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In one day, Grayson piles up another 40 co-sponsors for Medicare buy-in bill
by: Chris Bowers
Thu Mar 11, 2010 at 15:47
In just two days, Alan Grayson has piled up 50 co-sponsors to his Medicare buy-in bill, which is designed as a stand-alone bill rather than as an amendment to the health reform bill. Here is the complete list of 50 co-sponsors:
50 CURRENT COSPONSORS : Bob Filner, Jan Schakowsky, Barney Frank, Dennis Kucinich, Donna Edwards, Jared Polis, Chellie Pingree, Sheila Jackson Lee, Carol Shea-Porter, Diane Watson, John Lewis, Anthony Weiner, Jerrold Nadler, Nydia Velazquez, Keith Ellison, Loretta Sanchez, Hank Johnson, Maxine Waters, Luis Gutierrez, Lynn Woolsey, Marcy Kaptur, Charles Rangel, Patrick Kennedy, Raul Grijalva, Donna Christian-Christensen, John Olver, Corrine Brown, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Marcia L. Fudge, Danny K. Davis, Pedro Pierluisi, Grace Napolitano, Alcee Hastings, John Hall, Shelley Berkley, John Conyers, Jim McGovern, Phil Hare, Betty Sutto
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2 hours ago · March 12, 2010
Abramoff, DeLay appear in new DNC ad
Posted: March 12th, 2010 03:03 PM ET
A new DNC ad airing in Washington targets
Republicans on ethics.
Washington (CNN) - With Democrats like Eric Massa and Charlie Rangel stealing headlines, Republicans want to talk about ethics.
The Democratic National Committee is happy to oblige.
The DNC has launched a new TV ad, airing on cable channels in Washington, D.C., called "GOP: Racked by Scandal." The 30-second spot is a respon
3 hours ago · The U.S. Navy announced it has awarded a $200 million contract to construct up to 40 megawatts (MW) of solar photovoltaic power plants at Navy and Marine Corps facilities throughout the Southwestern United States.
The Navy chose five solar development companies to compete for individual projects, which will range from 1 to 15 MW. The five companies - SunEdison, AECOM Energy/Solar Power Partners Inc., SunPower Corporation, SunDurance Energy LLC, and Chevron Energy Solutions Company - will cons
3 hours ago · Britons arrested abroad will lose the right to a translator
Britons arrested in Europe will not have the right to demand a full translation of the charges they are facing, under proposals supported by the government.
By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels
Published: 8:00PM GMT 12 Mar 2010
Britain has backed plans to "dilute" the rights of its citizens when extradited or caught up in criminal proceedings in other European countries.
Justice campaigners say anyone facing criminal allegatio
3 hours ago · US force-feeds British inmate on hunger strike
A judge has ruled that the Connecticut state prisons department may continue to force-feed a British inmate who has been on a hunger strike.
Published: 8:25PM GMT 12 Mar 2010
William Coleman is serving an eight-year sentence for rape. He maintains the charges were made up, and began his hunger strike in September 2007 to protest what he considers a corrupt judicial system. He says the force-feeding violates his free speech rights.
The st
3 hours ago · SALT LAKE CITY – A late-night confession by Utah's House majority leader about sitting nude in a hot tub with a minor 25 years ago has shocked this conservative state's political establishment.
Rep. Kevin Garn acknowledged the hot-tub incident on the last day of the legislative session on Thursday, saying he had paid the now 40-year-old woman $150,000 to keep quiet about the episode when he ran for Congress in 2002.
In recent days, Cheryl Maher began telling her story to local news media about
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After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday voted to approve a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the role of Christianity in American history and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light.
The vote was 11 to 4, with 10 Republicans and one Democrat voting for the curriculum, and four Democrats voting against.
The board, whose members are elected, has
3 hours ago · A special court ruled Friday that there is insufficient evidence to demonstrate that vaccines caused autism in three cases.
The cases, brought by the children's parents, all alleged that vaccines containing thimerosol, a mercury preservative, caused or contributed to autism spectrum disorders in the children.
Thousands of parents of children with autism have filed petitions seeking compensation from the Department of Health and Human Services' Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, a federal
4 hours ago · Democrats Planning for Health Bill Vote Next Week
By ROBERT PEAR and DAVID HERSZENHORN
WASHINGTON — The White House and Congressional leaders put Democrats on notice Friday that they would push ahead next week toward climactic votes on the health care legislation, as President Obama delayed a foreign trip and Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she hoped to complete House action before he leaves.
As early as Thursday or Friday, Democrats said, they would first pass the health care bill already app
4 hours ago · Industrial production in the 16 countries that use the euro increased by much more than expected in January. The 1.7% growth between December and January was the largest monthly jump since Eurostat started producing the data in 1990.
The increase fuels hopes that the eurozone economy's recovery from recession is gathering pace.
Production of durable consumer goods, which includes items like cars, furniture and appliances, rose by 2%.
Factory output in January 2010 compared with Januar
5 hours ago · The FDNY is bracing for doomsday.
The department will be forced to close a staggering 62 fire companies and lay off more than 1,000 firefighters if the bad-news state budget becomes reality, Commissioner Salvatore Cassano told the City Council on Wednesday.
"We would be very, very taxed," warned a grim-faced Cassano. "Our operations would be impacted and every neighborhood in this city would feel the effect."
Even if lawmakers in Albany - already facing an April 1 deadline and a $9 bill
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Mar 12 · Would the United States military lie about how four Marines were killed? Would abuse continue at Abu Ghraib after the scandal exploded? Any soldier you talk to has a story you may not want to hear. I recently had occasion to speak with two that were particularly troubling.
Part I: Snipers Dead in Ramadi:
Here's a military report from August 2006 on how four Marines died in Iraq in 2004. Christian Lowe, a Marine Corps Times staff writer, tells us:
"It was supposed to be a mission li
Mar 12 · Last week, I began my excerpts from Soul of a Citizen by writing about the costs of cynicism. One reason people despair so easily these days is that we often have little sense of how change has occurred in times past, and of what it took for ordinary people to persist until they prevailed. The Rosa Parks story offers an example that we all think we know, but where the story as usually told omits the key context and blurs the key lessons.
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We can learn a lot from the tales we tell about ou
Mar 11 · MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show - 11 March 2010: Speaker Pelosi & BushCo accountability: still 'unclear' The entire Pelosi interview can be found here:
MADDOW: "Let me also ask you about something that I think is very dear to the heart of a lot of American liberals, and it doesn't get a lot of traction across the political board right now, and that's the issue of accountability for things that happened during the Bush administration.
Torture. Warrantless wiretapping. The hijacking of the Ju
Mar 12 · Tom Hayden wants peace, but he's sincerely mistaken about how to get it. He claims that Wednesday's unsuccessful vote to end the war in Afghanistan makes ending the war less likely, and that the way to end the war is to pass a bill that would then have to pass the Senate and the President, a bill requiring an exit strategy, any exit strategy -- it could be "redeployment" to Iran in 2038 or anything else.
I'm not against moving bills forward, even meaningless bills if they send a helpful mess
Mar 11 · Cheech and Chong Don’t Live here Anymore
By David Glenn Cox
I recently read an article written by a psychologist about how he talked to his children about marijuana. What I found most entertaining in the article was its dependence on stereotypes. He writes, “And you already know I wrote a book with 'marijuana' in the title, so you’re aware that I’ve inhaled.”
“There are three kinds of marijuana smokers. Visitors, Regulars and Stoners."
Stoners, huh?
All my friends know the low rid
Mar 11 · Reid’s Letter To McConnell
March 11, 2010
The Honorable Mitch McConnell
Republican Leader
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Leader McConnell:
Eleven months ago, I wrote you to share my expectations for the coming health reform debate. At the time, I expressed Democrats’ intention to work in good faith with Republicans, and my desire that – while we would disagree at times – we could engage in an honest discussion grounded in facts rather than fear, and focused on
Mar 11 · He says he only knows about management, but for someone whose group knows nothing about teaching or curriculum or "any of that"....his influence on education is powerful.
He and his fellow billionaires, Bill Gates and the Walton family to name two...have no intention of listening to those of us who were teachers and/or educators.
Broad, a Los Angeles-based billionaire who made his fortune in insurance and real estate, has been at the forefront of the school restructuring movement over the
Mar 11 · As you may know, we are for the next three months. In case you were wondering what the job entails, Grovelbot has put together a handy list of things you need to know if you become a DU moderator.
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Mar 10 · (Note: Hello, DUers! I'm not able to post much at this time. However, I thought that I'd post something from one of my personal journals. I wrote it a while back, late one snowy night. Some of you might enjoy it, some might not. That said, I hope that people think about some of what is posted in this essay, in terms of some of the needless nonsense on DU these past few weeks. Peace, H2O Man)
There are times when I find this computer, and the access it provides to the internet, to be of great
Mar 10 · MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show - 10 March 2010: Michael Moore's first-ever appearance on The Rachel Maddow Show.
Moore tells Maddow: "You're a force for good and a national treasure."
TRANSCRIPT:
MOORE: "I tell you, I've been watching the whole Bart Stupak thing, as you mentioned. This is my congressman. I had no idea, after, especially, last week's show, I turned on the TV, I said to my wife and said 'Our congressman belongs to a brothel. And he belongs to a cult. What's going on?'"
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Mar 10 · It seems that those who were laid off 8 months ago would be the first to be rehired, but apparently that is not the case.
Florida has over 11 per cent unemployed now, and the Broward Schools are running ads in NY for teachers?
The Miami Herald posts the ad from the New York Times.
``TEACH near the BEACH!'' read the education jobs posting in the Feb. 28 edition of The New York Times.
The ad was for the Broward school district, which is recruiting teachers this week -- i
Mar 11 · The Republican Party today stands on the verge of a major political comeback. Americans are frustrated with the pace of economic recovery. President Obama’s approval rating has fallen from the mid-60s to the upper-40s and despite their large majorities in the House and Senate, congressional Democrats have been unable to deliver on some of their key policy commitments including health care reform. According to the latest projections, Republicans are likely to gain at least 25 seats in the House o
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