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Although he spoke of being inspired by politicians who are there for “the right reasons,” Axelrod also expressed his disappointment at the lack of bipartisan cooperation in Congress...
...reforms, likely to be enacted by the Senate this week, significantly expand due process rights beyond the law Bush muscled through Congress in 2006. Statements obtained by "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" would be prohibited. Hearsay evidence would be harder to introduce in a commission proceeding. Defendants would have a greater ability to select their own counsel. And Administration lobbyists successfully fought for even broader protections in the bill that was approved by House-Senate conferees and passed by the full House...
...Once the refined wheels of military justice begin to turn, there's still a risk they could grind to a halt. Many of Gitmo's detainees are charged with material support for terrorism or terrorist groups, one of the offenses Congress set aside for the commissions, as it did in 2006. But such offenses have not been recognized as war crimes by the Geneva Convention, nor have they been brought before military tribunals before. Administration legal officials have expressed concern that civilian appeals courts would reverse hard-won convictions on grounds that material support offenses should not have been tried...
...temporarily fixing doctors' Medicare reimbursements by going deeper in debt, they argue the problem is more than a decade old and is not actually related to the current health-care reform debate. And indeed, the issue reaches all the way back to 1997, when President Clinton and a Republican Congress altered the complicated formula that dictates Medicare payments. At the time, the so-called sustainability growth rate (SGR) was depegged from inflation to wage growth. That was fine with doctors until the recession hit and wage growth ground to an abrupt halt, posing the threat of real cuts to their...
...while everyone agrees the formula is broken, no one agrees on how to fix it. The $247 billion would simply freeze doctors' wages where they are today for 10 years, giving Congress some breathing room to come up with a better formula. "The Administration is prepared to promise to do what any administration would do anyway, but that doctors now have to spend time and energy to forestall, in return for support from physicians on the Administration's most important domestic policy initiative," says Henry Aaron, a senior fellow for health policy at the Brookings Institution. "This seems...