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...have been the best characters in Top Chef's history? First off, I need to say that we don't vote characters. All the personalities that come out in the reality part of the show - we're not privy to that. We had no idea Hosea and Leah were making out. We don't know, nor do we care...
...District of Columbia has never had its own Senator or Representative, despite a population (nearly 600,000) larger than Wyoming's. That curious disenfranchisement may soon change, however, as a bill advances through Congress that would finally give D.C. a House member. On Feb. 24, the Senate voted to allow debate on the plan, which would expand the House to 437 members, its first enlargement in nearly 100 years. The bill would also grant Utah another vote until the next reapportionment in 2012, maintaining the body's partisan balance as D.C.'s addition would almost certainly be a Democrat...
...It’s a vote of confidence in the school,” Cogan said. “It’s just an extraordinary school, its standing singular in so many teaching programs and with a terrific student body...
Toward that end, Cantor - the No. 2 House Republican behind minority leader John Boehner - has been busy of late. The party's chief vote counter whipped his colleagues into united opposition of President Barack Obama's stimulus plan. Taking on the relatively unpopular congressional Democrats is one thing, but flagrantly opposing a wildly popular new President is risky, especially when any payoff could take years. But the move energized the GOP for the first time in a long while, inspiring six Republican governors - all rumored 2012 wannabes like Cantor himself - to threaten to decline some of the stimulus money. (Read...
...senior Administration official. In digging in their heels against such popular measures as the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and an expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, the White House believes the Republican leadership is becoming increasingly out of touch with what Americans want. The stimulus vote "ends up isolating them because it puts them in a different position than their core constituency groups," the official contends, referring to business groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers, "and it puts them in a different position than Republican governors and mayors...