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...reason, that is, except for the fact that it is already November...
...year, Democratic strategists on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue have made no secret of the fact that they do not view time as their friend on enacting health reform, a goal that has eluded every President since Harry Truman who has attempted it. At one point, Democrats hoped to have the bill passed by both houses over the summer and on Obama's desk in the fall. Instead, the August recess was dominated by cable-television images of near riots at congressional town-hall meetings, and it took a dramatic, game-changing presidential address to a joint session of Congress...
There are also more practical hurdles, including the fact that Reid has not yet received an official analysis of his legislation from the Congressional Budget Office, and may not until late next week. Senators will not want to begin debating the legislation until they have the CBO's projection of how much it will cost and how it will affect the deficit. Between next week's Veteran's Day recess and the subsequent Thanksgiving break, that means it may well be December before the bill even gets to the Senate floor...
...several major Chinese cities. And now the government has turned around and acknowledged that the mind-bending surge in bank lending - by June of this year, total lending exceeded the amount for all of 2008 - has done nothing to rebalance China's economy between consumer and producer. In fact it's done the opposite: late last month, the National Development and Reform Commission, an important policymaking body, conceded that it must start implementing rules aimed at reducing overcapacity in several key industries, including steel and petrochemicals...
...horrified by the fact that there are elements of Israeli society, Jews who feel justified in taking the lives of other Jews because of their beliefs." - Leah Ortiz, mother of Ami Ortiz, 15, who was badly hurt by an explosive allegedly planted by Teitel. (New York Times...