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...Truth and Consequences Re "What Would Lincoln Do?": Lincoln dedicated his life to the pursuit of economic freedom for all [Feb. 16]. But lost in the debate on the current stimulus plan is any mention of personal responsibility. That lack of responsibility on Main Street, Wall Street and Capitol Hill is what got us into this mess to begin with. Sure, we all have the right to rise, but we have forgotten that with rights come responsibilities. Jason Peirce, Calabasas, Calif...
...Today, oil-rich Venezuela sends Cuba discounted crude in exchange for doctors and teachers to administer Chávez's wide-ranging social programs among his nation's poor. Pedro Mena, a self-described Venezuelan opposition organizer in Miami, says the outreach by the Cuban-American lawmakers on Capitol Hill has helped bring attention to Venezuela's "inundation by the communist dictatorship in Cuba...
...Florida oppose including the Cuba language in the bill, insisting that Havana first improve human rights - including letting Cubans travel freely, a change Cuba watchers thought Raúl would order last year but which he didn't. But the provisions reflect a movement among a growing number on Capitol Hill, most prominently Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, to acknowledge that the embargo has failed to dislodge the Castro regime and that it's time to open diplomatic channels. (See TIME articles about Fidel Castro...
...market to price the incredibly complicated mortgage-backed assets that are suffocating the economy by paying part of the cost for private investors to buy them off the banks' balance sheets. At the same time, the Federal Reserve, whose chairman, Ben Bernanke, took his own public flogging on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, is unveiling an aggressive plan to stimulate consumer, small-business, auto and college borrowing, an area of the economy that has in large part been frozen since the fall...
...proposed in his campaign, which centered on effort to expand coverage by requiring employers to provide health insurance to their workers. "Everything has got to be on the table - everything," says Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus, who will be one of the key figures leading the effort on Capitol Hill. (See who's who in Obama's White House...