• That's followed by the second reading of the Mesothelioma Bill - which sets up payments scheme to help workers who were exposed to asbestos as a result of negligence by their employer.

    BBC: Week ahead

  • They argue that if Congress passes a carried interest bill, start-up money will either diminish or venture firms will shift their investments from start-ups to later-stage companies in order to minimize risk.

    FORBES: VCs Get A Tax Break

  • The wrap-up spending bill for the half-completed fiscal year released Monday, however, is another matter entirely.

    NPR: Senate Democrats Prepare Government Funding Bill

  • He became part of the established line-up with Bill Owen and Peter Sallis - Compo and Clegg - until 2000, when Compo died in the series following the real-life death of Owen.

    BBC: Are You Being Served? actor Frank Thornton dies aged 92

  • In the Lords (from 2.30pm) peers should complete their consideration of two more private members' bills sent over by MPs - the Presumption of Death Bill and the Mobile Homes Bill - and then they turn to their second committee stage day on the Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill.

    BBC: Week ahead

  • But the immediate bill for a break-up of the single currency would surely be in the trillions of euros.

    ECONOMIST: Europe's currency crisis

  • He suggests that former soldiers should be able to use GI Bill money as start-up loans instead of for education.

    FORBES: How The Military Squanders Its Management Talent

  • The developments coincided with congressional passage during the day of a follow-up bill that fixed a stenographic error in legislation that cleared late last week.

    NPR: Officials Say Threatened FAA Towers To Remain Open

  • The final bill for the clean-up and compensation is unknown.

    BBC: The company behind Hungary's toxic spill

  • After that it's on to a committee-stage debate on the Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill - with Labour continuing their rearguard action against the cap on benefit increases to 1% - below the rate of inflation.

    BBC: Week ahead

  • McCollum -- one of the House impeachment managers who prosecuted the Senate trial of President Bill Clinton -- is giving up his central Florida congressional seat, which he has held for nearly 20 years, to run for Senate.

    CNN: Florida Republican drops Senate bid, clearing way for McCollum

  • Now, just to review: One-third of the money in this bill -- one-third -- was made up of tax cuts.

    WHITEHOUSE: The Recovery Act �C Year One

  • Some staffers working for then-House Ways and Means Chairman Bill Archer (R-Texas) set up a meeting with about 15 of us in the health policy community to explain what had happened.

    FORBES: An Important Step Toward Medicare Reform

  • This way, everyone will pay the same amount, and bill-splitting will never come up.

    WSJ: The Art of Buying Happiness With Money | Ask Ariely

  • Since the pay bill makes up about two-thirds of the total NHS budget, one obvious strategy is to clamp down on wage costs.

    ECONOMIST: National Health Service

  • The Health and Social Care Bill introduces the biggest shake-up since the founding of the NHS in 1948, putting GPs in control of much of its budget and encouraging greater competition with the private sector.

    BBC: Andrew Lansley hits back over NHS bill

  • Except that the banks knew they had to leave some teeth in the bill, and knowing that would be one change coming, they have already begun charging fees for previously free services, like free-checking and free online bill-paying, to make up the difference.

    FORBES: Financial Reform? Not So Much

  • But if tax-averse House Republicans approve the bill on Tuesday -- when taxes have technically gone up -- they can argue they've voted for a tax cut to bring rates back down, even after just a few hours, GOP sources said.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Democrats waged a multimillion-dollar ad campaign and lobbied hard for the bill but still came up 13 votes short of the two-thirds needed to pass.

    NPR: Mukasey Questioned on Torture

  • And then peers turn to the report stage of the Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill.

    BBC: Week ahead

  • Conferees involved in the final mark-up of the bill have reportedly strengthened the original bill.

    FORBES: Ignore Turkey and Brazil: Iran Sanctions Are A Go

  • The Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill, which will cap the benefit rises until 2016, passed by 305 votes to 246.

    BBC: Planned 1% benefits rises cap backed by MPs

  • The Pensions Bill - if passed - would set up a pension protection fund to help guarantee workers their pensions even if their employer goes bust.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | Blair in pension crisis talks

  • Social Development Minister Nelson McCausland described the Charities Bill as one which "tidies-up" charity regulation in Northern Ireland through amendments to the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.

    BBC: Charities Bill: Second stage

  • So the DUP was surprised to hear that Sinn Fein was going to change tack in the assembly and seek a delay in the bill which involved the biggest shake-up in benefits for decades.

    BBC: Robinson and McGuinness meet amid DUP-Sinn Fein tension

  • Legislation cannot be carried forward between Parliaments and peers fear that the bill will enter the "wash-up" period, where party leaders and whips meet to decide which clauses will stay and which will disappear.

    BBC: Barnett: Financial Services Bill will not become law

  • The Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill will probably be given its third reading in a matter of minutes and then peers move on to deal with changes made by the Commons to the Crime and Courts Bill.

    BBC: Week ahead

  • Under assault from developers who wanted to drain it and farmers who polluted it with pesticides, restoration of the Everglades has been a national priority since former US President Bill Clinton signed a formal clean-up plan in 2000.

    BBC: Florida��s newest wildlife refuge

  • Things may then become a tad less consensual as peers get their first chance to debate the Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill - the measure which is designed to make sure that benefit payments don't increase faster than wages.

    BBC: Week ahead

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