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Robert Byrd Is the Longest-Serving Senator Ever [Old Dogs]
Charleston :: WV :: USA | 4 days ago
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the longest-serving Senator in US history isn't unreconstructed racist a****** Strom Thurmond anymore...He is 91 years old (his 92nd birthday is on Friday!) and third in line for the presidency should something happen to Obama, Biden, and Pelosi.
Tags: Senate, US Congress, West Virginia, Robert Byrd, Sen. Byrd, serving member, House of Representatives, W.Va, Arizona, Charleston, Human Interest, Party leaders of the United States Senate, Harry F. Byrd, Politics, United States House of Representatives, United States Senate, Joe Manchin, Social Issues, Labor, United States Senate election in West Virginia, Carl Hayden, Electoral history of Robert Byrd, Ku Klux Klan, Barack Obama, Hate crimes
J'lem mayor meets with US Congress members
Jerusalem :: Israel | 15 days ago
Credibility J'lem mayor meets with US Congress members Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat met with Republican and Democratic Congress members in Washington on Friday and discussed with them the need to keep a united Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty. This week the US...
Tags: anti-Israel International Solidarity Movement, UN Head Reprimands Israel, Israeli, Jerusalem, congress members, Washington, United States, See Judaism, US Congress, shared history
Can Merkel meet American expectations?
Berlin :: Germany | 19 days ago
Credibility It�s a tremendous honour for Chancellor Angela Merkel to address the US Congress this week, considering she�ll be the first German leader to do so since Konrad Adenauer in 1957. But the invitation from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi undoubtedly comes...
Tags: Angela Merkel, Mrs Merkel, Barack Obama, US Congress, Mr Obama, climate change, chancellor angela, global warming, Iran, joint meeting
US State Department hails Sri Lanka decision to probe war crime report allegations
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 26 days ago
Credibility The news that Sri Lanka has taken an official decision to appoint a commission to probe in to the US allegation of war atrocities was hailed by the US State Department spokesman Ian Kelly at the daily press briefing Monday, 26 October in Washington saying...
Tags: Sri Lanka, human rights, war crimes, sri lankan, rights abuses, US Congress
U.S. lawmakers: block Goldstone report
Washington :: DC :: USA | 28 days ago
Credibility Top Democratic and Republican foreign affairs leaders in Congress are calling on the Obama administration to quash the Goldstone Report...House of Representatives Foreign Affairs committee, and Rep. Ileana Ross-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), the committee's ranking...
Tags: House Foreign Affairs Committee, US Congress, Republican
US Congress approves new restrictions on military aid
Islamabad :: Pakistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility Both chambers of the US Congress have quietly approved a bill that seeks tough new restrictions on military aid to Pakistan, aides told Dawn on Wednesday. The bill comes up for final approval later this week. Democratic Senator Robert Menendez and Republican...
Tags: Pakistan, US Congress, military aides, South Waziristan
US Congress sends Obama Iran sanctions bill
Tehrān :: Iran | about 1 month ago
Credibility The measure was included in the Department of Energy's 2010 spending bill, which cleared the Senate in an 80-17 vote, two weeks after the House of Representatives approved the measure, AFP reported. On Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed a...
Baucus Health Care Reform Act: How Will It Affect Small Business Owners?
Earlier this year, the U.S. Congress decide to reform bills, this includes the Health Care Plan. The agenda of reforming the said bill is to put in heavy fines or penalties to businesses who does not give out health care to its employees. It's a good...
Tags: US Congress, reform bills, Health Care Plan, allnews, Washington, Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus, Democrat, Montana, insurance, employees, amendments, small business
Dalai Lama shrugs off apparent snub by Obama
Beijing :: China | about 1 month ago
Credibility The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled religious leader, on Thursday shrugged off an apparent snub by President Barack Obama, saying he was assured Obama would raise Tibetan issues when he visits China next month. "He already indicated that he's going to speak...
Tags: China, 14th Dalai Lama, Tibetan, Barack Obama, Mr. Obama, tibet issues, human rights, Chinese, US Congress, Beijing
Pak not bound to Kerry-Lugar bill conditions
Foreign Office narrator Abdul Basit clarified that accepting the stipulations attached to an aid legislation, Kerry-Lugar Bill, accepted by the US Congress, was not essential for Pakistan
Tags: Foreign Office, Abdul Basit, US Congress, Kerry-Lugar
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