Tag: Susan Collins
Government funding bill advances as Senate works to beat midnight shutdown...
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate is laboring to approve a $460 billion package of spending bills in time to meet a midnight deadline for avoiding a...
Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge picked up last month in sign...
WASHINGTON (AP) – An inflation gauge favored by the Federal Reserve increased in January, the latest sign that the slowdown in U.S. consumer price...
Why the U.S. job market has defied rising interest rates and...
WASHINGTON (AP) – Last year's spike in inflation, to the highest level in four decades, was painful enough for American households. Yet the cure – much...
At CCRI, Boston Fed chief hints at possible pause in interest...
WARWICK – In her appearance at the Community College of Rhode Island Thursday, Susan M. Collins, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of...
Fed’s Kashkari: Jobs report shows why more rate hikes needed
WASHINGTON (AP) – The solid U.S. jobs report for October underscores why the Federal Reserve needs to raise interest rates higher than it had previously...
Liberal R.I. could send Republican to U.S. House
PROVIDENCE (AP) – In liberal Rhode Island, Republican Allan Fung stands a chance of flipping a U.S. House seat and possibly helping his party...
Boston Fed’s Collins says ‘modest slowdown’ is possible
WASHINGTON (AP) – Susan Collins, the new president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, said Monday that a higher unemployment rate will be...
Jackson confirmed as first Black female high court justice
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Thursday, shattering a historic barrier by securing her place as...
Senate passes U.S. tax overhaul, putting GOP on brink of big...
WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans passed the most extensive rewrite of the U.S. tax code in more than 30 years, a bill that delivers a...
Senate GOP kills health care bill, ending ACA repeal quest
NEW YORK - Senate Republicans gave up on their last-ditch proposal to repeal Obamacare Tuesday as opposition in their own ranks ended months of...
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