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Editorial: Online sales tax is a one-click revenue source
Last week, the U.S. Senate passed the Marketplace Fairness Act, which requires Internet-based businesses to collect state sales tax based on the shipping address. The bill is fair, logical and necessary to Virginia's economy. Businesses that sell...Tags: Business, Amazon.com Inc., Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Senate, Sales
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Senate to vote on Internet sales tax bill
Daily PressThe Senate is set to vote on an Internet sales tax bill within the first week of May. Also known as the Marketplace Fairness Act, the bill gives states the authority to require online sellers to collect sales tax at the point of purchase. There is an...Tags: Small Businesses, Business, Justice System, Politics, Career and Workplace
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House passes bill shielding shipbuilding from deep cuts
A bill that shelters a string of shipbuilding programs from budget cuts breezed through the House Wednesday as a Republican majority was joined by more than 50 Democrats. The $982 billion bill would keep the government going through the end of the year,...
Tags: Gerald E. Connolly, Parties and Movements, Politics, Naval Station Norfolk, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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Sequestration would reach far into the Virginia Peninsula community - and affect health services
Like a victim tied to buzz saw table in an old movie melodrama, federal, state and local agencies and departments, and a host of businesses and nonprofit organizations are watching with alarm as budget blades churn toward them. On Friday automatic...
Tags: Lyndon B. Johnson, Public Housing, Politics, Colleges and Universities, U.S. Army
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Rep. Rob Wittman votes against `fiscal cliff' measure
Here's a statement from Rep. Rob Wittman, Virginia's 1st District Republican representative in Congress, following Tuesday night's passage by the House of the American Taxpayer Relief Act. The measure passed 257-167 after being overwhelmingly approved...Tags: U.S. Congress, Elections, Politics, Fiscal Cliff
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Rep. Rob Wittman re-elected as chairman of U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors
One local congressman may have a partisan stake in this Saturday's Army-Navy game. Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Westmoreland, has been elected to this third term as chairman of the U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors. Wittman is a member of the House Armed...
Tags: Washington, DC, U.S. House Committee on Armed Services, United States Naval Academy
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Daily Press live events
COMING SOON Oct. 29: 2nd District debate - Rep. Scott Rigell, R-Virginia Beach, and Democratic challenger Paul Hirshbiel. RECENTLY RECORDED EXCLUSIVE: 3rd District debate, Oct. 1 - Rep. Robert C. "Bobby" Scott, D-Newport News, and Republican...
Tags: Scott Rigell, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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1st District: Pastor's son tries hand at politics
When he was still a child, Adam Cook decided he did not want to be a pastor like his father. He saw the stress of the late-night calls, the messiness of church politics and the pressure to come up with sermons. "It wasn't my calling," Cook said. Instead,...Tags: University of Pennsylvania, York County (Virginia), Politics, John Lewis, U.S. Air Force
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1st District: Wittman values relationships
When he's not roaming the halls of Congress or listening to voters in his district, U.S. Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Westmoreland, enjoys a good hunting trip. He loads up his pickup truck with one of his yellow labs and heads to a favorite spot near his home in...Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, Elections, Politics, Rentals, U.S. House Committee on Armed Services
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Voters will decide thrust of economic policy going forward
As the national economy struggles to find solid footing following the worst economic recession since the Great Depression, candidates for federal office, from the presidential race down to the local congressional races, are locked in a philosophical...Tags: Small Businesses, Barack Obama, Politics, Bob McDonnell, Employment Opportunities
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Election 2012: Democrats, Republicans offer clear choice on taxes
At the center of the fall campaigns, from the presidential race on down, is whether to extend all or some of President George W. Bush's temporary tax cuts which are set to expire at the end of the year. President Barack Obama wants the Bush-tax cuts to...
Tags: Small Businesses, Barack Obama, Politics, Brookings Institution, White House
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Election results likely to decide the sequestration debate
Virginia is set to hurl over a "fiscal cliff" on Jan. 1 if lawmakers in Washington cannot come up with a deal before then to stop nearly $500 billion in cuts in military spending put in place by last summer's deal to raise the nation's debt ceiling. A...Tags: U.S. Military, Consumers, Politics, Barack Obama, Veterans Affairs
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