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Democratic Energy Builds for Energy BillPower-Gen WorldwideA White House aide confirmed the expedited timeline for moving the climate change bill, saying it is next in line after the House and Senate complete work ...and more »
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Murkowski seeks to rein in EPA regulationThe Associated Press"The timeline presented by the administrator allows Congress to make considered decisions to balance climate change remedies with their effect on our ...and more »
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US House, Senate committee vote to end DADTpride source.com"While this is an important step toward ending an unjust law, we continue to call for clear assurances of protection, a specific timeline for repeal ...and more »
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Washington PostCongressional Republicans seize on oil spill crisis to attack ObamaWashington PostThe center notes the difference between the logs and the official White House timeline, which provided far less of a sense of the looming environmental ...and more »
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Globe and MailTIMELINE-Gulf of Mexico oil spillReutersMay 11/12 - Executives from BP, Transocean and Halliburton appear at congressional hearings in Washington. Senate Energy Committee chairman Jeff Bingaman ...Obama blames 30-day legal limit for role in oil spillPolitiFactall 22,137 news articles »
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Don't Ask, Don't Tell Meets the Military Industrial ComplexFOXNews (blog)But a timeline for finishing the legislation is anyone's guess. When asked when he might summon the legislation to the floor, all Senate Majority Leader ...and more »
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Jobs Bill vs. Deficit, a Showdown in the SenateNew York TimesLuckily, the country's two big economic problems — the budget deficit and the job market — are not on the same timeline. The unemployment rate is near a ...and more »
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AIG Reverses Plans for Divesting Main Asian Unit: TimelineBusinessWeekMay 26, 2010: AIG “got a very aggressive price” for AIA, Benmosche tells the Congressional Oversight Panel in Washington. “At one point, they were thinking ...and more »
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Reuters IndiaSen. Levin Key To 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' DealNPRBut Levin indicated that the White House and Pentagon would not dictate a congressional timeline. The senator, Sarvis says, "came to the realization that ...The defense bill and 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' (editorial)OregonLive.com (blog)all 370 news articles »
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New York TimesSenate Approves Nearly $60 Billion for WarsNew York TimesThe debate over the timeline put some Democrats in the position of opposing a proposal that they had supported during the Bush administration's management ...HUFFPOST HILL - MAY 26, 2010Huffington Post (blog)Lawmakers wrestle with cost of doc payment fixModernHealthcare.comall 2,058 news articles »
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Here a link you can use to email your representative to ask them to vote for repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell this week: secure3.convio.net Also, you can make a phone call. Below I have copy/pasted instructions for how to leave a message for your representative. Let's get this done! Call the Congressional switchboard at 202-224-3121, tell them where you live, and ask them to connect you to your representative's office. Tell the staffer who picks up your name and where you're calling from, then say: I'm calling to urge Congress to vote to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" this week. Most calls end right there, but if you'd like, you can add: Americans recognize that on the battlefield, it doesn't matter whether a soldier is lesbian, gay or straight; what matters is that a soldier gets the job done. This discriminatory law hurts military readiness and national security. It puts American soldiers at risk. Congress should repeal the law now and include a timeline for implementation that allows the Pentagon to complete its study.
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...information from Comcast about the effects of its bid on industry competition, not to mention the 15 hours of separate congressional hearings lawmakers have organized on the deal, the congressmen said. “Between your efforts and those of Congress,” Doyle and...
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What is the most important thing overseas voters need to remember about the process? A Senior Program Analyst from the Federal Voting Assistance Program answers this question at the Fourth Annual Overseas and Military Voting Summit 2010 held in Munich, Germany in March 2010. Get online and get started!
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The hearings held by the Senate Committee, in which Dean and other former administration officials delivered testimony, were broadcast from May 17 to August 7, 1973, causing political damage to the President. After the three major networks of the time agreed to take turns covering the hearings live (the first 24-hour news channel was not introduced until 1980), each network thus maintained coverage of the hearings every third day, starting with ABC on May 17 and ending with NBC on August 7. An estimated 85% of Americans with television sets tuned in to at least one portion of the hearings. On July 13, 1973, Donald Sanders, the Deputy Minority Counsel, asked Alexander Butterfield if there was any type of recording systems in the White House. Butterfield answered that, though he was reluctant to say so, there was a system in the White House that automatically recorded everything in the Oval Office and other rooms in the White House, including the Cabinet Room and Nixon's private office in the Old Executive Office Building. Later, Chief Minority Counsel Fred Thompson asked Butterfield if he was "aware of the installation of any listening devices in the Oval Office of the president?" The shocking revelation transformed the Watergate investigation yet again. The tapes were soon subpoenaed by prosecutor Cox and then by the Senate. Nixon refused to release them, citing his executive privilege as President of the United States, and ordered Cox to drop his subpoena. Cox refused. A ...
July 14, 1987 Oliver Laurence North (born October 7, 1943) is a retired United States Marine Corps officer best known for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal. Currently, he is a political commentator, host of War Stories with Oliver North on Fox News Channel, and a New York Times best-selling author. North was at the center of national attention during the Iran-Contra affair, a political scandal of the late 1980s. North was a National Security Council member involved in the clandestine sale of weapons to Iran, which served to encourage the release of US hostages from Lebanon. North formulated the second part of the plan: diverting proceeds from the arms sales to support the Contra rebel group in Nicaragua. North was charged with several felonies and convicted of three, but the convictions were later vacated, and the underlying charges dismissed due to the limited immunity agreement granted for his pre-trial public Congressional testimony about the affair. North came into the public spotlight as a result of his participation in the Iran-Contra affair, a political scandal of the late 1980s, in which he claimed partial responsibility for the sale of weapons via intermediaries to Iran, with the profits being channeled to the Contras in Nicaragua. He was reportedly responsible for the establishment of a covert network used for the purposes of aiding the Contras. US funding of the Contras by appropriated funds spent by intelligence agencies had been prohibited by the Boland ...
July 14, 1987 After the Gary Webb report in the Mercury News, the CIA Inspector General Frederick Hitz was assigned to investigate these allegations in 1996. The CIA director John Deutch pledged that Hitz would present his findings in three months. But for almost a year and a half, there was little news. Then on December 18, 1997, stories in the Washington Post and New York Times appeared, stating that Hitz had found "no direct or indirect" links between the CIA and cocaine traffickers, despite the reporters never seeing the report. This story of no links between the CIA and cocaine traffickers was quickly picked up by the networks. Six weeks later, the new CIA director, George Tenet declared that he was releasing the report. Tenet denied the Gary Webb allegations, which were reported nationally. The contents of the actual report was largely ignored by the national media. In the 623rd paragraph, the report described a cable from the CIA's Directorate of Operations dated October 22, 1982, describing a prospective meeting between Contra leaders in Costa Rica for "an exchange in [the United States] of narcotics for arms, which then are shipped to Nicaragua." The two main Contra groups, US arms dealers, and a lieutenant of a drug ring which imported drugs from Latin America to the US west coast were set to attend the Costa Rica meeting. The lieutenant trafficker was also a Contra, and the CIA knew that there was an arms-for-drugs shuttle and did nothing to stop it. The report ...
July 14, 1987 In April 1986, Associated Press reported on an FBI probe into Contra cocaine trafficking. According to the report, "Twelve American, Nicaraguan and Cuban-American rebel backers interviewed by The Associated Press said they had been questioned over the past several months [about contra cocaine trafficking] by the FBI. The interviews, some covering several days, were conducted in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Colorado and California, the Contra backers said." Several of the backers told AP of firsthand knowledge of cocaine trafficking. On April 17, 1986, the Reagan Administration released a three page report acknowledging that there were some Contra-cocaine connections in 1984 and 1985, arguing that these connections occurred at a time when the rebels were "particularly hard pressed for financial support" because US aid had been cut off. The report admitted that "We have evidence of a limited number of incidents in which known drug traffickers have tried to establish connections with Nicaraguan resistance groups." The report tried to downplay the drug activity, claiming that it took place "without the authorization of resistance leaders." In 1986, Senator John Kerry and Senator Christopher Dodd proposed a series of hearings at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee regarding charges of Contra involvement in drug trafficking; the hearings were conducted by Senator Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, the Republican Chairman of the Committee. The ...
On March 10, critics of the Afghanistan war forced a Congressional debate, introducing a resolution requiring a timetable for military withdrawal. Take action: www.justforeignpolicy.org
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It's been a long year of contentious congressional negotiations, raucous town hall meetings, and stiff political battle lines over President Obama's push for health care reform. You can be forgiven for occasionally getting lost along the bumpy political road that led the president and 40 lawmakers to gather around a table Thursday to attempt to reach a consensus. Luckily for you, the NewsHour has distilled months of health reform coverage into a single highlight reel. From Tom Daschle's withdrawal from the health czar nomination and lawmakers' rambunctious town hall meetings in their home districts to the debate over the public option and the Republicans' upset win in Massachusetts, here's a look at how we got where we are in the ongoing health care reform debate.
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The US transportation chief's public rebukes of Toyota's handling of a massive safety recall have raised eyebrows, given the US government's major stake in rivals General Motors and Chrysler. "The optics are terrible because -- and this is what happens when a government owns a company - the two companies that are going to gain the most out of this are General Motors and Chrysler," said Peter Morici, a professor at the University of Maryland's business school. "But their behavior is consistent with the general policy of the US government, whether it's dealing with coffeemakers or cars." Safety officials understand that product design mistakes are inevitable and will work to help companies correct the problem and alert consumers. But they will not tolerate a slow or weak response, Morici told AFP. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood sat down with reporters Wednesday to lay out a timeline of how US officials had "pushed Toyota to take corrective actions" on its pedal problems since 2007. The meeting came a day after he issued a statement accusing the Japanese automaker of dragging its feet on recalling vehicles in danger of sudden, unintended acceleration due to pedals which could get trapped under floor mats or become "sticky." He also caused a brief panic when he told a congressional panel that owners of 5.3 million Toyota vehicles affected by the recalls should "stop driving" them. LaHood later sought to tone down his remarks, telling reporters: "What I meant to say and ...
White House Press Briefings are conducted most weekdays from the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room in the West Wing.
White House Press Briefings are conducted most weekdays from the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room in the West Wing.
BlogHer, the popular blogging community focused on women, collected questions over several days from their readers for HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on health insurance reform. Secretary Sebelius answers some of those questions live with BlogHers Morra Aarons-Mele. December 21, 2009. (Public Domain)
Mark Kirk and Peter Roskam held a news conference highlighting legislation calling on the US Treasury to end its ownership of companies by December of 2010. "GM is now continuing to hemmorage funds, but now at a phenomenal expense to the taxpayers."
On September 11, 2001, Islamic extremists hijacked four commercial airliners resulting in the worst terrorist attack ever committed on United States soil. The attack was a series of coordinated suicide missions: Two planes crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. A third airliner crashed into the Pentagon near Washington DC The fourth aircraft, intended for the United States Capitol, was redirected after passengers and flight crew launched a revolt against the hijackers. That plane crashed into a field near the town of Shanksville, Pennsylvania. In total, 2973 people, including nearly 400 rescue workers, were killed in the attacks. For more information on the events of 9/11 please visit History.com's 9/11 site. Timeline 8:45 am American Airlines Flight 11 out of Boston, Massachusetts, crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center. 9:03 am United Airlines Flight 175, also from Boston, crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center. 9:17 am The Federal Aviation Administration shuts down all New York City area airports. 9:21 am All New York area bridges and tunnels are closed. 9:40 am The FAA halts all flight operations for the first time in US history. 9:43 am American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon. 9:45 am The White House evacuates. 10:05 am The south tower of the World Trade Center collapses. 10:10 am United Airlines Flight 93 crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. 10:28 am The World Trade Center's north ...
How President George W. Bush scared the American public into voting for Republicans.
How President George W. Bush scared the American public into voting for Republicans.
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...or blackmail or somebody who has been jilted?,” Gates told reporters in July. The President has said that the appropriate congressional allies have been contacted already to start processing these changes. The question is how fast and aggressive will change...
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Political Punch
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The Hill's Jeffrey Young take a look back at how the House Healthcare Reform bill progressed before the summer recess and what may happen when they return in September.
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...Yang Jianli a five-year prison sentence for entering China illegally and spying for Taiwan in a case that drew US congressional attention and triggered widespread criticism abroad. August 2006 - Ching Cheong, a Hong Kong reporter for Singapore's Straits Times,...
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is longer lasting. 3:10 Few choices will be allowed and every child from 6 months to 18 years must have an annual flu shot. 3:22 Call by American health officials to give the first doses of experimental swine flu vaccines in a school setting. 3:45 Now a flu pandemic raised to phase 6 which is equivalent to homeland securities Code Red warning of an imminent terrorist attack. 4:08 When the CDC declares a public health emergency that declaration allows the food and drug administration to ...
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...new proposals for financial regulation, the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank has a resource for you. Its new regulatory reform timeline pulls together Treasury press releases, the text of proposed legislation and testimony from congressional hearings, beginning...
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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...financial system in the wake of the financial crisis. The “Reforming the Nation’s Financial System: A Timeline” site tracks Congressional and regulatory agency hearings and testimonies, as well as key statements by House and Senate committee members. The timeline...
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ResourceShelf
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/07/21/st-louis-fed-launches-new-online-regulatory-reform-timeline-centralized-location-convenient-for-tracking-developments/
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...financial system in the wake of the financial crisis. The "Reforming the Nation's Financial System: A Timeline" site tracks Congressional and regulatory agency hearings and testimonies, as well as key statements by House and Senate committee members. The timeline...
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PR Newswire
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...financial system in the wake of the financial crisis. The "Reforming the Nation's Financial System: A Timeline" site tracks Congressional and regulatory agency hearings and testimonies, as well as key statements by House and Senate committee members. The timeline...
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Freshnews.com
http://www.freshnews.com/node/185034
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some clips from the audio and some documents from the legal wrangling. Listen to the Apuzzo/Kerchener audio beginning @ 82:00 minutes www.blogtalkradio.com View the court documents at Mario Apuzzo's website: puzo1.blogspot.com Listen to the Chalice show here: www.patriotsheartnetwork.com To learn more about natural born citizen and other Obama issues visit: citizenwells.wordpress.com Clarification of original filing timeline (provided by ramjet767) To the Editor Just noticed another ...
is longer lasting. 3:10 Few choices will be allowed and every child from 6 months to 18 years must have an annual flu shot. 3:22 Call by American health officials to give the first doses of experimental swine flu vaccines in a school setting. 3:45 Now a flu pandemic raised to phase 6 which is equivalent to homeland securities Code Red warning of an imminent terrorist attack. 4:08 When the CDC declares a public health emergency that declaration allows the food and drug administration to ...
coalition effort for public health care is the task of the moment. Bills are now being drafted by the Senate and the House. Each body is expected to vote on its bills by the end of July. Health care reform is on a fast track. Now is the time to make a difference in the outcome. On Thursday June 25 while Congress is in session, Health Care for America Now is organizing a huge rally and lobby day for health care reform including for a strong public option. Buses are being organized by ...
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In this week's edition, Beth Clemons speaks with several members of the G-4/7/9 BRAC Transformation Team to get an update on AMC and USASAC's transitional facilities, new building construction and BRAC progress overall.
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