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...running for re-election as governor in 2011. It's my hope to serve two terms and help improve my state...
Instead, the task force talked to Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell ($175,000), Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter ($167,000) and United Steelworkers of America president Leo Gerard (who reportedly earns over $170,000). "[The Vice President] is doing the right thing," says Karen Nussbaum, executive director of Working America, "but hearing directly from working people who are struggling and finding their way is an essential part of this...
...commit suicide with lethal doses of prescribed medication. In 2007, some 46 people committed suicide in Oregon under the law. Last November Washington voters passed a similar provision that allows patients with six or fewer months to live to self-administer lethal doses of medication. Washington's former governor, Parkinson's sufferer Booth Gardner, stumped for the law, while opponents included Martin Sheen, who starred in television commercials urging voters to shoot down the initiative...
...White House already has a handful of health-care reformers who spend a lot of time talking to the American people, from the President himself to Peter Orszag, the budget director, to Kathleen Sebelius, the newly nominated Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Sebelius, the popular Kansas governor, was introduced alongside DeParle on Monday. DeParle, by contrast, is being tasked with what she has always done best, working behind the scenes to improve the health-care system. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...Salmaan Taseer, the governor of Punjab who took control of the province last week, says a search operation is underway. "It was a similar type of attack to Mumbai," he tells TIME. "They were well armed and well trained. They had rocket launchers, grenades and Kalashnikovs. They were also well trained in the use of explosives. The police have discovered a vehicle that was used by the gunmen that was packed with explosives. The engine was running with the key in. If anyone turned off the car, it would have blown up. We are not afraid - the people of Lahore...