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Abortion amendment faces vote
Lon :: Burkina Faso | 15 days ago
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Democrats to resolve abortion impasse on the House floor Updated 1:29 a.m. House Democratic leaders agreed Friday night to settle an impasse over abortion by letting the entire House vote on a proposed solution, a risky decision that could determine...
Tags: House Democratic, The House of Representatives, health care, Senate Democratic, Barack Obama, تلفن متعلق, قبوض تلفن, متعلق به, غيرحضوري قبوض, در پرداخت
House backs Guantanamo prisoner transfer
Havana :: Cuba | about 1 month ago
Credibility The House of Representatives on Thursday voted to allow the Obama administration to bring foreign terrorism suspects from the Guantanamo Bay prison to the United States to face trial. The 307 to 114 vote removes one of many roadblocks the administration...
Tags: Guantanamo Bay, House-Senate, Guantanamo Detainee Decision, The House of Representatives, Barack Obama, United States, Homeland Security Department, president barack, guantanamo prisoners, house backs
New loan plan drops bank subsidies
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility The House of Representatives on Thursday passed legislation that would make the biggest changes in federal student loans in decades, driving banks out of the business and relying on an existing government program to provide that crucial source of college...
Tags: students loans, White House, The House of Representatives, Senate, federally government, N.Y, private lenders, loans programs, federally students, Reuters, Washington
House Votes to End Subsidies to Student Loan Firms
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility The government itself would make all such federal loans as of July 1, effectively cutting out banks and other lenders as middlemen. That would be a major shift because direct government lending in the last academic year accounted for about a quarter of...
Tags: The House of Representatives, students loans, House Expands Federal Aid, Sallie Mae, college students, U.S. Senate, house votes, private lenders, college aid, federally loans, Washington
An Odd Kind of Patriotism
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility With their highly public episodes of misconduct, both earned sharp public censure. Yet while Mr. West has expressed real remorse for his misbehavior at the MTV Music Awards, Mr. Wilson has swiftly gone beyond a quick apology to cash in on his historic...
Tags: Joseph C. Wilson, Mr. Wilson, Congress, health care, The House of Representatives, Washington
Idaho State Journal: House OKs food safety bill
Washington :: DC :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility The House has passed a far-reaching food safety bill requiring more government inspections and imposing new penalties on those who violate the law, reacting strongly to an outbreak of salmonella in peanuts that killed at least nine people. The legislation...
Solon seeks death penalty vs drug barons
Manila :: Philippines | 4 months ago
Credibility A lawmaker on Monday urged President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to again make drug trafficking a crime punishable by death if the administration is really firm in winning the war against the drug menace in the country. Muntinlupa Representative Rufino Biazon...
Tags: death penalty, illegal drugged, The House of Representatives, drugged traffickers, drugged syndicate, narcotics agent
Status quo for farm bill 2010
Washington :: DC :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility The House of Representatives has written a $123.8 billion farm-spending bill that's loaded with congressional earmarks. Brushing off conservative criticism, lawmakers are steering funds toward California pest detection, wine-grape research and "asparagus...
Tobacco tax fails in House
Baton Rouge :: LA :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility The Louisiana House rejected legislation Monday that would have raised taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products. The vote was 45 for and 55 against the measure, which would have dedicated about $100 million in tax proceeds to health care. During...
Tags: Louisiana House, The House of Representatives, tobacco tax
House 'cha-cha' move faces challenges
Manila :: Philippines | 5 months ago
Credibility House of Representatives’ attempt to amend the Constitution, heightening fears of unrest and instability for an economy already hit hard by the global downturn. With House leaders declining to explain the chamber’s next move regarding charter change —...
Tags: The House of Representatives, Philippine House, constituent assembly, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, charter change, president gloria, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Gloria Arroyo
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