Business needs to keep the pressure on Congress and the administration--and with continued pressure there will most likely be significant changes, if not outright repeal, of the 1099 provisions before they are scheduled to take effect in 2012.

FORBES

News of the move comes with the Bush administration under increasing domestic pressure to ease the burden on existing forces in Iraq.

BBC: Iraqi police 'to train in Europe'

After pressure from the Bush administration, Israel also reacted with some degree of moderation to an attack last weekend, in which Hizbullah, a Shia militant group based in southern Lebanon, shelled the northern Israeli town of Shlomi, killing a 16-year-old Israeli boy.

ECONOMIST: Call this a ceasefire?

The Clinton administration has tried to balance sensitivity to Russia's concerns with mounting pressure to do something about a missile threat whose rapid expansion has tended to vindicate the hawks.

ECONOMIST: Rockets overhead

Imagine the chaos this would wreak in the administration of state programs, and the pressure it would impose on states not to experiment with divorce law.

FORBES: Conservatives Should Oppose DOMA

But he said the lingering effects of superstorm Sandy and the administration's failure to broker a deal with the teachers' union on an evaluation plan have exerted significant pressure on the city's finances.

WSJ: Mayor's Final Budget Is Aided by Economy