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Bush is likely to cast another irresponsible veto within the next few days as Congress approved $110 million to renew funding for the highly successful COPS program(Community Oriented Policing Services Program) which hires more community level police officers and has...
Posted on October 22, 2007 9:00 AM
That's the way I read it anyway. Although he didn't use those exact words Reid did state that the bipartisan group of S-CHIP supporters are committed to "not abandon any of the uninsured children we would have covered with the...
Posted on October 18, 2007 7:02 PM
Senate Finance Committee Chariman Max Baucus delivered this weeks Democratic Radio Address. The text of the radio address appears below: Good morning, this is Sen. Max Baucus from Montana. For those of us who are parents, one of life's greatest...
Posted on October 14, 2007 6:00 AM
Rush Limbaugh's recent attack on anti-war veterans' as "phony soldiers" wasn't enough... now the hate-filled media arm of the right wing is operating in "Full-Tilt-Lie and Smear-Boogie" mode in an effort to spread more GOP lies about the State's Children...
Posted on October 10, 2007 11:00 AM
Americans for Change are rolling out this ad with a $1 million dollar campaign on cable networks. There are definite signs that Bush's support from Republicans in Congress is eroding overall, and this issue promises to accelerate that trend. Bush...
Posted on October 9, 2007 12:09 AM
This morning Steny Hoyer delivered the following Democratic response to President Bush's defense of his veto last Wednesday of the bipartisan S-CHIP legislation. Good morning. This is Congressman Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the House Majority Leader. Over the past several...
Posted on October 6, 2007 12:50 PM
Republican Senator Chuck Grassley from Nebraska speaks on Bush's veto of the S-Chip legislation. NPR: [B]ackers of the measure, who are working to override the veto, say the president doesn't understand how the bill would actually work.[...] "I believe in...
Posted on October 4, 2007 1:00 PM
President Bush today vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have dramatically expanded children's health insurance, saying Congress should send him a version that will cost less and zero in on low-income families. It was only the fourth veto of Bush's...
Posted on October 3, 2007 4:00 PM
This week's Democratic radio address is a response to President Bush's threatened veto of the bi-partisan, widely supported S-CHIP Children's Health Care legislation recently passed by both the House and Senate. ...
Posted on October 2, 2007 4:00 AM
Real Clear Politics commentary: Addressing a Republican fund-raising dinner at the Washington Convention Center last Wednesday night, President Bush declared: "If the Democrats want to test us, that's why they give the president the veto. I'm looking forward to vetoing...
Posted on June 18, 2007 8:00 PM
Update: I picked this up from an additional report (emphasis mine): The bill would permit funding for research on embryonic stem cells regardless of the date of their creation, as long as they were donated from in-vitro fertilization clinics, they...
Posted on June 7, 2007 5:10 PM
This Op-Ed piece published on the Brandenton Herald's web site, titled Chaos? It's here, takes President Bush to task over his veto earlier this week of the Iraq funding bill. President Bush justified his veto of Congress' war spending...
Posted on May 3, 2007 9:42 AM
Moveon.org and others have called for an emergency rally tomorrow against Bush's veto of H.R. 1591, the Iraq funding bill passed by Congress. From what I've read so far, they are hoping for a very noisy showing against the veto....
Posted on May 1, 2007 5:33 PM
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American businesses faced the biggest annual jump in wholesale prices in 27 years last month, just as the stumbling economy caused consumer spending to drop.
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Barack Obama is for the rest of us
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He just seems to be the perfect (meaning liberal) counterpoint to McCain, with a lot more experience and knowledge than McCain in foreign policy matters. Howard Fineman argued Biden's case at MSNBC a couple hours ago: Within the last few...
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Apparently, Chris Kattan's marriage is a not-ready-for-prime-time player. The former Saturday Night Live star and his wife, model Sunshine Tutt, have split just eight weeks after their wedding. "They...
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Christina Applegate, who was diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer this month, revealed on ABC's Good Morning America Tuesday that she has undergone a double mastectomy -...
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Ashley Dupre got the royal treatment Sunday at the Parker House bar in Manasquan, N.J. "She and her mother got to skip the food line like they were celebrities,"...
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BUYERS: Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott LOCATION: Thayer Avenue, Los Angeles, CA PRICE: $2,275,000 SIZE: 3,300 (approx.) square feet, 5 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms DESCRIPTION: Situation on much sought-after Thayer Ave....
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Oh. My. God. The body of deceased Angel Pantoja Medina stands erect and leans against a wall by his coffin during his own wake in his mother's home in...
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Note that in the furor over McCain's absence from the supposed "cone of silence" at the Saddleback forum last Saturday night, the McCain campaign is repeatedly stating that McCain did not hear any of the proceedings... but they aren't saying he wasn't coached or fed the questions by someone who did hear the broadcast, are they...?
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During Saturday night's forum in Saddleback, Senator John McCain was asked what income level constituted "rich" - and he answered $5 million or more. Other millionaires ($2 million... $3 million,... $4 million...) aren't rich, in McCain's view, and shouldn't be taxed as if they were... It makes you wonder just how out of touch John McCain is with most of Americans. So does this video...
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