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WASHINGTON - Senate Democratic leaders have laid out an ambitious timetable for passing the health care bill on Christmas Eve. But if they're successful with their strategy, the vote that matters most and sets the stage for final passage would happen on Monday.
President Barack Obama has signed into law a $1.1 trillion bill that increases the budgets in many areas of the government by about 10 percent, including health, law enforcement and veterans' programs.
Longtime adversaries in the bitter battle over Northwest logging have come together to support legislation to restore timber jobs and protect old growth in Eastern Oregon's six national forests.
Sen. Ron Wyden is preparing to introduce his long-awaited bill balancing protection for old growth forests in Oregon with restoring unhealthy forests and creating timber jobs.
A 13-year-old teen was probably in hot water with his father after running up a cell phone bill of nearly $22,000. Ted Estarija said he was expecting his bill to be higher this month after adding his son to his plan, but wasn't expecting a bill of $21,917 in data usage charges. The Hayward man said his Verizon Wireless bill soared after his son apparently downloaded about 1.4 million kilobytes of data last month.
An Indiana legislative panel plans to consider a bill that would ban privatization of some social services programs.
President Fernando Lugo withdrew a vaguely written anti-terrorism bill Thursday after critics complained it would give judges too much discretion to limit individual freedoms.
The Spanish Supreme Court has ordered former top-ranked women's player Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario to pay back approximately $5.1 million in unpaid income tax.
WASHINGTON - A centrist senator who has vowed to block any form of a government-run insurance option in the Senate's health care bill said Wednesday that he is "encouraged" by progress on a compromise on the plan being crafted by a group of Democratic negotiators.
While the U.S. Senate considers a climate bill aiming to dramatically slash air pollution linked to global warming, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and other Republican leaders in the state that leads the nation in greenhouse gas production are watching closely — and objecting loudly.
Russian dairy, food and juice company Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods said Wednesday that its third-quarter profit climbed on reduced expenses.
House Democrats are looking at swelling deficits further, at least temporarily, on a jobs-producing bill in response to double-digit unemployment and a sense within their ranks that the party needs to do more to put people back to work.
Eighty-nine House members sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar asking him to protect 9.4 million acres of red rocks lands in Utah while Congress works on legislation.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pressed the Senate Tuesday to take action on climate change, but key senators made it clear that a bill is unlikely to pass this year.
Senate Democrats sidestepped a Republican boycott Thursday, pushing a climate bill out of committee in an early step on a long and contentious road to passage. Other committees still must weigh-in on the measure, but the partisan antics early on threatened to cast a pall over the bill — one of President Barack Obama's top priorities — as it makes its way to the Senate floor and as nations prepare to meet in Copenhagen, Denmark, next month to hammer out a new international treaty to slow climate change.
Senate Democrats sidestepped a Republican boycott Thursday, pushing a climate bill out of committee in an early step on a long and contentious road to passage.
Senate Democrats sidestepped a Republican boycott Thursday, pushing a climate bill out of committee in an early step on a long and contentious road to passage.
New York officials are giving retailers until Nov. 8 to comply with the new requirement for nickel deposits on water bottles.
An industry group said Monday that alternative energy companies need Congress to pass the climate bill so they will be assured of a long-term market, one that will ultimately lower energy costs and employ 25,000 in Arkansas by 2020.
The Obama administration warned on Tuesday that the U.S. could slip further behind China and other countries in clean energy development if Congress fails to pass climate legislation, as early signs of a rift emerged among Democrats over the bill's costs.
Backers of allowing Sunday carryout sales of alcohol in Indiana and letting venues besides liquor stores sell takeout cold beer are pledging to fight on, but they likely will face a tough time in the General Assembly.
A Rhode Island woman urged senators Tuesday to ease bankruptcy rules for people devastated by medical debt, as she described the pain of losing a child and going broke from his health care bills.
The University of Colorado is seeking to recover funds it spent fighting a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by a professor who was fired on plagiarism charges after he likened some Sept. 11 terrorist attack victims to a Nazi leader.
Next week, the Senate Finance Committee will likely approve a bill designed to overhaul insurance, putting Congress another step closer to restructuring the nation's health care system.
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo proposed Thursday replacing the elected state comptroller as the sole trustee of New York's $116 billion public employee pension fund, which serves 1 million members and pays out $7 billion a year.
AMA announces support for passage of Senate health reform billFor immediate release Dec. 21, 2009
Senate Democrats Warn House Not to Toy With Health BillDo not mess with this bill.
CBO Finds Revised Bill Raises Taxes and Spending More than Original OneThe new bill relies on a number of familiar accounting gimmicks that have allowed Democrats to claim that legislation is cheaper than it actually is, and that it reduces the deficit.
Nebraska Clergy Tell Ben Nelson: Back The Health BillReligious leaders from Sen. Ben Nelson's home state of Nebraska -- including leaders from the United Methodist Church, to which he belongs -- are urging the senator to give up his opposition to the Democrats' health care bill and vote to move it forward...
Bill sets state's plan for failing schoolsParents would be able to yank their children out of failing schools and ask any other school in the state to admit them under a compromise bill approved Thursday by the state Senate.
Bristol Christian Medical Association CEO quits AMA Upset over its stances on health care reform and other issues, the head of a locally-based organization with 17,000 physician members announced Wednesday he has cancelled his membership with the American Medical Association.
House narrowly approves year-end jobs - Yahoo! NewsDemocrats in the House Wednesday muscled through a year-end plan to create jobs, mixing about $50 billion for public works projects with another almost $50 billion for cash-strapped state and local governments.
Howard Dean: Health Care Bill 'Bigger Bailout for Insurance Industry Than AIG'President Obama said he likes the Senate health care compromise and wants it passed by Christmas, but he faces a revolt from liberals who say the health care bill has been gutted to appease insurance companies.
Michael Steele: Democrats Too Busy 'Whining'While Steele was adamant that the GOP's strategy to do everything it can to block health care reform is the right one, he insisted that Republicans have been reaching out to Democrats and the White House for months to help craft a more palatable bill. More Articles
Joseph Lieberman Says He Can't Support Current Health BillWASHINGTON — In a surprise setback for Democratic leaders, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut, said on Sunday that he would vote against the health care legislation in its current form.
Daily Kos: Key Elements of Senate HCR BillWe've talked a lot about a few elements of the larger healthcare reform bill working it's way through the Senate. The public option and abortion are the flashpoint issues--where there's the most to be both gained and lost both in terms of policy and in politics.
13-year old Runs Up $22,000 Cell Phone BillHAYWARD -- A father is hoping his cell-phone service provider will cut him a break after receiving a bill for nearly $22,000 in charges made by his teenage son.
Bill O'Reilly "calls out" Dick Wolf over a scen from Law and Order: SVUBill O'Reilly says that Dick Wolf is a coward and a leftist, "calling out" the producer of the Law and Order franchise because of a scene in a recent episode of L&O: SVU in which a lawyer, played by John Laroquette says the following:
VIDEO: Bill Ayers dumps ObamaTo hear the right-wing crowd, you would think Bill Ayers and President Barack Obama were joined at the hip. Who could forget Sarah Palin's charge that Obama was "palin' around with terrorists"?
Holdout Democrats Still Opposed to the 'Public Option' Should Heed This Warning: Any Health-Reform Bill Without It Won't Be Worth the Paper It's Printed On for Those Who Can't Afford Health Insurance; The Time Has Come for Majority Leader Reid to End 'Tyranny of the Intransigent …
A Holdout Will Support Democrats' Health BillSenate Democrats moved to the brink of a crucial preliminary victory on major health care legislation as Senator Mary L.
Senate Healthcare Bill Finally Gets CBO Score: $849 Billion | AHN"President Barack Obama issued a statement while in Asia hailing the release of the legislation as a milestone."
Comparing the House and the Senate Health Care ProposalsSenate Democrats unveiled sweeping legislation Wednesday to overhaul the nation's health care system. Earlier this month the House passed its own version.
Reid Releases Senate's Health Care Bill -- 94% Covered at $849 BillionThe political stakes enormous, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid launched long-awaited health care legislation Wednesday estimated to extend coverage to 94 percent of eligible Americans at a cost of $849 billion. More Articles
Dem Senator: We'll Force Delaying GOP To Stay '24 Hours A Day'Harkin said Democrats expect Republicans will try to stall the debate by asking for the entire bill to be read on the Senate floor. If that happens, Harkin said, the majority party is likely to use a procedural maneuver to keep the Senate in session this weekend.
Fire brigade bills fairground ride victims for rescue Fourteen people rescued by the fire brigade after being left dangling upside down from a Berlin fairground ride last summer for nearly an hour have been slapped with a hefty bill, a spokesman said Monday.
Congressman Al Green Introduces Urgent Bill to Honor a Great American -- Confucius?Congressman Green acknowledges that a fiercely partisan atmosphere prevails in today's 111th Congress, and forging important legislation requires the focused and determined efforts of all our esteemed public officials.
Limbaugh calls Bill Clinton "a sexual predator"Limbaugh called Clinton a sex predator? Wasn't he on a sex-capade in the DR when he got busted with his Viagra? Ass.
Limbaugh: Obama's Ft. Hood Memorial Speech Was "Empty" And "Meaningless""Rush then talked about Obama's speech at Fort Hood yesterday, calling it the most "empty" and "meaningless" speech ever. He said that if you didn't know what happened at Fort Hood, you wouldn't know what Obama was talking about.
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