Now, it's important to note that the bill I signed will not add to our deficit.
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They note that President Bill Clinton failed to find time to see Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, on his latest visit to Washington.
Note that the bill's main purpose is to keep underage folks away from dangerous venues and unhealthy content, rather than to prevent gaming addiction -- something for which China eventually had to set up boot camps to deal with.
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The yield at that time was more than 4.5%, far more than the paltry yield on a Treasury bill or note.
The Church of England also outlined its objections to the bill in a briefing note sent to lawmakers Friday.
In a year-end note to investors, fund manager Bill D'Alonzo cited tightening profit margins, among other worries, as reasons for selling.
Bill handed me a note that said, likely because of the weather we are going to be over at the Department of the Interior tomorrow.
"With iPod price cuts, Apple is choosing revenue over unit cannibalization, " Credit Suisse analyst Bill Shope wrote in a research note Monday.
The populist note is especially important: When he starts receiving Medicare, Bill Gates should bear a greater share of his health-care costs than the less healthy or less wealthy.
Note that not all of the deficit increase derived from the tax bill: CBO projected a weaker economy than it had anticipated in August, which meant both lower revenues and higher spending over the next few years.
Shorter-term Treasuries remained flat, with the 3-month bill yielding 0.07% and the 2-year note yielding 0.25%.
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Editor's note: An earlier version of this column included an incomplete quote from Bill Clinton in the last paragraph.
Republicans note the confrontational way in which Democrats secured passage of the health-care bill, via a devious parliamentary manoeuvre.
By early 1996 they had found an ingenious way to keep a creaky unpaid bill off the past-due ledger: Turn it into a promissory note.
Bill Oemichen, the president and CEO of the Cooperative Network in Wisconsin, is careful to note the organization has not taken a stand on the public option.
In a research note issued Wednesday, Kevin Book, an energy analyst with Friedman, Billings, Ramsey, predicted that the bill would pass the House.
The yield on the two-year Treasury note rose to 0.91%, from 0.90% Tuesday, while the three-month bill's yield slipped to 0.01% from 0.02% Tuesday.
Of more recent note, Murphy added, Illinois became the 16th state to abolish the death penalty when Governor Quinn signed the bill banning capital punishment in March of 2011.
Shorter-term Treasuries were more mixed, as the yield on the three-month bill fell to 0.10%, from 0.11%, though the two-year note yield rose to 0.87%, from 0.83%.
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