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 | JOURNAL: Ball, others urge audit, halt of payroll tax Leaders from the northern areas of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority region stepped up the call Friday for Albany to remove the tax on employers that supports the MTA, and also demanded a 'forensic audit' of the transit giant's spending. |
| The New New Newt Sixteen years after the Gingrich revolution, Rep. Kevin McCarthy is concocting his own multipoint plan to win over America and take back the House. |
| Westerwelle Reisen Affäre Kritik FDP Muss der Steuerzahler diese Eskapaden von Westerwelle wirklich bezahlen? |
| Bill C-15 could fill Canadian Prisons with Drug Offenders If passed into law, Bill C-15 would, among its other provisions, throw people caught with one marijuana plant into the slammer for a minimum of six months. |
| GOP Adopts Sweeping Earmark Ban House Republicans agreed to a self-imposed, across-the-board earmark ban during a special closed-door meeting of the Conference on Thursday morning. The ban was approved by voice vote, according to GOP attendees, and will affect all earmarks, including those that are tariff- and tax-related. |