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LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Members of Congress will be returning to Washington tomorrow. And the Senate is scheduled to vote on Wilbur Ross's nomination as secretary of commerce. He's another billionaire. He promises to let go of most of his holdi

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AS IT IS 2016-02-29 Federal Government Owns Almost Half of Western US

AS IT IS 2016-02-29 Federal Government Owns Almost Half of Western US The United States government owns nearly a third of the nations land, including nearly half of Western states. In the rest of the country, the federal government owns just 4 percen

AS IT IS 2016-01-28 Deadly Shootout Between Police, Anti-Federal Group

AS IT IS 2016-01-28 Deadly Shootout Between Police, Anti-Federal Group Federal and state police officers have exchanged gunfire with members of an armed group in Oregon, killing one person. The armed group had taken control of a federal wildlife area

THE MAKING OF A NATION - President Cleveland Uses Federal Tr

THE MAKING OF A NATION - President Cleveland Uses Federal Troops to Stop Railroad Strike By Frank Beardsley Broadcast: Thursday, December 01, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a progra

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By Mil Arcega Washington, DC 10 August 2006 watch Small Business Contracts Some U.S. lawmakers want the government to investigate whether large businesses intentionally misrepresented themselves in order to win federal contracts. The request comes a

US federal security lapses found

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April 15 deadline looms Adam Phillips | New York 14 April 2010 Americans fill out forms at an Internal Revenue Service office in 1920, seven years after the personal income tax was introduced. Related Links NYU Stern School of Business Professor Rich

美国国家公共电台 NPR Federal Employees Face Cuts To Retirement Benefits And Pay Freezes

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Federal employees can be forgiven for feeling whiplashed by the Trump administration. The president has proclaimed this to be Public Service Recognition Week, acknowledging the nation's civil servants for, quote, their hard w

美国国家公共电台 NPR Push To Transfer Federal Lands To States Has Sportsmen On Edge

DAVID GREENE, HOST: One of the very first moves by the new Republican Congress was to make it easier to transfer ownership of federal public lands in the West over to states. And the state of Wyoming has become a flashpoint in this debate. Lawmakers

Americans Brace for Government Shutdown

Anxiety(焦虑渴望) is filling the air in Washington D.C., as the clock ticks closer to a federal government shutdown with no budget approval. Lawmakers continued the debate Friday, leaving tourists in the nation's capital wondering whether it will

U.S. federal gov't budget deficit tops 260 million dollars in December

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. federal government ran a budget deficit of 260 million U.S. dollars in December, the Treasury Department figures revealed Friday. The federal government raked in a revenue of 269.5 billion dollars in December,

U.S. federal govt to borrow 592 bln USD in second half 2012

WASHINGTON, July 30 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Treasury Department announced Monday that the federal government expected to borrow 592 billion U.S. dollars from the market to fund its operation in the second half of this year, fresh evidence of the budgeta

.S. House OKs federal funding through Sept., avert gov't shutdown

WASHINGTON, March 6 (Xinhua) -- U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday voted to pass a six-month stopgap funding bill to keep the federal government in operation till September, a move to avert another possible government shutdown. By a 267-151 vote

美国国家公共电台 NPR Federal Government Sends Warning To Vaping Companies

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Vaping is often billed as a healthier alternative to cigarettes or a way to help smokers quit. But the manufacturing of flavored vape products has drawn minors to electronic smoking. Colorado Public Radio's John Daley has more on

U.S. federal budget deficit swells amid fiscal uncertainties

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. federal government registered a budget deficit of about 69.6 billion U.S. dollars in July, bringing the total budget gap for the first 10 months of this fiscal year near the 1-trillion-dollar mark. The aggrega

美国国家公共电台 NPR Federal Employees Return To Work, But Fears Of Another Shutdown Loom

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Fifty years ago today, a damaged oil well off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., caused what was then the largest oil spill in the history of the United States. The public reaction helped to shape the modern environmental moveme

US Congress Decides 2011 Federal Budget

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a spending bill to fund the federal government through September. The last-minute agreement was reached nearly a week ago after intense negotiations between the White House and Congress, slashing $38.5 bil

美国国家公共电台 NPR Child Care: 1 More Way Some Federal Workers Struggle During Shutdown

DAVID GREENE, HOST: In this country, a partial government shutdown goes on. And it's affecting hundreds of thousands of federal workers and contractors across the U.S. It's also affecting some of their kids. That's because many child care centers ins

美国国家公共电台 NPR Not Out To Lunch: Businesses That Rely On Federal Workers Suffer The Shutdown

Not Out To Lunch: Businesses That Rely On Federal Workers Suffer The Shutdown MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to talk a bit more about the partial shutdown of the federal government, which is entering its third week. We've talked earlier this hour a