Government Policy and Law

Bowing to pressure from business groups worried about an avalanche of paperwork, the U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to rescind the Form 1099 tax reporting requirement included in last year’s health-care overhaul, Reuters reported.
 
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Former Iowa Supreme Court Justice Michael Streit has joined the law firm of Ahlers & Cooney P.C. as of counsel in its litigation, dispute resolution and investigations practice area, the firm announced yesterday.

Streit was …

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled a plan today to overhaul the federal budget and cut the deficit, Bloomberg reported.

The proposal would cut the deficit next year to $995 billion, down from …

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told lawmakers that failure to raise the federal government’s debt limit would bring “severe hardship” for Americans as the government would be forced to suspend services such as Social Security payments, …

Gov. Terry Branstad yesterday named Arlen Ciechanowski as the new director of the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy.

Ciechanowski has worked in law enforcement in Iowa for 36 years with the Ames Police Department, the Story …

As we’ve noted, the Iowa Legislature could be a lot more sharply focused on jobs and the economy. However, some business-related bills that were passed by the Senate were being considered by the House of …

The proposed reconfiguration of Iowa’s congressional and state legislative districts would put Republican Congressmen Tom Latham and Steve King in the new 4th Congressional District, and Democratic Congressmen Bruce Braley and Dave Loebsack in the …

For governors cutting education and health care and going after public-sector employees to balance budgets, here’s a message from Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn: You’re wrong. Not mistaken, not misinformed.

“Just plain wrong,” said Quinn, 62, …

A battle over the fees that banks charge merchants for debit cards intensified Wednesday after Democratic Sen. Jon Tester of Montana maneuvered for quick action on his legislation imposing a two-year delay for new government …

The U.S. Supreme Court suggested it may shield Wal-Mart Stores Inc. from a gender-bias suit on behalf of potentially 1 million female workers, in a case that may mean tighter restrictions on class action suits, …