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10-27-05 The Status of World Trade Organization Negotiations
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10-6-05 U.S. – Bahrain Free Trade Agreement
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9-28-05 Hurricane Katrina: Community Rebuilding Needs and Effectiveness of Past Proposals
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9-13-05 Charities on the Frontline: How the Nonprofit Sector Meets the Needs of America’s Communities
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7-27-05 Improving Quality in Medicare: The Role of Value-Based Purchasing
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7-21-05 Updating Depreciable Lives: Is there Salvage Value in the Current System?
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6-30-05 Encouraging Savings and Investment: Stay the Course or Change Direction?
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6-29-05 Medicaid Waste, Fraud and Abuse: Threatening the Health Care Safety Net
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6-28-05 Medicaid Waste, Fraud and Abuse: Threatening the Health Care Safety Net
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6-23-05 U.S. - China Economic Relations
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Description of the “Energy Policy Tax Incentives Act of 2005”
Estimated Revenue Effects of the Chairman’s Mark of the “Energy Policy Tax Incentives Act of 2005,” Scheduled for Markup by the Committee on Finance on June 6, 2005
6-15-05 The Future of Medicaid: Strategies for Strengthening American’s Vital Safety Net
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6-14-05 To review and make recommendations on proposed legislation implementing the U.S.-Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement
The United States-Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement Draft Implementing Bill
CAFTA-DR Draft Statement of Administrative Action
CAFTA-DR Senate Finance Staff Summary of the Draft Implementing Bill
CAFTA-DR USTR Summary of the Agreement
6-8-05 The Tax Code and Land Conservation: Report on Investigations and Proposals for Reform
Finance Committee Report on The Nature ConservancySenate Committee on Finance Report of Staff Investigations of the Nature Conservancy-Vol. II
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6-7-05 Preventing the Next Pension Collapse: Lessons from the United Airlines Case
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5-25-05 Social Security: Achieving Sustainable Solvency
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5-24-05 Hearing to consider the nominations of Alex Azar, II to be Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services, Department of Health and Human Services; Timothy D. Adams to be Under Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Department of Treasury; Shara L. Aranoff, to be Member of the International Trade Commission; Suzanne C. DeFrancis to be Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; and, Charles E. Johnson, to be Assistant Secretary for Budget, Technology and Finance, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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4-28-05 POSTPONED Encouraging Savings and Investment: Stay the Course or Change Direction
4-28-05 Building Assets for Low-Income Families
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4-26-05 Proposals To Achieve Sustainable Solvency, With and Without Personal Accounts
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4-21-05 Hearing to consider the nomination of Robert J. Portman to be United States Trade Representative
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4-14-05 The $350 Billion Question: How to Solve the Tax Gap
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4-13-05 The U.S. - Central America - Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement
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4-5-05 Charities and Charitable Giving: Proposals for Reform
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3-16-05 Expiring Tax Provisions: Live or Let Die
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Personal Responsibility and Individual Development
for Everyone (PRIDE)3-8-05 Physician-Owned Specialty Hospitals: In the Interest of Patients or a Conflict of Interest?
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3-1-05 Financial Status of PBGC and the Administration's Defined Benefit Plan Funding Proposal
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2-16-05 The President's Budget Proposals
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2-8-05 Revenue Proposals in the President's FY2006 Budget
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2-2-05 Long Term Outlook for Social Security
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