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...turned out, the action may have been almost too successful. On Feb. 26, just a few days before the protest, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate majority leader Harry Reid called for the 103-year-old plant to switch from coal to cleaner-burning natural gas, a move long pushed for by environmentalists but blocked by representatives from coal-heavy states. Protesters claimed an early victory. "Getting the plant to switch shows the power of popular pressure," said Steven Biel, the director of Greenpeace's global-warming campaign. But there was no doubt that by responding before...
...Senate majority leader Harry Reid on Wednesday defended the 2009 earmarks, arguing that while Democrats have worked to shrink the number of earmarks in recent years, such pet projects do play a vital role in the budget. Who better knows the needs of each district and state, he argued, than the members representing those populations? "Since we've been a country, we have had an obligation as a Congress to help direct spending," Reid told reporters on Capitol Hill. "We cannot let spending be done by a bunch of nameless, faceless bureaucrats buried in this town someplace...
...different people and different business practices.” According to U.S. State Department spokesman Robert A. McInturff, student work permits are processed through the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. McInturff said that complications regarding the youth mobility program fall under the jurisdiction of the Bureau. Christopher W. Reid, the interim CES Student Programs Coordinator, said that he has been in constant contact with both the State Department and the Harvard Club of the United Kingdom. According to Reid, the lack of agreement has been frustrating for internship coordination. “They’ve been saying that...
...Others are calling on the House panel that led the impeachment to conduct its own inquiry. And at least one Illinois Democrat has asked the U.S. Senate to launch its own ethics investigation into Burris. Though Majority Leader Harry Reid is unlikely to take any action while state legislators are looking into the matter, the Senate Ethics Committee will likely begin a preliminary inquiry...
...stressed that he is the victim and that the media is threatening to destroy his hard-earned reputation. On Monday, Burris made his resolve clear by visiting with his political base in the state's African-American community, which rallied behind him when senate leaders like Harry Reid were initially wary of accepting Blagojevich's appointment. "We put him in, and we're going to keep him in," Rev. Willie Barrow, a leader of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, the civil rights organization where the senator served as national executive director three decades ago, told reporters...