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National Defense February 2007 Corrigan & Hickey |
Contractors Should Get Ready for Scrutiny Federal contractors must be prepared for the change in political and business climate in Congress. Companies can minimize risks by assessing political dangers and self-assessing ethics and compliance programs. |
InternetNews November 10, 2006 Roy Mark |
Will Dems Change Tech Policy? One-party rule in Washington ends next year when the 110th Congress convenes with Democrats taking over the House and the Senate. What does this mean for technology policy? |
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2010 Jill Wechsler |
New Ballgame in Washington Republican gains in Congress create uncertainty for health reform, drug regulation, and biomedical research |
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2008 Jill Wechsler |
Part D Under Attack Congressional leaders ready campaign to curb Medicare drug plans. |
The Motley Fool March 18, 2004 Brian Gorman |
Halliburton Under Fire Allegations against Halliburton's contract work in Iraq are still going strong. |
Salon.com May 17, 2001 Jake Tapper |
Dr. Mobil & Mr. Shell Overjoyed by the chance to portray Cheney & Bush as Big Oil fat cats, Democrats pour gasoline over the president's energy plan... |
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2006 Jill Wechsler |
Washington Report: The New Agenda Democrats are back on top in Congress after more than a decade as underdogs. The new leaders are mapping out a broad agenda with drug pricing and access high on the list. |
InternetNews December 8, 2010 |
Comcast-NBC Needs Net Neutrality: Waxman Chairman of House Energy and Commerce Committee asks Federal Communications Chairman to condition blockbuster media merger with anti-discrimination rules. |
BusinessWeek July 31, 2006 Dawn Kopecki |
When Outsourcing Turns Outrageous The U.S. Military has lost billions to fraud and mismanagement by private contractors in Iraq who do everything from cooking soldiers' meals to building hospitals to providing security. That raises a question: Does Pentagon outsourcing make sense? |
The Motley Fool March 22, 2004 Ben McClure |
Schlumberger: Top Pick? Halliburton's bad press could be good news for it's biggest rival in the cutting edge drilling, pumping, and data management technologies, Schlumberger. |
The Motley Fool July 23, 2004 Brian Gorman |
Halliburton's Mixed Quarter Its second quarter wasn't pretty, but the oil-field and engineering-services outfit might alleviate its problems if it decides to spin off KBR. Most investors would probably cheer the move. |
The Motley Fool March 12, 2007 David Lee Smith |
Halliburton Packs Bags for Dubai The giant energy-services firm announces plans to relocate headquarters from Houston to Dubai. Investors, take note. |
BusinessWeek October 2, 2006 Dunham & Javers |
How Business Is Wooing Democrats The possibility the GOP could lose the House has companies scrambling to make nice. |
AFP eWire November 13, 2006 |
Election Impact Uncertain on Fundraising and Philanthropy Although the recent change in political control is significant in potential impact for some national policies related to defense, trade, energy and taxation, it is not clear what the changes will mean for the nonprofit sector. |
The Motley Fool January 22, 2007 Michael P. Cecil |
Will Medicare Negotiate With Drug Companies? One of the bedrock principles of our economic system is that those buying more of a product receive a discount. Wouldn't empowering Medicare to save taxpayers' money be widely embraced as a great idea? But how would pharma investors see it? |
The Motley Fool March 8, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Politics in Your Portfolio Stocks behave differently under Democratic vs. Republican administrations. |
The Motley Fool July 22, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson |
A Hale Halliburton With the oil-field business booming and the KBR division profitable again, Halliburton looks healthy. Investors have every right to asses the situation for themselves and decide whether they're comfortable owning these shares. |
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2011 Jill Wechsler |
"Representing" Healthcare to the Fullest Since coming to Congress about 35 years ago, Henry Waxman, Congressional Representative from Los Angeles, California, has been pivotal in shaping legislation on health and drug regulatory issues. |
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2006 Peter J. Pitts |
Opinion: AARPeeved A look at the shortcomings of the AARP's regular "Trends" reports on prescription-drug pricing. |
BusinessWeek November 20, 2006 Maria Bartiromo |
Should Business Be Worried? Interview with Charlie Cook, one of the preeminent political analysts in America. |
InternetNews April 26, 2006 Roy Mark |
GOP Gets It Way on Net Neutrality House Commerce Committee Republicans defeated an effort by Democrats today to strengthen network neutrality provisions in the panel's telecom reform bill. |
Salon.com December 14, 2000 Jake Tapper |
Texas Dems get Bush-whacked During the great bipartisan show of George W. Bush's acceptance speech, some of his opponents were left out in the cold... |
BusinessWeek April 23, 2007 Richard S. Dunham |
As Power Shifts, So Do The Dollars The Democrats are getting more PAC funds this election season. |
InternetNews September 17, 2009 |
Net Neutrality Gets New Support in House FCC oversight hearing opens with a legislative digression and considers the stacked agenda before the agency. |
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2008 Jill Wechsler |
Challenge and Challenges Expanded healthcare coverage also fits the goals of pharma manufacturers. |
Reason February 2004 Tim Cavanaugh |
Political Body Snatchers How can you tell the evil party from the stupid party? |
The Motley Fool January 22, 2007 Jack Uldrich |
Solar Power Goes to Washington Solar power's success in lobbying Congress could benefit investors. |
AskMen.com October 1, 2013 Ian Lang |
The Shutdown: At Least It Doesn't Affect Happy Hour This is schoolyard politics, more akin to gang warfare than anything productive. |
BusinessWeek November 20, 2006 Dunham & Javers |
The Politics Of Change As power shifts on Capitol Hill, business faces a new reality |
The Motley Fool December 21, 2006 Jean Graham |
Halliburton and KBR Call It Quits Breaking up isn't hard to do. Shareholders who would prefer to hold a pure play in the energy services sector may rejoice in the new, leaner Halliburton, currently selling at a discount to its competitors. |
Reason April 2008 Ronald Bailey |
Medical Speech As a 1997 law expires, the FDA is mulling a plan allowing companies to disseminate unabridged reprints of "truthful and non-misleading" medical journal articles describing "off-label" uses of approved medications to physicians. |
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004 |
Contracting Trouble For Halliburton, things are going from bad to worse. After first being accused of winning a huge contract in Iraq because of its former CEO, Dick Cheney, the company now faces scrutiny of its handling of the contract. |
The Motley Fool April 4, 2007 David Lee Smith |
Halliburton's Wildly Attended Party Oilfield-services company Halliburton's exchange offer for shares of its former KBR subsidiary is vastly oversubscribed. |
InternetNews September 30, 2010 |
House Net Neutrality Compromise Derails After GOP members withdraw support, House committee chairman announces that he is shelving efforts to pass compromise legislation that would have set some rules barring discrimination against content on the Internet. |
InternetNews April 6, 2006 Roy Mark |
GOP Defeats Dem's Net Neutrality Moves House Republicans Wednesday strengthened net neutrality provisions in their working telecom reform legislation but turned back tougher measures demanded by Democrats. |
BusinessWeek August 13, 2007 Arlene Weintraub |
Putting Drug Ads Back In The Bottle Efforts to curb direct-to-consumer drug advertising are growing, but so far have met little success. |
The Motley Fool March 21, 2007 David Lee Smith |
Halliburton's North American Blip The oilfield service giant took it on the chin for its announcement of lower-than-expected first quarter results. Investors, take note. |
InternetNews November 3, 2005 Roy Mark |
House Panel Approves Data Breach Bill Democrats protest that the Data Accountability and Trust Act will have little or no effect. |
BusinessWeek November 13, 2006 Richard S. Dunham |
Who's Afraid Of Charlie Rangel? Business worries about the Dems gaining control of the House. Maybe it needn't fret. |
InternetNews November 18, 2005 Roy Mark |
Getting Along Over Tech? Just think what a little bipartisanship could actually accomplish for technology policy in this country. |
The Motley Fool October 25, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson |
More Energy, More Halliburton The drive for energy companies to increase production is fueling this energy services company's growth. The stock's near-term movements will more closely follow the day-to-day jiggles in oil prices than they probably should. |
The Motley Fool January 29, 2008 David Lee Smith |
Halliburton's Profitable Eastern Tilt With its CEO ensconced in Dubai, Halliburton saw big growth there. |
InternetNews November 16, 2005 Roy Mark |
Tech Feeling Democrats' Love House Democrats push a new agenda on broadband, stock option expensing and other tech-related issues. |
The Motley Fool March 16, 2007 David Lee Smith |
The Most Global of Businesses Investors, while it's absurd to contend that cycles have been completely wrung out of the energy sector, it's true that the changed picture in the sector has rendered the multiples currently being paid for these quality companies equally absurd. |
Investment Advisor November 19, 2010 Melanie Waddell |
GOP House Will Attempt to Rein in Health Care, Dodd-Frank Republicans will urge SEC, other regulators, to 'go easy' in interpreting Dodd-Frank |
The Motley Fool January 27, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson |
Halliburton Hale and Hearty Another oil services company shoots the moon. Investors, take note. |
InternetNews March 7, 2011 |
House Dems Complain of Net Neutrality Process Minority subcommittee leadership appeals to their Republican counterparts to slow down the move to overturn the FCC's net neutrality order, seeks amendment debate. |
The Motley Fool November 27, 2007 David Lee Smith |
The Frightening Idea of $100 Oil Why have oil prices raced upward so quickly, and what does all this mean to you? |
InternetNews December 26, 2006 Roy Mark |
New Leaders, Old Issues What's Next in Tech: Democratic lawmakers may put a new emphasis on network neutrality and data-privacy issues in 2007. |
The Motley Fool January 20, 2010 Brian Orelli |
Health-Care Reform: It's Not Over Yet Massachusetts has spoken with its election of Scott Brown to the Senate. What's up next? |