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Senate roll call: A look at how the Senate voted on women's health amendment
Colorado :: Brazil | 3 days ago
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The 61-39 roll call Thursday by which the Senate adopted an amendment to safeguard coverage of mammograms and preventive screening tests for women under a revamped health care system...Voting yes were 56 Democrats, 3 Republicans and 2 independents.
Tags: FLORIDA, Durbin, Senate, MARYLAND Cardin, Brazil, Colorado, Religion in the United States, Politics, Religious affiliations of current United States Senators, Religious affiliation in the United States Senate
Inmates assist ill and dying fellow prisoners in hospices
Luanda :: Angola | 7 days ago
Credibility Ted "Animal" Durbin expected prison life to be about brawls and knife fights — not changing adult diapers or bathing grown men. Four times a week, Durbin, 51, who's serving 140 years for armed robbery at Louisiana State Penitentiary, meets with frail,...
Tags: hospices programs, Durbin, Angola, life sentencing, George Brown, Carol McAdoo, dying inmates, Luanda, Palliative medicine, Healthcare in the United States, Palliative care, West Feliciana Parish Louisiana, Hospice, Prison, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Prisons in California, Law Crime
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Burbank :: CA :: USA | 16 days ago
Credibility The seasonally adjusted jobless rate in October 2008 was 6.8 percent. Job losses continued last month but at a slower pace, the department said. There were 3,200 fewer nonfarm payroll jobs last month compared with September, and 286,300 fewer when compared...
Tags: Durbin, Burbank, Tinley Park Illinois, Business Finance, Cook County Illinois, Will County Illinois, Unemployment, Labor
FACT CHECK: U.S. Prisons and Gitmo Detainees
The federal government is considering two maximum security prisons, in Illinois and Michigan, as possible places for Gitmo detainees. And of course the topic has become political, with both sides spinning and sometimes ignoring facts to politicize...
Tags: fact, check, gitmo, guantanamo, bay, detainees, prisoners, illinois, michigan, federal, terrorism, terrorist, crime, durbin
Illinois prison considered for some Guantanamo detainees
Rockford :: IL :: USA | 22 days ago
Credibility Bureau of Prisons is scheduled to tour and inspect Illinois' Thom son Correctional Center today as part of a White House proposal to move some terrorism suspects now detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, officials said Sunday. Even as others cited security...
Tags: Illinois Detainee Prison, Guantanamo Bay, Pat Quinn, Dick Durbin, obama administration, guantanamo detainees, Thomson Correctional Center, Cuba, Barack Obama, illinois prison, Rockford, Dick Durbin, Presidency of Barack Obama, Politics, Human rights abuses, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Internments, Mitch McConnell, Supermax, Prisons, Daniel Hynes, Governor of Illinois, Illinois State Senators, Rod Blagojevich controversies, Rod Blagojevich, Video game censorship, Social Issues, Government of Illinois, Roland Burris, Illinois, Donald A. Manzullo, Durbin, Forgottonia
S.B. 510: A Food "Safety" Bill or Something Else Entirely?
By James J. Gormley Do you grow heirloom tomatoes you sell on your own property or at a local farmer’s market? If so, you will be in for a whopper of a surprise if Senator Durbin’s Senate Bill 510 (S.B. 510) passes: you may be receiving...
Tags: gormley, james j. gormley, food safety, S.B. 510, food safety modernization act, durbin, dingell, citizens for health, the gormley files
No Truth Commission Until March 2010
I just received an email from the office of Dick Durbin (D-Il). In it Mr. Durbin described his approach to an independent truth commission regarding U.S. policy of torture. In today's email Sen. Durbin said, "Some, including Senator Pat Leahy of Vermont,...
Senate defeats Obama-backed, anti-foreclosure bill
Washington :: DC :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility A dozen Democrats joined Republicans in the 45-51 vote to scuttle the bill, which Obama had said was important to saving the economy and promised to push through Congress. But facing stiff opposition from banks, Obama did little to pressure lawmakers...
Tags: Senate Defeats Measure, U.S. Senate, Barack Obama, Durbin, housing market, president barack, Congress, bankruptcy judges
Senate bars FCC from revisiting Fairness Doctrine
Washington :: DC :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Hannity, Rush,Billo, and every other right wing nut radio call in host. Gee, I missed Durbin's name mentioned in this article must be written in invisible ink. " JTV wrote on Feb 26, 2009 4:47 PM: " Durbin will try anything to silence his detractors....Any...
Tags: Fairness Doctrine, Durbin, Senate
Meeting of the minds
Seattle :: WA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Rep.-Elect Debbie Halvorson, D-Crete, on Thursday in Washington, D.C. Halvorson was elected earlier this month and is taking part in freshman orientation for new members of Congress this week. Durbin and Halvorson discussed ways to work together to address...
Tags: automaker, bailout, elect, corporate, auto, billion, aid, Durbin
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