Congress must account for accounting
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In case it&#39;s slipped your mind, here it is: &quot;FIRST, require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress.
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The House has scheduled votes this week on open-government bills. They would:  - Require organizations established for the purpose of raising funds for presidential libraries to disclose the sources of contributions of $200 or more.
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Got a shoebox full of receipts from purchases you made this year? Hold onto them and make sure to have them handy come tax time. Congress this week temporarily reinstated a law that gives Texans - as well
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Money follows power. That simple axiom helps explain why incumbent members of Congress, on average, raise so much more campaign cash than the candidates who want to supplant them.
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The self-described &quot;conscious of Congress&quot; has always taken an interest in issues related to Africa . Well, this week a continuing scandal should get its attention.
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Merck&#39;s recall of its arthritis pain drug, Vioxx, because of elevated risks of heart attack and stroke has obscured another important issue that Congress, in investigating the matter, must face squarely and deal with: What happens when pharmaceutical
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Congress's new party of power faces a challenge in achieving their goals amid the current budget crisis.
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Congress looks set to tackle energy legislation -- again.
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The 110th Congress under Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has been called lots of things: Historic, do-nothing, ethical, overbearing and much more, based on one's political views. But now Pelosi can add one more moniker to the list: record-setting.
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Skeptical lawmakers yesterday demanded a detailed accounting of how Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice plans to spend $6 billion in supplemental funds that the administration has asked for the State Department this year, much of it for Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The U.S. Congress should stay out of the debate over expensing stock options and let the Financial Accounting Standards Board handle it, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman William Donaldson said.
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Congress dithers, and investors should beware.
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Democratic lawmakers vow to come roaring out of the blocks when they assume control of the next Congress, passing several top-priority bills in the first 100 hours. Absent from that list, however, are the knottiest problems that bedeviled the outgoing Congress, including immigration, domestic surveillance and the war in Iraq....
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Auditors must pay attention to what Wall Street thinks is important about a company&#39;s performance and consider those figures no matter how small they are, the Securities and Exchange Commission
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Highlights of what Congress has done &#151; and has not done &#151; this year.
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WASHINGTON - The Congressional Budget Office projected Tuesday that this election-year's federal deficit will hit a record $422 billion, a shortfall that would be smaller than analysts predicted earlier this year.    The estimate by Congress' nonpartisan budget experts immediately provided political fodder for both parties in the final two-month stretch of the presidential and congressional campaigns...
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Congress will have a narrow opportunity when it returns to pass legislation making it a crime to use video cameras to record films in movie theaters, but the bill could be floored by a fight over a federal boxing commission.