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...reassured doubtful green activists. Concern for the environment is traditionally the first thing thrown overboard when economic seas get rough. That's what appeared to have happened in June, when the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act, the first national bill mandating greenhouse-gas emissions caps to receive a full vote in the Senate, went down in defeat, in part because critics exploited fears that the bill would raise already record-high energy prices...
...have no idea who makes these decisions,” he said. “Is it a hidden cabal of financial wizards? We never vote on anything...
Former Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale called the 2008 election a historic occasion and expressed wonder at the electoral coalition behind Barack Obama during a speech hosted yesterday by the Harvard Democrats. “It was the young America, the new America, that voted for Obama,” Mondale said in his 20-minute address. He noted that wealthy Americans overwhelmingly supported Obama, saying, “It’s a stunning thing to run a campaign about raising taxes on rich people. And then they vote on it. That was not my experience...
TIME: Do you think there are more ideologues than pragmatists in the House Republican Conference? Boehner: If you're looking at my voting record, I have one of the most conservative voting records in the House. But I don't wear it on my sleeve. [Laughs.] I don't shove it in people's face. I don't expect everybody to vote the way I do ... There's a lot of labels that get thrown around, and one of the reasons I don't belong to any of these organizations in our Congress is [that] because when you join...
...seven days in which he did not appear on Japanese television. (This time last year, he only had seven days of work booked - total.) And he's winning some big fans. When Notchi met Will Smith on a popular afternoon TV show in August, Smith told him, "I will vote...