So, let us celebrate the facts, and mourn the passing of a former actor and, seemingly, a nice guy. Who proved that playing a legend makes one a sort of legend himself, assuming that Walt Disney makes enough money on the proposition…
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In a sign that it seems to want to capture the same anger that has threatened healthcare reform, a prominent group of anti-immigration activists are charging that congressional Hispanics are supporting healthcare reform because President Obama promised also to push immigration reform this year.
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) Thursday called for passage of Obama’s healthcare [...]
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The forces that propelled a political breakdown between Democrats and Republicans which rendered the notion of bipartisanship nothing more than quaint and unattainable is so complete that it has moved on and metastasized.
The phenomena fueling the disunity now has manifested within each party, wearing away at the internal cohesion of each. For proof, just listen [...]
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Healthcare reform legislation in the Senate already is very bipartisan, according to a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Refuting one of the key charges Republicans have leveled against healthcare reform — that Senate Democrats have crafted a highly partisan bill devoid of GOP ideas – spokesman Jim Manley says the package more than 145 [...]
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Apparently a day is all it took.
We reported Tuesday that, although a variety of financial reform advocates believe the new Senate reform package lacks needed teeth, they stopped short of declaring outright opposition to the bill. There appeared to be a sense that provisions — particularly those placing a new consumer-protection agency within the Federal [...]
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Rep. David Obey has made no secret of his skepticism of President Obama’s direction in Afghanistan. But when it comes to Obama’s economic policies, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday leaped to the president’s defense.
In fact, the veteran Wisconsin Democrat opened a hearing on the federal budget and broader economic outlook for [...]
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Supporters of financial reform are, as expected, panning Sen. Chris Dodd’s legislation for submerging a proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA) within the Federal Reserve.
But there also seems to be a sense that that can be changed before the bill becomes law.
The chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Dodd unveiled his reform legislation Monday, after [...]
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A Democratic House member from Pennsylvania is asking the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee to add the Pennsylvanian’s foreclosure prevention plan to the Senate version of financial oversight reform.
Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) asked Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) to add an emergency mortgage assistance program to the financial reform [...]
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A Pennsylvania district attorney took campaign funds from an organization which promotes killing live pigeons in contests, and then refused to allow the prosecution of animal cruelty charges against a gun club that hosts pigeon shooting contests.
DA John T. Adams of Berks County accepted $500 campaign contributions from the Flyers Victory Fund in August 2008 [...]
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It’s been declared dead before, only to be resurrected — and Democracy for America (DFA) hopes to pull that rabbit out of a hat one more time.
The progressive advocacy organization is rallying supporters to push House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to include a provision for a healthcare public option in the final bill lawmakers approve and [...]
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