Open Congress : News Articles for S.1660 American Jobs Act of 2011

Boston’s AEW pays $26.6M for LoDo’s 1660 Wynkoop

2012-07-18T15:39:09Z

More evidence has emerged that Denver’s LoDo is one of the most coveted areas for office-space users not only in the region, but nationally, with the recent sale of 1660 Wynkoop St. AEW Capital Management, based in Boston, bought the 65,715 ...

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LETTER: Scott Brown shows two jobs faces

2012-03-27T14:11:15Z

I’m a bit confused by Sen. Scott Brown’s recent column (“Keystone pipeline was a missed opportunity,” March 16). He says his reason for supporting the controversial pipeline from Canada is “creating 20,000 shovel-ready” jobs. But given that the

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LakeVille School District sees partial decrease in student enrollment during student count day

2012-02-08T18:54:31Z

LakeVille's student count was 1,586 for February 2012, less than last year's 1,660 count. LakeVille Schools Superintendent Vickie Luoma said she would prefer if the school's enrollment had an increase rather than a decrease. "Many families have ...

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Votes in the Senate

2012-02-03T20:33:30Z

The cost would be offset by raising taxes on incomes over $1 million. A yes vote was to advance the bill. (S 1660) 8. Terrorism Trials: Voting 47-52, senators on Oct. 21 refused to require terrorism suspects linked to organizations such as al-Qaeda to be .

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Votes in the Senate

2012-02-03T20:04:52Z

Votes in the Senate

2012-02-02T23:55:07Z

Tea Party drove policy, but has its clout peaked?

2012-01-24T14:47:26Z

How they voted: Tea Party's influence in Congress may be waning

2012-01-22T02:53:59Z

Sen. Scott Brown talks about campaign, negative ads during Central Massachusetts visit

2012-01-17T20:17:52Z

PRINCETON -- Although he didn't jump on a snowboard like U.S. Sen. John Kerry did when running for president, Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown made a campaign trail appearance surrounded by snow and news cameras on Tuesday as he toured the ...

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Senate votes of the 112th Congress.

2012-01-13T01:00:00Z

...responsibility to deliberate and legislate.. It was rejected by a vote of 45 to 55 (Roll Call 141). President Obama's JOBS Program- S.1660, would have provided $175 billion in spending. Both Alabama Senators voted no to a motion to invoke cloture on Oct

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Sen. Ron Johnson carves niche as deficit hawk

2012-01-11T08:07:41Z

The committee failed to agree by the Nov. 23 deadline, triggering automatic cuts of $1.2 trillion starting in 2013. » S 1660, American Jobs Act of 2011 (President Barack Obama's jobs bill) Roll Call 160 (cloture vote) This is a revised version ...

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Sen Ron Johnson carves niche as deficit hawk

2012-01-11T05:15:53Z

Johnson's mission: Tame federal deficit

2012-01-08T14:37:47Z

S 1660, American Jobs Act of 2011 (President Barack Obama's jobs bill) Roll Call 160 (cloture vote): This is a revised version of President Barack Obama's comprehensive American Jobs Act proposal. It would have extended and increased the ...

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Johnson's mission: Tame federal deficit

2012-01-08T14:37:47Z

Johnson's mission is to tame deficit

2012-01-08T05:05:07Z

Republican U.S. Senator Ron Johnson, of Oshkosh, carves niche as deficit hawk

2012-01-08T04:43:39Z

S 1660, American Jobs Act of 2011 (President Barack Obama’s jobs bill) Roll Call 160 (cloture vote)(AT) This is a revised version of President Barack Obama’s comprehensive American Jobs Act proposal. It would have extended and increased the ...

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Magnificat Baroque Ensemble goes back for the future

2011-12-09T00:47:13Z

Because not all the music used at the Dresden Court’s 1660 Christmas Vespers survived, Stewart has replaced a lost Magnificat (Canticle of Mary) with another by Cavalli. “It was in the library at Dresden,” Stewart says, “and very popular at the tim

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Magnificat Baroque Ensemble goes back for the future

2011-12-09T00:47:13Z

Magnificat Baroque Ensemble goes back for the future

2011-12-09T00:47:13Z

The Fall TV Season’s Senate Air Wars

2011-11-15T17:22:02Z

The November elections are still nearly a year away, but the TV air wars over Senate seats have officially begun in earnest. The balance of power is up for grabs, and outside groups are pouring millions into ads attacking candidates in key Senate races ...

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S.1769 Rebuild America Jobs Act

2011-11-09T01:00:00Z

...Committees found for this Bill A small piece of the larger jobs bill proposed by President Obama, S.1660, this bill would invest $50 billion in infrastructure repair, plus another $10 billion in an infrastructure bank, which would provide loans f

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Energy and climate debate

2011-10-21T01:00:00Z

Though the Senate defeated President Obama's American Jobs Act (S. 1660) October 11, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) said last week that he anticipates that many of its provisions will return as separate pieces of legislation in th

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Budget, appropriations

2011-10-19T01:00:00Z

On October 11, the Senate voted 51-48 for cloture on the Motion to Proceed to debate on the American Jobs Act (S. 1660), failing, as expected, to reach the required 60-vote threshold to proceed with the bill and essentially defeating the Democratic ...

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Patton Boggs | Capital Thinking Update - October 17, 2011

2011-10-18T01:00:00Z

Senate votes against advancing jobs bill

2011-10-17T01:00:00Z

As expected, proponents of the American Jobs Act (S. 1660) failed to garner the 60 Senate votes needed to proceed with further consideration of the jobs legislation. Democratic senators Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Jon Tester (D-MT) joined 46 Republican ...

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Hannity And Rove Pretend Democrats Killed Obama's Jobs Bill

2011-10-14T01:00:00Z

The Senate website states that a cloture motion on S. 1660 -- the American Jobs Act of 2011 -- didn't receive the requisite three-fifths majority needed to proceed. Forty-nine senators voted against the motion, 46 of whom were Republicans. ...

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Protest targets Burr on Jobs Act vote

2011-10-13T01:00:00Z

Richard Burr's office to rail against his opposition to the American Jobs Act of 2011, or S. 1660, which has effectively been killed in the Senate. The bill would have provided a temporary payroll tax cut, temporary tax credit for increased employment

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Protest targets Burr on Jobs Act vote [Winston-Salem Journal, NC]

2011-10-13T01:00:00Z

Richard Burr's office to rail against his opposition to the American Jobs Act of 2011, or S. 1660, which has effectively been killed in the Senate . The bill would have provided a temporary payroll tax cut, temporary tax credit for increased employmen

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Protest targets Burr on Jobs Act vote

2011-10-13T01:00:00Z

Budget, appropriations

2011-10-12T01:00:00Z

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) intends to bring up his version of the American Jobs Act of 2011 (S. 1660) for a procedural vote on October 11. Senate Democrats altered the offset provisions in the bill, including a surtax on millionaires, ...

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Murkowski Votes Against "American Jobs Act," Issues Statement

2011-10-12T01:00:00Z

WASHINGTON DC-Senator Lisa Murkowski yesterday voted against proceeding to Senate bill S. 1660, the American Jobs Act (pdf), and issued the following statement after she cast her vote: “I voted against proceeding with the American Jobs Act because it ..

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Senate Rejects Tax Increases

2011-10-12T01:00:00Z

Last night, the Senate rejected efforts to begin debate on the “American Jobs Act” (S. 1660), which includes a so-called “millionaires surtax,” a new permanent tax on taxpayers with income over $1 million, including many small manufacturers. ...

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Long Beach Democratic Club to Lead Rally in Support of "American Jobs Act"

2011-10-12T01:00:00Z

Although the most recent version of the American Jobs Act failed on Tuesday night to get the 60 votes required to move the bill (SB S.1660) to the House of Representatives, Richardson says there is no question that an amended version will eventually ...

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How your Congressman voted

2011-10-12T01:00:00Z

...would allow economic sanctions to be placed on China for keeping its currency value artificially low. American Jobs Act of 2011 - S.1660 The Senate is scheduled to work on the president's $447 billion jobs bill. EPA Regulatory Relief Act of 2011 - H.R.2

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Senate Democrats Fail To Stop Modified Jobs Bill

2011-10-11T01:00:00Z

S. 1660, the American Jobs Act of 2011, includes $2 billion for airport infrastructure projects and would extend Alternative Minimum Tax relief for airports through 2012. Republicans have sharply criticized the President's jobs proposal as a "sec

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This Week in Washington – October 11, 2011

2011-10-11T01:00:00Z

The first is on a nomination today, followed by a final passage on on the China currency bill (S. 1619) and cloture on the motion to proceed to the American Jobs Act (S. 1660). A debate is expected on a Republican version if Senate Majority Leader ...

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Senate waylays Obama jobs bill

2011-10-11T01:00:00Z

S. 1660 will put more people back to work and put more money in the pockets of working Americans, and it will do so without adding a dime to the deficit." A White House official told The Hill Obama and Senate Democrats are "clearly on the same p

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UPI NewsTrack TopNews

2011-10-11T01:00:00Z

Coons & Carper vote for American Jobs Act

2011-10-11T01:00:00Z

released the following statement on his vote for President Obama's American Jobs Act (S.1660): “The American people want their elected officials in Washington to do what's right to help our country continue to recover from the worst economic dow

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Tuesday: Currency, jobs, trade

2011-10-11T01:00:00Z

After the currency vote, the Senate is expected to hold another controversial vote to proceed to President Obama's jobs bill, S. 1660. Senate Democrats amended that bill last week to strip out Obama's proposed tax hikes on oil companies and famili

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The Millionaire Tax: Yet Another Job-Killing Tax Hike

2011-10-11T01:00:00Z

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D–NV) dusted off this economically frightening tax hike that has repeatedly failed to pass Congress to pay for President Obama's jobs plan (American Jobs Act of 2011, S. 1660) after Senate Democrats rejected the ta

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Scott Brown: Senate vote on jobs bill 'a charade'

2011-10-11T01:00:00Z

US Senator Scott Brown, R-Mass., voted against cloture on the Motion to Proceed to S. 1660, the American Jobs Act on Tuesday, joining 45 other Republicans and 2 Democrats in killing the bill. “This vote is a charade. As I said before, ...

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America wants jobs, House GOP wants free trade pacts & abortion bans: This Week in Congress

2011-10-10T01:00:00Z

...of S.1618, the Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act and motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to S.1660, the American Jobs Act. You must add at least one tag to this diary before publishing it. A tag is a way to search for this diary.

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Dispatch from the Front: The Week of October 10

2011-10-10T01:00:00Z

The Senate returns on Tuesday and will hold three votes: one on a judicial nomination, another on final passage of the China currency bill, and another relating to the American Jobs Act (S. 1660), which includes the so-called millionaires tax. ...

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American Jobs Act up for vote in the Senate this week

2011-10-09T01:00:00Z

by AZ BlueMeanie on Oct. 09, 2011, under Blog For Arizona This week, the Senate will vote on its version of President Obama's American Jobs Act. The Congressional Budget Office has scored S. 1660 [PDF], the Senate Democrats' version of the America

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Sen. Reid Introduces Bill to Provide Tax Relief for American Workers, Businesses

2011-10-06T01:00:00Z

Harry Reid, D-Nev., has introduced legislation (S. 1660) to "provide tax relief for American workers and businesses, to put workers back on the job while rebuilding and modernizing America, and to provide pathways back to work for Americans looking f

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Senate releases bill imposing 5.6 percent tax on 'millionaire' earnings

2011-10-06T01:00:00Z

That subtle difference is found in Reid's new bill, S. 1660. As reported Wednesday, Reid's bill abandon's the "offsets" section of legislation proposed by President Obama, and replaced it with the so-called surtax on millionaires. ..

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