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...than once before the primary, of the governor and the President arm in arm. Crist's aides can list the various things the stimulus funds have done for Florida - saved the jobs of 26,000 teachers, for starters. They will also tell you that Florida is a net "donor" state: it sends more money to the Federal Government than it receives. "Why shouldn't we get our fair share?" the governor asks. And as for his Obama hug, "He is the President of the United States. You honor the office." (Read "GOP Governors: Split over Obama's Stimulus Plan...
...year. But with generics now accounting for more than 70% of prescriptions dispensed in the U.S., "the actual savings have exceeded our wildest expectations," Waxman said in a Sept. 18 speech before the Generic Pharmaceutical Association. "In the last decade alone, generic drugs have saved consumers, businesses and state and federal governments $734 billion."(See TIME's health and medicine covers...
...population (receiving government pensions and government health care) and its exotic climate, Rubio's form of libertarianism is a fantasy. Indeed, after the wild hurricane season of 2005, Governor Jeb Bush was forced to offer homeowners a public-insurance option - private-insurance rates were skyrocketing - which quickly became the state's largest insurer. "Lord, save me from the purists," says Jim Greer, the state's Republican Party chairman and a Crist supporter. "If the party keeps going in this direction, all we'll have left will be three people sitting around a table. They'll be absolutely pure, but none...
...Eshoo's successful amendment to the Energy and Commerce Committee bill would extend that to 12 years of exclusivity, as would legislation passed a few weeks earlier by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee. Then-chairman Ted Kennedy, whose state of Massachusetts is home to many biotech firms, had long supported a 12-year exclusivity period. The industry showed its gratitude last year when Amgen, one of the biggest biotech firms, donated $5 million - twice the size of the next largest donation - to a nonprofit educational institute being built in Kennedy's honor. (Watch TIME's video...
...Despite the criticism, Gration has had regular, direct access to Obama, circumventing various members of the National Security Council, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice - all of whom have lobbied for Gration to take the Sudan policy in a different direction. Rice in particular stands in opposition to Gration's approach to Sudan. In 1998 she was instrumental in President Bill Clinton's decision to send 18 cruise missiles slamming into a Sudanese pharmaceutical factory (it was thought to produce chemical weapons for al-Qaeda) in retaliation for the U.S.-embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya...