Larry Margasak

• President signs whistle-blower bill

  By Larry Margasak  |  November 27, 2012

  Federal employees who expose fraud, waste and abuse in government operations now have new protections against retaliation.

• Business making anti-regulation pitch to voters

  By Larry Margasak  |  September 18, 2012

  The National Association of Manufacturers, U.S. Chamber of Commerce and National Federation of Independent Business are working to make the anti-regulatory fervor their members share an issue in the last weeks of the campaign.

• Republicans grill IRS commissioner on health care

  By Larry Margasak  |  August 2, 2012

  House Republicans on Thursday grilled the head of the Internal Revenue Service on the agency's decision to apply the health care law's tax credits in states that decide not to carry out a key provision of the statute.

• House bill drawn up to can tax deadbeats

  By Larry Margasak  |  August 1, 2012

  A bill to fire federal workers who are tax deadbeats passed the House on Tuesday in an attempt to confront a problem that showed little improvement in the past decade.

• House GOP passes latest anti-regulation bill

  By Larry Margasak  |  July 26, 2012

  The Republican-led House has passed legislation that would freeze major government regulations until the unemployment rate, now at 8.2 percent, drops to 6 percent or below.

• House passes insider trading bill

  By Larry Margasak  |  February 9, 2012

  The House legislation vastly expands the list of felony convictions that would require lawmakers to be ineligible for their government pensions.

• House GOP offers its own insider trading bill

  By Larry Margasak  |  February 8, 2012

  New legislation from House Republicans would bar lawmakers who are convicted of a felony from collecting government pensions.

• GOP bill would increase congressional powers

  By Larry Margasak  |  December 7, 2011

  Congress would gain major new power over government regulations under legislation set for approval by the Republican-run House.