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When the New York State Wage Board announced that the minimum wage in New York City would be raised to $15 an hour by December 31, 2018, Patrick McGeehan argued in The New York Times that it was a direct consequence of the Fight for $15 protests, and that "the labor protest movement that fast-food workers in New York City began nearly three ...
On the evening of March 21, 2018, the text of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 [1] was released. The text was posted to the web site of the United States House Committee on Rules at 10:00 p.m. [2] H.R. 1625, formerly the TARGET act, was used as a legislative vehicle for the appropriations bill. [3]
A similar bill in Georgia has stalled, with constituents expressing concern to Georgia lawmakers about the financial impacts of such a bill. [15] [16] [17] A meeting on the bill was cancelled. [18] Supporters of the bill have stated that the bill would be "gutted" by the inclusion of anti-discrimination clause. [19]
During his time in Arkansas, there were also other scandals such as the Whitewater controversy [14] involving the Clintons' real estate dealings and Bill Clinton was accused of serious sexual misconduct in Arkansas, including allegations of using the Arkansas State Police to gain access to women (Troopergate affair). [15]
President Bill Clinton did not support a constitutional amendment, but in his 1992 campaign, he called for balancing the budget through ordinary fiscal policy. He came into office facing a large deficit. Clinton signed into law the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, which attacked the deficit by raising taxes. Beginning with the 1998 ...
But three months after the bill was signed, Recovery.gov offers little beyond news releases, general breakdowns of spending, and acronym-laden spreadsheets and timelines." The same article also stated, "Unlike the government site, the privately run Recovery.org is actually providing detailed information about how the $787 billion in stimulus ...
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 is a $2.3 trillion [1] spending bill that combines $900 billion in stimulus relief for the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States with a $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill for the 2021 federal fiscal year (combining 12 separate annual appropriations bills) and prevents a government shutdown.
Trump signed the tax legislation on December 22, 2017, after it passed Congress on party-line votes. [234] [235] [236] The tax bill was the first major legislation signed by Trump. [237] The $1.5 trillion bill reduced the corporate federal tax rate from 35% to 21%, [235] its lowest point since 1939. [236]