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Massachusetts Plans Interim Kennedy Seat Pick as Election Set (Bloomberg)

August 31st, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Politics
Bloomberg - Sept. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick set in motion a plan to allow him to pick a temporary successor for the late Senator Edward Kennedy before voters choose someone to serve out his term in a Jan. 19 special election.

Lessons from Mexico for next wave of swine flu (AP)

August 31st, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in world

A school security guard helps a student wash his hands with antibacterial gel during the first week of school in Mexico City, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009. As a preventative measure to combat the possibility of an outbreak of swine flu, Mexico City schools are once again screening students at the door, and washing their hands as they enter. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)AP - Mexico is preparing for a second wave of swine flu, looking at what worked and what didn't last spring when it banned everything from dining out to attending school in an effort to control the virus.


More New York Senate staffers get raises

August 31st, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in 466848, Breaking News, Government, Politics, State News, Top News
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Another bill is coming due from this summer's crippling coup in New York's Senate: $13 million more in raises and hiring, mostly for the Republican minority. The latest state payroll records show new hires and raises...

House Dems plot health care comeback (Politico)

August 31st, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Politics

Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks at a news conference after a roundtable discussion on health care issues with religious leaders at St. James Episcopal Church in San Francisco, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)Politico - In late July, Arkansas Rep. Vic Snyder was a fired-up partisan, declaring that health care was going to be transformed “under President Obama’s leadership.”


Obama more successful on terrorism says security adviser (Reuters)

August 31st, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in us

School children wearing masks of U.S. president-elect Barack Obama pose during a rally in Lucknow January 20, 2009. REUTERS/Pawan KumarReuters - The United States is having more success fighting terrorism under President Barack Obama partly because of his "radically different" approach to foreign policy, National security adviser Jim Jones said on Monday.


Sen. Grassley: No public option in health reform (AP)

August 31st, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Politics
AP - Iowa Republican Sen. Charles Grassley said Monday he remains hopeful a limited health care reform measure can be negotiated, but that a small bipartisan group of senators working on the issue agrees a government-run public option won't be part of the package.

Massachusetts governor backs naming Kennedy successor (Reuters)

August 31st, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Politics

Senator Edward Kennedy listens during the first John F. Kennedy New Frontier Awards ceremony at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, November 15, 2004. REUTERS/Brian SnyderReuters - Democrats pushed Monday to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Edward Kennedy, with the Massachusetts governor throwing his support behind a proposal to name an interim successor and help Democrats retain a critical margin in the chamber.


Baucus predicts health care overhaul this year (AP)

August 31st, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Politics

FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2009 file photo, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. talks to reporter after lunch with President Obama, outside the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, FILE)AP - U.S. Sen. Max Baucus of Montana says a health care overhaul will happen this year even if Republicans back out of bipartisan talks under growing public pressure and that the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy could help hold together a compromise deal.


Another Senator Kennedy in Massachusetts? (AP)

August 31st, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Uncategorized
AP - Another Kennedy just might occupy the Kennedy seat in the Senate.

Palin’s PAC doles out cash to GOP (Politico)

August 31st, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Politics
Politico - Sarah Palin’s political action committee, facing scrutiny from the Federal Election Commission, revealed Monday that it had recently made contributions to a raft of mostly conservative Republicans, including Reps. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell and Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Orrin Hatch of Utah.
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