内容摘要：Fed chair Jerome Powell said the potential for both higher unemployment and inflation are elevated, an unusual combination that complicates the central bank’s dual mandate of controlling prices and keeping unemployment low.

Fed chair Jerome Powell said the potential for both higher unemployment and inflation are elevated, an unusual combination that complicates the central bank’s dual mandate of controlling prices and keeping unemployment low.

Rangel said Cheney, who has a history of heart trouble, might be too sick to perform his job.“I would like to believe he’s sick rather than just mean and evil,” Rangel said. After several such verbal jabs, Cheney hit back, saying Rangel was “losing it.”

The charismatic Harlem lawmaker rarely backed down from a fight after he first entered the House in 1971 as a dragon slayer of sorts, having unseated Powell in the Democratic congressional primary in 1970. The flamboyant elder Powell, a city political icon first elected to the House in 1944, was ill and haunted by scandal at the time.In 1987, Congress approved what was known as the “Rangel amendment,” which denied foreign tax credits to U.S. companies investing inFormer Secretary of State

noted that he urged her to run for the Senate in 2000. Former Presidentrecalled working with Rangel in the 1990s to extend tax credits for businesses that invest in economically distressed areas.

Rangel became leader of the main tax-writing committee of the House, which has jurisdiction over programs including Social Security and Medicare, after the 2006 midterm elections when Democrats ended 12 years of Republican control of the chamber. But in 2010, a House ethics committee conducted a hearing on 13 counts of alleged financial and fundraising misconduct over issues surrounding financial disclosures and use of congressional resources.

He was convicted of 11 ethics violations. The House found he had failed to pay taxes on a vacation villa, filed misleading financial disclosure forms and improperly solicited donations for a college center from corporations with business before his committee.“I think these bills are trying to get at the reality that exceptions are really hard to comply with,” said Kimya Forouzan, principal state policy adviser at the Guttmacher Institute.

Still, Texas Republican Sen. Bryan Hughes, an architect of the state’s abortion ban, said the new bill’s goal is to avoid confusion among doctors.“One of the most important things we want to do is to make sure that doctors and hospitals and the hospital lawyers are trained on what the law is,” Hughes said.

In 2024, the Texas Supreme Court ruled against a group of women who say they were denied an abortion after experiencing serious pregnancy complications that threatened their lives and fertility.that the state’s laws were clear in allowing doctors to perform an abortion to save the life of the mother.