US Senate agrees to tone down stimulus package “buy America” words
GenevaLunch News The White House has convinced the US Senate to tone down the language of its version of the $900 billion US economic stimulus package following angry outcries from other governments...
View ArticleGuantanamo takes centre stage: Obama, Cheney “face off,” inmate to have US trial
GenevaLunch News The Guantanamo Bay prison on the island of Cuba has been centre-stage this week in the US, with President Barack Obama and former Vice-President Dick Cheney appearing in what NPR...
View ArticleUS raises questions about former VP Cheney hiding CIA activities
GenevaLunch News The number of questions is growing about former US Vice-President Dick Cheney’s orders to the CIA to hide some of their activities from Congress. By law, congressional subcommittees...
View ArticleObama puts pressure on US Senate to pass health bill
GenevaLunch News The US House of Representatives passed its version of a US health care reform Saturday 7 November and less than a day later President Barack Obama in a speech at the White House...
View ArticleUS Senate close to passing health care bill
GenevaLunch News The US Senate passed the final of three hurdles for new health care legislation, and has scheduled a Christmas Eve day vote to pass its version of a bill. The 24 December vote requires...
View ArticleFrench Senate passes veil ban
GenevaLunch News By 246-1 the French Senate voted 14 September to ban the use in public of veils which cover the entire face. The National Assembly had previously passed the law, which must now be...
View ArticleUS health care bill inches forward with Senate vote
GenevaLunch News US Senate Republicans failed Wednesday 2 February in their bid to repeal the healthcare act that was passed in March 2010, as expected, but before the vote the lawmakers passed an...
View ArticleUS Congress targeted for law change to end citizenship-based taxation
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - A proposal to the US Congress to end the citizenship-based tax system used by the United States was unveiled Monday by a Geneva-based international group,...
View ArticleUS president pushes for immigration reform
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – US President Barack Obama said Tuesday 29 January that the time has come for a sweeping overhaul of the country’s immigration system, with a bipartisan approach...
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