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...issue that may dog Specter is health care. In two town-hall meetings this month, he has been confronted by angry constituents who claim the current proposal in Congress tramples on their constitutional rights. At a particularly turbulent meeting in Lebanon, Pa., on Tuesday, one man yelled that "One day God is going to judge you and the rest of your damn cronies on the Hill." But it's not clear that voter anger over health-care reform will help the challenger either - Sestak is himself an outspoken backer of President Obama's efforts to reform the health-care system...
...medical care by better connecting payments to health outcomes and discouraging doctors from unnecessary tests and procedures. The Obama Administration hopes that many of these reforms will be made in the coming years by independent panels of scientists, who will be appointed by the President and overseen by Congress. (See 10 health-care-reform players...
...inmates from its rolls because adequate medical care was unavailable to them, but the order also cited concerns over public safety. "In these overcrowded conditions," the judges wrote, "inmate-on-inmate violence is almost impossible to prevent." Just last month, Federal Bureau of Prisons head Harry Lappin warned Congress that "crowded prisons result in greater tension, frustration and anger among the inmate population, which leads to conflicts and violence...
...lite fleet of 16 additional executive jets flown by the Air Force's 89th Airlift Wing (there are dozens of other aircraft sometimes used to ferry lawmakers and other VIPs). Hard data on the 89th is tough to dig out and, obviously, both the military and Congress like it that way. The go-to source for public reports on government spending - the Government Accountability Office (GAO) - answers to Congress. "We haven't looked into it in a long time," a GAO spokeswoman says. But the Air Force, after a day of asking, reported that the 89th currently...
Whatever Holder decides will ignite controversy. Human-rights activists and Democrats in Congress want the authors of the torture memos prosecuted. Holder will also have to weigh how much of the evidence - partly based on e-mail exchanges between the DOJ lawyers and other Administration officials, possibly including those in Vice President Dick Cheney's office - to release to the public...