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- Dueling mailers in Iowa: Bachmann slams Obama, Paul slams rival Republicans
- Amazon, eBay split over online sales tax bill
- President Barack Obama takes debt battle to Twitter, loses more than 40,000 followers in one day
- OBAMACARE TAX: Medical Device Maker to Eliminate 1,200 jobs
- Cop under fire for beating, arresting man videotaping police
- Senate quickly kills House debt bill
- Boehner debt ceiling bill’s 22 ‘no’ votes: Who’s who
| Dueling mailers in Iowa: Bachmann slams Obama, Paul slams rival Republicans Posted: 30 Jul 2011 08:57 AM PDT By JENNIFER JACOBS, The Des Moines Register Letters soliciting campaign donations landed in Iowa mailboxes today from presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul. She asks for help to stop President Barack Obama and "his liberal allies." He asks for help defeating his fellow Republicans in Iowa. Bachmann says in her six-page letter: "Virtually every poll shows me in first or second place. But polls alone will not get us across the finish line." She says she needs money to prevent Obama and the Democrats in Congress "from wasting our children's inheritance and jeopardizing our nation's promise." She asks Iowans to check boxes saying she can count on them to travel to Ames to vote for her at the straw poll on Aug. 13, donate money, or volunteer in other ways to help her "insurgent conservative campaign." To read more, visit: http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2011/07/29/dueling-mailers-in-iowa-bachmann-slams-obama-paul-slams-rival-republicans/ |
| Amazon, eBay split over online sales tax bill Posted: 30 Jul 2011 08:54 AM PDT By MICHELLE QUINN, Politico Amazon supports a bill that would give states the ability to force online retailers to collect sales tax, but eBay does not. Those were some of the reactions to the Main Street Fairness Act, which Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced on Friday. Continue Reading Amazon has fought some state laws by challenging them in court and by severing business partnerships in the state. In California, Amazon is backing a referendum to overturn the law. The Durbin bill includes something it calls a "small seller" exemption. Determining who qualifies as a "small seller" will be the job of the Governing Board of the Streamline Sales and Use Tax Agreement, which promotes standardizing the myriad of state tax policies. The senator has support for the bill from other Democrats, including South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson, who will co-sponsor the bill. In the House, Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) are planning to introduce an identical bill. But missing among the bill's initial supporters is Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), who has backed the proposal in the past. "While Sen. Enzi continues to work with Sen. Durbin on this issue, he is not ready to move forward as an original co-sponsor at this time," a spokesman for Enzi said. "Sen. Enzi is working with his Republican colleagues to build greater support for the legislative concept." To read more, visit: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/60285.html |
| President Barack Obama takes debt battle to Twitter, loses more than 40,000 followers in one day Posted: 30 Jul 2011 08:46 AM PDT BY ANJALI MULLANY, DAILY NEWS President Obama brought his debt battle to Twitter and he lost – more than 40,000 Twitter followers. Obama asked Americans Friday to call, email, and tweet Congressional leaders to "keep the pressure on" lawmakers in hopes of reaching a bipartisan deal to raise the nation's $14.3 trillion debt limit ahead of an Aug. 2 deadline. Obama's campaign staff used the @BarackObama Twitter account to post the Twitter handles of tweeting GOP leaders – state by state, tweet by tweet. "Tweet at your Republican legislators and urge them to support a bipartisan compromise to the debt crisis," Obama's campaign staff wrote on his account before launching the day-long Twitter campaign. The campaign appears to have served its purpose: Republican Twitter accounts were flooded with pleas for compromise. Not everyone is a fan of the presidential spam. By Friday evening, the President had lost more than 40,000 Twitter followers – and counting. To read more, visit: http://www.nydailynews.com/tech_guide/2011/07/29/2011-07-29_bams_spam_president_barack_obama_takes_debt_battle_to_twitter_loses_more_than_20.html |
| OBAMACARE TAX: Medical Device Maker to Eliminate 1,200 jobs Posted: 30 Jul 2011 08:42 AM PDT By Robert Weisman, Boston Globe Boston Scientific Corp. said yesterday that it plans to eliminate 1,200 to 1,400 jobs worldwide during the next 2 ½ years to free money for new investments, the Natick medical device maker's second major round of cuts since last year. The company would not say how many jobs will be lost in Massachusetts, where fewer than 2,000 of its 25,000 employees are based. In February 2010, Boston Scientific said it would pare 1,300 jobs worldwide, but similarly did not say where. Yesterday's move, a day after Boston Scientific disclosed it was investing $150 million and hiring 1,000 people in China, raised fears that the company will gradually shift more work to foreign sites with less government oversight and lower costs than the United States. "I've asked for information on where they are cutting jobs,'' said state Senator James B. Eldridge, an Acton Democrat. He has proposed so-called clawback legislation that would allow the state to recover money from businesses that receive tax breaks here – including Boston Scientific – and then reduce their workforces. "My sense is, sadly, that like many other American companies, they are shedding jobs in Massachusetts and adding jobs overseas,'' Eldridge said. "And this is a company making greater profits, so it's even more outrageous.'' Boston Scientific has been under intense US regulatory scrutiny in recent years because of defects in a pair of its best-selling cardiac products: tiny mesh tubes known as stents that are used to keep cleared arteries open and implantable defibrillators that send electric shocks to restore heart rhythm. And earlier this month, the Food and Drug Administration said it was investigating whether plastic mesh made by Boston Scientific and other companies should be banned for a procedure to treat a gynecological condition called pelvic organ prolapse. Despite those setbacks – and the surprise departure of chief executive J. Raymond Elliott, scheduled for the end of this year – the company yesterday posted stronger-than-expected second-quarter earnings of $146 million, or 10 cents a share, up from $98 million, or 6 cents a share, in the corresponding period last year. To read more, visit: http://articles.boston.com/2011-07-29/business/29830200_1_latest-job-cuts-boston-scientific-investments |
| Cop under fire for beating, arresting man videotaping police Posted: 30 Jul 2011 08:39 AM PDT BY MIKE BLASKY, LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL A Las Vegas police officer under investigation for the videotaped beating of a man in March violated several Metropolitan Police Department policies, an internal investigation found. Mitchell Crooks’ complaint about officer Derek Colling’s excessive force was sustained, Deputy Chief Gary Schofield said Friday. The specific policy violations will not be released until the case is finalized. Crooks, 36, received a letter from the Internal Affairs Bureau notifying him of the findings earlier this week. He said he was pleasantly surprised. “It seems like they’re saying he was guilty, which is what I’ve been saying,” Crooks said. “I really hope he gets fired.” Colling has been on paid suspension since April 1. Multiple supervisors in Colling’s chain of command will review the internal affairs report and decide his punishment, if any, Schofield said. That review could take several weeks. If Colling’s supervisors recommend his firing, he will go before a pre-termination board for a final appeal. The harshest punishment short of firing is a 40-hour unpaid suspension. To read more, visit: http://www.lvrj.com/news/police-inquiry-reveals-violations-in-arrest-beating-of-videographer-126438953.html |
| Senate quickly kills House debt bill Posted: 30 Jul 2011 08:35 AM PDT By Stephen Dinan-The Washington Times The Senate late Friday rejected yet another House Republican proposal to stave off a looming debt crisis, acting just hours after the lower chamber had approved the measure and leaving the path to a deal still in doubt with just days to go before the Tuesday deadline. Senators voted 59-41 vote to table the House bill, and vowed to vote on Democrats' own proposal early Sunday — though that has little chance of passing the chamber with Republicans and even some Democrats saying it doesn't strike the right balance. "There is a filibuster. This is something that shouldn't be filibustered," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat. SenateDemocrats have now rejected two different House proposals, but have yet to pass their own plan as the government prepares to bump up against its $14.29 trillion borrowing limit next week. The House bill passed only after Republicans recovered from an embarrassing debacle Thursday, when they discovered in the middle of the debate they lacked the votes for passage, and had to pull their bill from the floor. After rewriting the bill to make a future debt increase contingent on passing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, Republican leaders won enough support. To read more, visit: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/29/house-passes-boehners-revised-debt-bill/ |
| Boehner debt ceiling bill’s 22 ‘no’ votes: Who’s who Posted: 30 Jul 2011 07:57 AM PDT
There were 22 Republicans who lined up against House Speaker John Boehner's package to raise the nation's debt ceiling – a cast that's almost entirely made up of tea party-backed freshmen and a few deeply conservative veterans. Of the nearly two dozen 'no' votes, about half were cast by freshmen who waged anti-Washington campaigns that railed against Congress's culture of spending – a group that includes Michigan Rep. Justin Amash, Tennessee Rep. Scott DesJarlais, and Minnesota Rep. Chip Cravaack, who explained in a statement following the vote that, "Last November, I told my constituents in the 8th District that I'm a numbers guy. I gave them my promise and my word that if the numbers don't add up, I'm not voting for it."Nearly all of those who voted 'no' are aligned with the tea party, including Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh and Florida Rep. Steve Southerland, two rookies who have distinguished themselves as especially vocal critics of the Washington establishment since arriving in Congress earlier this year. Nearly all of those who voted 'no' are aligned with the tea party, including Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh and Florida Rep. Steve Southerland, two rookies who have distinguished themselves as especially vocal critics of the Washington establishment since arriving in Congress earlier this year. One relatively small state accounted for almost a quarter of the votes against the Boehner bill: South Carolina, a hotbed of tea party activism. The state's entire five-member GOP delegation voted in unison, including the four freshmen – Reps. Jeff Duncan, Tim Scott, Mick Mulvaney, and Trey Gowdy – and veteran Rep. Joe Wilson, the conservative who famously yelled "You lie!" at President Barack Obama during a nationally televised joint session of Congress. "This past November, Americans made it clear they expect their elected leaders to make meaningful fiscal reforms today so as to not burden future generations with crushing deficits and debts tomorrow," Wilson said after the vote. To read ore, visit: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/60270.html |
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