Oil prices dropped Monday as investors paid close attention to speeches from Federal Reserve officials for clues on monetary policies. New York Fed President William Dudley on Monday defended the Fed's decision not to trim its massive ...
Tags: Oil Prices, Fed Tapering Fears
A number of elected officials made the most of the August recess, using some of their time away from Washington, D.C. to visit constituents at glass industry companies in both Ohio and Pennsylvania, respectively. U.S. Senator Rob Portman ...
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A Bitcoin trade group met with representatives of several U.S government agencies Monday as regulators debate whether the?on-line?currency should comply with currency rules. Bitcoin critics have raised questions about the ability to ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
The Roof Coatings Manufacturers Association (RCMA), the national trade association representing manufacturers of cold applied protective roof coatings and cements and suppliers to the industry, met with members of Congress on Capitol Hill ...
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Congress will begin its summer break this week without any plan for high-skill immigration. But here's what to watch for when lawmakers return in September. House Republican leaders have been working on an immigration strategy since the ...
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Two U.S. senators have introduced legislation that would permanently extend a current moratorium on Internet access taxes in the country. The Internet Tax Freedom Forever Act, introduced Thursday, would also extend the U.S. ban on other ...
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The U.S. National Security Agency and Department of Justice exceeded their legal authority to conduct surveillance when collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. residents, several U.S. lawmakers said Wednesday. Several members ...
Tags: Computer Products, Phone Records
A bipartisan group of US senators is urging Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz to speed approvals of LNG exports requests, saying that at its current rate, the Department of Energy will take two years to approve all the pending permits. "By ...
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Several influential environmental groups are gearing up to sue the Obama administration for refusing to regulate US coal mines as major emitters of methane, a greenhouse gas that many scientists say is fueling climate change. Ashley ...
Jerry Wright, president and owner of AAA Glass in Fort Worth, Texas, says that the Texas glass industry has already come to terms with the idea of immigration reform and stands ready for whatever form of it eventually becomes the law of the ...
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Even before bombshell disclosures of the U.S. government's massive collection of Internet and cellphone data, many U.S. residents were concerned about privacy violations. In a survey conducted just days before reports surfaced about ...
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Three U.S. lawmakers have introduced legislation that would allow President Barack Obama's administration to deny U.S. travel visas to cyberattackers sponsored by foreign governments and to freeze their U.S.-based assets. The Cyber ...
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US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz indicated Thursday that decisions on at least some of the pending applications to export US liquefied natural gas would be made before the end of the year. During his first appearance before the House ...
Tags: LNG-Export, Chemicals
With his H-1B fight over and lost to the tech industry, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) lashed out in the minutes before the Senate Judiciary Committee's final vote on the controversial immigration bill late last month. It was late in the ...
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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should cap the participation of carriers AT&T and Verizon Wireless in upcoming spectrum auctions to ensure mobile competition going forward, representatives of consumer groups and smaller carriers ...
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