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...unlikely, however, that the crisis will allow Washington to keep LIHEAP at that level in the next federal budget - making it just as important, say advocates, that one or more U.S. oil companies pitch in alongside Citgo. President-elect Barack Obama pledged during his campaign last year to force something similar: a windfall-oil-profits tax that would effectively make Big Oil fork over an "emergency energy rebate" for low-income households. But as his Jan. 20 Inauguration approaches, Obama seems to be backing...
Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan will be nominated to serve as President-elect Barack Obama’s solicitor general, the administration’s representative to the Supreme Court, Obama announced in a press release Monday morning.If confirmed by the Senate, Kagan will represent the federal government, party to about two-thirds of cases brought before the high court, and play an integral role in guiding the administration’s interaction with the Supreme Court, working under Obama’s nominee for attorney general, Eric J. Holder.“I am honored and grateful, awestruck...
...time when Senate Democrats should be celebrating President-elect Obama's impending Inauguration and their biggest Senate majority in three decades, the scene had the makings of a public relations disaster. African-American political leaders are already incensed over the rejection of Burris, the first African-American to be elected statewide in Illinois. With Obama's departure, the Senate will be devoid of black representation - a fact that Burris' presence would change, which Blagojevich was surely mindful of when he made the surprising move to make an appointment. In recent days, African-American leaders in both Chicago and Congress have...
...argument that Israel's incursion will give the nation an upper hand in any future talks - and allow it to dictate the terms of a new cease-fire - doesn't really wash. Any new truce will be brokered by third parties; while U.S. President-elect Barack Obama chooses to remain silent, France's Nicolas Sarkozy is offering himself for the role. That alone means Israel won't have everything its way. The international outcry over the humanitarian tragedy unfolding in Gaza means the broker will insist that Israel loosen the economic shackles as well as withdraw troops. And when...
...Russian Orthodox Church's Local Council, which includes both clerics and laymen chosen by parishes and is the church's highest decision-making body, will elect a new Patriarch in the next few weeks. Among the names being mentioned are Metropolitan Filaret, the scholarly patriarchal exarch of Belarus; Metropolitan Cyril, the well-known head of the external-relations department of the Moscow Patriarchate; and Metropolitan Kliment, the more liberal administrator of the Patriarchate. (See pictures of Russia's victory...