<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Policy</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/business/government?nav=rss_business/government</link><description>Policy</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Tax (Criticism) Day]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54721-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_business/government</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54721-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_business/government</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:21:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[To many Americans, particularly those who have waited until the last minute to file their tax returns, this week is the low point in their in their relationship with their government.]]></description><author> Albert B. Crenshaw</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Erosion of Estate Tax Is a Lesson in Politics]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48025-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_business/government</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48025-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_business/government</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:21:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A House vote to permanently repeal the estate tax would move the Mars candy, Gallo wine and Campbell soup fortunes one step closer to a goal that once seemed quixotic at best: ending all taxation on inheritances.]]></description><author> Jonathan Weisman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the Top, Pennies Per Share Add Up]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35671-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_business/government</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35671-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_business/government</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:21:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Like many companies in Silicon Valley, Xilinx Inc. liked its cash  --  for expansion, for investment and for stock buybacks that boosted its share prices. But when Congress and President Bush slashed the tax rate on dividends in 2003, the San Jose chipmaker had a change of heart.]]></description><author> Jonathan Weisman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report: Officials Fail to Track Lobbying]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35425-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_business/government</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35425-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_business/government</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:21:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The government has fallen behind in keeping track of the billions of dollars a year that lobbyists spend, according to a study by the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity.]]></description><author> Jeffrey H. Birnbaum</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charities Work to Regain Donor Confidence]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28477-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_business/government</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28477-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_business/government</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:21:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[United Way's rapid descent  --  and problems at other respected charities around the nation  --are fueling a regulatory drive to make it clearer to donors what happens to their money.]]></description><author> Carrie Johnson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Legislators to Take Up Replacing OFHEO]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28498-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_business/government</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28498-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_business/government</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:21:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Congressional efforts to toughen government oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac resume Wednesday, with the mortgage finance companies politically weakened by financial scandal and their chief government nemesis leaving the stage.]]></description><author> Terence O'Hara and Kathleen Day</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tax Abuse Rampant in Nonprofits, IRS Says]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26388-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_business/government</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26388-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_business/government</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:21:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Charities and other nonprofits exempted from taxes because they serve a public purpose have become a hotbed of tax evasion and abuse, according to the head of the IRS.]]></description><author> Albert B. Crenshaw</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Ethics Rules Cost NIH Top Researcher]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19925-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_business/government</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19925-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_business/government</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:21:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[James F. Battey, chief of NIH's stem-cell program and director of that agency's deafness institute, will retire in September, citing his inability to comply with strict new conflict-of-interest rules that have prompted a backlash.<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Michael S. Rosenwald  and Rick Weiss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[World Bank Board Approves Wolfowitz]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15947-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_business/government</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15947-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_business/government</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:21:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The board of the World Bank unanimously approved Paul D. Wolfowitz today as the bank's next president, heralding a new era of conservative influence over the giant antipoverty institution.]]></description><author> Paul Blustein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[AARP Digs Deep in Social Security Fight]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11076-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_business/government</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11076-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_business/government</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:21:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Over this week and last, the nation's largest lobby will have spent more than $5 million on ads attacking Bush's plan  --  nearly three times as much as all the supporters of his proposal put together. That's just for starters.]]></description><author> Jeffrey H. Birnbaum</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservatives Splitting On Social Security]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8000-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_business/government</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8000-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_business/government</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:21:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush's proposal to add private investment accounts to Social Security is beginning to create controversy within the one group that has most forcefully embraced the idea in theory: the conservative intelligentsia.]]></description><author> Jonathan Weisman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wolfowitz Closing In on World Bank Post]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55122-2005Mar21.html?nav=rss_business/government</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55122-2005Mar21.html?nav=rss_business/government</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:21:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz closed in  on  the presidency of the World Bank Monday when  Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said  Germany would not try to block Wolfowitz's candidacy.]]></description><author> Paul Blustein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kaine Urges 20% Exemption for Va. Homeowners]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45136-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_business/government</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45136-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_business/government</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:21:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Lt. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine unveiled a homeowner tax relief plan as one of the cornerstones of his Democratic gubernatorial campaign, calling for a state constitutional amendment to allow local governments to exempt as much as 20 percent of a home's value from real estate taxes.]]></description><author> Peter Whoriskey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paul Wolfowitz Picked to Head  World Bank]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39858-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_business/government</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39858-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_business/government</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:21:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush has nominated the controversial deputy secretary of defense, and key architect of the Iraq War, to lead World Bank.]]></description><author> Paul Blustein  and Peter Baker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPA to Issue  Rule on  Mercury]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35072-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_business/government</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35072-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_business/government</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:21:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Environmental Protection Agency will issue a rule to reduce mercury emissions from power plants through a cap-and-trade system that allows some power plants to make deep pollution cuts while others make none.]]></description><author> Shankar Vedantam</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forum Withdraws Support of Bush Plan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35424-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_business/government</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35424-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_business/government</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:21:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Another major Wall Street player has dropped out of a business coalition that supports President Bush's restructuring of Social Security.]]></description><author> Jeffrey H. Birnbaum</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing Skepticism of Bush Social Security Plan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35231-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_business/government</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35231-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_business/government</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:21:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Three months after President Bush launched his drive to create private investment accounts, public support for his program remains weak, according to a new poll.]]></description><author> Jonathan Weisman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[House Panel to Address Subprime Lending]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35366-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_business/government</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35366-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_business/government</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:21:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Key members of the House Committee on Financial Services may introduce new federal legislation on so-called predatory lending practices as early as today.]]></description><author> Terence O'Hara</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hearings Focus on $100B Army Plan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35118-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_business/government</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35118-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_business/government</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:21:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Army's Future Combat System, an ambitious program of land and air vehicles connected by wireless computers, will get fresh scrutiny from Congress starting this week. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Renae Merle</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[CompUSA Bound by Advertised Rebates]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28619-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_business/government</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28619-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_business/government</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:21:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Federal Trade Commission Friday reached a settlement with CompUSA Inc., requiring it to pay for rebates that a supplier failed to deliver to customers  --  an action designed as a warning to retailers that they will be held accountable for rebates they advertise.<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Caroline E. 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