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...Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will begin hearings on Tuesday on the climate change and energy bill introduced last month by Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass), who arrived in Boston with the President aboard Air Force One, and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif...
...investment in the nursing workforce. The head of the hospitals association wanted more money for hospitals. The head of the American Medical Association wanted higher Medicare reimbursement rates for doctors. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., wanted more money for community healthcare centers. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Penn., wanted a better focus on investigations of white collar fraud in the healthcare sector. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., wanted greater investment in HIV-AIDS prevention. Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del., spoke of greater National Institutes of Health Funding. It went on. (See the most common hospital mishaps...
...Today, broadcast journalism lost one of its giants, who will be remembered along with names like Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite and David Brinkley. The city of Buffalo has also lost its favorite son, who loved his city and its hometown team, the Bills." - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif...
...policy issues, and the credibility which Admiral Fallon brought to the issues he was involved in will be sorely missed," said Senator Russ Feingold, a Wisconsin Democrat and member of the Foreign Relations Committee. "A military axiom is the need to speak truth to power," added Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee's intelligence panel. "And it still seems that smart people who do, end their careers...
Perhaps more disturbing is the recent revelation that members of Congress, including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), voiced no objections to these techniques, including waterboarding, in a secret briefing with CIA officials in September 2002. The complicity of both Democrats and Republicans can be understood best by viewing the CIA as a fearful, incompetent bureaucracy...