Washington Law News
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Taxes lurk behind court test of Obama health law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - While Supreme Court watchers focus on the controversial insurance requirement in President Barack Obama's healthcare law, lesser known is that the court's ruling next month will also decide the fate of billions of dollars in new taxes. The 2010 law includes a 3.8-percent boost in taxes on investment income and a 0.9-percent increase in the Medicare payroll tax, both ...
Senator likely to be rebuffed in News Corp inquiry
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The British judicial inquiry investigating questionable reporting practices by Rupert Murdoch's media properties is unlikely to cooperate with a prominent senator's request for evidence of misconduct in the United States, three people familiar with the inquiry said. The sources said that the judicial inquiry, created by British Prime Minister David Cameron and chaired by ...
Obama ed chief criticizes Florida’s GOP-led Legislature on tutoring standard
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan teed off Thursday on Florida’s Republican-ruled Legislature for effectively sidestepping spending flexibility the federal government had granted the state under No Child Left Behind. Speaking in Washington, D.C. ,to the Florida Council of 100, the business-dominated advisory group, Duncan criticized lawmakers for requiring school districts to spend 15 percent ...
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