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The week ahead on the Hill: Curtain up on one budget, curtain down on another?

By Felicia Sonmez Negotiations between the White House and congressional leaders on keeping the government funded the remainder of the 2011 fiscal year continue to inch along , with only four days now standing between Washington and a potential federal…

Connecticut Technology Council Announces Finalists for Seventh Annual …

The Connecticut Technology Council ‘s today announced the finalists for the seventh annual Women of Innovation Awards Program.

Protalix BioTherapeutics Announces Presentation of PRX-105 Data at the BARDA Industry Day

Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc. , announced today that it has been invited to deliver an oral presentation on PRX-105, the Company’s plant cell expressed pegylated recombinant human acetylcholinesterase in development for use in several therapeutic and …

Earmarks Ban Would Affect RIF, ROR and 11 Others

A rider attached by Senator Tom Coburn to the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act , which proposes banning earmarks for the next three years, could have a devastating effect on educational programs like Reach Out and Read, Reading Is Fundamental, and Tea…

A Sad Day for Equal Pay: We Needed the Paycheck Fairness Act

Today, Senate Republicans voted down the Paycheck Fairness Act . The PFA would have strengthened the Equal Pay Act , making it harder for employers to discriminate by gender when paying their employees.

Echoes of 1994

Note: Andrew Kelly, a research fellow in education policy at the American Enterprise Institute, is guest-posting this week.

Narrow win means Heck must walk fine political line

Republican defeated incumbent Rep. Dina Titus by 1,922 votes Joe Heck, Republican congressman-elect, speaks with a reporter Wednesday at his campaign headquarters, at 6675 S. Tenaya Way, after narrowly defeating Democratic incumbent Rep.

Forum for Corporate Directors Hosts 7th Annual Directors’ Institute…

Julie Daum, a Nationally Recognized Leader in Corporate Governance and Executive Search for Boardrooms Throughout North America, Will Keynote the Directors’ Institute Dinner Among the Featured Panelists for the 2-Day Program Are Broadcom’s CEO, Scott M…

Washington Calendar: Washington events for Nov. 1 – 5

10 a.m.: ISM manufacturing activity gauge for October, released by the Institute for Supply Management.

USA’s debate over government’s role

Americans are having a crisis of confidence in their government. A majority in a new USA Today/Gallup Poll disapprove of the jobs President Barack Obama and Congress are doing and have unfavorable views of both major political parties.