Tag: congress
member name: Jack E.
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November 06, 2009 04:26 PM EST --
By Kevin Drum
Democratic losses in Virginia and New Jersey are making Democratic congressmen nervous. What will happen to them a year from now when they stand for reelection?
Exit polls circulating . . .
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September 23, 2008 03:44 PM EDT --
This morning the news is full of the fall in the stock market, said to be the worst since the Great Depression in 1929.
Yet Sen. McCain said on the news this morning, “The fundamentals of the economy . . .
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May 16, 2009 10:20 PM EDT --
WASHINGTON -- Speaking on a Supplemental Appropriations bill that would continue to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement:
"America . . .
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October 05, 2009 10:07 PM EDT --
By Daniel Lyons
Don't Bail Out Newspapers—Let Them Die and Get Out of the Way
Nobody in their right mind believes the future of the news business involves paper and ink rather . . .
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October 15, 2009 07:15 AM EDT --
Associated Press Writer Stephen Ohlemacher
The Social Security Administration makes it official Thursday: There will be no cost of living increase for Social Security recipients next year, the . . .
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October 30, 2009 08:57 AM EDT --
Somewhere, a Hill staffer is really kicking himself now: A confidential House ethics investigation report has been leaked to The Washington Post after it was accidentally placed on a public server. With . . .
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June 19, 2009 08:09 AM EDT --
By Hilary S.
I've been an active environmentalist for years, but nothing makes me feel more powerless than two words: "Global Warming." I'm SO done with the debate about whether or not climate change . . .
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July 29, 2009 08:50 PM EDT --
WHITE HOUSE
Washington
If you’re like most Americans, there’s nothing more important to you about health care than peace of mind.
Given the status quo, that’s understandable. . . .
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October 04, 2009 02:17 PM EDT --
By Richard H. Curtiss Former U.S. Foreign Service Officer
For many years the American media said that “Israel receives $1.8 billion in military aid” or that “Israel receives . . .
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October 25, 2008 08:26 AM EDT --
Sarah Palin: Role as VP will be to Ignore The Constitution.
How much Constitutional power does the vice president have? It seems Sarah Palin is very confused regarding the position of Vice President... . . .
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May 03, 2009 03:22 PM EDT --
Recently, Rick Scott, who's for-profit hospital chain defrauded Medicare, bought ads on CNN and FOX News networks. Scott's ad contains blatantly false statements and misleading edits. We've . . .
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September 21, 2008 01:25 PM EDT --
To bad these phonies didn't speak up in the beginning instead of supporting this fascist bailout.
Many of the same economists and opinion-makers who'd provided a bipartisan sheen of consensus . . .
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September 25, 2008 11:11 AM EDT --
This is all the bailout is about.
As you may have heard, John McCain just announced he's suspending his campaign--and asking to postpone Friday's debate--so that he can return to Washington . . .
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September 25, 2008 07:04 PM EDT --
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Republican Sen. Richard Shelby emerged from President Bush's economic bailout meeting Thursday afternoon saying, "We will not have a deal."
Shelby, a senator from Alabama, . . .
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September 25, 2008 11:57 AM EDT --
After a nerve-rattling week in which the U.S. financial system was shaken to the core, here's a simple question: Why on Earth would anyone want to be president right now?
Even . . .
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October 28, 2008 10:52 AM EDT --
If Democrats end up winning big next week, not only at the presidential but the congressional level, to what extent will it represent an endorsement of the party's ideas? That would be the major question . . .
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December 04, 2008 09:56 AM EST --
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A national poll suggests that six in 10 Americans oppose using taxpayer money to help the ailing major U.S. auto companies.
Sixty-one percent of those questioned in . . .
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March 26, 2009 04:29 PM EDT --
Resistance to antibiotics is a growing public health crisis, afflicting hospital patients and seemingly healthy individuals alike. Doctors caution that these vital drugs should only be used when absolutely . . .
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September 25, 2008 12:03 PM EDT --
A recent letter writer noted that the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee (our Sen. Dodd) stated that he was going to get to the root of the cause of the current national financial debacle. Wow, such . . .
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October 01, 2008 05:10 PM EDT --
By Jonathan Tasini
30/09/08 "Working Life"
There is a great economic emergency looming in our country. But, it seems to me that we—or at least our elected leaders—have only looked . . .
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