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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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.
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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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.
As recently as 1963 the top federal bracket was 91%, Levy notes, and nothing in the Bill of Rights stopped it.
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.
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.
On the same day Richard Gephardt, the top Democrat in the House of Representatives, who has flirted with protectionism in the past, introduced a bill designed to frustrate China's hopes of favourable terms for entering the World Trade Organisation.
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.
According to one study, a top marginal tax rate on individual incomes of 28% as proposed by Mr. Romney, compared with Mr. Obama's proposed top marginal rate of 39.6%, would increase the wage bill of noncorporate businesses by over 6%, raise investment by 10%, and push business receipts up by 16%.
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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%).
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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The bill's main financing comes from another tax increase on top of the increase already scheduled for 2011 under Mr. Obama's budget.
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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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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is on a shopping spree, and Internet telephone providers are at the top of his list.
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.
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