobs and laden businesses with billions of dollars in additional costs at the worst possible time. Read full article > >

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The debate over the bill reopened festering wounds from nine months of spending fights, with Republicans arguing for fiscal restraint and Democrats accusing the other party of being heartless.

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House Defeats Stopgap Spending Bill, With Disaster Relief Hanging in the Balance

Who picks up the bill when families lose a loved one?

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Cost of a killing

Here’s one approach to campus violence. The Arizona House approved a bill allowing firearms to be carried either in the open or concealed on college campuses. Supporters of the bill argue that guns could save lives in a campus shooting, while opponents…

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Arizona House OKs Guns on Campus

The Texas Senate Thursday delayed voting on a bill that would have prohibited colleges from banning guns on campus. The postponement came as a surprise for many, as the bill was once considered a slam-dunk as recently as last month-but the bill did not…

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Texas Senate Postpones Campus Gun Bill

The Devon rockers top the bill at the August bank holiday event along with The Strokes and My Chemical Romance.

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Muse to headline Reading festival

Looks like a government shutdown has been avoided again: Congressional leaders agreed Friday to a three-week budget extension that would cut an additional $6 billion. Introduced by House Republicans, the bill eliminates or reduces money for 25…

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Congress Agrees to Three-Week Stopgap

As expected, senators put aside their differences Wednesday morning and approved government funding for 14 days. The move follows the House’s passage of the bill Tuesday and avoids the prospect of an economically and politically damaging government…

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Senate OKs Temporary Budget

New Yorkers will have to take that cigarette outside … just not to a city park, beach,

The chief executive of the NI Housing Executive has said the bill to repair homes damaged in the recent thaw could top £10m.

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Housing Executive bill ‘millions’

A fresh warning of hazardous black ice on NI’s M2 motorway follows news that the bill for maintaining roads this winter could be more than £10m.

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Black ice makes M2 treacherous

Congress is charging ahead on Obama’s tax-cut compromise, with the Senate shutting off debate on the bill this afternoon. On Tuesday, the chamber will likely pass the measure, which extends Bush-era tax rates and unemployment benefits. House Democrats…

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Senate Cruises on Tax-Cut Deal

A White House official said the president would send the bill back to the House for further discussion of how it would affect the foreclosure crisis.

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