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Signing up for Medicare's new prescription drug benefit has been challenging enough for the nation's 43 million eligible seniors. In most states they must wade through 40 different insurance plans, and the best way to compare prices and enroll is through the Internet - unfamiliar territory for many elderly. The government has also been so slow in confirming applicants' eligibility that some enrollees may not have their necessary ID cards when the program begins next month. Now, as the initial December 31 enrollment deadline fast approaches, comes another headache: Consumer groups say they're getting an increasing number...
...whose credibility is at stake are people trying to invent issues out of thin air." STEVE SCHMIDT, White House spokesman, on Democrats questioning the integrity of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito after a 1985 memorandum surfaced last week in which Alito spells out his strategy for "overruling Roe v. Wade," which safeguards the rights of women in the U.S. to have an abortion...
...it’s hard to argue that no Hispanic made the high bar.”On the issue of abortion, Frank said he would vote against confirming Bush Court nominee Samuel Alito, because he predicted the nominee would try to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade case. Given Frank’s status as an openly gay politician, it seemed no surprise to the audience when, toward the end of his speech, he said he felt the majority of Americans were not “anti-gay.”“They’ve just...
...more evidence has emerged, it’s become more and more likely that he’d do damage to Roe v. Wade, erode protections against excessive police power, erode protections against employment discrimination, and allow greater intrusion into the lives of people on a number of different issues,” he said...
...worried that the Democrats could win that kind of straight-up fight on abortion. Congressman Tom Davis of Virginia, whose previous leadership job was to raise money for Republican House members up for re-election, broke with the White House message and declared last week that overturning Roe v. Wade could "produce a political backlash" among crucial suburban voters. As for a general attack on Alito, the numbers seem to break the Democrats' way. Pollster Garin, in a survey conducted before the 1985 memo came out, found that only 43% of those polled said they thought the Senate should vote...