The Michigan Democrat confirmed in an interview she planned to exercise her seniority to take the gavel that had been held by Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who came Finance chairman. "We've got a lot of work to do on trade," Stabenow said. As trade subcommittee...
Finally, Senate Democratic leaders needed a bill to move to quickly after gun legislation all but died last week, and the Internet tax bill was ready. State governments would be required to provide software free to Internet retailers to calculate sales taxes. Amazon.com has joined...
Online commerce giant eBay Inc. has launched a campaign behind the scenes to greatly broaden an exemption from pending legislation for small online vendors; the legislation would mandate that they collect state sales taxes from their customers across the country....
A Federal Reserve survey released Wednesday found the U.S. economy grew in most parts of the country in January and February...