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Later today the Republican-led House of Representatives will vote on “Plan B” .... 

...this tax bill contains no tax increases of any kind—in fact, it permanently prevents them....

... cutting wasteful projects is productive and necessary to avoid a nosedive....

Pacific Gas & Electric, the state's biggest utility, will pass on about $700 million in annual costs to people without solar systems ....

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Republican leaders have done it once again....

Rankings were determined by responses from about 700,000 federal workers from various agencies in the government....

Today, the Senate will begin debating a bill that was supposed to be disaster recovery funds for those devastated by the storm. But so many special-interest projects were added on that the $60.4 billion request has turned into a farce....

Asians are America's fastest-growing immigrant community, and Asian voters constitute 2 percent to 7 percent of registered voters in half of the traditional 10 swing states....

“We have emptied the nation's hospitals, gutted state and local mental health programs, and turned involuntary treatment into a debate point instead of using it as a viable option to prevent tragedy...."

...the government condemned the appraised area, paying for it with compensation supplied by the Ungactas, and transferred it to the Ungactas....

Tropical Cyclone Evan was stationary over Samoa for approximately 24 hours.... 

This week, President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) have been trading secret offers on the fiscal cliff....

... Washington Middle School in Olympia, Wash., [was] projected to use 28% less energy. The school consumed 19% more energy ....

Tomorrow is an important day for Obamacare. It’s the deadline for states to declare their intentions about setting up their own health insurance exchanges....

...the United States would gain significant geopolitical advantages. For example, it would lower the influence of the Middle East. In addition, the United States would be in a position to challenge Russia's influence in Europe....

Your medical plan is facing an unexpected expense, so you probably are, too. It's a new, $63-per-head fee to cushion the cost of covering people with pre-existing conditions....

...there's still lots of room for Mr Obama's administration to do more, and the US Travel Association has a great plan to further improve the situation....

In November, Michigan voters rejected a ballot proposal that would have amended the state constitution to prevent the legislature from passing a right-to-work law and elevated union contracts above state law....It lost by 15 points.

As they did at the previous 17 conferences, developing nations demanded that the United States and other developed countries pay them for the climate’s effects....

Insurance premiums could increase by thousands of dollars because of a new tax in President Obama's health care law....

Yesterday’s announcement that Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) is leaving the U.S. Senate to replace Edwin J. Feulner as president of The Heritage Foundation surprised the political establishment in Washington and underlined Heritage’s role as a key institution for America’s future....

Taxes on wages, dividends, interest, and partnership/sole proprietor income would exceed 50 percent only in Hawaii, California, and New York City….

President Obama wants to do away with Congress when it comes to raising the country’s legal debt limit....

Obama’s answer to the fiscal cliff is a proposed $1.6 trillion in tax hikes plus new stimulus spending—and expanded power for himself to raise the debt ceiling....

More than 4 million people who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 did not vote this year. But by applying new voter science, Obama nudged enough replacements in key states — many who were rare or first-time voters — to give him his margin of victory....

The White House’s proposal? $1.6 trillion in tax increases, $50 billion in new stimulus spending, and a change that would make it easier to raise the debt limit....

Among the 50 states, the top 10 least competitive commercial health insurance markets are in: 1. Alabama, 2. Hawaii, 3. Michigan....

...this action should not be taken as a sign that the Supreme Court is reconsidering the merits of the claims it addressed in NFIB....

The U.S. Supreme Court decides next week whether to hear challenges to laws defining marriage as the conjugal union of a man and a woman....

Survey of four-bedroom, two-bathroom homes covers 72,000 properties in 2,500 U.S. Markets....

...HSUS did not provide grants to any Hawaii shelters and rescues in 2011 to support pet sheltering....

... rankings of the fifty U.S. states according to average monthly mortgage payment and provides the average monthly mortgage payment ....

"The ultrarich, including me, will forever pursue investment opportunities."

There are plenty of things to be thankful for this week, and this year as well....

Happy Thanksgiving from The Heritage Foundation! As we celebrate and give thanks today, we invite you to read President Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation below....

...today NOAA Fisheries announced two actions to protect false killer whales in the Pacific Islands....

...because Hawaii link its system to the federal revenue code by adopting various federal definitions of income or various federal deductions and credits....

Government unions know that Congress is looking for ways to nip and tuck the federal budget, and they’re counting on being left out of the deal.

If unions are trying to be more popular with the American people, they’re doing it wrong.

HART will sign a full funding grant agreement with the FTA to provide $1,550,000,000 for the Oahu rail project, according to a Congressional notification sent to the Senate Committee on Appropriations....

The shale-oil boom can help the United States surpass Saudi Arabia as the largest oil supplier by 2020, according to the International Energy Agency....

Two relatively new services are facilitating a market for medical services — with price and quality competition, as well as transparency....

• Senate: Cybersecurity – Cloture
• Senate: Sportsmen’s Access to Federal Land – Cloture
• House: Russia Trade Relations, Human Rights Oversight – Passage

In 2010, the five states with the lowest antibiotic use in the nation were Alaska, Hawaii, California, Oregon, and Washington....

Today, five public policy organizations including The Heritage Foundation are presenting their plans to first slam on the brakes before driving off the cliff, and then to reverse course and tackle our massive spending challenges ....

“Investigations have shown that DOE officials intentionally stalled numerous applicants’ reviews in order to force them out of business and protect favored players”

The subsidies for insurance through the newly established state-based exchanges also increased....

... adjusted to reflect geographic differences in housing costs ....

Large changes to both taxes and spending are scheduled to take place at the end of the year unless Congress acts....

James Donovan on CSUF campus November 28, 2012....