The Democrats accused the majority of abusing House rules by stretching what should have been a five-minute vote to deliver a bill that Democrats said would benefit profitable oil companies but do little for American drivers.
Several states -- including California, New York and Vermont -- give DaimlerChrysler "emission credits," he said, that can benefit its profitable but far less fuel-efficient vehicles like S.U.V.'s.
Property/casualty insurers will further benefit from profitable underwriting, and 2008 will bring few major natural catastrophes.
There are many times in its 125-year history when the company has been a basket-case but, right now, the historic English brand is profitable, benefiting from increased consumer demand for bicycles and 10 years of mostly sound management.
In part, they are benefiting from having large, profitable shares of fast-growing domestic markets.
Based on these findings, regulations that shift value away from core providers to edge providers work to reduce total investment in infrastructure and suppress deployment of consumer broadband services, while dampening creation and preservation of jobs, as well as financially benefiting large and already profitable edge companies.
Its Chase retail banking unit benefited from more profitable home lending and an increase in fee income from checking accounts, debit cards and the sale of investment products.
"In particular the change will benefit those big profitable companies that might otherwise be thinking of shifting their activities to lower tax regimes".
G.M. and Chrysler, not to mention Ford, which didn't get taxpayer money but benefited indirectly, are profitable, hiring more workers, competing more effectively, gaining market share and building better cars and trucks.
An analysis of public records by ChicagoTalks, a news Web site produced by Columbia College Chicago, shows that TIF subsidies benefited dozens of profitable companies — many of them in Chicago's thriving downtown — while little money went to struggling, outlying neighborhoods.
