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Health reform bill passes by the US house
The Health reform bill passes by the US house by a narrow margin of vote of 220-215.Though the turning the reform bill into law remains not certain. The US house needs 218 democrats for passing the health reform bill and atlast 219 of the democrats voted...
Tags: Health reform bill, US health reform bill, US House, US democrats, US republican
House Health Care Vote Makes History
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 22 days ago
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The vote was close, 220-215, and it only included a single Republican. To pass the bill, Democrats also had to allow a controversial amendment banning abortion funding in both public and private plans in the new marketplaces the bill would create. But...
Tags: House of Representatives, US House, House of Reprsentatives, health care, Barack Obama, Mr. Obama, Senate
US Reps Exposed in Ethics Scandal
A summary from the US House of Representatives' Ethics Committee from this past July has been leaked to the Washington Post. The Ethics Committee monitors the US Representatives throughout the year by analyzing their financial dealings and travel...
Tags: House of Representatives, representatives, US House, subpoena, funds, ethics
Rangel still spending big on legal help
Albany :: NY :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Embattled Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel (N.Y.), the focus of a year-long investigation by the House ethics committee, continues to spend heavily on legal help, shelling out more than a quarter of a million dollars this summer. Rangel’s latest report...
Tags: Mr. Rangel, Charles B. Rangel, Charlie Rangel, US House
Small Banks Vital to Regulatory Revamp
Washington :: DC :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility The fate of a central plank in President Barack Obama's financial-regulation overhaul -- an agency to regulate consumer financial products -- is increasingly in the hands of the nation's small-town bankers. An army of big-bank lobbyists is fighting the...
Tags: US House
Judy Chu ahead in 32nd Congressional District vote
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility Early returns show the Democrat with a wide lead over Betty Tom Chu and Christopher Agrella in vote to fill Solis' seat in Congress. July 15, 2009 Chu's apparent defeat of Republican Betty Tom Chu, a cousin by marriage, and Libertarian Christopher M.
Tags: US House, Southern California, house seat, special election
Pelosi urges China to free political prisoners
Beijing :: China | 6 months ago
Credibility The US House Speaker says human rights concerns were adequately stressed during China visit, rejecting criticism that she did not play tough on the issue during her week-long trip that ended on Sunday Dharamsala, June 3: US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,...
Tags: US Urges China, human rights, 20th anniversary, Nancy Pelosi, Tiananmen Square, ones china, house speaker, speaker nancy, US House, called ones
Pelosi talks Tibet with top Chinese leaders
Beijing :: China | 6 months ago
Credibility Dharamsala, May 28: Dharamsala, May 28: Speaker of the U.S. Wednesday met with China’s three top leaders- President Hu Jintao, Premier Wen Jiabao, and Wu Bangguo, the Chairman of the National People's Congress, and talked about North Korea and human rights...
Tags: US-China, Nancy Pelosi, United States, Beijing, human rights, US House, Tibet, Wen Jiabao, house speaker, North Korea
House panel approves climate change bill
Washington :: DC :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility President Barack Obama's fight against global warming got a huge boost on Thursday when a key congressional panel embraced his plan to create a new, market-driven system for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The House of Representatives Energy and Commerce...
Tags: Barack Obama, climate change, gas emissions, president barack, house energy, greenhouse gas, house panel, American Clean Energy, US House, security act
Carbon dioxide emissions drop in 2008
Washington :: DC :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility There is a positive note to the country's economic woes and last summer's $4-per-gallon gasoline: The nation in 2008 had a record decline in the amount of climate-changing carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere. The government reported Wednesday...
Tags: carbon dioxide, dioxide emissions, greenhouse gas, climate changing, The House, US House, related carbon, emissions decline, White House, gas pollution
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