Stimulus Scoop: High-Tech, H'Wood, Health
From Wednesday's CongressDaily AM Edition (subscription required):
Stimulus Conference Becoming Venue For E-Verify Battle
Immigration advocates are looking at conference negotiations over the economic recovery package as the main battleground to defeat an effort to require companies benefiting from stimulus spending to verify the legal status of their workers.
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Senate Votes Down Repatriation, Hollywood Provisions
The Senate Tuesday voted down tax breaks for high-tech and pharmaceutical firms as well as Hollywood studios but added one for the battered auto industry to the stimulus package. Business groups and companies such as Dell Inc. and Eli Lilly & Co. lost their bid for a one-year, 85 percent tax cut on foreign earnings brought back to the United States.
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Stimulus Health IT Amendments Lined Up For Consideration
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Chairman Edward Kennedy and Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., are expected to try to amend the health information technology section of the economic stimulus package to ensure that electronic medical records collect data on race, ethnicity and gender.
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