Monthly Archives: May 2012
- CHN: House Rejects Agreed Upon Funding Level for Pentagon
When Congress enacted a ten-year deficit reduction plan last August, nearly all of the cuts it required came in two rounds of reductions to annual appropriations in military, domestic, and international programs. The House majority now wants to reject the military cuts it approved in the deficit reduction legislation, the Budget Control Act (BCA, PL Read More »
Posted in Budget and Appropriations, Economy Comments Off - CHN: Senate Leader Reid Says Automatic Cuts Will Occur Without Deal to Increase Revenues; House Planning Summer Vote on Extending Tax Cuts
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) issued a firm warning before the Memorial Day recess. “I am not going to back off the sequestration,” Reid said. “That’s the law we passed. We did it because it wouldn’t make things easy for us. It made it so we would have to do something. And if we Read More »
Posted in Budget and Appropriations, Food and Nutrition Comments Off - CHN: House Votes to Replace 2013 Across-the-Board Cuts With Deep Slashes at Low-Income Programs
Neither the President nor the House like the cuts to military, domestic, and international appropriations slated to take effect starting next January. Those reductions are part of a ten-year deficit reduction plan enacted in the Budget Control Act. They were meant to be unpalatable, to push Congress towards a more balanced plan including new revenues Read More »
Posted in Budget and Appropriations, Medicare Comments Off - CHN: Senate Passes Strong Violence Against Women Act; Weak Bill Advances in the House
According to the Department of Justice National Institute for Justice and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly one-fourth of all women in the U.S. are beaten or raped by a partner during adulthood and approximately 2.3 million people are raped and/or physically assaulted each year by a current or former intimate partner. Most at Read More »
Posted in Health, Immigration Comments Off - CHN: No Agreement Reached on Student Loan Interest Rate Debate
On May 8 the Senate rejected a motion to proceed to legislation aimed at keeping the interest rates on federal student loans from doubling this summer. The bill, Stop the Student Loan Interest Rate Hike Act of 2012 (S. 2343), would extend low interest rates on federally subsidized Stafford loans for one year. Stafford loans Read More »
Posted in Education and Youth Policy Comments Off - CHN: What They Don’t (Want to) Know Can Hurt You: House Votes to Eliminate Census Bureau’s American Community Survey
The American Community Survey (ACS) was approved by Congress more than a decade ago as the replacement for the decennial census long form. As a result, important information about income, poverty, housing, education, immigrant status, and much more is available on an annual basis. The ACS has a sample size big enough to provide reliable Read More »
Posted in Poverty and Income Comments Off - CHN: Economy Continues to Struggle As Long-Term Unemployed Workers See Benefits Cut
Legislation enacted by Congress last February, the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (PL 112-096), calls for phasing in a reduction in the number of weeks of federal unemployment insurance (UI) available to unemployed workers in the Extended Benefits program. In most states the first 26 weeks of benefits comes from Read More »
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