the political spectrum map is generated through a statistical analysis of the cosponsorship of bills in the 109th and 110th sessions of the us congress placing representatives who cosponsor similar legislation closer together. mb......
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my personal notesthoughts on obamas responses mccain has yet to respond 1. innovation will create a service scholarship program that pays undergraduate or graduate teaching education costs for those who commit to teaching in a highneed school. will create teacher residency academies. critics will cry how will we pay for all this education the answer is that education pays for itself. will mandate ...
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remember when politics was easy and you could rely on the school house rock explanation of how a bill becomes a law well political gamesmanship from the 110th congress and the bush administration continue to make the simple more complicated.not a phenomenon of the 21st century this sort of gamesmanship is not only a key component of our system it was in play in the ratification of our own constit...
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...subcommittees that i can find listed. kuhl has introduced 31 bills in his 4 years in office 27 of which have never made it out of committee and only one of which was successfully enacted according to govtrack.us. if energy and the environment are urgent issues for kuhl why is his work product not more conducive to these concerns3 greenpeace met with kuhl as opposed to massa baffling when you realize ...
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william cormier op ednews sep tember 1 2008 b lackwater international is running a full page on their website attempting to compile a list of qualified security personnel for possible deployment into areas affected by hurricane gustav. this is a task that has historically been undertaken by our various state national guard units. cnn is reporting that president bush and v...
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...ral explicitly stating that the regulations may not require any particular technology to be used. for a recent news article see httpti nyurl.com6 mn3ww for the text of the technology act visit http www.govtra ck.uscongr essbilltex t.xpdbillh 1103403 ht tpwww.fcc. govcgbcons umerfactsv oip911.htm l summary by cheryl cheung......
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im a fan of torrentfreak its one of those rare blogs that streams interesting news on a very specific subject and openly acknowledges its biases while providing the reader with a ton of information to fend for themselves. in fact i have come to think of torrentfreak as one of the outposts in a war over our culture and piracy that goes generally unacknowledged in the educational sphere. we talk a l...
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isnt it funny how barack obama wants to take your taxdollars to help needy folksaas stated inasenate bill 2433 the global poverty act of 2007athat he sponsored which purpose is to require the president to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the united states foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty the elimination of extreme global poverty and the...
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the association of research libraries reports in the latest enews for arl directors that the shawn bentley orphan works act of 2008 s. 2913 has stalled in the senate over state sovereign immunity and qualifying searches issues. it is uncertain if the bill will be considered further in this session. read more about it at orphan works legislation fails to move forward in us.......
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environment new jersey announced yesterday that it chooses obama and hopes you will too. in endorsing obama the group joined the ranks of the sierra club the league of conservation voters friends of the earth and others. in a statement executive director dena mottola jaborska said obama had publicly committed to fully addressing the pressing problem of global warming and moving the united states t...
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as house republicans plow through a third week of protesting their bodys recess without a resolution on offshore drilling some in the media are suggesting that maybe theyve already accomplished enough for one session. namely the wall street journal has gone as far as to compile a list of the important legislative issues tackled by the 110th congress. here are some highlights... july is now nationa...
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maybe i was in the woods last summer when this came out or maybe it passed under the radara on july 16 ofa last year the house of representatives on a voice vote no record passed house resolution 487 recognizing the contribution of modeling and simulation technology to the security and prosperity of the united states and recognizing modeling and simulation as a national critical technology. wow wh...
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in december 6 2007 nancy pelosi took to the house floor to talk about the energy independence and security act of 2007. heres that video this is an early part of the transcript if bobby thompson could reference the shot heard round the world we should indeed be able to do it today. this vote on this legislation will be a shot heard round the world for energy independence for america. after pres...
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what if your manager told you whom you should vote for this isnt far fetched. during my many years covering workplace issues ive heard a few cases of employers trying to sway the voting preferences of their employees. but walmart takes the cake. the company actually held formal meetings with employees and talked about how it would be better to vote republican than democratic. first off i think its...
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i recently wrote about the tragic sherman bus crash that occurred last friday. now we can add two other major bus crashes to the list. on thursday august 7th a bus carrying workers to a casino in primm nevada drove off a freeway crashed into a guardrail and caught fire. at least 25 people were injured with three in critical condition. on sunday august 10th a harrahs casino bus was carrying 43 peop...
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dass der iran nicht wie von zahlreichen propagandisten insbesondere in den usa westeuropa und israel flschlicherweise behauptet dabei ist atomwaffen zu produzieren haben sowohl die usgeheimdienste als auch die iaea bereits festgestellt. der uskongress plant dennoch die house congressional resolution 110362 zu verabschieden mit dem der prsident der usa wegen der angeblichen gefahr der iran knne at...
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thought crimes agenda already being implemented lee rogersrogue governmentaugust 8 2008 the department of homeland security is moving towards implementing a provision of the violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism prevention act of 2007 otherwise known as the thought crimes bill. this is despite the fact that the legislation has not been signed into law. the house version of the bill hr 195...
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we do frequent price surveys to get a sense of what textbooks us college students are buying and im perpetually astounded at the high price of textbooks. last i checked textbook prices were growing at four times the rate of inflation costing students almost a thousand dollars a year. id love to say that bookfinder.com is the magic answer to students textbook woes but its not. there are larger sys...
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in 2003 the virginia cooperative extension of virginia tech had this to say about the growing threats to american agriculture in the wake of september 11th the impact of a bioterrorism attack would not only be life threatening to humans but also to the economy of the united states. for example agriculture provides 13.1 of the united states gross domestic product and 140 billion in revenue . . . pr...
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the united states senate is on break for summer recess so the liebermanwarner climate security act csa a bill intended to nationally lower greenhouse gas emissions remains unpassed. but with an election victory by barack obama continuing to look likely its possible the bill could be passed this year. if that happens areas of the cleantech industry connected to fossil fuel could flourish in ways ...
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engineering students would receive up to 10000 in student loan forgiveness under legislation just passed by congress that the president is expected to sign. the higher education reauthorization and college opportunity act of 2008 creates a new program to provide financial incentives for professions in areas of national need including engineerin g. enginee ring students would qualify for up to 10...
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there was terrible news of a bus crash in sherman texas early this morning. a charter bus carrying 55 people from houston to carthage mo. for a religious celebration ran off the road and into a ravine near sherman killing at least 13 of its passengers. numerous other passengers were taken to various area hospitals. most of the passengers were members of the vietnamese martyrs church in houston and...
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