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Deficit Commission Votes 11-7 for Spending Cuts, Tax Changes
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyPresident Obama's bipartisan debt commission voted 11-7 Friday to approve a controversial plan to shave deficits by nearly $4 trillion over the next decade. That fell short of the 14 votes that would formalize its recommendations and send them to the House and Senate floors for an up or down vote. But Democrats and Republicans alike said there is substantial support for much of the plan and that it will lead to a solution to the nation's crushing debt. The package would overhaul the tax code, reducing both tax rates and tax breaks. It would cut back spending on Social Security, Medicare, ...
FBI Investigating Labor Leader Andy Stern
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe FBI is investigating labor leader Andy Stern as part of a corruption probe focusing on the Service Employees International Union, the organization he led for 14 years. Two people interviewed by federal agents as part of the investigation told The Associated Press that at issue are a six-figure book contract that Stern signed and money he approved to cover the salary of Alejandro Stephens, a former California SEIU official who allegedly performed no work. The book, "A Country That Works," was released in 2008. The Labor Department is participating in the investigation but officials there ...
New SEIU President Mary Kay Henry Puts Focus on Politics, Labor Unity
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThe new president of the 2.2 million-member Service Employees International Union, a powerhouse in U.S. campaigns, is putting more money into politics and more effort into cultivating smooth relations with other unions. In an interview with Politics Daily, President Mary Kay Henry also said reports that SEIU is broke are wrong. Henry, 52, elected to succeed Andy Stern, in some ways has a tough act to follow. Stern, the president for 14 years, doubled the size of the union during that time by expanding from health personnel to janitors, child-care workers and home health aides. He spent $60 ...
On Obama White House Visitor Log: Lobbyists, Movie Stars and Bailed Out CEOs
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyThe White House released a visitor's log late Friday that revealed many of DC's biggest Democratic lobbyists have made frequent visits, despite President Obama's stringent new lobbying rules. The record of visitors also looks like a red carpet list of celebrities and Hollywood movie stars. And CEOs of all those Wall Street banks the government bailed out earlier this year came calling frequently, too. Many of the Democratic lobbyists who frequented the White House this year are also among the highest earning lobbying firms in 2009, including power player Steve Elmendorf of Elmendorf Strategies ...
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