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...billion supplementary budget to help ease the burden of high energy and food prices on businesses. Newly installed Prime Minister Taro Aso is also calling for tax cuts to boost domestic demand. "Rebuilding the Japanese economy is an issue of utmost urgency," Aso said in his first policy speech. China, which could see its GDP growth rate fall below 10% next year for the first time since 2002, is widely expected to announce a major stimulus package at an October plenum of the Communist Party...
...could have gotten there today had it not been for the partisan speech that the Speaker gave on the floor of the House.' House minority leader JOHN BOEHNER, accusing Nancy Pelosi of diminishing Republican support for the $700 billion bailout plan...
...their members into line. In fact, with dozens of Republicans facing stiffer-than-normal challenges this year and House Democrats enjoying a $40 million financial advantage, Boehner publicly refused to stiff-arm his backbenchers, and two-thirds of his caucus voted against the bill. And Pelosi, in a partisan speech, was not exactly a tower of political courage either, although if any Republican voted against the bill because of her speech--as some GOP leaders believe was the case--it would take partisan sensitivity to ridiculous new lows. While it's true that the Democrats could have passed the measure...
Supreme Court Justice Antonin G. Scalia defended constitutional originalism at Harvard Law School yesterday, punctuating the final moments of his speech by shouting “I don’t have to prove that originalism is perfect!” to a packed, applause-filled room. Scalia, who graduated magna cum laude from the Law School in 1960, delivered the inaugural Herbert W. Vaughn Lecture, a biannual address that will focus on the “founding principles and core doctrines” of the U.S. Constitution. In his speech, entitlted “Methodology of Originalism...
...preparing all of our children for success in college and the workforce?” Spellings asked. “In all candor, the answer is no, not yet.” While she did recognize many of the pressing issues in our schools, Spellings focused her speech on potential areas of improvement and what she described as recent successes in reform. Spellings was one of the major proponents of passing the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002, and she cited the federal law as a major reason for improved test scores and reduced achievement gaps. The law mandates...