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The debate was over a provision in an appropriations bill to ban corporations that use the loophole from holding federal contracts.

"By passing new legislation by the court-imposed deadline, the Turkish government will prevent a loophole from emerging in the future," the ministry said.

One of the laws Mr. Bloomberg wants the Council to pass would, in effect, close a loophole from when Edward I. Koch was mayor.

House Democrats will introduce a separate proposal today to prevent companies that use the Bermuda loophole from doing work for the government.

The three Democratic commissioners favored closing an F.E.C. loophole from 2007 that requires disclosure only if a donor's stated "purpose" is to electioneer — as if any would-be secret donor would admit that.

Mr. Rangel never formally responded, and by late April, he had killed the effort in committee, striking the language that would close the loophole from the bill that Congress ultimately passed.

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At the federal level, these critics have advocated for what's known as the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would remove some perceived loopholes from the Equal Pay Act and would bar employers from punishing employees for discussing wages.

They're happy, of course, that their favored politicians are willing to go to the brink of catastrophe to keep even the most egregious tax loopholes from being closed.

Just four months before the VW emissions scandal broke, the EU's three biggest nations mounted a push to carry over loopholes from a test devised in 1970 – known as the NEDC – to the World Light Vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP), which is due to replace it in 2017.

But they worried that enacting the new measures would not only be a permanent boost to the deficit, but if signed into law would also exclude those loopholes from possible future tax reform efforts -- leaving more pressure to reduce breaks for the middle class, such as child tax credits and mortgage interest deductions, or cut spending.

Although the latest attempt to close the loophole came from Dave Camp, a Republican congressman from Michigan, as part of a 2014 plan to overhaul the tax code, the Speaker at the time, John Boehner, when asked about Camp's plan, said, "Blah, blah, blah".

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