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Crowley, now the chairman and CEO of Amicus Therapeutics, Inc. a biopharmaceutical company in New Jersey, says that with even medium and larger companies cutting back on research and development and many smaller companies having gone out of business, he expects “[to] see five to seven years from now a huge gap in medical investments...a drought...
...funding it would require. Created with the assistance of the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the bill would raise the approximately $500,000 to $1 million necessary for its launch through a 2- or 3-cent tax per pound of pet food, says Florez, a Democrat who is chairman of the Food and Agriculture Committee. He estimated that after it's launch, the project could cost between $300,000 to $400,000 a year to maintain. Yet even that relatively small amount has some organizations, including a national pet-product trade group and even the Humane Society, raising concerns. Jennifer Fearing...
...Summer Games five years ago - as it races to get ready. Learning from the last host city will be vital. While the sports on show in London will be different from those in Vancouver, the Canadian city's experience "gives us real food for thought," Sebastian Coe, chairman of London's organizing committee, told reporters ahead of the closing ceremony on Feb. 28. London, he said, would "use this information to ensure we stage a Games for everyone." (See the top 10 memorable moments of the Winter Olympics...
...choose to ignore the parliamentarian's advice, they do so at their own peril: rulings that aren't backed up are subject to challenge. "Whoever's in the chair does make the ultimate decision but that can be overruled by a vote of the members," says Senator Kent Conrad, chairman of the Budget Committee. "You're just not in a position where you can just do whatever you want...
...call the Lieberman-Obama relationship ironic is an understatement. As chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Lieberman has launched investigations of the Army's handling of the Fort Hood massacre and what he calls the White House's "unsettling" failure to prevent the attempted bombing of a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day. Meanwhile, Lieberman opposed Attorney General Eric Holder's decision last November to try 9/11 co-conspirators in civilian courts, and earlier this year he rallied Republicans and Democrats to sign a letter to Holder urging him to abandon the trials in favor of military tribunals...