Posted on August 29th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Senator John Kerry (D-MA) spoke this evening at the Celebration of Life Memorial Service for Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Kerry’s speech was a moving and very touching tribute to a man who meant so much to Senator Kerry and so many here in Massachusetts, America and the world.
The following is the text of Senator Kerry’s speech as prepared [...]
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Posted on October 13th, 2008 by The Country Doc
Congress’s $700 billion bailout package unbeknownst to seemingly everyone, or at least me, also contained within it a valuable piece of legislation regarding mental health services that advocates have been fighting for years to pass. The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 was passed into law as part of the Emergency Economic [...]
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Posted on September 30th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Two days after the Bail Out Bill failed in the House, the Senate plans to vote on the “$700 billion bank rescue plan,” on Wednesday evening. The Senate Bill “adds new provisions – including raising the FDIC insurance cap to $250,000 from $100,000 – and will be attached to an existing revenue bill that the [...]
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