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The National Treasury Employees Union has renewed its call for Congress to renew an expansions of a mass-transit subsidy that expired at the end of last year. The union said it supports passage either through a stand-alone bill or through a package of nearly 70 temporary tax breaks, known as extenders.

Tags: Congress , Senate , pay and benefits , mass transit benefit , NTEU , Colleen Kelley ,

Tuesday - 01/31/2012, 11:18pm EST

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Senators call for mass-transit benefit extension

A group of 22 senators has called on the Senate Finance Committee to take up extending a mass-transit commuter tax benefit, which expires at the end of the year. The mass-transit benefit is set to be cut nearly in half — from $230 a month to $120 — starting next year, barring action by Congress.

Tags: pay and benefits , Congress , House , Senate , NTEU , mass-transit benefit , Barbara Mikulski , Ben Cardin ,

Tuesday - 12/13/2011, 12:03am EST

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Debt panel's demise sets up partisan wrangling

Tags: House , Senate , budget , supercommittee , House Armed Services Committee , Buck McKeon , Olympia Snow ,

Tuesday - 11/22/2011, 11:11am EST

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Health care reform rises to top of priority list

The reformation of the country's health care system is one of the next priorities for President Barack Obama and Congress, and the Department of Health and Human Services and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services will be at the center of this effort.

Tags: Tracking the Transition , pay and benefits , Xavier Becerra , Max Baucus , HHS , CMS , ONC , House Ways and Means Committee , health IT , health care

Monday - 10/17/2011, 01:09pm EDT

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