Posted on December 24th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Senator John Kerry released the following statement today after the Senate’s historic, Christmas Eve passage of comprehensive health care reform:
“This is a big step towards finally making affordable accessible health care a reality for every American,” said Sen. Kerry. “It took 60 votes, it took the commitment of a Senate willing to put itself on the line [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on April 20th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
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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Filed under: Democrats, In The News, John Kerry, News Media, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Recession, Senate
Posted on January 28th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
John Kerry, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chaired a Senate panel on Climate today with Al Gore offering key testimony. As chairman of the SFRC and a long time environmental activist, Kerry is posed to be “an influential player” in the efforts to forge ”a treaty and reshape U.S. policy on climate issues.”
Sen. Kerry’s [...]
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Filed under: Democrats, Foreign Policy, Global Warming, In The News, John Kerry, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Senate
Posted on October 25th, 2008 by The Country Doc
New York Times Op-Ed piece yesterday by the unusual triumvirate of Bill Beane, Newt Gingrich, and John Kerry analogized the obsessive nature of baseball statistics to where we should head with health care. Baseball has left simple batting and earned run averages for a next generation of statistics including WHIP (walks and hits per innings pitched) and [...]
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Filed under: Healthcare, John Kerry, N.Y. Times, The Country Doc
Posted on October 16th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
As readers know I am moving to Maine in a few days. The area I am moving to is very rural and on the coast. It’s really beautiful there, but the area is some what remote and in preparing for my move, I have found there are no cell phone towers there and other utilities like [...]
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Filed under: Democrats, In The News, Internet, John Kerry, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Senate
Posted on October 14th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I’m winding down to my last few days before my big cross country move. It’s bad timing given the election, but it’s something I must do. Needlessto say I’m overwhelmed with packing and organizing and finalizing details, so finding time to post is difficult. That said, this arrived a short time ago in my email box [...]
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Filed under: Bush Admin, Congress, Democrats, Election '08, George W. Bush, House of Reps, In The News, John Kerry, News Media, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Senate, TV
Posted on February 21st, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
NBC News reported a few hours ago that “helicopters carrying three senior U.S. senators made emergency landings Thursday in the mountains of Afghanistan because of a snowstorm.”
Sens. John Kerry, Joseph Biden and Chuck Hagel were aboard the aircraft. No one was injured, according a statement from Kerry’s office. The senators and their delegation returned to [...]
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Filed under: Afghanistan, Democrats, In The News, International, John Kerry, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Republicans, Sen. Joe Biden, Senate
Posted on February 16th, 2007 by John Freeland
Has John Kerry been inspired by James Brown? The Senator is hammering on so many issues right now, he may be the hardest working man in Washington. Here is an exerpt from the Environmental News Network and the Center for Biological Diversity about the amicus brief supporting a lawsuit against the Bush Administration for [...]
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Filed under: Global Warming
Posted on November 5th, 2006 by mbk
As a new resident of Massachusetts, I’ve been amazed, frustrated, and often, infuriated by the snide, petty political reporting of the Boston Globe, and its snarky corps of local oped writers (the wonderfully thoughtful and intelligent Tom Oliphant took an early retirement, much to my sorrow, and the Globe’s loss). It has [...]
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Filed under: John Kerry, OP/ED's, Politics, Republicans, Senate
Posted on September 9th, 2006 by mbk
By now, Sen. Kerry’s magnificent speech on national security is up on the web, along with a number of color photos of the event and in the news (here and here). No need, then, for me to post that speech again—only to urge people to read that speech carefully, and to look for the video [...]
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Filed under: John Kerry, National Security, Politics, Republicans, Senate, Veterans Issues
