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...choppers were slated to make their first takeoff from the White House lawn in 2012. But their cost has soared from an estimated $6.1 billion in 2005 to $13.4 billion today. "We're not going to pay $500 million for one helicopter. Period," Representative John Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat who chairs the House Appropriations Committee's defense subcommittee, declared recently. At $480 million a piece - roughly the price of the 747s fitted as Air Force One - the choppers, part of Lockheed Martin's VH-71 program are "in deep trouble," Pentagon officials said on Tuesday. (See pictures of the Army...
...given week, the President of the United States will give maybe half a dozen speeches and make public remarks at twice as many events. But often the words that history remembers are delivered only once a year, usually in January or February, when the President travels the length of Pennsylvania Avenue to address a joint session of Congress. This is the moment when the President gets to set out the broad sweep of his plans, propose benchmarks for success and establish the tenor of his Administration...
...Supreme Court proved willing to uphold the doctrine, eking out space for it alongside the First Amendment. In 1969's Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC, journalist Fred Cook sued a Pennsylvania Christian Crusade radio program after a radio host attacked him on air. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court upheld Cook's right to an on-air response under the Fairness Doctrine, arguing that nothing in the First Amendment gives a broadcast license holder the exclusive right to the airwaves they operate on. But when Florida tried to hold newspapers to a similar standard in 1974's Miami...
...borrowers and by doing that, it's hoped, limit the knock-on damage caused by foreclosures both to neighborhoods and to the overall economy. "This will help some people who deserve to be helped," says Joe Gyrouko, a professor of real estate and finance at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. "But will this stop the decline in housing prices? No." (See the 25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis...
...College Democrats were one of seven student groups to receive money for travel expenses last semester from the fund. Though the Democrats requested $2000 to finance their trip to Bucks County, Pa. in October, they were only granted $750. The money allowed a couple dozen students to travel to Pennsylvania to canvass for the re-election of Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy and the election of then-presidential hopeful Barack Obama. “It was unquestionably helpful in funding our trip,” said Elise X. Liu ’11, the communications director for the Democrats...