Housing minister Mark Prisk and DWP benefits minister Lord Freud top the bill at the Communities and Local Government Committee hearing on benefit reform (at 4.10pm).
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.
In addition, Grassley, the Senate's top Republican tax writer, says the bill would "prop up" a complex tax shelter related to banks' leasing facilities to transit systems and public utilities.
The Cabinet Office said the salary bill for top-earners had been cut by 18% in the past year.
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So as the majority party continues its internal struggle, the immigration bill the President called his top priority this year may not be going anywhere before the fall elections.
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The first is I understand the objections that you expressed at the top, but notwithstanding those, if that bill were presented, would the President sign it?
Charles Grassley of Iowa, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee who voted against the bill along with every other GOP senator.
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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It came a day after the nation's top court, the Constitutional Council, ruled that the bill adheres to the constitution.
If their party can't get the 60 votes needed for the bill to reach the Senate floor, some top Democrats have hinted they may try to short-circuit the traditional legislative process by using an obscure tactic known as reconciliation.
Meanwhile, discussions about the entire bill between Dodd and Richard Shelby, the top Republican on the committee, dragged on, repeatedly breaking down.
From 1981 to 1988 the top 1% of earners saw their proportion of the total tax bill grow by a whopping 55%.
What I can tell you is that the President will not sign a bill that extends tax cuts for the top 2 percent with an extension of the Bush-era tax cuts.
No amount of argument or business money can change the power of that example, or alter the fact that labour has made defeat of the China bill its top legislative priority.
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.
Duncan has led the administration's stimulus bill-funded "Race to the Top" program, which rewards states for aggressively reforming their education systems.
Though the level ends up the same, the rise in the top marginal income tax rate that Mr Obama is proposing is smaller than that signed by Bill Clinton in 1993 (which took the top rate of tax from 31% to 39.6%).
As recently as 1963 the top federal bracket was 91%, Levy notes, and nothing in the Bill of Rights stopped it.
In May 1997, under President Bill Clinton, the top capital gains rate was cut from 27% to 20%.
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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 beer has been launched on the day alcohol was at the top of the political agenda with the unveiling of the Scottish government's Alcohol Bill including proposals for minimum pricing on drink.
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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.
Debbie Stabenow, D-Michigan, who is running for reelection, the bill made it to the top of the "to-do list" for Congress President Barack Obama unveiled earlier this year.
Second, he would, as I said the other day, not sign a bill that extends the Bush-era tax cuts for the top 2 percent.
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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.
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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