Senate showdown over limiting debit card fees
Consumers are wedged in the middle of a fight between bankers and merchants as the Senate stages a showdown vote over whether to limit fees that stores pay financial institutions every time a debit card is swiped.
Source: AP via Yahoo! News
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School finance plan passes Senate
The all-important vehicle for a school finance plan in Texas passed both the House and Senate Tuesday and is now headed to the governor's desk for signature.
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Republicans Block Senate Finance Panel From Considering Trade Pacts
Republicans Block Senate Finance Panel From Considering Trade Pacts
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Fight over debit card fees reaches Senate
WASHINGTON -- In a heavily lobbied fight pitting financial institutions against merchants, supporters of the nations banks pushed Tuesday toward a Senate vote aimed at blocking a government plan to...
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School finance bill passes Senate floor vote
The Texas Senate has approved a school finance proposal less than a week into the 82nd Legislature's special session.
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Texas Senate approves school finance plan that includes $4 billion in cuts
Funding for many North Texas school districts would be cut nearly 9 percent from current levels in 2012-13.
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Education funding in flux: Senate school finance proposal fails
With less than one week of the regular session left in the Texas Legislature, a Senate-approved school finance proposal has been killed on the House floor.
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Developers fueling Favola Senate bid
Ben Giles Examiner Staff Writer Follow Him @ben_giles More than half the money Arlington County Board member Barbara Favola has raised for her state Senate campaign has come from local real estate developers,...