In his weekly address to the nation today, Barack Obama took on the health insurance industry and their deceptive ads about health care reform.
Via the NY Times:
“It’s smoke and mirrors,” Mr. Obama said. “It’s bogus. And it’s all too familiar. Every time we get close to passing reform, the insurance companies produce these phony studies [...]
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Senator John Kerry, Chairman of the Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet, will hold a hearing on May 6, to address the issues threatening the news media. It will be the first hearing since Commerce Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) appointed Kerry to lead the Subcommittee panel. The hearing will address recession’s impact on media and as well [...]
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Did you feel good watching President Obama address Congress and the nation last night? I certainly did.
Obama exuded confidence last night as spoke to Congress and the reviews all seem to echo the same theme, that Obama renewed the “audacity to hope” with his speech. In post speech polls as well, Obama received high marks on his [...]
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President Obama said in his weekly address today that “Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner will soon announce a new strategy for reviving the country’s financial system while making sure that banking executives do not misuse federal money meant to assist their companies.”
Watch Obama’s weekly address here:
I must say, I have to agree with Creature on [...]
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Filed under: Credit Crisis, Democrats, Economic News, Economy, In The News, Obama Administration, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, President Barack Obama, Wall Street
While I haven’t gotten the complete hang of this thing yet I’ve opened a Twitter account. My ancient cel phone, like the ancient laptop, can actually SMS so I’ll try and do something memorable, or not, fairly often. My life is anything but boring. My forehead is flat from banging it against so many walls.
I [...]
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President George W. Bush will not attend the Republican convention and will instead address the assembly via satellite so he can oversee the federal response to Hurricane Gustav, the White House said on Sunday.
“The president and vice president decided not to travel to Minnesota due to the hurricane,” White House spokeswoman Dana [...]
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Filed under: Bush Admin, George W. Bush, In The News, Politics, Presidential Election, Republicans, Stuart O'Neill
Senator John Kerry will deliver a major address at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, on Monday, September 19.
Senator Kerry is speaking at Brown as part of the Licht lecture series.
Who: Senator John Kerry
When: Monday, September 19
4:00 [...]
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Bush Plan fails to address real environmental justice problems facing our nation’s communities
Several members of Congress — led by Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and U.S. Representatives Hilda L. Solis (D-Calif.) and Alcee L. Hastings (D-Fla.) — today are urging the Environmental Protection Agency to drastically improve the shortcomings in the [...]
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