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TERM LIMITS for all! No more career politicians! No more ’special’ benefits like premium healthcare insurance and read more retirement programs.
Last update: March 1, 2010 - 11:03 AM Monday morning, Gov. Tim Pawlenty appeared unworried and unpressured by the coming afternoon vote to override his veto of General Assistance Medical Care spending.
One of the memes going around Washington is that Obama’s biggest political problem is that he doesn’t scare anybody .
One runway is causing a whole lot of problems at one of the nation’s most delay-plagued airports.
Make no mistake: If President Barack Obama actually wanted to be the post-partisan agent of Washington change, his health-care summit would have looked a whole lot different than the meeting he recently held across the street from the White House.
His Republican vote is news in the town where the partisan divide is colder and harder than a steel rod buried in Arctic ice.
After years of a stagnant economy, furloughs are nothing new to private-sector workers - including newspaper reporters! - and even many state and local employees.
Share + Feb 27, 2010 10:30 am US/Eastern House GOP Bill Senate Dems Bill President Barack Obama said Saturday he is ready to compromise with Republicans on health care if they are serious about it, but that an overhaul must go forward.
… to more individualized therapy for cancer patients.” The research was supported by grants from National Institutes of Health. Vanderbilt University Medical Center New Biomarkers for Predicting the Spread of Colon Cancer (Jan. 18, 2010)
… of the plant. “I loved that company. I loved the people who worked there.” There was no severance package, no more health insurance and no more stability. Joseph had to cut everything from landline phone to life insurance. No longer able to pay …
President Barack Obama said Saturday he is ready to compromise with Republicans on health care if they are serious about it, but that an overhaul must go forward.
Those with little or no health insurance are much closer to haveing a one-stop shop for medical care.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that U.S. diplomacy has moved China closer to the American view that Iran’s continuing refusal to come clean on its nuclear program demands tough new U.N. sanctions.
This June 10, 2006 photo shows a 1996 Camry driven by Koua Fong Lee that crashed into the back of an Oldsmobile Ciera in St.
The Obama administration will work with Congress in developing a plan for sending astronauts to Mars and will release it in the a oecoming months,a the head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said today.
House Communications Subcommittee member Greg Walden , a former broadcaster and one of the industry’s strongest champions on the House Energy & Commerce Committee, is taking a leave of absence to push for House reforms as leader of the GOP Congressional Transparency Initiative.
Among states, California arguably has the most to gain from an overhaul of its health care system: it has the greatest number of uninsured residents in the country and the largest public insurance program for the poor, which struggles to serve 6.5 million people while reimbursing doctors at one of the nation’s lowest rates.
” The nation cannot afford Congress continuing to borrow and print its way into a financial Apocalypse to pay for unsustainable entitlement programs.
As Gov. Rick Perry spoke to a Capitol anti-abortion rally, a supporter of Republican opponent Debra Medina tried to steal some of the show.
President Barack Obama phoned Senate allies Saturday as two key senators predicted that embattled Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will be confirmed for a second term.
To all those kind-hearted folks who want to protect my feelings as an African American from the insult that Sen.
An already difficult situation for Democrats in Congress is worsening as the 2010 political season opens.
Robert Morgenthau has been cast in many roles during his decades in office. The inspiration for the district attorney on TV’s “Law&Order.” A taker-on of mobsters, misbehaving celebrities and corrupt CEOs.
Football fans and “American Idol” devotees can breathe a sigh of relief. Fox and Time Warner Cable have reached a deal in principle that will keep the network on the cable provider after Fox threatened to pull the plug over a fee dispute.
Philadelphia’s first black district attorney will take the oath of office on Monday.
Months ago, a delegation of Republican senators went to the White House with a request for President Barack Obama to take a more gradual approach to health care.He demurred, according to one official familiar with the meeting, saying that’s not what he promised when he ran for the White House.Now, with multiple trade-offs made, Obama and his …
Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar, stars of TLC’s “18 Kids and Counting,” recently welcomed their 19th child Josie Brooklyn, who weighed 1 pound, 6 ounces at birth.
For higher education, 2009 was a time of lofty goals and harsh realities, of major policy shifts in Washington and financial struggle on campuses nationwide.
The Senate on Thursday approved Miriam Sapiro to be deputy U.S. trade representative for Europe and the Americas, filling one of several still vacant slots on President Barack Obama’s senior trade team.
US Senator Carl Levin applauded passage of the 871 billion dollar healthcare reform bill on Thursday morning.
Marc Torchi burned some yard debris and thought firefighters put it out. Four days later, the most costly wildfire in South Carolina history swept toward Myrtle Beach.
Democrats scrambled over the weekend to stave off defeat in a closer-than-expected Massachusetts Senate race that has raised Republican hopes of dealing a crippling blow to President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform agenda and other top domestic policy priorities.
Hoyer: I’m ‘Disappointed’ In John McCain’s Flip Flop On Climate Change > > Posted By mesodude 4 hours, 22 minutes ago in Political News > During the 2008 presidential campaign, Sen.
The House passed the most ambitious restructuring of federal financial regulations since the New Deal on Friday, aiming to head off any replay of last year’s Wall Street failures that plunged the nation deep into recession.
The House of Representatives approved the biggest changes in financial regulation since the Great Depression on Friday, marking a win for the Obama administration and congressional Democrats.
Members of Congress are demanding emergency action to prevent Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes and devastating their $7 billion fishery.
The Obama administration’s pay czar is limiting the cash compensation for executives at companies that received the largest taxpayer bailouts to $500,000. The 25th through the 100th top earners at Citigroup, GMAC, American International Group and General Motors also must take more than half their compensation in stock, and at least half must be …
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission was chastised this week in a Government Accounting Office report highlighting problems in the wireless industry and criticizing the FCC for failing to provide sufficient oversight.
Last night a strange spiral lit up the sky over Norway, from TrA ndelag to Finnmark, and many people took pictures.
Share + Comments Dec 9, 2009 4:32 pm US/Eastern NEW YORK 1 of 1 Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, a Mormon, has given the world “Eight Days of Hanukkah,” a cheerful pop ballad celebrating the Festival of Lights.
Today is Thursday, Dec. 3, the 337th day of 2009. There are 28 days left in the year.
Rancher, business man and politico supreme Bruce King passed away overnight at his ranch in Stanley, New Mexico at age 85 after a bout with heart problems and a life of full of hard work, service and friendly good humor.
Obama on Fort Hood shootings US President Barack Obama promises the government will get ‘answers to every single question’ about the Fort Hood shootings.
Senators tussled over the cost of climate legislation Tuesday with the leading author of the bill maintaining that while energy prices will increase, inaction on global warming would cause even worse economic and security problems.
Kenneth R. Feinberg. AGE - 63, born Oct. 23, 1945, in Brockton, Mass. EXPERIENCE - Obama administration “pay czar” for financial bailout program, June 2009 to present.
- Should people pay penalties if they refuse to buy health insurance? The answer had seemed simple to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., whose panel has spent months drafting legislation to overhaul health insurance: Refuse to …
… ancer, the survival rates are about equal. Sources: American Cancer Society, (www.cancer.org); National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute (www.cancer.gov)
Cancer survivor and community philanthropist Dr. Liz Rhea was honored Saturday for her strength and good deeds by more than 300 attendees to the fifth annual Pearl Ball held at the historic Sam Davis Home in Smyrna.
Cuba’s Fidel Castro is the latest world leader to opine on the controversial award of the Nobel peace prize to President Barack Obama.
… provide people through the country with the choice of a public option,” said Richard Kirsch, campaign manager of Health Care for America Now, which advocates for a government program. “A public health insurance option needs to be: national, public …
