Despite the overwhelming vote in favor of the bill in both the House and the Senate, none of the top GOP Hill leaders attended the White House bill signing ceremony on Wednesday.
Taylor noted that he was still reviewing the plan, but he said he was troubled by the additional spending for many government programs on top of the funding agencies received in the economic stimulus bill.
This country is facing major fiscal challenges and most of the people still think the Bush tax cuts reduced Federal tax revenues, that the Bush tax cuts resulted in the top 1% paying a lower share of the total tax bill, and that the only way to increase Federal tax revenue is to raise tax rates.
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Considering that 40 percent of new jobs come from the top-performing one percent of companies in any given year, this bill could unlock possibilities that go far beyond the bottom line for corporations and institutions.
From 1981 to 1988 the top 1% of earners saw their proportion of the total tax bill grow by a whopping 55%.
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As recently as 1963 the top federal bracket was 91%, Levy notes, and nothing in the Bill of Rights stopped it.
Rep. Bill Keating of Massachusetts, a top Democrat on the House oversight and investigation subcommittee for homeland security, has also called for a probe into the allegations.
Charles Grassley of Iowa, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee who voted against the bill along with every other GOP senator.
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His main objection has been that the bill kept India's top investigative agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation, out of the anticorruption panel's purview.
On top of that, more than 400, 000 living in care homes would not benefit from the bill.
Mr Hazare's main complaint is that the bill proposes keeping India's top investigation agency, CBI, out of the purview of the ombudsman.
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White House aides watched from the sidelines as the committee began its work on a bill that President Barack Obama has made a top priority in the opening months of his second term in the White House.
The bill replaces the Disability Living Allowance and tax credits with a disability addition on top of the new universal credit.
The Obama administration, which put financial reform among its three top priorities alongside health care reform, has said it wants to have a hand in the finalization of the bill.
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Congress passed the Public Securities Litigation Reform Act to halt the abusive practice of paying kickbacks to plaintiffs in securities cases, which sent former top plaintiff lawyers Bill Lerach and Mel Weiss to jail.
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But supporters of the bill say that combining these elements into one law enacted by the country's top legislature would give them additional weight.
According to these sources, Freeh's initial request came after one of his top aides, Bill Esposito, informed him of a conversation Esposito allegedly had with Lee Radek, head of the department's Public Integrity section.
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Charles Grassley of Iowa, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, hasn't taken a position on the Durbin bill.
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Roughly fifteen years ago, President Bill Clinton noted that 90 percent of all personal income tax revenues are paid by the top 15 percent of income earners.
Top executives at PIMCO have been calling for a substantial correction in bond markets for the last couple of months, with Bill Gross and Mohamed El-Erian taking the lead.
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