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During his campaign, President-elect Barack Obama called for up to $50 billion to be invested in health information technology over the next five years, a category of spending that would include EHRs...
...malignant brain tumor. Because his medical treatment prevented him from appearing at the ceremony, Faust chose to honor the lawmaker at the special event yesterday. The senator received his honorary degree in front of an audience that included Kerry, Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, and Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden, Jr., who received a standing ovation when he entered the theatre.Tickets to the event were originally distributed by invitation and through a lottery organized by the Institute of Politics. More tickets were made available at the Science Center yesterday afternoon.The ceremony began with footage of a young Kennedy...
...cadets" at Salvation Army colleges. The charity's right to require that its employees and leaders adhere to Christian principles, even though it is partially government-funded, has been affirmed in the courts. The legal victory was a boon for President Bush's "faith-based" programs, which President-Elect Obama has said he will continue.) The charity espouses most evangelical Christian beliefs, with some exceptions; it is pro-birth control, but anti-surrogate motherhood; it accepts homosexuality, but says gay people must remain celibate; it is pro-life, but takes no official position on the death penalty...
...Martin, my opponent, is committed to doing everything that the President-elect wants him to do," Chambliss said on Fox News Sunday. "And I'm simply not going to do that... If we give [Obama] a blank check... it will not be in the best interests of the country." Palin made election-eve appearances to support him, echoing his position that winning the state would not only stymie the Democratic majority in the Senate, but would help rebuild a battered G.O.P. "It takes rebuilding," she told an audience of 3,000 in Augusta. "And I say, let that begin here...
...most surprising thing about President-elect Obama's pick of James Jones Jr. to serve as his national security adviser isn't that he's a retired four-star Marine general. It's that Jones is a longtime friend of Senator John McCain, the man Obama defeated to win the White House. While many prior Democratic national security advisers - think Anthony Lake under Clinton - have been academics or policy wonks, Obama's choice of Jones highlights his centrist tendency and his willingness to confound his party. It will be Jones' job to serve as a foreign-policy broker...