According to news reports, Democrats and Republicans are unlikely to reach any sort of budget agreement before April 8, when a short-term spending bill for the current fiscal year expires.
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Back in 1992, when Bill Clinton was campaigning for his first term, he made a virtue of his disdain for foreign-policy issues.
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BillFloat announced a new twist on its short-term loan service for bill payments.
The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill introduces a new mandatory custodial term for 16 and 17-year-olds who threaten with a knife.
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It is a way of putting people back to work, creating positive economic growth, and importantly, Bill, laying that foundation for long-term investments in jobs.
For the rest of her term and after, as the bill was discussed in Congress, Augsburger was a tireless advocate for same-sex marriage.
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In the USA, President Barack Obama abandoned last year plans for a federal climate bill during his current term.
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It said it was "unconvinced" by the arguments for introducing fixed term Parliaments, claiming the bill owed "more to short term considerations than to a mature assessment of enduring constitutional principles or sustained public demand".
The bill would raise rates on long-term capital gains and dividends for top-bracket taxpayers to 20% for 2013 from 15% in 2012.
And as I've insisted from the beginning, it is a bill that is fully paid for and will actually reduce our long-term federal deficit.
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That marks the biggest rally for a presidential term since a 111% climb during Bill Clinton's first four years in office, which ended in 1997.
Importantly, this bill is also fully paid for and will reduce the deficit in the long term.
For Microsoft the longer-term challenge is the one that keeps Bill Gates up at night: the IQ war.
The debt ceiling bill failed to provide any relief to investors who were hoping for a better long term outlook on the US economy.
In a counterintuitive move that could be taken as good news, the very shortest term rates inched higher: the three-month Treasury bill, for example, crept up to 0.05% from 0.03%.
"We've made losses as a result of selling them but at the same time we've improved our longer-term position in terms of our wage bill by reducing the wages for those particular contracts, " he said.
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Mid-term elections are near, and there is little political appetite for a bill that could affect jobs and energy prices.
The alleged conversation supposedly took place during the time when President Bill Clinton was deliberating over whether to ask Reno to return as attorney general for his second term, the sources said.
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In fact, one bill has been filed in Connecticut this year that would establish a mandatory minimum prison term for someone charged with second-degree manslaughter after assisting another person with committing suicide.
On the short-term list, we already, for example, passed a historic public lands bill that creates many more acres of public space that is environmentally protected -- (applause) -- from logging and from other -- from mining and from other uses.
Electing Hillary "is a way for us to have Bill Clinton be president again, and he did a great job during his term, " says 50.
Labour also plan a bill to extend maternity leave and pilot shared equity schemes for home ownership if they win an historic third term in office.
This jobs bill connects the long-term unemployed to temporary work to keep their skills sharp while they look for a job, and it gives hundreds of thousands of young people the hope of a job next summer.
He said long-term contracts would prove beneficial for the energy sector, while the other major components of the bill would be counterproductive.
By offering his own pint-sized, poll-tested and (ostensibly) paid-for tax credits for stay-at-home mothers, long-term care-givers and the like, Bill Clinton sounds both populist and responsible.
To avoid allowing a "zombie government" to stagger on for years, unable to muster a majority to pass any new laws, the Fixed Term Parliaments Bill, says an election will be called 14 days after a lost confidence vote if no alternative government is able to show they have the confidence of MPs.
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