Sep 23, 2009 ... For the first time in history, the Democratic Congress will not allow an increase in  the social security COLA (cost of living adjustment). ⬐ Click to ... The CPI-W  peaked a year ago, just before the 5.8 percent increase was calculated, and took  a nose dive in the months that followed. Quarterly figures won't be ...
Hastert rose through the Republican ranks in the House, becoming chief deputy  whip and eventually Speaker in 1999. As Speaker of the House, Hastert  supported the George W. Bush administration's foreign and domestic policies.  After Democrats took control of the House in 2007 following the 2006 election,  Hastert chose ...
Oct 8, 2012 ... The markets had gone into a nose dive in October 2007, triggered by the  collapse of the housing bubble and the subsequent banking crisis. They  continued to plunge during the worst economic recession since the Great  Depression, which began in December 2007. Unlike the job market, stocks had  nearly ...
Jan 30, 2012 ... According to the political scientists Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal, who  have devised a widely used system to measure the ideology of members of  Congress, when Obama took office there was no ideological overlap between the  two parties. In the House, the most conservative Democrat, Bobby ...
Oct 15, 2016 ... But in light of the looming November vote, we took a look at what happened in  the markets over the past few decades in relation to US presidential elections. ... " The strong performance of the index in 2009 was not due to the election of  President Obama and retention of a Democrat-controlled Congress in ...
The economy began its nose dive when Democrats took control of Congress in January 2007.