Paul Ryan, the budget-cutting congressman from Wisconsin who ran with Mitt Romney on the Republican presidential ticket, maintains that the re-elected President Barack Obama is carrying no mandate for tax increases. “I don’t think so, because they also reelected the...
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High-Dividend Stocks Costly as Potential Tax Surge Looms
Stocks with the highest dividends are relatively costly, even though the federal government is poised to raise taxes on the pay-outs, according to David Bianco, Deutsche Bank AG’s chief U.S. equity strategist. Bianco drew the conclusion, presented in a Nov....
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A petrochemical refinery located along the Houston ship channel in Houston, Texas. Photograph by F. Carter Smith/Bloomberg
Climate Change, Obama Re-Elect: Mandate for Environmental Action?
“Winning” is everything. In politics, in particular. So says the League of Conservation Voters, celebrating the outcome of Election Day with a champagne-popping ad saying “the other side may have spent millions,” but look who won. They’re talking about clean...
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Photograph by Scott Eells/Bloomberg
Pelosi: Would’ve `Been Nice to Know’
If there was no question about national security, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said today, the requirement for the FBI to notify Congress would not have been triggered in its probe of e-mails involving retired Gen. David Petraeus, who quit...
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Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey, in July 2011. Photograph by Peter Foley/Bloomberg
Christie’s Vegas Get-Away: Comparing Sandy-Katrina Notes
Chris Christie will head outside of New Jersey tomorrow for the first time since superstorm Sandy ravaged the state last month, with the governor attending a meeting of the Republican Governors Association in Las Vegas. “I’m the vice chair and...
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A veterans job fair in Naperville, Illinois. Photograph by Tim Boyle/Bloomberg
Veteran Hiring Preferences: Not Always — 18 Times No, GAO Says of V.A.
Vets come first under a 2006 law designed to give small business owners who served in the military first dibs on contracts with the Department of Veterans Affairs. That is, unless they’re up against a few other preferred groups, according...
Read more »Lawmakers Against Campaign Finance Reform May Have New Foe
A new coalition, including former Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter, Republican lobbyist-turned-convicted felon Jack Abramoff, Theodore Roosevelt IV, and representatives of both Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party have launched a campaign to push Congress to overhaul campaign...
Read more »Fiscal Cliff: Falling Off Republicans’ Fault More Than Obama’s — Pew Poll
The threat of the “fiscal cliff” has sunk in — in the minds of the public, that is. Most people surveyed say the impact of going over that cliff — the threat of automatic spending cuts combined with across-the-board tax...
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Independent Senator-elect Angus King from Maine. Photograph by Robert F. Bukaty/AP Photo
King’s Caucus Call: Tomorrow
Senator-elect Angus King of Maine says probably will decide which party to caucus with in time to vote in tomorrow’s congressional leadership elections. “I will probably have some comment for you some time tomorrow,” King, an independent who beat a...
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Marine Gen. John R. Allen in May 2012. Photograph by Haraz N. Ghanbari/AP Photo
Washington’s Homecoming Scandal
Updated at 2:10 pm EST Two four-star generals were set to go up to Capitol Hill this week. One, retired Army Gen. David Petraeus, now former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, was supposed to address the Intelligence committees returning...
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