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'Sorry' Johns maintains sex consensual
Christchurch :: New Zealand | 6 months ago
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Former NRL player Matthew Johns has publicly apologised to the woman at the centre of a group sex scandal. However, the Channel Nine presenter maintains she was a willing participant. On Monday night, ABC1's Four Corners program revealed Johns and five...
Tags: Matthew Johns, group sex, Mr Johns, rugby league, sex scandal, personally matthew, Channel Nine, league personally, Australia, THE Senate
Senator to pass booze tax hike
Victoria :: Canada | 8 months ago
Credibility Independent Senator Nick Xenophon said he had been swayed by the arguments of doctors' groups that the tax increase would help combat binge drinking. Senator Xenophon indicated he would seek to amend the bills, which are being debated in the Senate tonight.
Tags: Nick Xenophon, alcopop tax, THE Senate, Australian Greens and Independent, increase tax, independent senator, tax hike, rudd government, Steve Fielding, crossbench senator
Kennedy unveils details of Economic Recovery and Reinvestmen Act
Hīt :: Iraq | 9 months ago
Credibility Kennedy, D-Mass., released the following statement today in response to passage by the Senate of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The bill passed the Senate today by a vote of 61-37 and will now go into conference with the House of...
Tags: the senate, jobs
Because of President Obama Senators finally listening to Al Gore!
Senators receptive as Gore pushes for climate change legislation Hopefully Al Gore can now make a big difference when it comes to tackling global warming or so the country and the world better hope! Gore Delivers 'Inconvenient...
Tags: The Senate, Al Gore, an inconvenient truth
NBC 6 Pocatello (KPVI): Statement of Senator Jim Risch on the Inauguration of President Barack Obama
Washington :: DC :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility Inauguration day reminds us what a great country we live in. To transfer power in the highest office of the land in a peaceful and orderly fashion is a confirmation that our Founding Fathers put in place a remarkable system of government. President...
Tags: inauguration, energy, president, obama, the senate, america, history, barack
Government Executive: Senate votes to allow release of TARP funds
Tarp :: Germany | 10 months ago
Credibility The Senate voted Thursday to release the second $350 billion in Troubled Asset Relief Program funding after receiving further assurances from President-elect Obama that his administration would devote at least $50 billion for foreclosure relief, provide...
Tags: obama, president, his administration, for, executive pay, bill, the senate, government, economy, bailout
SEC Nominee to Face Tough Questions
Washington :: DC :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility Schapiro, President-elect Barack Obama's pick for chair at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, is likely to face some tough questions from senators next week on how she intends to reform the battered securities regulator. The Senate Banking Committee...
Anticipated and Unanticipated President-Elect Moves
Baghdad :: Iraq | 12 months ago
Credibility Obama has appointed a center-right group of economic advisers...That does not make them conservative but they are at least free-market advocates. When he was campaigning for President Senator John S. McCain, III (R-AZ) warned that Obama was a socialist...
Tags: obama, president, president-elect barack, obama administration, barack, white house, Barack Obama, the senate, mccain, Obamamania
PerthNow: Senate thwarts Rudd's agenda
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 year ago
Credibility Matthew Franklin, Nicola Berkovic and Patricia Karvelas September 05, 2008 06:19am THE Senate has voted down a key budget measure in a brutal display of the difficulties that are facing Kevin Rudd without an upper house majority. In the first major...
Tags: luxury cars, THE Senate, cars tax, Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan, Dr Nelson
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