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by dailybail New record of $66.3 billion. The U.S. war machine rolls on. On a global basis, U.S. companies are responsible for 80% of all arms sales. Fear is good business, especially for international arms dealers. According to a recent Congressional Research Service report, within the last year the U.S. has tripled weapons sales to $66.3 billion, more than half of which went to allied Gulf states. New record of $66.3 billion. The U.S. war machine rolls on. On a global basis, U.S. companies are responsible for 80% of all arms sales. The world may be terrified of a potential war with Iran, but for arms producers – tensions fear is good business. So it is for the Unites States. According to a recent Congressional Research Service report, within just one year the US has tripled its arms sales to $66 billion and half [...] The world may be terrified of a potential war with Iran, but for arms producers – tensions fear is good business. So it is for the Unites States. According to a recent Congressional Research Service report, within just one year the US has tripled its arms sales and half of what US sold last year went to Gulf states. RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW4CvAorvf0 Bloomberg The value of U.S. tax breaks exceeds $1 trillion, which may give both parties potential areas to cut costs and alleviate the cost of changing the tax code, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a study. The Congressional Research Service report found the biggest tax break is likely to be valued at $164 billion annually in 2014 and is on employer-provided health insurance, while employer-provided pensions are the second-biggest exclusion at about [...] ** FILE ** A congressional study revealed that 7,283 federal employees in Maryland made more than Gov. Martin O’Malley’s $150,000 salary in 2009. (Associated Press)
More than 77,000 federal government employees throughout the country — including computer operators, more than 5,000 air traffic controllers, 22 librarians and one interior designer — earned more than the governors of the states in which they work. The findings, from a Congressional Research [...] May 11, 2011, 4:25 PM Trying to counter Republican claims that ending some tax breaks for the five largest oil companies would ultimately hurt consumers, Democrats are now armed with [...] http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/92237-house-has-passed-budget-resolution-every-year-since-budget-act-according-to-study Skipping a budget resolution this year, a move House Democrats are considering, would be unprecedented. The House has never failed to pass an annual budget resolution since the current budget rules were put into place in 1974, according to a Congressional Research Service report. The budget resolution is a non-binding document whose main purposes are to set discretionary spending caps for the coming fiscal year, lay out the framework of the [...] Congress is poised to miss its April 15 deadline for finishing next year’s budget without even considering a draft in either chamber. Unlike citizens’ tax-filing deadline, Congress’s mid-April benchmark is nonbinding. And members seem to be in no rush to get the process going. Indeed, some Democratic insiders suspect that leaders will skip the budget process altogether this year  a way to avoid the political unpleasantness of voting on spending, deficits [...] |
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