March 10th, 2010
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The chamber is slated to vote today on the legislation that would also provide $25 billion in aid to states, extend a package of miscellaneous tax cuts, temporarily ease corporate- pension funding requirements and prevent cuts in Medicare reimbursements to doctors.
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March 10th, 2010
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The 14 senators agreed action was needed to promote U.S. energy independence, create jobs in clean energy and cut pollution, said lawmakers who attended the meeting with President Barack Obama.
“If this group continues to work together, we can get something done,” [...]
March 10th, 2010
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Senator Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, and Senator Bob Corker, a Tennessee Republican, are near agreement to create a mechanism that will dissolve companies in an orderly way without using taxpayer funds, according to two Senate aides who declined to be identified yesterday because the talks are private. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner met Warner and [...]
March 9th, 2010
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In a recent appearance at the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia he turned a question about his retirement plans into an opportunity to deny he has political ambitions. An audience member asked if he planned to write a book when he left the Army. He responded by saying hed feared the politics question.
“The answer is [...]
March 9th, 2010
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Abortion rights groups such as Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America say the House and Senate versions of the bill represent the biggest expansion of abortion restrictions in years, yet theyre not trying to defeat the measures. Instead, a bitter dispute among abortion opponents over which version is stricter could derail Obamas quest to remake [...]
March 9th, 2010
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The “Counting for Dollars” study by the Washington-based Brookings Institution was released today as U.S. households have begun to receive the 2010 census questionnaires that will help determine more than $400 billion in annual federal funding for the next decade.
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March 9th, 2010
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“I hope the indirect talks will be a vehicle by which we can allay that layer of mistrust that has built up over the past years,” Biden said in a Jerusalem meeting today with Israeli President Shimon Peres.
Bidens visit began yesterday [...]
March 9th, 2010
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The measure sought to trim Californias $20 billion deficit, mostly through reductions in spending on prisons. Schwarzenegger, a Republican, said the bill overstated how much could be saved, particularly by deporting illegal aliens now in jail, and urged the Legislature to take other steps to narrow the shortfall in the $87 billion annual budget. [...]
March 9th, 2010
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Obama told an audience outside Philadelphia yesterday that insurers have calculated that higher premiums can more than make up for the loss of customers who cant afford coverage. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius highlighted her call to insurers to post information justifying their rates.
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March 8th, 2010
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Sen. Lindsey Graham says that if the president agrees to try alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four accused henchmen in military tribunals, he will press fellow Republicans to vote to close the Guantanamo Bay prison.
Graham, interviewed Sunday on CBS “Face the Nation,” says reversing Attorney General Eric Holders plan to [...]