Congressman Al Green will jin us tomorrow on Sunday Morning Live to discuss progress on the “fiscal cliff” negotiations. He’ll explain what it means to you in dollars and cents. CNN.com has the story about the meeting of Congressional leaders this week-end. Read more:
The governor ordered flags to fly at half staff to honor Houstonian and Texas Senator Mario Gallegos. News 92 FM’s Mike Barajas reports gallegos’s family…
via: cnn.com Washington (CNN) — The U.S. Senate passed a last-minute compromise plan to raise the nation’s debt ceiling Tuesday, sending the bill to President Barack Obama to be signed into law only hours before what would have been an unprecedented default. Read More
VIA CNNMoney.com By Tami Luhby: More than 2.5 million unemployed Americans are one step closer to having their unemployment benefits restored. A bill that would push back the deadline to file for extended unemployment benefits until the end of November passed a key procedural hurdle in the Senate Tuesday. The vote was 60-40, the minimum […]
From WashingtonPost.com: Legislation hailed by supporters as the most significant change to college student lending in a generation passed the House on Sunday night. The student aid initiative, which House Democrats attached to their final amendments to the health-care bill, would overhaul the student loan industry, eliminating a $60 billion program that supports private student […]
The measure, which goes to President Obama for his signature, would succeed a funding plan that expires Friday.
President Obama rallied House Democrats in November for health care reform. Now, he's headed to the Senate.
Source: Newsone.com WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats said they had clinched the votes needed on Saturday to propel major health care legislation to the floor for weeks of full debate, as the majority party’s two last hold-outs said that they would not block consideration of President Obama’s top domestic initiative. Both senators, Mary L. Landrieu of Louisiana and Blanche […]
