For the past several weeks, I’ve stated consistently that it was critical that Congress not go home without preventing a tax increase on 160 million working Americans. Today, I congratulate members of Congress for ending the partisan stalemate by reaching an agreement that meets that test.
When you’re caught under the mistletoe, the tradition is to kiss the person next to you. This holiday season you may want to wow them first with some cool mistletoe facts from Smithsonian botanist Sylvia Orli.
NEW YORK-Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that New York State Senator Carl Kruger pled guilty today to participating in bribery schemes in which he accepted nearly half a million dollars in exchange for taking official actions. As part of the schemes, the corrupt payments intended for […]
WASHINGTON – Kexue Huang, a Chinese national and a former resident of Carmel, Ind., was sentenced today to 87 months in prison and three years of supervised release on charges of economic espionage to benefit components of the Chinese government and theft of trade secrets.