Word: congressã
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...bankruptcies in industries vital to the nation’s economy. The airlines present an immediate risk, but if most of the nation’s insurance companies were to fail due to the attack, America’s economic infrastructure would be similarly jeopardized. In giving direct aid, Congress??€™s mission is not to redress all wrongs, but to make sure the U.S. economy continues to function...
Much of the nation has become united since the Sept. 11 attacks, with a surge of patriotism causing most—including members of Congress??€”to put aside political differences...
...front of full patriotic regalia and tidy posters created by the event’s organizers, four of Congress??€™ leading proponents of campaign finance reform—Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.), Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.), Representative Marty Meehan (D-Mass.) and Representative Christopher Shays (R-Conn.)—publicly pleaded for legislators to reform what the four proponents described as a faulty system...
...many abuses and inequities. It is more than unfair that certain individuals can refuse to pay their taxes and get a free-ride on the rest of society. Furthermore, we decry the IRS’s practice—to some extent mandated by a Republican Congress??€”of focusing what little resources for enforcement they do have on the poorest in our society rather than those bilking the government out of billions in lost tax revenue. Congress may not yet have passed a tax cut for the rich, but it has let the wealthy take one for themselves...