(2009-09-30) — In an effort to move climate change legislation past Republican opposition, Sen. John Kerry, D-MA, today announced he had amended the cap-and-trade bill to require that a 20-percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions be matched by a 20-percent cut in federal spending by 2020. Both provisions would use the year 2005 as the [...]

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(2009-08-12) — An ailing woman who slipped a Secret Service cordon to touch the hem of President Barack Obama’s trousers before yesterday’s health care townhall meeting in New Hampshire has received a full pardon from the president, the White House said today.
Secret Service agents took the unnamed Granite State resident into custody after her fingertips [...]

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(2009-08-11) — After a gentle rebuke from the president, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, said today she regrets using the term ‘un-American’ in Monday’s USA Today op-ed to describe protesters at health care reform townhall meetings held by Democrat lawmakers.
“The president is right,” said Rep. Pelosi, “They’re not un-American. The proper term might be ‘guest [...]

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(2009-08-09) — In his weekly radio address, President Barack Obama repeated a story from a 2008 campaign ad about how his dying mother spent her final days “worrying about whether her insurer would claim her illness was a preexisting condition” and deny coverage. This time he used the family episode to introduce a health care [...]

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(2009-08-07) — A day after unknown Russian hackers took down Twitter, and crippled Facebook, a spokesman for the Jonas Brothers said the Disney pop trio was “exhausted, a little freaked out, but resting safely in an undisclosed location.”
For several hours yesterday, as a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack clogged social networking servers worldwide, [...]

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(2009-07-23) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, today announced a new provision to the massive health care reform bill that would provide treatment for so-called Blue Dog syndrome which she said has afflicted members of her own party.
The condition causes a rash rejection of legislation that includes new expenditures without compensating cuts. Recent outbreaks threaten [...]

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(2009-07-22) — The federal government should require everyone to purchase health insurance, President Barack Obama said today, just as car insurance is mandated.
Like auto collision plans, the president said his health plan would allow reductions in coverage amounts with age as “the condition of the body just doesn’t matter as much anymore.”
“If you’re driving [...]

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