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  • Donnelly and Boren: Positive Climate Is Key to Economic Recovery
    Nov 9, 2011  - By Reps. Joe Donnelly and Dan Boren In a time of seemingly endless partisanship, there is one thing that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle can agree on: We still have a lot of work to do to see our economy recover. As leaders of the Blue Dog Task Force on Economic Growth, there is no greater prio... More
  • Fight red tape to boost economy
    Oct 30, 2011  - By U.S. Rep. John Barrow There’s pretty much universal agreement throughout the country that our government has too many regulations on the books. It’s never been more difficult or time-consuming to try to start a small business or expand an existing company. According to the Federal Register, the 2... More
  • Opposing view: Return foreign earnings to USA
    Oct 13, 2011  - By Jim Matheson and Mike Ross As leaders in entrepreneurship and innovation, American businesses have expanded around the world to grow and compete for the 21st century global customer base. However, our tax code lags dangerously behind the realities of globalism. Within a year, the nominal U.S. cor... More
  • Blue Dogs backing corporate tax holiday
    Oct 12, 2011  - By Vicki Needham House Blue Dogs are on board with a temporary corporate tax holiday they argue will boost economic growth. The group joined a growing bipartisan chorus pressing the congressional deficit-reduction committee to give U.S. multinational corporations a tax break in exchange for investin... More
  • Blue Dog Democrats Push For Tax Break On Overseas Profits
    Oct 12, 2011  - By Kristina Peterson A coalition of moderate House Democrats urged the Congressional deficit-reduction committee to include a temporary tax break for U.S. companies bringing home overseas profits, according to a letter sent Wednesday. Six lawmakers from the Blue Dog coalition urged the Joint Select ... More
  • To Create Jobs, Cut the Fat in Washington
    Sep 23, 2011  - A few years ago, the federal government issued a regulation requiring banks to change their disclosure statements so that solid vertical lines separated columns on the sheet. Some small community banks were not able to easily create these vertical lines in their new electronic forms as required, so... More
  • Blue Dogs go their own way on jobs bill
    Sep 15, 2011  - By Elizabeth Titus Moderate Blue Dog Democrats — who often seek distance from the liberal core of their party — are planning to introduce a set of small-business proposals on Thursday that focus on extending loan provisions and increasing the government’s small-business procurement goals. The group ... More
  • Blue Dogs push for debt panel to 'Go Big'
    Sep 14, 2011  - By Russell Berman Add the centrist Blue Dog Democrat coalition to the list of groups pushing the deficit reduction “supercommittee” to expand its ambitions and find much more than $1.5 trillion in budget savings. The Blue Dog leadership released a letter to the 12-member panel on Wednesday asking th... More
  • Blue Dog Coalition Press Conference on Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction
    Sep 14, 2011  - Blue Dog Coalition Press Conference on Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction Today, the Blue Dog Coalition leadership held a press conference advocating that Republicans and Democrats on the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction work together to achieve a balanced, bipartisan solution th... More
  • Super Panel May Go for a Grand Fiscal Bargain
    Sep 14, 2011  - By ERIC PIANIN Just how powerful is the special “Super Committee” that Congress created to recommend long-term deficit reduction? A task force of prominent budget experts concluded on Wednesday that the 12-member bicameral panel has far more power than many realize, and could work well past a Novemb... More

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