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Agency weighs skirting Congress on immigration (AP)

July 30th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in business

Felipa Solario pauses as she cries while telling her story of having her husband, an illegal immigrant, taken away by authorities some months ago, while she joined hundreds at a solidarity rally at St. Matthews Church  to protest the provisions of the new Arizona immigration law that went into effect Thursday, July 29, 2010 in Phoenix, the day after portions of Arizona's SB1070 went into effect, but after a federal judge struck down some of the law's provisions. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - The Obama administration, unable to push an immigration overhaul through Congress, is considering ways it could go around lawmakers to let undocumented immigrants stay in the United States, according to an agency memo.


Paperwork nightmare: A struggle to fix new law (AP)

July 30th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in business
AP - Talk about a paperwork nightmare: Tucked into the massive new health care law is a demand that nearly 40 million U.S. businesses file tax forms for every vendor that sells them more than $600 in goods.

Republicans block small business lending bill (AP)

July 29th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in business

President Barack Obama delivers a brief speech after sitting with small business owners at the Tastee Sub Shop in Edison, N.J. on Wednesday, July 28, 2010.   Behind him are Tom and Catherine Horsburgh of Wayne, N.J. (AP Photo/Augusto F. Menezes, Pool)AP - WASHINGTON mdash; President Barack Obama's election-year jobs agenda suffered a new setback Thursday when Senate Republicans blocked a bill creating a $30 billion government fund to help open up lending for credit-starved small businesses.


Obama: We’ll get back money from auto bailout (AP)

July 29th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in business

President Barack Obama, center, during his guest appearance on ABC's television show 'The View' in New York, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Sitting with Obama are Barbara Walters,  left, and Joy Behar, right. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President Barack Obama said the government will recover all the taxpayer money his administration provided to bail out the auto industry last year.


For veterans bill, Republicans put budget ax aside (AP)

July 28th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in business

A US flag leans against the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC. When former Democratic president Bill Clinton championed normal relations with Vietnam, he faced stiff opposition from a number of lawmakers, mostly from the rival Republican Party, who said Hanoi had not fully accounted for missing US troops.(AFP/File/Tim Sloan)AP - House Republicans who have spent months demanding spending cuts blanched Wednesday at their first opportunity to actually make them, instead joining Democrats in treating a bill to pay for veterans programs in 2011 as politically sacrosanct in an election year.


Obama pushes business bill as an all-American goal (AP)

July 28th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in business

President Barack Obama delivers remarks following his meeting with small business owners, Wednesday, July 28, 2010, at the Tastee Sub Shop in Edison, N.J,. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President Barack Obama on Wednesday cast his latest economic pitch as a matter of patriotism, urging the Senate to ditch its partisan mode at least long enough to pass a package of tax cuts and loan relief for small businesses. This is as American as apple pie, the president said.


Small business lending bill headed toward vote (AP)

July 28th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in business

President Barack Obama delivers a brief speech after sitting with small business owners at the Tastee Sub Shop in Edison, N.J. on Wednesday, July 28, 2010.   Behind him are Tom and Catherine Horsburgh of Wayne, N.J. (AP Photo/Augusto F. Menezes, Pool)AP - Community banks would be able tap a $30 billion government fund to help them increase lending to small businesses under a bill working its way toward a vote in the Senate.


Obama says he still supports climate legislation (AP)

July 27th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in business

President Barack Obama, flanked by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., gestures during his bipartisan meeting in Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 27, 2010.  (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Despite setbacks on Capitol Hill, President Barack Obama said Tuesday he still supports the need for broad climate legislation and pledged to keep pushing for it. The White House expressed fresh hope the Senate and House might strike a deal on a sweeping energy plan this year.


Feuding labor unions settle bitter dispute (AP)

July 26th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in business
AP - Two of the nation's most prominent labor unions have agreed to settle a bitter, nearly two-year long dispute that led them to raid each others' members.

Delta Air Lines subsidiary fined for bumping (AP)

July 26th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in business
AP - A regional air carrier owned by Delta Air Lines has been fined $275,000 for violating regulations on bumping passengers from overbooked flights, the Transportation Department said Monday.