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Congress Reaches Spending Deal That Jettisons Trump Priorities

EghtesadOnline: U.S. House and Senate negotiators reached a tentative bipartisan deal on a $1.1 trillion spending bill that largely tracks with Democratic priorities and rejects most of President Donald Trump’s wish list, including money to begin building a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border.
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Publish Date:01/May/2017 | 04:07

2 US Senators: Aseman-Boeing Deal Unblockable

EghtesadOnline: US Senators Ben Cardin and John McCain say Iran Aseman Airlines’ multibillion dollar deal with Boeing for up to 60 passenger jets is unlikely to be blocked by the US Congress .
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Publish Date:06/April/2017 | 17:26
Advocates are preparing for a new political battle on telecom regulation.

Internet Privacy Furor Is a Preview of the Coming War Over Net Neutrality

EghtesadOnline: The U.S. Congress’s decision to invalidate a set of internet privacy rules from the Obama administration set off a firestorm this week. The change, which will allow service providers like AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. to collect and sell customers’ information without their permission, prompted ad campaigns from internet freedom groups shaming lawmakers and a small wave of service journalism about VPNs and other privacy tools.
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Publish Date:02/April/2017 | 06:50

Trump tells lawmakers he expects deal 'very quickly' on healthcare

EghtesadOnline: U.S. President Donald Trump told a group of senators on Tuesday that he expected lawmakers would be able to reach a deal on healthcare, without offering specifics on how they would do it or what had changed since a healthcare reform bill was pulled last week for insufficient support.
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Publish Date:29/March/2017 | 03:46

Trump tastes failure as U.S. House healthcare bill collapses

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump suffered a stunning political setback on Friday in a Congress controlled by his own party when Republican leaders pulled legislation to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system, a major 2016 election campaign promise of the president and his allies.
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Publish Date:25/March/2017 | 08:51

Stocks Fall, Bonds Rise as Health Vote Pulled

EghtesadOnline: U.S. stocks rose from session lows to end little changed as investors assessed the fallout from a failed health-care vote that has raised questions on Trump administration’s ability to push its pro-growth agenda through Congress. Treasuries rose and the dollar slipped.
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Publish Date:25/March/2017 | 05:03

House Obamacare Repeal Collapse Raises Doubts on GOP Agenda

EghtesadOnline: House Republicans abandoned their efforts to repeal and partially replace Obamacare after President Donald Trump and Speaker Paul Ryan couldn’t wrangle enough votes, raising doubts about their ability to deliver on the rest of their agenda.
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Publish Date:25/March/2017 | 04:45

Trump demands support in do-or-die Friday vote on healthcare plan

EghtesadOnline: U.S. President Donald Trump warned House Republican lawmakers that he will leave Obamacare in place and move on to tax reform if they do not get behind new healthcare legislation and support it in a vote on Friday.
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Publish Date:24/March/2017 | 10:16

Trump Speech Revives Campaign Themes But Details Remain Scarce

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump urged Americans to set aside conflict and help him remake the fabric of the country in his first address to Congress, a moment he hopes will turn the page on his administration’s chaotic beginning and bring clarity to his policy agenda.
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Publish Date:01/March/2017 | 05:09

Stocks Post Gains Before Trump Speech to Congress

EghtesadOnline: Equities rallied in the last half-hour of trading Friday to recover losses from earlier in the session, as investors set their sights on U.S. President Donald Trump’s speech before Congress next week. Gold extended its strong run as the dollar turned lower.
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Publish Date:25/February/2017 | 04:39

With one bill, Republicans fast track plan to undo Obama regulations

EghtesadOnline: The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Wednesday giving Congress the power to kill dozens of recently enacted rules in one fell swoop, as Republicans charged ahead on their campaign to strip down federal regulations.
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Publish Date:05/January/2017 | 04:48

Rough start for U.S. Republicans on first day of Trump-era Congress

EghtesadOnline: The Republican-led U.S. Congress had a rough start to its first session of the Donald Trump era on Tuesday when a public outcry that included a dressing-down from the president-elect prompted the House of Representatives to backtrack on its plans to defang an ethics watchdog.
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Publish Date:04/January/2017 | 05:21

Fearing protectionism, Canada's Trudeau reaches out to U.S. Congress

EghtesadOnline: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reached out in a video address to the new U.S. Congress on Tuesday to stress how tightly linked the economies of Canada and the United States are, amid fears of a protectionist Trump administration.
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Publish Date:04/January/2017 | 05:08

Zarif: Extension of sanctions discredits US

EghtesadOnline: Signing the US Congress bill for extension of Iran's sanctions for another decade by the country's president will discredit Washington at the international scene, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said.
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Publish Date:03/December/2016 | 08:04

Republicans projected to keep control of Congress

EghtesadOnline: Both chambers of the U.S. Congress are projected to remain under Republican control when they convene on Jan. 3, with voters on Tuesday dashing Democrats' hopes of taking over the Senate while keeping the House of Representatives in Republican hands.
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Publish Date:09/November/2016 | 09:04

Congress rejects Obama veto, Saudi September 11 bill becomes law

EghtesadOnline: Congress on Wednesday overwhelmingly rejected President Barack Obama's veto of legislation allowing relatives of the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia, the first veto override of his presidency, just four months before it ends.
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Publish Date:29/September/2016 | 04:52

U.S. tech firms urge Congress to allow internet domain changeover

EghtesadOnline: Major technology companies including Facebook, Google and Twitter are urging Congress to support a plan for the U.S. government to cede control of the internet's technical management to the global community, they said in a joint letter dated on Tuesday.
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Publish Date:13/September/2016 | 06:21