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Freedom Works has put together a list of companies that will be laying of employees as a result of President Barack Obama's health care law: Welch Allyn Welch Allyn, a company that manufactures medical diagnostic equipment in central New York, announced in September that they would be laying off 275 employees, or roughly 10% of their workforce over the next three years. One of the major reasons discussed for the layoffs was a proactive response to the Medical Device Tax mandated by the new healthcare law. Dana Holding Corp. As recently as a week ago, a global auto parts manufacturing...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has disclosed that she holds stock valued at up to $15,000 in Alcatel-Lucent (formerly Alcatel SA), a company with extensive investments in Iran and Sudan — nations that sponsor terrorism. The disclosure of Pelosi’s holdings comes at the same time that legislation is making its way through the California legislature barring state pension fund managers from investing in companies, like Alcatel-Lucent, that do business with "terror-friendly" nations. U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) arrives to speak at the 2007 "Take Back America" conference in Washington June 20, 2007. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES) According...

No Iran biz for Alcatel-Lucent CEO American CEO of newly created U.S. -French firm prohibited from doing business with Iran. December 1 2006 PARIS (Reuters) -- Patricia Russo, chief executive of the freshly merged Franco-U.S. group Alcatel-Lucent, will be barred, as a U.S. citizen, from doing business with Iran, she said on Friday. She did not say, however, if this would create problems for the Paris-based company that has enjoyed long-standing business relationships with Iran. The French company upgraded Tehran's telecoms networks in a contract won in 2001, built Iran's first high-speed DSL Internet network and has been providing some...