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...billion per year increase, for a total of $25 billion over five years, and tackling the problem of the uninsured by subsidizing private insurance policies. The bill that emerged from the panel provides for a $35 billion increase over five years. Senator Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat and one of the bill's architects, said that if Bush "really wants to veto this bill because we're $10 billion apart, then I say go right ahead...
...freshman Democrat leaned into Gabriel's ear to make sure his response was heard: "We tried, but [President George W.] Bush vetoed it." The Democratic strategy, Altmire explained, was to keep the pressure up by continuing to schedule votes on Iraq and hope "that more Republicans will go to the White House and say, 'We can't do this anymore.'" The reply didn't quite mollify Gabriel, 49, a financial adviser who calls himself pro-life, pro-gun but antiwar. His son Michael, 22, is in the National Guard in neighboring Ohio; half of his division is expected...
...only Texan to serve as his state's chief justice, attorney general and secretary of state, but John Hill was also its first Democrat in more than a century to lose an election for Governor (in 1978, to opponent William Clements). Hill was a Big Hat Texan with a gift for hyperbole whose last role was head of the Texas Lottery Commission...
...Henry Waxman, a California Democrat and committee chair, referred to FEMA's attitude as "sickening" and further said, "The nearly 5,000 pages of documents we've reviewed expose an official policy of premeditated ignorance." He also criticized the testing standards that FEMA and the Environmental Protection Agency used before they eventually came to the incorrect conclusion, as Paulison stated in May 2007, that "the formaldehyde does not present a health hazard." Trailers were left with windows ajar, air conditioning on and all vents open for days before interior air levels were tested for the gas - conditions that...
...fought in Iraq or Afghanistan, like Tammy Duckworth, an Army helicopter pilot who lost both legs in Iraq and is now director of veterans affairs in Illinois. Appointing Duckworth would send a message beyond the veterans community. She lost a congressional race last November, running as a Democrat...