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Congress approves measure on energy markets
- Federal regulators would have more authority to monitor electronic energy markets and guard against market manipulation under legislation approved Thursday as part of the congressional farm bill.
House members debate surtax to fund veterans' education
- The House kicked off a partisan debate Thursday on a Democratic plan to sharply boost education benefits for Iraq-Afghanistan veterans as the price for approving President Bush's long-stalled request for war funding.
House to boost GI Bill as it passes war funding
- President Bush wants more money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. House Democrats are making him pay a price - increased education benefits for veterans of those conflicts - to pass his long-stalled request.
Mo. House links village law repeal to sex shop restrictions
- Missouri House members voted Wednesday to repeal a contentious law making it easier for landowners to incorporate their properties as villages. But they linked it to new restrictions on sexually oriented businesses.
Michigan facing budget problems, weaker economy
- Michigan faces a budget deficit of at least $300 million next year and its economy will be weaker than expected, more bad news in a state that had to raise taxes last year to balance the books.
Mo. gov. threatens special session on immigration, taxes
- Gov. Matt Blunt pledged Wednesday to call a special session if lawmakers adjourn Friday without passing bills cracking down on illegal immigration and limiting property tax increases.
A timeline of Ohio attorney general scandal
- Timeline of the sexual harassment scandal in the office of Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann, who resigned Wednesday:
Senate Democrats reject taxing rich to boost GI Bill
- Senate leaders are rejecting a plan by House Democrats to add a surcharge on upper-income taxpayers to a bill providing $163 billion to pay for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan into next year.
Mo. illegal immigration bill stalls in Senate
- Senators completed work on a broad bill targeting illegal immigrants Wednesday, but stopped just short of a vote because of questions about its cost and jockeying over an unrelated measure.
O’Malley signs over 200 bills, such as DNA collection, lead-in-toys ban
- Children’s toys and products containing lead will be banned in Maryland, and suspects charged in many more violent crimes will have their DNA collected. These were among the more than 200 bills Gov. Martin O’Malley signed into law Tuesday.
Brian Riedl: Reasons aplenty to veto farm bill
- As crop prices soar, American farm incomes are achieving record highs. Since enactment of the last farm bill in 2002, key crop prices have grown as much as 281 percent, and total farm income has more than doubled. More and more farmers are now multimillionaires.
Mo. House votes to block Revenue Dept. fee increases
- In a rebuke of Gov. Matt Blunt's administration, House members on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a large fee increase charged to businesses obtaining vehicle and driver's license information from state databases.
Top Democrat announces budget agreement
- Democrats controlling Congress are leaving difficult decisions on automatic tax increases to the next president and the newly elected Congress under a freshly negotiated House-Senate blueprint for the upcoming budget year.