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...don’t think he ever does anything malevolent.”Winters says that signs of Reeves’ propensity to miss important details have already surfaced this term.Earlier this month, councillors discovered that Reeves had delegated committee chairmanships without following official Council rules.Winters calls this oversight a “fundamental misstep.”Winters also dismisses that racism or homophobia propelled the accusations against Reeves from his previous term. He says that Reeves made several political enemies after his split with the Cambridge Civic Alliance, a progressive political organization that no longer exists...
...will rise to as much as 25 percent by 2050 - both to reduce its energy imports and to limit the use of its own coal supplies, which are highly polluting. The U.S. wants to be part of India?s nuclear growth and to see it take place under international oversight...
...time when the Bush Administration is pushing nuclear power as a partial solution to the nation's current energy woes, the fact that the accidents happened as far back as 1996 but were only recently disclosed highlighted what critics view as glaring weaknesses in the federal government's oversight of nuclear energy. So it was that earlier this week, just hours after the emergency at the LaSalle County nuclear plant and loud complaints from Republican Congressman Jerry Weller of Illinois, the NRC decided to launch a wide probe of all nuclear power operations in Illinois, which has the highest number...
...into office talking about treaties that deserved to be broken, like the ABM Treaty, and powers that needed to be restored. In Cheneyland, it is gospel that Congress took far too much authority from the presidency in the wake of Watergate, particularly with the War Powers Resolution and congressional oversight of foreign policy and the CIA. He fought successfully all the way to the Supreme Court for the right to keep the 2001 deliberations of his energy task force secret. He was the most outspoken advocate of a bare-knuckled foreign policy, building his own national- security staff, which drove...
...legislative vote may face many of the same organizational and logistical problems that plagued the presidential poll, and there has been little inclination in Haiti's political class to delve too deeply into just how the country's most expensive elections ever could have been conducted with such lax oversight. Preval has intimated that he has proof of the fraud, which can be traced to polling station workers. Those 36,000 positions were prized by members of the various political parties, and Preval may not want to open the lid on that pot, particularly now that the vast majority...