Senate Finance Committee Democrats rejected a proposed a requirement that immigrants prove their identity with photo identification when signing up for federal healthcare programs.
Finance Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said that current law and the healthcare bill under consideration are too lax and leave the door open to illegal
Michele Bachmann has decided that part of the health care bill that discusses school-based clinics (she calls them sex clinics) would lead to students being whisked away during school hours for abortions without parent consent.
Totally plausible.
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http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2009/10/bachmann_school.php
Bob Kruse, who recently led a critical Chevrolet Volt team and devised the automaker's long-term electric vehicle strategy, has resigned months before the vehicle's debut.
Kruse's resignation, effective today, comes at a crucial time for General Motors Co., which is banking on the Volt to change public perceptions of the company and also help meet
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http://detnews.com/article/20090930/AUTO01/909300326/GM-s-top-electric-car-exec-quits
A high school tradition for more than twenty years has now been banned at Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School in Georgia, Channel 3 Eyewitness News first reported on Friday.
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http://www.wrcbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=11200652#WNPoll87883
There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama "Hope" poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists.
Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471504574443353532223162.html?mod=wsj_share_digg
FTA: "It's up to all of us to say these arguments advanced by Cheney and his acolytes are nonsense and that really what they're doing is undermining our national security."
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/29/generals-dick-cheney-liz_n_303453.html
Alan Grayson refused to apologize Wednesday for saying on the House floor Tuesday night that the GOP health care plan amounts to "don't get sick" - and if you do, "die quickly." "I'm not taking any of it back.
I stand by what I said," Grayson, a freshman Democrat who represents Orlando, Florida, told reporters.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/30/grayson-not-backing-down_n_305196.html
