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...nurses association wanted more 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...
...senator leaving office. But an unexpected vacancy should not be an opportunity for a governor to change the Senate’s balance of power through a partisan political ploy. Though this situation has not arisen in recent years, it nearly occurred in 2006, when Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) suffered a major stroke. Had Sen. Johnson died, Mike Rounds, the Republican governor of South Dakota, would have appointed a Republican to the vacant seat, thereby delivering the majority in the Senate back...
Senator Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) and Congressman John Peterson (R-Pa.) have embraced the HSPH report...
...answer, apparently, was to pack in as many different sides of the party as could be fit, all tamed to fit the DNC stage. A calmly intense Teresa Heinz Kerry, the former candidates (Gephardt and Mosely-Braun in addition to Dean), Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., Reagan, a young star of “The O.C.” (?!), the younger (13 years old) founder of Kids for Kerry, an enthusiastic group of dancers—all came on and went off, charging the crowd admirably at times but leaving little lasting impression...
What’s more, the Bush administration’s rhetoric on fighting for democracy in Iraq is increasingly hollow. As Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., put it, “We’re trying to win the hearts and minds as we’re killing them and torturing them.” If we want to assist in the growth of democracy and openness, then our own government needs to be democratic and open itself...