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“We have focused on cutting taxes for ordinary Americans,” said Congressman Mike Thompson (D-CA). “And it's worked. According to IRS figures, the average tax refund this year is $3,000, which is nearly 9.4% larger than last year's average. The Recovery Act was the largest tax cut in history, and it's making a difference for working families.”
Small companies that account for 90 percent of the North Coast's business community also are among the winners under the bill President Barack Obama is expected to sign into law today.
After a year of political upheaval that swung from a triumphant Democratic sweep in Washington to the rise of the Tea Party movement, Congress on Sunday night sent to President Obama the most sweeping social program since Medicare was enacted in 1965.
The vote on the health care overhaul was 219-212, with not a single Republican supporting the measure.
In just a few days, you will start receiving information about the United States Census in your mailbox.
Please don't throw this information away. It may look like junk mail, but completing the census form is one of the most important ways you can help our community this month.
The Census is an important part of our democracy. Every 10 years it takes a snapshot of our population.
This is not an optional exercise, but something that is mandated by our Constitution.
The Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act, H.R. 4626, would subject health insurance companies to federal antitrust laws, holding them to the same standards as everyone else.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein ignited a firestorm among fellow California Democrats on Thursday as word spread of her proposal to divert Northern California water to Central Valley farmers.
Feinstein wants to attach the proposal as an amendment to a fast-tracked Senate jobs bill. She is pitching the plan as a jobs measure to address the economic calamity in the Central Valley. It would increase farm water allocations from 10 percent last year to 40 percent this year and next, an amount that farmers say is the bare minimum they need.