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Guantanamo Bay Detainees site should be Open or Closed: What you want? »
Posted by: WikiMap 5 months, 4 weeks ago in News
We need to keep the Guantanamo Bay detainees site open. The Senate, in a rare flash of wisdom, told Mr. Obama that he will not ...
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Religious Right Spreads Lies About Hate Crimes Bill »
Posted by: Spadecaller 7 months ago in Religion
New hate crime legislation will soon be under consideration by Congress and the religious right is flipping out about it. When a crime that results ...
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Stimulus bill narrowly survives Senate test vote »
Posted by: STONERS 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
An $838 billion economic stimulus bill backed by the White House narrowly advanced in the Senate on Monday over strong Republican opposition, and Democratic leaders ...
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ClimatebillneededtosaveourplanetsaysObama »
Posted by: gamahuche 8 months, 4 weeks ago in News
President Obama lent his voice last night to the push for a mandatory cap on greenhouse gas emissions, using his first speech to a joint ...
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Franken Wins Bipartisan Support For Legislation Reining In KBR’s Treatment Of Rape »
Posted by: bluetexasvalley 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Political News
In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by her co-workers while she was working for Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad. She was detained in a shipping ...
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Pat Roberts Pleads For Three-Day Delay So Lobbyists Can Read Health Care Legislation (VIDEO) »
Posted by: bluetexasvalley 1 month, 4 weeks ago in Political News
Senate Finance Committee member Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) earnestly pleaded on Wednesday for the committee to delay a vote on its version of health care reform ...
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Rx for U.S. Healthcare Reform A Proven Model for Non-Profit Universal Healthcare »
Posted by: Radiofreeeuropa 1 month, 1 week ago in Health & Fitness
it remains to be seen if Congress and the White House will have enough leverage against Big Healthcare to enact the kind of reform indicative ...
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Three Moral Issues of Health Care »
Posted by: scott4261 4 months, 2 weeks ago in Religion
Good health is the will of God for each and every one of his children. Death, disease, and pain did not exist in the Garden ...
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Obama Stakes Political Prestige On US Climate Bill »
Posted by: Mikunited 5 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Congressional leaders working against a six-month deadline to pass a sweeping package of environmental legislation before global climate change talks begin in Copenhagen in December
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Huckabee's Plan to Swift Boat "Evil" Legislation »
Posted by: Spadecaller 4 months, 2 weeks ago in Religion
Religious Right leader and Fox News host Mike Huckabee has written a fund raising letter for the rightist weekly Human Events. The money is intended ...
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Senate OKs $15,000 tax break for homebuyers »
Posted by: STONERS 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
The Senate voted Wednesday night to give a tax break of up to $15,000 to homebuyers in hopes of revitalizing the housing industry, a ...
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Obama administration backs Congress tax haven crackdown »
Posted by: engineer 8 months, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
The Obama administration on Tuesday endorsed legislation to crack down on offshore tax havens , raising the stakes in a showdown between the United States and ...
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Krugman: GOP To Attack Climate Change Legislation Based On Fake Economics »
Posted by: Tumultuous 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Political Opinion
Paul Krugman says that the main Republican strategy to fight climate change legislation will be to attack it as hurting the economy:
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Bush asks Congress to release $350 billion »
Posted by: STONERS 10 months, 1 week ago in Political News
The White House says President George W. Bush has asked Congress to release the remaining $350 billion intended to help the nation deal with its ...
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AIG chairman says retention payments distasteful »
Posted by: Progressive 8 months, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
WASHINGTON - The chief of failed insurance conglomerate AIG acknowledged Wednesday to skeptical congressional interrogators that the company's multibillion bonuses to employees were "distasteful" to ...
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