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...reconsider the waiver - and new EPA head Lisa Jackson has said that she would "very, very aggressively" review the request - the door is open to California once again taking the lead on cleaner cars. "It's a tremendously important step because we are in an urgent race against the climate crisis," says Vickie Patton, a senior attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund...
...Democratic wannabes, most notably Houston mayor and former Clinton Deputy Energy Secretary Bill White and former Texas comptroller John Sharp, are lining up for the potential Senate seat, leaving Perry and Hutchison to fight it out in the governor's race. "If people knew it was going to be [just] Rick Perry, you'd see folks willing to put their name forward," Democratic state representative Leticia Van de Putte told the San Antonio Express. "People understand in a general election that Kay Bailey Hutchison is such an intense brand, it's hard to get market share on that...
...First won elected office in 2006, when she beat a four-term incumbent Republican 53% to 47% for a seat in Congress representing an area from the Upper Hudson Valley north into the Adirondacks. The 2006 race got personal and nasty: a domestic-violence-related police report about her opponent was leaked late in the race, accusations flew that Gillibrand actually lived in a New York City apartment, and both sides ran numerous negative TV commercials. Gillibrand was re-elected in 2008 with 62% of the vote - more than $10 million having been raised for that contest. Her district...
...aide also provided a chronology of Caroline Kennedy's decision to withdraw from the race. According to him, as late as Wednesday morning, the daughter of former President John F. Kennedy had been given every indication that she would receive the appointment to the Senate by Governor Paterson. During the afternoon, however, she became aware of what he described as an unspecified "personal situation." She called Paterson to inform him that she was withdrawing her name from consideration, but the governor asked her to reconsider that decision, which she did. (See pictures of J.F.K.'s presidential campaign...
...public on a limited basis until the site was closed in 2005 for extensive refurbishments. On Feb. 15, the station will finally reopen its first phase to the public. Visitors can sit at a simulated interrogation table and take tours of cramped barracks that were segregated by race. New arrivals were detained for anywhere between two weeks and two years before being admitted into the U.S., or sent home. The Chinese encountered particular difficulty. As a consequence of the Chinese Exclusion Act, which severely curtailed Chinese immigration for more than six decades, Chinese detainees endured aggressive and lengthy questioning, intense...