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OMAHA, Neb. -- Ameritrade Holding Corporation (NASDAQ:AMTD) Chief Operating Officer Pete Ricketts today announced that he plans to leave the Company t...
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WASHINGTON, May 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- :
Pete Ricketts is an independent-minded, conservative leader who is dedicated to representing all Nebraskans. Pete will work to create jobs by making the tax cuts permanent and eliminating regulations that burden small businesses, reduce the cost of fuel by increasing production of energy supplies and expanding the availability of alternative fuels, and make healthcare more affordable and accessible by supporting medical malpractice reform. Pete Ricketts' common-sense agenda will benefit working families in The Cornhusker State and the Republican Party stands firmly behind him.
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OMAHA, Neb. -- TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation (NASDAQ:AMTD) today announced the election of J. Peter Ricketts to its board of directors. Ricketts w...
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See, here's the way the tax cuts work: If they are not extended or made permanent, your taxes are going up. See, if the Congress doesn't act to say, we're going to extend the tax cuts, or we're just going to make the tax cuts permanent, then you get to pay an increased tax.
... to thank you for sending Adrian Smith and Pete Ricketts to Washington, DC. You'd be happy to hear...
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OMAHA, Neb. -- TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation (NASDAQ:AMTD) today announced that J. Peter Ricketts has resigned from the TD AMERITRADE board of dir...
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Ameritrade executive Pete Ricketts, describing himself as anti-abortion conservative, launched an election campaign Saturday to unseat U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson, the only Democrat in Nebraska's congressional delegation.
I grew up with great values and tremendous opportunities," said Ricketts, Ameritrade's chief operating officer and son of its founder. "I want my three kids and other people's children to have the same opportunities that I had.
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... to thank you for sending Adrian Smith and Pete Ricketts to Washington, D.C. (Applause.) You'd b...
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Incumbent GOP Rep. Jim Gerlach pledged, if re-elected, to secure more funding for a local commuter rail line, special education programs and a national veterans' cemetery. Tammy Duckworth, the Democratic candidate for an open House seat in Illinois, pledges on her website to "return to the path of balanced budgets" and warns her partisan colleagues that "Democrats must be willing to end their defense of every spending program, regardless of its effectiveness or continued relevance." In Rhode Island, Democratic challenger Sheldon Whitehouse criticizes incumbent Republican Lincoln Chafee for opposing funding for port security even as he supported "billions in out-of-state pork-barrel projects.
... taxes, [higher] taxes on small businesses." Pete Ricketts, running against Democratic Sen. Ben Nels...
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Whether the issue is tax cuts, confirmation of Supreme Court justices or other federal judges, or anything of national urgency. In his one term as senator, Nelson has voted to confirm John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court and has supported nearly all of the Bush appointees to the U.S. Court of Appeals, although he did vote "no" on confirming Judge Priscilla Owens of Texas.
...Enter Pete Ricketts, fourth-generation Nebraskan and former c...
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WASHINGTON Facing the most difficult political environment since they took control of Congress in 1995, Republicans begin the final two months of the midterm campaign in growing danger of losing the House while fighting to preserve at best a slim majority in the Senate, according to strategists and officials in both parties.
Over the summer, the political battlefield has expanded well beyond the roughly 20 GOP House seats originally thought to be vulnerable. Now some Republicans concede there may be almost twice that number of districts from which Democrats could wrest the 15 additional seats they need to take control.
...Peter Roskam. Indiana 8: Both political parties began ad... challenge from wealthy businessman Pete Ricketts. * New Jersey: Sen. Bob Menendez was appointed to ...