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Four national associations of real estate appraisers have asked Congress for major regulatory reforms in the wake of an Associated Press investigation that identified key failings within the existing system.

Unlike the rest of us, most U.S. corporations and foreign companies doing business in the United States pay no federal income tax, according to a new report from Congress.

Higher Education Opportunity Act will require colleges, universities to spell out how they will combat unauthorized peer-to-peer file sharing of copyrighted material.

Mr. Bernanke, proud of the way that the Fed has worked in conjunction with Congress and the President to devalue the dollar, now wants the power to oversee the entire financial sector.

Mr. Bernanke thinks that he can save the economy by propping up each unstable institution and he wants the power to do that.

If you’re taking some well-deserved rest for the Fourth of July, you are probably getting at best a day or two off around the actual holiday itself.

Only in Congress could a break for the “Fourth” become a vacation spanning more than a week.

(University of British Columbia) Final preparations are underway as the University of British Columbia gets ready to welcome 10,000 delegates to the May 31-June 8 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the largest multi-disciplinary gathering of scholars in North America.

(University of Copenhagen) The UN Conference on Climate Change 2009 has asked IARU to organize this congress as part of the run-up to the COP Summit.

The focus is on providing a picture of the "big issues" that the scientific community finds necessary that policy makers are aware of in order to make enlightened decisions in response to climate change.

The main findings of this congress will be included in the official material for the COP15 meeting.