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NoFEAR Act Data now available (in pdf and xls formats) for 4th
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President
Obama to Boost Civil Rights Enforcement in Schools
Posted: 07 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PST
SELMA, Ala. - The Obama administration plans to toughen civil
rights enforcement in the nation's schools with a broad review
touching on everything from academics to discipline.
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President
Obama Pitches Health Plan in Spirited Appearance
Posted: 08 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PST
By JULIE PACE and DAVID ESPO
GLENSIDE, Pa. - Stirring memories of his campaign for the White
House, President Barack Obama made a spirited, shirt-sleeved
appeal for passage of long-stalled health care changes Monday
as Democratic congressional leaders worked behind the scenes
on legislation they hope can quickly gain passage.
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In Pictures: Colorado's Health Insurance
Reform Movement 2009.
Subject: LAST TWO WEEKS OF HEALTH REFORM
- PREZ NEEDS US NOW!!
"President Obama was on television
Monday to tell people in no uncertain terms - HEALTH CARE REFORM
must happen now. The lobbyists have all flown to Washington to
fight against us in this FINAL two weeks.
OUR PRESIDENT NEEDS EACH AND EVERY ONE
OF US TO STAND WITH HIM.
DO IT NOW. http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/health-care-action-center/"
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Exemptive,
No-Action, & Interpretative Letters for CFTC.gov.
The following letter has been added:
10-03; Section 4m(1); No-Action; December 18, 2009
The Division of Clearing and Intermediary Oversight provided
no-action relief to the general partner of a commodity pool operator
(CPO) from registering as such pursuant to Section 4m(1) of the
Commodity Exchange Act (Act), and allowing a registered CPO (designee)
to serve as the CPO instead.
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PRESIDENT OBAMA NEEDS US NOW!
"President Obama was on television
Monday to tell people in no uncertain terms - HEALTH CARE REFORM
must happen now. The lobbyists have all flown to Washington to
fight against us in this FINAL two weeks.
OUR PRESIDENT NEEDS EACH AND EVERY ONE
OF US TO STAND WITH HIM.
DO IT NOW. http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/health-care-action-center/"
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Military
Medical Digest for Military Health System. This information has recently been updated, and
is now available.
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Tech Student Democrats.
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Subject: Officer Meeting Tonight
Hey All,
I wanted to send out this last message
to encourage all of you to come out and vote for the officers
of the Tech Dems. Remember this meeting is MANDATORY as we need
every vote we can to make the elections fair and honest and representative
of the group. Please come and express your opinion about who
should be running the group in the fall!
Plus this is the last meeting before spring
break so any last minute ideas or projects you have in mind should
be submitted so they can be thought over through spring break.
We want to get right back into the swing of things after the
break.
Okay see everyone there,
Your Democratic President,
Stuart
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National
Security Cases Focus of New Resource
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:13:00 -0600
The Federal Judicial Center has published a new resource, National
Security Case Studies: Special Case-Management Challenges, that
documents methods federal judges have employed to meet challenges
in such cases.
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FJC
Report Gauges Views of Federal Court Rules
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:43:00 -0600
The Federal Judicial Center has published a report on attorneys'
views of how the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are operating.
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WSJ: Health Reform Passes the Cost Test
ICYMI, wanted to make sure you saw today’s
op-ed by David Cutler in the Wall Street Journal about how the
Democratic plan to reform our country's health care system will
cut costs by $600 billion over the next decade. Read the op-ed
here,
or below.
Health Reform Passes the Cost Test
By DAVID M. CUTLER
Many people are worried that the health-care
reform proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats
will fail to bend the "cost curve." A number of commentators
are urging no votes because of this, and Republicans have asked
the president to start health reform over, focusing squarely
on the issue of cost reduction.
These calls overlook the actual legislation.
Over the past year of debate, 10 broad ideas have been offered
for bending the health-care cost curve. The Democrats' proposed
legislation incorporates virtually every one of them. Here they
are:
• Form insurance exchanges. These
would help curb underwriting and inefficient marketing practices
that raise costs in the small-group and individual insurance
markets. This is addressed in all the House and Senate bills,
and the president's proposal. Grade: Full credit.
• Reduce excessive prices, including
those of supplemental plans enrolling Medicare beneficiaries.
The president's proposal reduces these Medicare Advantage overpayments
and others to different providers, even in the face of Republican
claims that reducing such overpayments is tantamount to rationing
care for seniors. Grade: Full credit.
• Moving to value-based payment in
Medicare. Both Democrats and Republicans have called for moving
from a system where volume drives reimbursement to one where
value drives reimbursement. The president's proposal includes
virtually every idea offered for doing this. Grade: Full credit.
• Tax generous insurance plans. Health-insurance
benefits are excluded from income taxation, providing incentives
for excessively generous insurance. Many economists have proposed
capping the tax exclusion to reduce these incentives. The president's
proposal taxes some of the most generous policies, though it
has deferred the date by which these taxes take effect. Grade:
Partial credit.
• Empower an independent Medicare
advisory board. Interest-group politics intrudes too deeply within
the mechanics of Medicare policy, raising program costs and hindering
efforts to improve care. Despite powerful opposition, the president
proposes this independent board and a process for fast-tracking
such recommendations through Congress. Grade: Full credit.
• Combat Medicare fraud and abuse.
The administration has started an active task force to combat
these problems. Other ideas to reduce fraud and abuse were presented
at the recent health-care summit, and were incorporated in the
president's proposal. Grade: Full credit.
• Malpractice reform. Defensive medicine
is a small but important driver of medical spending. The reform
proposal makes some headway, encouraging states to experiment
with alternative mechanisms to reduce malpractice burdens. More
could be done—for example, specialized malpractice courts
and a safe harbor for physicians practicing evidence-based medicine—but
the president's proposal makes a start. Grade: Partial credit.
• Invest in information technology.
Many studies suggest savings in the tens of billions of dollars
from IT investment. The stimulus bill passed a year ago contains
funds to wire the medical system over the next few years, and
the administration is supplementing this with significant funds
to analyze the comparative effectiveness of different treatments—even
in the face of "death panel" claims. Grade: Full credit.
• Prevention. The president's proposal
includes significant public-health investments, provides new
incentives for physicians to focus on preventive and chronic
care, and opens Medicare to finding new ways of supporting prevention.
The only area of weakness is the lack of a junk food tax or tax
on sugar sweetened beverages. Grade: Partial credit.
• Create a public option. A public
insurance option would provide competition for insurers in areas
that are nearly a monopoly and provide a path for reforms in
Medicare to expand readily in the under-65 population. The public
option was eliminated because of Republican opposition, however.
Grade: No credit.
So reform gets full credit on six of the
10 ideas, partial credit on three others, and no credit on one.
The area of no credit (a public option) is because Republicans
opposed the idea. One area receives only partial credit because
of Democratic opposition (malpractice reform) and two other areas
reflect general hesitancy to increase taxes (taxing Cadillac
plans and taxing drivers of obesity).
Why is reform viewed so negatively? In
part, it may reflect the perfect being the enemy of the good.
If the only passing grade is 10 out of 10, then reform clearly
fails. But given where the Republican Party is on a public option,
no reform will get a passing grade. If both parties were willing
to raise taxes and Republicans negotiated malpractice reform
for their overall support, we could probably get a nine out of
10.
Reform is also viewed negatively because
official scorekeepers do not believe anything on this list other
than reducing prices will save much money. The Congressional
Budget Office has consistently estimated that policies built
around changing incentives and thus encouraging more efficient
care will not have any effect on cost trends. My own calculations,
mirrored by other observers and a host of business and provider
groups, suggest that the reforms will save nearly $600 billion
over the next decade and even more in the subsequent one.
Of course, no one knows precisely how much
medical spending increases will moderate. But one cannot doubt
the commitment to try. What is on the table is the most significant
action on medical spending ever proposed in the United States.
Should we really walk away from that?
Mr. Cutler is a professor of economics
at Harvard University.
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Young
Democrats Service Day at the Houston Food Bank
What: Rally
Start Time: Saturday, March 13 at 8:45am
End Time: Saturday, March 13 at 12:00pm
Where: The Houston Food Bank - END HUNGER Building on I-45
To see more details and RSVP
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2010
Jefferson-Jackson-Bailey Dinner
What: Fundraiser
Start Time: Monday, April 12 at 6:00pm
End Time: Monday, April 12 at 10:00pm
Where: Connecticut Convention Center
To see more details and RSVP
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Roll Call: Talking to Republicans About
the non-issue of reconciliation is just a waste of time
ICYMI, wanted to make sure you saw today’s
op-ed by Stan Collender in Roll Call about the need to put aside
the debate on process and move ahead with a serious discussion
on health care reform: “When someone like me, who has a
personal interest in reconciliation being a big controversy,
says it’s a side issue that not only doesn’t merit
the attention it’s getting but shouldn’t be an issue
at all, you have to understand both how painful it is to say
and how seriously the point should be taken.” Read the op-ed
here, or below.
Can We Please Stop Talking About Reconciliation?
March 9, 2010
By Stan Collender
Roll Call Contributing Writer
My fellow Roll Call columnist Norman Ornstein was one of the
authors of a truly excellent chart on reconciliation that appeared
in the New York Times on Sunday. Norm, and his two co-authors,
Tom Mann and Raffaela Wakeman, show in an almost full-page display
that reconciliation has been used repeatedly since 1981 and is
anything but the, in their words, “power grab” that
some are trying to get us to believe it will be if it is used
for legislation related to health care reform.
They also show that reconciliation has
been used when Democrats and Republicans were in the majority;
to increase and decrease the deficit; to increase and decrease
spending and revenues; and to create, expand and decrease programs.
No matter how much you might prefer it
to be otherwise, this is not partisan opinion, beliefs or analysis.
They are indisputable facts that are neither new nor newly discovered.
So let me say this as directly as possible:
Enough about reconciliation. It absolutely doesn’t deserve
the attention it’s receiving.
Why is anyone talking so much about a subpart
of the Congressional budget process (and a sub-subpart when you
add in the Byrd Rule) when the issue that really needs to be
debated in depth is health care reform?
I am a budget process wonk. I have spent
much of the past three decades speaking about and analyzing the
ins and outs of the Congressional Budget Act (which created reconciliation)
and its successor budget laws. The more people talk about reconciliation
and want information on it, the more likely they are to quote
me in stories and interview me on television and radio. In other
words, the fact that reconciliation is an issue is good for my
business.
When someone like me, who has a personal interest in reconciliation
being a big controversy, says it’s a side issue that not
only doesn’t merit the attention it’s getting but shouldn’t
be an issue at all, you have to understand both how painful it
is to say and how seriously the point should be taken.
I had this same basic argument a year or
so ago with someone who insisted that the United States should
have a capital budget. He was willing to fight to the death to
change the way the U.S. treated capital expenditures. To sell
his point he prepared white papers, talked one on one with countless
people in the House and Senate, participated in seminars and
persuaded think tanks to include it as a high priority on their
agendas.
I told him at the time that the real issue
wasn’t the budget treatment of federal capital purchases;
it was that the U.S. was underinvesting in infrastructure. But
instead of spending his time talking about the benefits of the
change that he wanted, for example, on what it would mean if
roads could be driven more quickly and safely so that people
would get home from work earlier and spend more time with their
families, he focused on accrual accounting for the federal government.
Even I, a budget process aficionado who
served on a presidential commission on capital budgeting, found
that boring and largely beside the point. And, not surprisingly,
the issue died.
The same thing is happening now with reconciliation
and health care.
There are three reasons why the debate
should not be whether this is an appropriate way to adopt legislation.
First, as Norm and his collaborators showed quite definitively
Sunday and what we actually knew long before the chart was published,
that issue was settled a long time ago.
Second, the most important question is
not about the process; it’s about the changes in health
care that would be put in place and, like the safer and faster
ride home that might happen with better roads and rail, what
it would mean for the way we live.
Third, debating the propriety of using
reconciliation is a great way to turn off the interest in health
care reform outside the Beltway. For most people, “reconciliation”
is something you do when you get your monthly checking account
statement or what you try to do when you go to a marriage counselor.
Outside that it has no meaning.
Those for and against a health care bill may have made a huge
mistake in focusing so much of their energies on reconciliation.
Not only is it ultimate inside legislative procedure roughly
akin to trying to make an issue about Section 302b allocations
(Trust me, if you don’t know what these are, you don’t
need to worry about them), it effectively means that a good part
of the outside interest in the issue will end if the procedure
is used, a bill is enacted and the world doesn’t come to
an end.
Meanwhile, those who support changes in
health care have been engaging on a highly technical procedural
issue and, therefore, giving it unnecessary credence. They have
also been missing an outstanding opportunity to talk about what
the changes will mean to the average voter. It’s hard to
imagine that the average voter will support health care reform
because reconciliation was or wasn’t used to put it in place.
Stan Collender is a partner at Qorvis Communications and founder
of the blog Capital Gains and Games. He is also the author of
“The Guide to the Federal Budget.”
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Remarks
With Haitian President Rene Preval After Their Meeting
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:52:54 -0600
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U.S.
Fire Administration Coffee Break Training Update 2010-10
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DHS
Tribal Consultation and Coordination Plan Unveiled
Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:00:00 -0600
Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano unveiled the Department’s
initiative for increased consultation and coordination with federally
recognized tribes across the United States—building on current
tribal partnerships to protect the safety and security of all
people on tribal lands and throughout the nation.
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U.S.,
Israel Agree to Enhance Joint Aviation Security
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:00:00 -0600
Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano and Israeli Transport
and Road Safety Minister Israel Katz announced a new agreement
to enhance information sharing about civil aviation security
incidents and ensure efficient and effective coordination in
response to potential acts of terrorism and other aviation-related
public safety emergencies.
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Secretary
Launches National Cybersecurity Awareness Campaign Challenge
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:00:00 -0600
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FLOOR SCHEDULE FOR WEDNESDAY, MARCH
10, 2010
House Meets At… First Vote Predicted… Last Vote Predicted…
10:00 a.m.: Legislative Business 1:00 –
2:00 p.m. 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
“One Minutes” (15 per side)
Suspensions (9 Bills)
H.R.
4786 - To provide authority to compensate Federal employees
for the 2-day period in which authority to make expenditures
from the Highway Trust Fund lapsed (Rep. Connolly - Transportation
and Infrastructure)
H.Con.Res.
249 - Commemorating the 45th anniversary of Bloody Sunday
and the role that it played in ensuring the passage of the Voting
Rights Act of 1965 (Rep. Lewis (GA) - Judiciary)
H.Res.
1081 - Supporting the goals and ideals of National Teen Dating
Violence Awareness and Prevention Month (Rep. Lewis (GA) - Judiciary)
H.Res.
1087 - Honoring the life of John H. "Jack" Ruffin,
Jr. (Rep. Barrow - Judiciary)
H.Res.
1115 - Expressing appreciation for the profound dedication
and public service of Enrique "Kiki" Camarena on the
25th anniversary of his death (Rep. Hunter - Judiciary)
H.Res.
1061 - Honoring the heroic actions of Court Security Officer
Stanley Cooper, Deputy United States Marshal Richard J. "Joe"
Gardner, the law enforcement officers of the United States Marshals
Service and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, and the
Court Security Officers in responding to the armed assault at
the Lloyd D. George Federal Courthouse on January 4, 2010 (Rep.
Titus - Judiciary)
H.R.
4506 - Bankruptcy Judgeship Act of 2010 (Rep. Cohen - Judiciary)
H.R.
4783 - To accelerate the income tax benefits for charitable
cash contributions for the relief of the victims of the earthquake
in Chile, and to extend the period from which such contributions
for the relief of the victims of the earthquake in Haiti may
be accelerated (Rep. Levin - Ways and Means)
H.R.
4573 - Debt Relief for Earthquake Recovery in Haiti Act of
2010 (Rep. Waters - Financial Services)
H.Con.Res.
248 - Afghanistan War Powers Resolution (Rep. Kucinich –
Foreign Affairs) (Privileged Resolution) (Subject to a Rule)
Postponed Suspension Votes (5 Bills):
H.Res.
1088 - Recognizing the plight of people with albinism in
East Africa and condemning their murder and mutilation (Rep.
Connolly - Foreign Affairs)
H.Res.
1107 - Recognizing the 189th anniversary of the independence
of Greece and celebrating Greek and American democracy. (Rep.
Ros-Lehtinen - Foreign Affairs)
H.Res.
1144 - Expressing Condolences for the victims of the February
27th 2010 earthquake in Chile, as well as solidarity with and
support for the Chilean people as they plan for the recovery
and reconstruction for their Country (Rep. Hinojosa - Foreign
Affairs)
H.R.
4621 - Prevent Deceptive Census Look Alike Mailings Act (Rep.
Maloney - Oversight and Government Reform)
H.Res.
1047 - Commending The Ohio State University Buckeyes football
team for its victory in the 2010 Rose Bowl (Rep. Kilroy - Education
and Labor)
* Conference Reports may be brought up at any time.
* Motions to go to Conference should they become available.
* Possible Motions to Instruct Conferees.
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Secretary
Napolitano Announces Deployments of Recovery Act-Funded Advanced
Imaging Technology
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:00:00 -0600
Secretary Napolitano announced the first 11 airports to receive
advanced imaging technology (AIT) units purchased with American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds—strengthening
security at airports throughout the country while boosting local
economies.
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Readout
of Secretary Napolitano's Meeting with Airline Industry CEOs
on Strengthening International Aviation Security
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:00:00 -0600
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Napolitano today
met with CEOs of the member airlines of the Air Transport Association
of America (ATA), the largest airline trade association in the
United States, and the International Air Transport Association
(IATA), which represents approximately 230 airlines and more
than 90 percent of the world's air traffic—part of her ongoing
efforts to bring together major domestic and foreign air carriers
to work on ways to bolster international aviation security.
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Young Democrats of Nevada Convention
- March 26-28
Please visit the Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=347765427471
Young Democrats of Nevada Bi-Annual Convention
This year we are proud to announce that in conjunction with out
biannual convention, we are hosting Young Democrats from the
southwest region for their annual meeting. This partnership allows
the Young Democrats of Nevada to showcase our state and our state
plan for the 2010 election.
We are excited to have special guest speakers,
trainings, and workshops.
Every state should come prepared to discuss their state's 2010
plan, we will work together to develop effective strategies for
each state.
This year's convention will be held at
the Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 525 Union Hall, located 760
North Lamb Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89110
This will be a great opportunity for all
Young Democrats from across the state and region to come together
and prepare for November's election.
If you have any questions please dont hesitate
to contact Heather Brown, President of Young Democrats of Nevada
at theheatherbrown@gmail.com or cell: 702-523-0886
All participants must register, early bird
price $25: https://yda.wiredforchange.com/o/720/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=13143
See you all in Vegas!!
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Deputy
Secretary Lute's Remarks at the National Fusion Center Conference
Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:00:00 -0600
Deputy Secretary Jane Holl Lute delivered remarks highlighting
the Department’s continued commitment to sustaining and
supporting fusion centers and the key role they play in facilitating
information sharing among federal, state, local and tribal and
private sector partners at the fourth annual National Fusion
Center Conference in New Orleans.
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Secretary
Napolitano to Visit San Francisco
Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:00:00 -0600
Secretary Napolitano will travel to San Francisco on Wednesday,
March 3, to deliver remarks about the Department’s broad
mission to protect the nation’s cyber infrastructure, systems
and networks, and the responsibility of all Americans in maintaining
cybersecurity and resiliency at RSA Conference
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Press
Releases: Northern Ireland Assembly Vote on Devolution
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:26:27 -0600
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Highlights:
Haiti: Next Steps
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:00:00 -0600
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Flag
Officer Announcement
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:01:00 -0600
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USIP and Vital Voices Examine New Strategies
in Peacebuilding
Shortly after International Women's Day, USIP partners with Vital
Voices, a non-profit established in 1997 by then-First Lady Hillary
Rodham Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, to
promote the advancement of women as part of U.S. foreign policy.
On Thursday, March 11, USIP specialists and a panel of this year's
winners of the Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards will discuss
cutting-edge peacebuilding strategies they are implementing in
Afghanistan, Bahrain, Brazil, Kenya and Pakistan and other places
in the world. The Global Leadership Awards honor women leaders
who are working to strengthen democracy, increase economic opportunity
and protect human rights around the world.
Register for this event.
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Global
Innovators in Peacebuilding: Cutting-Edge Strategies that Create
Lasting Change
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More
NATO Trainers Key to Afghan Effort
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:11:00 -0600
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Highlights:
The U.S. Government's Work in Haiti
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:00:00 -0600
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Assistant
Secretary Barr Written Testimony before the House Financial Services
Committee on CDFIs
March 9, 2010
TG-579
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US-CERT Current Activity
Microsoft Releases March Security Bulletin
Original release date: March 9, 2010 at
1:44 pm
Last revised: March 9, 2010 at 1:44 pm
Microsoft has released an update to address
vulnerabilities in
Microsoft Windows and Office as part of the Microsoft Security
Bulletin Summary for March 2010. These vulnerabilities may allow
an
attacker to execute arbitrary code.
US-CERT encourages users and administrators
to review the bulletins
and follow best-practice security policies to determine which
updates
should be applied.
Relevant Url(s):
<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS10-mar.mspx>
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This entry is available at
http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.html#microsoft_releases_march_security_bulletin2
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Press
Conference with Secretary Gates and President Karzai from Afghanistan
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:26:00 -0600
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Health Reform & Its Immediate Impact
“Failure to Act Is Not an Option” – New York Times,
3/7/10
Democrats are continuing to move forward
on health reform that will make insurance more affordable for
American families and businesses and give patients – not
insurance companies – greater control over their health
care. Following passage of reform legislation, there are several
important benefits that would take effect within the next year.
The attached table shows how Americans would benefit immediately
under health reform and what the cost of inaction would be if
the status quo continues.
Click here
to view a side-by-side comparison of immediate benefits of health
reform versus allowing the status quo to continue.
Click here to
follow @LeaderHoyer on Twitter.
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DoD
Contracts for March 09, 2010
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:06:00 -0600
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Division
Commander to Brief Live from Iraq
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:09:00 -0600
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C-SPAN Daily Alert
Programming Information for Tues. 3/9 - Weds. 3/10, 2010
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C-SPAN Highlights
Tonight:
* Remarks by Christina Romer, Chair of the President’s Council
of Economic Advisers (11pm)
* Trade Rep. Ron Kirk Speech at the National Press Club (11:25pm)
* Senate Armed Services Cmte. Hearing on FY 2011 Defense Budget
(12:25am)
Tomorrow:
* U.S. House: In Session (10am) - LIVE
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C-SPAN2 Highlights
Tonight:
* Senate Armed Services Cmte. Hearing on FY 2011 Defense Budget
(8pm)
* Senate Approps Subcmte. Hearing with FDA Commissioner Margaret
Hamburg (10:10pm)
* White House Briefing with Press Sec. Robert Gibbs (11:20pm)
Tomorrow:
* Prime Minister’s Questions with British P.M. Gordon Brown
(7am)
* U.S. Senate: In Session (Time TBA) - LIVE
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C-SPAN3 Highlights
Tonight:
* Remarks by Christina Romer, Chair of the President’s Council
of Economic Advisers (7pm)
* Speech by Fed Reserve Bank of Chicago Pres. Charles Evans (7:30pm)
* Speech by Caterpillar Inc. Chairman Jim Owens at NABE Conference
(8:05pm)
Tomorrow:
* American Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) National Policy Forum
(8am) - LIVE
* House Approps. Subcmte. Hearing on FY 2011 Treasury Budget
(2pm) - LIVE
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C-SPAN Radio Highlights
Tonight:
* Programming TBA. Check the Schedule for Updates - http://www.c-span.org/Schedules/C-SPAN-Radio-Schedule.aspx
Tomorrow:
* Washington Journal (7am) - LIVE
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Politics Highlights
* C-SPAN Political Programming - Sunday
on C-SPAN at 6:30pm ET
**********************************************************************
Washington Journal Highlights
* Newspaper Articles & Viewer Calls
* Discussion on Health Care Legislation with Rep. John Shadegg
(R-AZ)
* Discussion on Office of Congressional Ethics
* Discussion on New Poll on Young People and Politics
**********************************************************************
C-SPAN Capitol Spotlight
* House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer
vowed Tuesday to resolve the dispute over abortion language that
threatens to sink Democrats’ efforts to enact a health care
overhaul. But he conceded that so far he has not sat down with
Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI),...-Full Story at http://www.c-span.org/capitolspotlight
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Arapahoe County House District 39 Democrats.
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Subject: Monthly House District meeting and Democratic Caucus
details
Two subjects below: this Thursday's House
District 39 meeting, and next Tuesday's Democratic precinct caucuses.
First, please join us for the HD39 monthly
meeting, this Thursday evening, 11 March 2010, at the Casa Vallarta
restaurant,
4002 S. Parker Rd., Aurora CO 80014. This is in the shopping
center at the intersection of Parker and Quincy.
We'll start the formal meeting at 7:00
pm, but please come early if you can, to get a bite to eat, and
to get to know your fellow HD39 Democratic Party volunteers and
activists.
On the agenda for this month's meeting:
-- news from the Bennet and Romanoff Senatorial
campaigns
-- updates from elected officials and party
officers
-- detailed preparation for next Tuesday's
precinct caucus meetings
-- explanation of HD39 precinct caucus
packets
-- announcements
We will be asking for volunteers for March
16th in the following areas, to help make the caucus meetings
as efficient and welcoming as possible:
-- helping participants find their meeting
locations
-- identifying precincts from alphabetical
lists
-- assisting with the meeting process
-- helping with delegate selection arithmetic
-- gathering and reporting results
As you know, the precinct caucus process
is one of our best opportunities to draw new volunteers and activists
into the Democratic Party organization, and to afford our neighbors
and fellow citizens the opportunity to affect the overall political
process from the inside. It's a wide open process, and a great
way for folks to get involved.
At 7:00pm on Tuesday 16 March 2010, next
Tuesday evening, Democrats will gather by precinct, to meet as
a caucus, as defined by state statute and by party rules, to
select delegates to the County Assembly, to elect precinct committee
people as the grassroots leaders of the party for the next two
years, and to discuss and propose platform initiatives.
Next Tuesday 3/16 will be a great night,
and the more folks we can invite to participate, the better our
prospects will be for the year ahead. We want to ensure that
those who want to bring positive change have the opportunity
to do so, and are welcomed with open arms into the Democratic
Party.
Looking forward to seeing you this Thursday
evening at Casa Vallarta, and next Tuesday evening at either
Cherry Creek High School (West cafeteria) or Grandview High School
(cafeteria).
Caucus locations can be found either via
the county party website or the state party website, or check
with me after the HD39 meeting Thursday.
Please give me a call or drop me an email
with any questions -- and please pass the word to all your Democratic
friends and neighbors!
Many thanks,
Tom
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Tom Schomburg
HD39 chair
303-887-7628
720-346-3458
tomschom@comcast.net
tom@hd39dems.info
hd39@arapahoedems.org
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UF College Democrats.
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Subject: GOTV Has Begun
Hey Everyone,
GOTV is here, and were need your help.
Gainesville is electing its next mayor, and our friend, Craig
Lowe, is the only candidate in the race with the experience and
vision necessary to move our community forward, which is why
we have endorsed his candidacy. Now it's time to go above and
beyond an endorsement and get involved.
We will be at Craig's campaign office every
day this week from 9am to 9pm working to get out the vote. We'd
love to see you out here at 1731 NW 6th Street.
We will also be bring out the vote on campus
from 8am to 7pm on Election Day, Tuesday March 16. If you're
out of town this week, we love to have your help then at Dauer
215. To RSVP for Election Day, just click on the following link
and click "YES".
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=357875013146&ref=ts
And most importantly, we need your vote.
Please vote early at the County Administration building, 12 SE
1st Street. They're open everyday through Saturday from 9am to
5pm, or on Election Day from 7am to 7pm at your individual precinct.
If you have any questions, feel free to
message me or call me at the number below.
Thank you for your support,
Mitchell Norton
Vice-President for Political Affairs
UF College Democrats
(321) 704-4007
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South Dakota Democrats.
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Subject: SDDP 2010 Convention Delegate
Hi All,
The SDDP State Convention is in Sioux Falls
on June 25-26, 2010. Delegates to the Convention for both parties
are elected at the county level on the June Ballot. If you would
like to be a Delegate for your county or if you would like to
see your name on the June Ballot :) get a petition, get it signed,
and turn it in! Then come to Sioux Falls for a good time with
good friends.
More Info:
All voting delegates to party conventions are elected via the
June primary ballot. To have your name appear as a potential
delegate to the 2010 Democratic State Convention, you must obtain
50 signatures or 1% of the vote for the party's gubernatorial
candidate in the county or commissioner district in the 2006
election, whichever is less. These signatures must be from registered
Democrats in your county. You can sign as many petitions as there
are spots.
Voting delegates will vote on our Lt. Governor
candidate, confirm our Constitutional Candidates and create the
South Dakota Democratic Party Platform.
The Democratic Chair of each County Party
is an automatic delegate to the convention. In addition to the
chair, all counties may elect 3 delegates to the State Convention
with the exception of
Brown County – 4
Lincoln County – 4
Minnehaha County – 19
Pennington County – 10
Signatures are due to your local County
Auditor by close of business on Tuesday March 30, 2010.
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Associate
Attorney General Tom Perrelli Speaks at Harvard VAWA Event
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:29:53 -0600
We at the Justice Department share a vision where men, women,
boys, girls and communities can live in a world without the fear
of violence. Our discussion today takes another step towards
raising awareness. If we’re going to do this, we are going
to have to do it together.
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Peace is Possible with a New Direction
Click here
to view video.
Dennis here.
I get asked all the time if I believe that
peace is really possible.
When you look at U.S. foreign policy throughout
the last dozens of years, we've been involved in one military
adventure after another that would defy the concerns of people
and the ability of this nation to create peace. Vietnam, Iraq,
Afghanistan - three wars, which collectively have had an enormous
impact on our nation and collectively have left a stain on this
country's reputation in the world.
We need to take a new direction and tomorrow
is exactly the opportunity that we should seize to take a direction
out of Afghanistan and in a new direction with our international
policy.
We need to challenge the thinking that
the only way that we can change people's minds is to conquer
them militarily. We need to change direction and use diplomacy
and put a premium on diplomacy no matter how long diplomacy takes
to keep using diplomacy.
We can insist on our nation defending itself,
but our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan have not made us more
safe; it made America less safe. Because every occupation fuels
an insurgency and creates resentment, particularly when innocent
people are killed.
It's time for America to take a new direction.
So contact your member of Congress and let them know what you
think about the Afghanistan resolution. Let them know tomorrow
is a chance that we have to be able to take a new direction.
We need people's voices and their votes on H. Con Res. 248, the
concurrent resolution which will take us out of Afghanistan.
Please join our efforts. Please sign
the petition. And please be part of this growing effort to
create a resurgence in the peace movement. The first opportunity
that we have will be the vote on Afghanistan tomorrow.
Thank you.
Dennis Kucinich
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Democracy,
Human Rights, Refugees: Remarks to the Press
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:11:45 -0600
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CDC
and American College Health Association Spring Break Vaccination
Letter
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:00:00 -0600
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Highlights:
U.S. Position Regarding Libya
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:00:00 -0600
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Today
in the Department of Defense, 3/10/2010
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:51:00 -0600
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National Cyber Alert System
Cyber Security Alert SA10-068A
Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
Original release date:
Last revised: --
Source: US-CERT
Systems Affected
* Microsoft Windows
* Microsoft Office
Overview
Microsoft has released updates to address
vulnerabilities in
Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office.
Solution
Install updates
The updates to address the Windows font
vulnerability are available
on the Microsoft Update site (requires Internet Explorer). We
recommend enabling Automatic Updates.
Description
Microsoft has released multiple security
bulletins for important
vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. These
bulletins are described in the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary
for March 2010.
These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker
to gain control of your
computer or cause it to crash.
References
* Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for
March 2010 -
<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS10-mar.mspx>
* Microsoft Update - <https://update.microsoft.com/>
* Microsoft Update overview -
<http://www.microsoft.com/security/updates/mu.aspx>
____________________________________________________________________
The most recent version of this document
can be found at:
<http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/alerts/SA10-068A.html>
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Young Democrats of Georgia.
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Subject: Running for YDG Office?
Hey everyone!
For any of you that are thinking of running
for office in YDG or CDG, check out http://georgiayds.org/more/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Candidates_for_§ion=more_60085
for information on how to declare for office, as well as see
who will be running this year!
Steve Golden
==YDG Chief of Staff==
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Visibility - CYD Online Training.
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Subject: Register today for online training log-in info
If you want to join us Wed at 8pm for our
Online 'Visibility' Training you must register here for log-in
info: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGc0LTJIamtSSlcwbjhiM3ZDNkFuX1E6MA
You will not be able to access the training
if you do not register.
Thank you for your interest!
Alissa
--
Alissa Ko
President
California Young Democrats
AKo@youngdems.org
http://www.youngdems.org
http://www.twitter.com/cayoungdems
www.facebook.com/CAYoungDems
CYD is Building a Bloc of Young Voters.
Join us!
Donate NOW! http://www.actblue.com/page/cayoungdems
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National Cyber Alert System
Technical Cyber Security Alert TA10-068A
Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
Original release date:
Last revised: --
Source: US-CERT
Systems Affected
* Microsoft Windows
* Microsoft Office
Overview
Microsoft has released updates to address
vulnerabilities in
Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office.
I. Description
Microsoft has released security bulletins
for multiple
vulnerabilities in Microsoft Movie Maker, Microsoft Office Producer
2003, and Microsoft Office Excel. These bulletins are described
in
the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for March 2010. Microsoft
notes that affected versions of Microsoft Movie Maker were either
included with Microsoft Windows or available as an optional
download.
II. Impact
A remote, unauthenticated attacker could
execute arbitrary code or
cause a vulnerable application to crash.
III. Solution
Apply updates from Microsoft
Microsoft has provided updates for these
vulnerabilities in the
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for March 2010. The security
bulletin describes any known issues related to the updates.
Administrators are encouraged to note these issues and test for
any
potentially adverse effects. Administrators should consider using
an automated update distribution system such as Windows Server
Update Services (WSUS).
Microsoft notes that there is no security
update available for
Microsoft Producer 2003 at this time of this writing. Users can
mitigate the impact to systems with Microsoft Producer 2003 by
applying the automated solution to remove the Microsoft Producer
file associations using the Fix it found in Microsoft Knowledge
Base Article 975561, and by applying the workarounds in Microsoft
Security Bulletin MS10-016.
IV. References
* Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for
March 2010 -
<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS10-mar.mspx>
* Microsoft Windows Server Update Services
-
<http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/wsus/default.aspx>
* Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 975561
-
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975561>
* Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-016
-
<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms10-016.mspx>
____________________________________________________________________
The most recent version of this document
can be found at:
<http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-068A.html>
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FAQ
When will I receive the 2010 Census form?
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:40:25 -0600
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HOUSE FLOOR WRAP-UP FOR MARCH 9, 2010
Bills Adopted Under Suspension of the Rules (9):
H.Res.
1055 - Supporting the designation of National Robotics Week
as an annual event (Rep. Doyle - Science and Technology)
H.Res.
1069 - Congratulating Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith
for being awarded the Nobel Prize in physics (Rep. Lance - Science
and Technology)
H.Res.
935 - Honoring John E. Warnock, Charles M. Geschke, Forrest
M. Bird, Esther Sans Takeuchi, and IBM Corporation for receiving
the 2008 National Medal of Technology and Innovation (Rep. Lofgren
- Science and Technology)
H.Res.
1032 - Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives
that the United States should continue to assist the Mexican
Government in fighting the drug cartels and curbing violence
against Mexican and United States citizens, both in the United
States and abroad (Rep. Chu - Foreign Affairs)
H.Res.
1036 - Recognizing the contributions of Korean Americans
to the United States (Rep. Garrett - Oversight and Government
Reform)
H.R.
4547 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal
Service located at 119 Station Road in Cheyney, Pennsylvania,
as the "Captain Luther H. Smith, U.S. Army Air Forces Post
Office" (Rep. Sestak - Oversight and Government Reform)
H.R.
4624 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal
Service located at 125 Kerr Avenue in Rome City, Indiana, as
the "SPC Nicholas Scott Hartge Post Office" (Rep. Souder
- Oversight and Government Reform)
H.Res.
1091 - Expressing support for designation of the week of
February 28 through March 7, 2010, as "School Social Work
Week" (Rep. Kennedy - Education and Labor)
H.Res.
1142 - Congratulating Silver Lake College for 75 years of
service as an undergraduate institution of higher education (Rep.
Petri - Education and Labor)
Bill Not Adopted Under Suspension of the Rules (1):
H.R.
3650 - Harmful Algal Blooms and Hypoxia Research and Control
Amendments Act of 2009 (Rep. Baird - Science and Technology)
Postponed Suspension Votes (5):
H.Res.
1088 - Recognizing the plight of people with albinism in
East Africa and condemning their murder and mutilation (Rep.
Connolly - Foreign Affairs)
H.Res.
1107 - Recognizing the 189th anniversary of the independence
of Greece and celebrating Greek and American democracy. (Rep.
Ros-Lehtinen - Foreign Affairs)
H.Res.
1144 - Expressing Condolences for the victims of the February
27th 2010 earthquake in Chile, as well as solidarity with and
support for the Chilean people as they plan for the recovery
and reconstruction for their Country (Rep. Hinojosa - Foreign
Affairs)
H.R.
4621 - Prevent Deceptive Census Look Alike Mailings Act (Rep.
Maloney - Oversight and Government Reform)
H.Res.
1047 - Commending The Ohio State University Buckeyes football
team for its victory in the 2010 Rose Bowl (Rep. Kilroy - Education
and Labor)
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Stupak:
Health bill abortion fight can be resolved
from AP Top U.S. News At 3:24 a.m. EST
by By JOHN FLESHER
TAWAS CITY, Mich. (AP) -- Prospects are good for resolving a
dispute over abortion that has led some House Democrats to threaten
to withhold support of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul,
a key Michigan Democrat said Monday....
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Senate
to take up unemployment insurance extension
from AP Top Political News At 5:39 a.m.
EST by By ANDREW TAYLOR
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Legislation extending unemployment insurance
for the long-term jobless faces a key test vote in the Senate,
its momentum helped by about 60 popular tax breaks for individuals
and businesses that expired at the end of last year....
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Japanese
Leading Index Continues To Rise
from Japan News latest RSS headlines -
Big News Network.com
(RTTNews) - Japan's leading index rose for the eleventh consecutive
month in January, a preliminary report from the Cabinet Office
showed Tuesday. The index stood at 97.1, up from 94.7 in December.
T...
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Panel
submits report on Japan-U.S. secret pacts
from Japan News latest RSS headlines -
Big News Network.com
TOKYO, March 9 (AP) - (Kyodo)—(EDS: UPDTING WITH OKADA'S
COMMENT IN 3RD GRAF) A Foreign Ministry panel submitted a report
Tuesday to Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada on its probe into alleged
J...
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Greece
Did Not Ask US for Economic Aid
from Greece News latest RSS headlines -
Big News Network.com
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R) holds a press conference
with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou (L) at the State
Department in Washington DC, USA, 08 March 2010. Photo by EPA/BGNES
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Iran's
Ahmadinejad plans Afghan visit on Wednesday
from Reuters: International News
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans
to travel to Afghanistan on Wednesday, the Foreign Ministry said
on Tuesday, a day after the United States accused the Islamic
state of a "double game" in its neighbor.
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Japan-U.S.
secret pacts confirmed, gov't policy shift expected
from News On Japan by AP
A Foreign Ministry panel concluded Tuesday that secret pacts
on nuclear arms and other issues were reached between Japan and
the United States in the Cold War era, leading the Japanese government
to end its decades-long official denial of their existence. While
such pacts have already been exposed through U.S. declassified
documents and other sources, the panel investigation, launched
following the historic change of government last year, made clear
that previous governments were "dishonest" over the
issue and raised questions over the management and disclosure
of diplomatic documents. (AP)
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Biden:
There is an int'l attempt to isolate Israel right now
from JPost Front Page Top Stories
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WV.gov
newsfeed
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Moving
Forward to Put the American People Ahead of Insurance Companies
from White House.gov Blog Feed by Jesse
Lee
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Giving
Peace of Mind Back to the American People
from White House.gov Blog Feed by Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius
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Weekly
Address: What Health Reform Will Deliver – This Year
from White House.gov Blog Feed by Macon
Phillips
In this week’s address, President Obama describes how American
families will have more control over their health care this year,
after health reform passes.
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More
Evidence of an Urgent Problem on healthcare status quo
from White House.gov Blog Feed by Dan Pfeiffer
The last few days have brought even more evidence that the health
care status quo is working out great for the insurance companies
– at the same time as it continues to fail American families
and businesses. No wonder the insurance companies are spending
millions and millions of dollars to block reform.
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Getting
Health Reform Over the Finish Line
from White House.gov Blog Feed by Jason
Djang
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White
House declassifies outline of cybersecurity program
from washingtonpost.com - Intelligence
by Ellen Nakashima
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Army
contractor's use of a cover name for Blackwater angers Sen. McCaskill
from washingtonpost.com - Federal Page
by WALTER PINCUS
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Patriot
Act doesn't override confidentiality in Census, Justice Department
says
from washingtonpost.com - Federal Page
by Ed O'Keefe
Provisions of the USA Patriot Act that pertain to the gathering
and sharing of information do not override federal confidentiality
laws when it comes to the U.S. Census, the Justice Department
said this week.
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Key
vacancies give Obama a chance to steer financial reform
from washingtonpost.com - Federal Page
by Binyamin Appelbaum
President Obama has the chance during his first term to appoint
leaders for each of the federal agencies that oversee banks,
an important opportunity to reshape the government's approach
to regulation even as the White House struggles to push structural
reforms through the Senate.
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House
liberals force vote on pullout from Afghanistan
from washingtonpost.com - Federal Page
by Perry Bacon Jr.
Liberals in the House, who have spent much of the past year complaining
that other congressional Democrats and the White House are insufficiently
progressive, will get a chance this week to vent about one of
their biggest concerns: the war in Afghanistan.
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Rep.
Frank questions safety of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac investments
from washingtonpost.com - Business Policy
by Zachary A. Goldfarb
An influential voice on Capitol Hill has unexpectedly called
into question the safety of investing in Fannie Mae and Freddie
Mac, raising the specter that investors who have lent money to
the two firms or bought their mortgage-backed securities could
one day suffer losses.
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Obama
launches attack on health insurance companies
from washingtonpost.com - Business by Amy
Goldstein and Scott Wilson
The White House is mounting a stinging, sustained broadside against
health insurance rate increases as President Obama and his aides
enter what they hope will be the final stretch of a year-long
political war over health-care reform.
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Vermont.gov
newsfeed
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Utah.gov
newsfeed
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Chile
Desalination Technologies Orientation Visit
from USTDA Events Calendar by webmaster@ustda.gov
(Webmaster)
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USGS
Scientists, Research Help Haiti Reconstruction
from USGS Newsroom by OC_Web@usgs.gov (Office
of Communications Web Group)
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USDA
Foreign Agricultural Service News Releases
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Farmable
Wetlands Program (FWP) Foodfish Eligibility for Commercial Pond-Raised
Aquaculture (CP40)
from USDA Farm Service Agency Notices
CRP-655, Farmable Wetlands Program (FWP) Foodfish Eligibility
for Commercial Pond-Raised Aquaculture (CP40) (FOR State and
County Offices) DATE POSTED: 2010-03-03 DATE EFFECTIVE: 2010-08-01
STATUS: CURRENT
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FY
2010 Acreage Allocations for CP33, CP37, and CP38
from USDA Farm Service Agency Notices
CRP-654, FY 2010 Acreage Allocations for CP33, CP37, and CP38(FOR
State Offices) DATE POSTED: 2010-03-01 DATE EFFECTIVE: 2011-01-01
STATUS: CURRENT
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2010
Interest Rates for Service Credit Deposits and Redeposits
from USDA Farm Service Agency Notices
PM-2752, 2010 Interest Rates for Service Credit Deposits and
Redeposits(FOR FFAS Employees) DATE POSTED: 2010-03-01 DATE EFFECTIVE:
2011-01-01 STATUS: CURRENT
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March
2010 CCC, Farm and Sugar Storage Facility Loan (FSFL/SSFL), and
Tobacco Transition Payment Program (TTPP) Interest Rates
from USDA Farm Service Agency Notices
FI-2955, March 2010 CCC, Farm and Sugar Storage Facility Loan
(FSFL/SSFL), and Tobacco Transition Payment Program (TTPP) Interest
Rates(FOR State and County Offices) DATE POSTED: 2010-03-01 DATE
EFFECTIVE: 2010-09-01 STATUS: CURRENT
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Requesting
Access to the Lease and Reimbursable Agreement Tracking (LRAT)
Application Pilot
from USDA Farm Service Agency Notices
FI-2956, Requesting Access to the Lease and Reimbursable Agreement
Tracking (LRAT) Application Pilot(FOR CO, IA, IN, KS, KY, MS,
OH, and TX State and County Offices) DATE POSTED: 2010-03-01
DATE EFFECTIVE: 2010-05-01 STATUS: CURRENT
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2008
RMA Producer Data Change Report
from USDA Farm Service Agency Notices
SURE-6, 2008 RMA Producer Data Change Report(FOR State and County
Offices) DATE POSTED: 2010-03-02 DATE EFFECTIVE: 2010-09-01 STATUS:
CURRENT
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Trade
Adjustment Assistance for Farmers (TAAF) Program Provisions
from USDA Farm Service Agency Notices
SP-50, Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers (TAAF) Program
Provisions(FOR State and County Offices) DATE POSTED: 2010-03-02
DATE EFFECTIVE: 2010-05-01 STATUS: CURRENT
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Privately
Owned Vehicle (POV) Mileage Rate Decrease and Changes Needed
to GovTrip Travel Documents
from USDA Farm Service Agency Notices
FI-2958, Privately Owned Vehicle (POV) Mileage Rate Decrease
and Changes Needed to GovTrip Travel Documents(FOR FSA Employees)
DATE POSTED: 2010-03-02 DATE EFFECTIVE: 2011-02-01 STATUS: CURRENT
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Manual
Process for 2010 LIP Payments
from USDA Farm Service Agency Notices
LDAP-19, Manual Process for 2010 LIP Payments(FOR State and County
Offices) DATE POSTED: 2010-03-03 DATE EFFECTIVE: 2010-08-01 STATUS:
CURRENT
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USDA
to Issue Partial 2009-Crop Counter-Cyclical Payments for Upland
Cotton and Peanuts; No Final 2008-Crop Counter-Cyclical Payments
for Rice
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USDA
Announces 2010 Pulse Crop Loan Rates by Region
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USDA
Announces 2010 Rice Loan Rates by Class
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UN
Security Council Press Statement on Iraq Elections
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Treasury
Department Announces Public Offerings of Warrants to Purchase
Common Stock
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Treasury
issues New General License to Boost Internet-Based Communication,
Free Flow of Information
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U.S.
International Reserve Position
from U.S. Treasury - Press Releases - All
March 8, 2010
2010-3-8-13-32-49-15165
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Assistant
Secretary Barr Remarks to the National Council of State Housing
Agencies
from U.S. Treasury - Press Releases - All
March 8, 2010
TG-578
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US
Marshalls Special Auction Announcement, March 2, 2010
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USDA
Launches Trade Adjustment Assistance For Farmers Program (March
1, 2010)
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SenatorReid:
RT @RecoveryDotGov: Commerce Dept. Announces Recovery Act Investment
in NV to Expand Broadband Internet Access and Economic Opportunitie
...
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PressSec:
Listen today for Pres focus on rising health ins rates + Wall
Street reports 2 buy ins co stock b/c of the increases http://nyti.ms/dDhOUQ
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PressSec:
Last week Sebelius met w/ insurance CEOs on big rate increases
- today she asks them to justify it - over to you CEOs http://bit.ly/bA3Uo9
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PressSec:
POTUS put it clearly today "How much higher do premiums
have to rise before we do something about it?"
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HouseDemocrats:
If #HC Reform Fails: NYT editorial summarizes why passing health
reform is so critical http://nyti.ms/bJuQqf
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dscc:
The nonpartisan @SunFoundation's headline: "D.C. lobbyists
drive Burr's fundraising" http://bit.ly/c9QBRd
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dscc:
VIDEO: On jobs bill and unemployment, Richard Burr is way out
in right field http://bit.ly/9tVaPY
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dscc:
CO Senator @BennetForCO leads Republican Jane Norton in new poll
http://bit.ly/bL546X
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DNCYouthCouncil:
Statement from DNC Chairman Tim Kaine on the 45th Anniversary
of Bloody Sunday http://bit.ly/c5g6qQ
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DNCYouthCouncil:
Check out the Youth Council's March 2010 Dispatch! http://bit.ly/bwqblgfrom
Twitter / DNCYouthCouncil
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DemocratsDotOrg:
Why we need #HCR: the insurance companies' monopoly is so strong,
they can continue to raise rates as much as they like http://j.mp/doiPY6
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DemocratsDotOrg:
GOP (@RNC) donor, "ashamed" of the party's scare tactics,
cuts off his donations. http://j.mp/8YLKBu
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DemocratsDotOrg:
GOP Sen. @OrrinHatch condemns the @RNC's scare tactics: "There's
no excuse for that kind of stuff." http://j.mp/bO5ojV
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DemocratsDotOrg:
.@BarackObama on #HCR: "give the American people an up-or-down
vote." Watch the @WhiteHouse weekly address: http://j.mp/aN9X5K
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DemocratsAbroad:
RT @tweetmeme: President Obama Appoints Edward Tufte--Big Victory
for Data Visualization And Transparent Government -... http://ow.ly/1p
...from Twitter / DemocratsAbroad
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dccc:
Chairman Van Hollen Announces Leadership of Key DCCC Committee
Efforts http://bit.ly/bNg6Ei
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dccc:
DCCC Chair Van Hollen's statement supporting our Democratic candidate
in PA-12 (Murtha), Mark Critz: http://bit.ly/b6SdkK #pa12
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ChristianDems:
RT @PulseonDems: Public Programs in Health Insurance Reform:
Chris Bowers has a useful post pointing out that ev... http://bit.ly/bpgGSK...
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AZHouseDems:
Wrong-track plan could cost more for Arizona schools. http://tinyurl.com/y94p78d
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AZHouseDems:
Republicans to produce phony budget from behind closed doors.
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AZHouseDems:
Become a fan of Rep. Eric Meyer on facebook! http://tinyurl.com/ybjovjq
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AmbassadorRice:
President and First Lady on women’s rights, empowerment
on Int’l Women’s Day http://bit.ly/bXJcHb
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TN.gov
Newsroom
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Israel,
Palestine Negotiate Indirectly in Proximity Talks
from TIME.com: Top Stories
Neither side believes that indirect talks being initiated by
the U.S. will bring peace, but each will try to use their failure
to its advantage
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TIME.com:
Top Photoessays and Slideshows
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TIME.com
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Monday
08 March ‘10 show notes
from Thom Hartmann
Guests: Tad DeHaven, budget analyst at the Cato Institute and
co-editor of downsizinggovernment.org. Doug Cunningham, Reporter/Producer
Workers Independent News Libertarian Wayne Root, 2008 Libertarian
Party Vice Presidential nominee, front-runner for Libertarian
presidential nominee in 2012; author of 7 books including his
latest “The Conscience of a Libertarian". Topics: Big
bank oversight to stay with Fed. Privatize ...
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Miyagi
governor gives green light to pluthermal generation plan
from The Japan Times: News & Business
SENDAI (Kyodo) Officials in Miyagi Prefecture on Sunday approved
a plan to start "pluthermal" power generation using
plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel at a nuclear reactor there.
Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai gave the go-ahead to the plan at
a meeting in his office with the mayors of the city of Ishimaki
and the town of Onagawa, where Tohoku Electric Power Co.'s Onagawa
nuclear plant is located.
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Kokumin
Shinto, SDP hold firm on Futenma stands
from The Japan Times: All Stories
The Democratic Party of Japan-led coalition's two junior partners
stuck to their positions Monday on candidate relocation sites
for U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa.
Now that the two parties have submitted their plans, the government
will study the feasibility of each with U.S. military officials
in a bid to finalize a candidate site by month's end.
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Obama
Health Care Push: Back To His Grassroots
from The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
by The Huffington Post News Editors
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Obama
Pushes Health-Care Bill
from The Businessweek Video Library by
feedsupport@feedroom.com (Feed Support)
President Barack Obama this week kicks off a final push to salvage
a health-care overhaul plan that faces opposition from the public
and resistance from members of his own Democratic Party. Bloomberg's
Hans Nichols reports.
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Chu
On Cap-And-Trade
from The Businessweek Video Library by
feedsupport@feedroom.com (Feed Support)
Speaking to Bloomberg's Peter Cook at the Advanced Research Projects
Agency Innovation Summit, Energy Secretary Steven Chu discusses
legislation to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions
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Bernstein
Assesses U.S. Economy
from The Businessweek Video Library by
feedsupport@feedroom.com (Feed Support)
Jared Bernstein, chief economic adviser to Vice President Joe
Biden, talks with Bloomberg's Matt Miller and Carol Massar about
today's report showing the U.S. economy expanded at a 5.9 percent
annual rate in the fourth quarter.
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Obama
Renews Health-Care Push
from The Businessweek Video Library by
feedsupport@feedroom.com (Feed Support)
President Barack Obama plans today to give Democratic lawmakers
a road map for passing health-care legislation in an effort to
end a stalemate in Congress over his proposal to remake the U.S.
medical system.
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Dodd
on Financial Reform
from The Businessweek Video Library by
feedsupport@feedroom.com (Feed Support)
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd talks about
the status of legislation to overhaul U.S. financial regulations.
Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, says he hasn't made a final decision
on creating a consumer division at the Federal Reserve.
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State
of New Jersey newsfeed
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Submitted
Statement on the Budget Before the House Budget Committee
from Speech - U.S. Dept. of Defense
Testimony of Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn, III,
Cannon House Office Building, Washington, D.C., Thursday, March
04, 2010
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Session
Daily - Minnesota House of Representatives
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173
million U.S. Internet users watched 32.4 billion videos in January
from Search Engine Watch Blog by Greg Jarboe
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Not
Just for Fuel Anymore: Hydrocarbons Can Superconduct, Too
from Scientific American - News
Superconductivity is one of those nearly magical properties that
seem to defy all intuition for how the physical world ought to
work. In a superconductor, electric currents flow without resistance
--an electron passes unimpeded through the material like a torpedo
through some frictionless ocean. After discovering the phenomenon
in 1911 Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes showed that an
electric current in a closed superconducting loop of mercury
would keep flowing long after the driving potential was removed;
he demonstrated his discovery by carrying such a persistent current
from the Netherlands to England.
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RI.gov
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RI
Office of the Governor
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Obama
to push White House vision for NASA in April
from Reuters: Science News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will outline his
administration's vision for space agency NASA and an eventual
trip to Mars during a conference in Florida in April, the White
House said on Sunday.
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Scientists
find why "sunshine" vitamin D is crucial
from Reuters: Science News
LONDON (Reuters) - Vitamin D is vital in activating human defences
and low levels suffered by around half the world's population
may mean their immune systems' killer T cells are poor at fighting
infection, scientists said on Sunday.
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Obama
keeps U.S. troop withdrawal plan after Iraq poll
from Reuters: Politics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called Iraq's election
an "important milestone" on Sunday despite deadly violence,
praising Iraqi security forces and repeating his end-2011 goal
for removing all U.S. troops from the country.
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Critics
hit Senate tilt toward Fed status quo
from Reuters: Politics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senators leaning toward preserving the
Federal Reserve's role as a bank supervisor and consumer protection
regulator came under criticism on Monday from academics and consumer
activists.
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Volcker:
higher inflation target idea "nonsense"
from Reuters: Politics
BERLIN (Reuters) - The idea, floated by IMF economists, that
central banks could raise their inflation targets is nonsense,
White House economic adviser Paul Volcker said in a German newspaper
interview published on Monday.
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W.
House confident over June deadline for Fed picks
from Reuters: Politics
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - The White House is confident
it will meet a June deadline for making appointments to fill
vacancies on the Federal Reserve Board, spokesman Bill Burton
said on Monday.
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Obama
targets health insurers, sells reform plan
from Reuters: Politics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday intensified
his attacks on health insurers and administration officials asked
the industry to justify premium increases as the battle to reform
America's expensive healthcare system entered its final stage.
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China
calls U.S. Treasuries important, wary on gold
from Reuters: Business News
BEIJING (Reuters) - China, the world's biggest holder of foreign
exchange reserves, renewed its commitment to the U.S. Treasury
market on Tuesday but said it would be wary of adding to its
gold holdings.
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US
calls Iraq vote a "new beginning"
from Reuters Video: Latest Videos US
Mar 8 - Turnout in Iraq's parliamentary election was 62 percent
-- higher than in last year's provincial ballot -- despite attempts
by Sunni Islamist insurgents to disrupt the vote with attacks
that killed 38, officials said.
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Business
Update: Asia shares rise
from Reuters Video: Business
Mar. 8 - U.S. jobs and consumer data help lift Asian shares on
hopes the world's top economy is on the road to recovery.
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Information
on the President's Proposal for a Financial Crisis Responsibility
Fee
from Recent CBO Publications
Letter to the Honorable Charles E. Grassley
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Monthly
Budget Review
from Recent CBO Publications
Based on the Monthly Treasury Statement for January and the Daily
Treasury Statements for February
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The
Budget and Economic Outlook
from Recent CBO Publications
CBO Director Doug Elmendorf's presentation to National Economists
Club
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Preliminary
Analysis of the President's Budget Request for 2011
from Recent CBO Publications
Letter to the Honorable Daniel K. Inouye
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Fiscal
Policy Choices
from Recent CBO Publications
CBO Director Doug Elmendorf's presentation to the National Association
for Business Economics
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U.S.
Says Happy To Work With Iran On Tackling Drugs
from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
The United States and Iran, whose relations are fraught over
Tehran's nuclear program, have held a rare meeting where Washington
said it was happy to work with Tehran on fighting drugs.
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First
Iraqi Election Results To Be Released
from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Initial official results from some Iraqi provinces are expected
to be released from the country's March 7 parliamentary elections.
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Russia,
U.S. To Resume Talks On START Successor
from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Russian and U.S. negotiators are due to resume talks today in
Geneva, Switzerland, on a treaty to replace the START agreement
on reducing the nuclear arsenals of the two countries.
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Portugal
to engage in strict long-term budget plan
from Portugal News latest RSS headlines
- Big News Network.com
The Portuguese government has released some vague details of
a long-term budget austerity plan.Guidelines of the plan were
released after the government made a commitment to reduce the
country's defic...
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U.S.
Cybersecurity Czar Says "There is No Cyberwar"
from Popular Science by Jeremy Hsu
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This
Week in the Future, March 1-5, 2010
from Popular Science by Paul Adams
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Heat-Channeling
Carbon Nanotubes Produce 100 Times More Energy than Li-ion Batteries
from Popular Science by Jeremy Hsu
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DARPA
Seeks Prosthetics Directly Controllable Through Brain Implants
from Popular Science by Jeremy Hsu
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The
World's First Commercial Brain-Computer Interface
from Popular Science by Clay Dillow
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Israel
to allow UN chief, EU envoy to enter Gaza
from Poland News latest RSS headlines -
Big News Network.com
Israel will allow UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and European
Union (EU) foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton to enter the
Gaza Strip when they each make Mideast visits later this month,
the Israeli Foreign Ministry said Monday.
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Peace
Corps Celebrates International Women’s Day and Women’s
History Month
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Palestinian-Israeli
negotiations important for Lebanon
from Palestinian News latest RSS headlines
- Big News Network.com
Visiting European Union Special envoy to the Middle East Peace
Process Marc Otte said on Monday that the peace negotiations
between the Palestinians and the Israelis are important for the
stability of...
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Israel
to allow international officials to enter Gaza for the first
time
from Palestinian News latest RSS headlines
- Big News Network.com
Israel will allow UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and a senior
European Union (EU) official to enter Gaza, said a statement
of Israeli Foreign Ministry, in an attempt to ease the international
pressu...
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PA
House newsfeed
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OSHA
extends deadline for membership nominations to Federal Advisory
Council on Occupational Safety and Health
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OK.gov
newsfeed
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Find
DOE research documents, citations, accomplishments, patents,
and projects related to climate change at OSTI
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Proposed
European Monetary Fund Advances
from NYT > World Business by By JACK
EWING and MATTHEW SALTMARSH
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Solar
Industry Learns Lessons in Spanish Sun
from NYT > World by By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
A national commitment to solar power transformed one community
but big subsidies led to unsustainable growth.
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Obama
Says Health Overhaul Should Trump Politics
from NYT > Washington by By HELENE COOPER
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Biden
Visits Mideast to Push Peace Talks
from NYT > Middle East by By ETHAN BRONNER
The vice president will also try to keep Israel focused on relying
on sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program rather than
on unilateral military action.
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Statement
Regarding Counterparties for Reverse Repurchase Agreements
from NY Fed | News
The New York Fed today announced the beginning of a program to
expand its counterparties for conducting reverse repurchase agreement
transactions (reverse repos).
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New
York Fed announces March 9 outright agency coupon purchase
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Newest
NOAA Geostationary Satellite Reaches Orbit
from NOAA News Releases
NOAA and NASA officials announced a new Geostationary Operational
Environmental Satellite (GOES), launched tonight, successfully
reached its initial orbit, joining four other GOES spacecraft
that help NOAA forecasters track life-threatening weather and
solar activity.
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Explaining
Israel's Booming Economy
from Newsweek World News
In the past year, Israel's economy has managed to defy both the
global economic crisis and the worsening security situation,
posting an annualized 4.4 percent growth in the last quarter
of 2009. Yuval Steinitz, Israel's 51-year-old finance minister,
a philosopher by profession and a close ally of Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, claims much of the credit. Steinitz sat down
recently with NEWSWEEK's Dan Ephron to explain his approach and
the challenges Israel faces. Excerpts:
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Jerry
Brown Tells Newsweek Why He's Running Again
from Newsweek Top News
California's Jerry Brown thinks it'll take a former governor
to get the downtrodden Golden State back on track.
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NARA's
annual Preservation Conference will be held on March 18 in Washington,
DC.
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Nebraska.gov
news feed
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Media
Advisory – Audio Conference Details New Capital Funding
from NCUA Recently Posted Information
March 5, 2010, Alexandria, Va. – National Credit Union Administration
(NCUA) Chairman Debbie Matz and National Federation of Community
Development Credit Unions (Federation) President/CEO Cliff Rosenthal
yesterday provided 122 audio conference participants with specifics
about the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s new Community
Development Capital Initiative (CDCI).
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NNSA
Administrator: “Investing Now in a Modern, Sustainable Nuclear
Security Enterprise is the Right Thing to Do”
from National Nuclear Security Administration
- Press Releases
In testimony before the Energy and Water Development Subcommittee
of the House Committee on Appropriations, National Nuclear Security
Administration (NNSA) Administrator Thomas P. D’Agostino
today said the FY2011 Budget Request is an important investment
in the modern, sustainable infrastructure required to support
the full range of NNSA’s nuclear security missions.
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Granholm
Warns Consumers About Unregulated Debt-Settlement Programs
from Michigan.Gov | SOM | Michigan Spotlight
| Michigan Spotlight
Governor Granholm joined Ken Ross, commissioner of the state
Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation, to warn consumers
seeking debt-relief assistance to avoid unregulated debt-settlement
programs. The governor advised consumers seeking debt counseling
to contact a state-regulated financial entity.
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Europe
and Eurasia: Economic Crisis in Greece
from MERLN - Military Education Research
Library Network
The Europe and Eurasia Regional Policy Overview has been updated
with a Chatham House event on Great Britain's foreign policy,
a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace article analyzing
the economic crisis in Greece, publications from the Council
on Foreign Relations assessing the state of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO), a British American Security Information
Council guide to the Obama Administration's plans for missile
defense in Europe, a Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales
y el Diálogo Exterior report assessing European conflict
resolution policies, a German Institute for International and
Security Affairs report analyzing the potential domestic agenda
of the new President of Ukraine, remarks by the NATO Secretary
General at the Strategic Concept Seminar on Transformation and
Capabilities, a European Think-Tanks Group report with recommendations
for European development cooperation, and a Congressional Research
Service report providing an overview on the European Parliament.
Please see the Recently Added Documents section for the latest
on this region - the newest updates are in bold.
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National
Security Strategy: The Art and Science of Strategic Communication
from MERLN - Military Education Research
Library Network
The National Security Strategy MiPAL has been updated with Military
Review articles analyzing the challenges associated with interagency
command and control in stability operations and assessing the
U.S. Army's approach to social media, Congressional hearings
highlighting the importance of restoring America's reputation
in the world and examining U.S. government perspectives on transnational
drug enterprises and the threats they pose to global stability
and U.S. national security, remarks by the Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff on the future direction of U.S. military strategy,
a State Department report with an overview on the Department's
reconstruction and stabilization efforts, the U.S. Army's Cyberspace
Operations Concept Capability Plan for 2016-2028, a Department
of Defense report featuring current doctrine on joint security
operations in theater, and Parameters articles analyzing the
art and science of strategic communication and assessing the
cultural imperative for Professional Military Education (PME)
and leader development. Please see the Recently Added Documents
section for the latest on this topic - the newest updates are
in bold.
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China:
Internet Freedom Issues in China
from MERLN - Military Education Research
Library Network
The China MiPAL has been updated with a series of Jamestown Foundation
articles examining China's gold reserve strategy, evaluating
China's approach towards the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline, and
assessing the prospects for a paradigm shift in China's geopolitical
agenda, a Senate hearing featuring testimony by Google on internet
freedom issues in China, a Stockholm International Peace Research
Institute report analyzing China's interests in an ice-free arctic,
a Heritage Foundation lecture evaluating China's economic influence
in Southeast Asia, a South African Institute of International
Affairs report analyzing the role of oil in China's relations
with Angola, a report from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's
Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security
assessing the impact of the cold war and space exploration on
Sino-U.S. relations, a Canadian International Council report
with an overview of China's cyberspace control strategy, and
a Congressional Research Service report evaluating China's relations
with North Korea. Please see the Recently Added Documents section
for the latest on this country - the newest updates are in bold.
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Afghanistan:
Roots and Characteristics of Transnational Insurgencies and Implications
for Afghanistan
from MERLN - Military Education Research
Library Network
The Afghanistan MiPAL has been updated with a Military Review
article evaluating efforts to establish counterinsurgency priorities
at the district level in Afghanistan, remarks by the Commander
of the U.S. Central Command detailing the current strategy in
Afghanistan, a Department of Defense briefing, as well as a report
from the Institute for the Study of War, with an update on U.S.
efforts to take and hold Marjah, a briefing by the Special Representative
for Afghanistan and Pakistan on his recent travel to the region,
a Strategic Studies Institute report examining the roots and
characteristics of transnational insurgencies and the related
implications for Afghanistan, Small Wars Journal articles assessing
efforts to implement a population-centric counterinsurgency strategy
in Afghanistan and evaluating the role of tribal powers in the
struggle for Afghanistan, a Congressional Research Service report
with an overview on military and civilian casualties in Afghanistan,
and a New America Foundation report examining the threat of militants
along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region. Please see the
Recently Added Documents section for the latest on this country
- the newest updates are in bold.
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MarketWatch.com
- Newsletters & Research
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National
Archives at New York City will be moving in 2011
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Top
Ten: The week's Top 10 videos on MarketWatch
from MarketWatch.com - All MarketWatch
News - Personal Finance
In case you missed them, here are the top 10 videos that appeared
on MarketWatch for the week of March 1-5:
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Congress
must 'act now' on health care: Obama
from MarketWatch.com - All MarketWatch
News - Personal Finance
President continues pressure on legislators to give overhaul
plan an up-down vote.
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Employers
plan 'moderate' hiring: Manpower
from MarketWatch.com - All MarketWatch
News - Personal Finance
A net 5% of employers said they expect to hire in the second
quarter, a moderate increase compared with -2% in the prior year,
but essentially flat from the prior quarter, according to the
Manpower Employment Outlook Survey released Tuesday.
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Shinto's
ties to Japanese culture extend beyond boundaries (Part 1)
from Mainichi Daily News - All Stories
How do non-Japanese view shrines, which are deeply intertwined
with the everyday lives of the Japanese? The third of a four-part
forum entitled "Inheriting Traditional Culture" was
held on Jan.
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Shinto's
ties to Japanese culture extend beyond boundaries (Part 2)
from Mainichi Daily News - All Stories
How do non-Japanese view shrines, which are deeply intertwined
with the everyday lives of the Japanese? The third of a four-part
forum entitled "Inheriting Traditional Culture" was
held on Jan.
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NAACP
100th Anniversary
from Library of Congress: New Webcasts
In commemoration of African American History Month, the Library
of Congress launches a new online exhibition about the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), an
organization which has donated its records to the Library, where
they are the most-consulted collection. President and CEO Benjamin
Todd Jealous speaks.
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Dwight
D. Eisenhower: A Resource Guide
from Library of Congress: New on the Web
Site
The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain a
wide variety of material associated with U.S. President Dwight
D. Eisenhower. This resource guide compiles links to digital
materials related to Eisenhower such as photographs, manuscripts,
political cartoons, and documents that are available throughout
the Library website.
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Finnish
Phone Books
from Library of Congress: New on the Web
Site
The Library has published its list of address and telephone directories
of Finland.
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Topics
in Chronicling America: Russo-Japanese War
from Library of Congress: New on the Web
Site
he information and sample article links below provide access
to a sampling of articles from historic newspapers that can be
found in the Chronicling America: American Historic Newspapers
digital collection.
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A new newsbrief journal has been started
at 00:23 Tues March 8 2010
Facebook and Twitter feeds from yesterday's
newsbrief journal can be found at the archive here
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Michigan
State Guide
from Library of Congress: New on the Web
Site
The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain a
wide variety of material associated with Michigan, including
manuscripts, broadsides, government documents, books, and maps.
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John
F. Kennedy: A Resource Guide
from Library of Congress: New on the Web
Site
The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain a
wide variety of material associated with U.S. President John
F. Kennedy. This resource guide compiles links to digital materials
related to Kennedy such as photographs, manuscripts, political
cartoons, and documents that are available throughout the Library
website.
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Newspapers
of East Central and Southeastern Europe
from Library of Congress: New on the Web
Site
Although this bibliography of newspapers from Eastern Europe
was published in 1965, it is still useful for identifying Library
of Congress' holdings for older titles. Countries included are:
Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia,
Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia.
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CA
Legislative Analyst's Office
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February
Update on Serve America Act
from Learn and Serve America - Newsroom
Feed
February was a short but busy month as we moved forward on several
key implementation steps for the Serve America Act.
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Deepening
DHS Engagement with Tribal Partners
from Leadership Journal by Homeland Security
Blog Team
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Law
Library of Congress: Global Legal Monitor
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Dow
industrials up 15 points as U.S. stocks open week on a mildly
positive note
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Israel:
Prohibition Against Bribery of Foreign Public Officials
from Law Library of Congress: Global Legal
Monitor
Criminal law and procedure - On February 22, 2010, the Knesset
(Israel's parliament) passed an amendment to the Penal Law that
prohibits bribery of public officials of foreign countries and
of international and political entities, including the Palestinian
Authority. According to... The Global Legal Monitor from the
Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide.
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Law
Library of Congress: Global Legal Monitor
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Red
Cross Helps Provide 100,000th Vaccination in Haiti Since the
Earthquake
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News
Conference following Russian-Ukrainian Talks
from Kremlin.Ru: Presidential Speeches
and Addresses
“The President of Ukraine and I have agreed: developing
this dialogue, bringing about a full-scale revival of relations
between Ukraine and Russia, implies renewing the links between
us, especially those between ministries and agencies, between
our governments. This would of course include contacts between
our respective parliaments, non-governmental organisations, in
every area in which we interact.”
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Kentucky
GOV Calendar of Events
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ksgovernment:
Conveniently renew your Kansas real estate appraiser license
online at http://www.kansas.gov/kreabrenewals
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Yen
Rises on Speculation Japan’s Companies Repatriating Profits
from Japan News latest RSS headlines -
Big News Network.com
March 9 (Bloomberg) -- The yen strengthened the most in more
than a week against the euro on speculation Japanese companies
are bringing home overseas earnings before the nation’s
fiscal year en...
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Sony
to Start Selling 3D TVs in Japan in June
from Japan News latest RSS headlines -
Big News Network.com
said it will launch 3D televisions in Japan in June, entering
an increasingly crowded field of competition for what many see
as the next hot product in the electronics industry.
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Japan
posts current account surplus in January
from Japan News latest RSS headlines -
Big News Network.com
TOKYO -- Japan logged a current account surplus of US$9.9 billion
in January, reversing a year-before deficit thanks to recovering
exports, government data showed Monday.
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PM
Maliki emerges as front-runner after Iraq vote
from Iraq News latest RSS headlines - Big
News Network.com
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a Shiite who helped ease sectarian
strife, has emerged as the front-runner in Iraq's parliamentary
election but could yet face a tough battle to cling to power.
The i...
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Iraq
orders 10 Boeing 787s
from Iraq News latest RSS headlines - Big
News Network.com
The government of Iraq ordered 10 Boeing Dreamliners at the end
of last year. The order is worth about $1.7 billion at list prices.
Allowing for standard market discounts estimated by aircraft
valuat...
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Biden
pledges support to Israel against Iran
from Iran News latest RSS headlines - Big
News Network.com
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 OCCUPIED-AL-QUDS: US Vice President Joe
Biden began a visit to Israel and the West Bank on Monday, assuring
Israelis in a newspaper interview that Washington would close
ranks...
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Israel
asks UN chief to back sanctions on Iran
from Iran News latest RSS headlines - Big
News Network.com
Israeli Vice Premier Silvan Shalom on Monday appealed to the
UN chief to add his support to proposed sanctions against Iran."I
would like to believe he (Ban Ki-moon) will use more voice in
the Qu...
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U.S.
Treasury allows export of Internet tools to Iran, Cuba
from Iran News latest RSS headlines - Big
News Network.com
The Treasury Department has allowed U.S. hi-tech companies to
export online services and social media software to Iran, Cuba
and Sudan to help people in those countries communicate with
the outside wo...
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Shift
focus to Iran's rights abuses, Nobel laureate urges
from Iran News latest RSS headlines - Big
News Network.com
S hirin Ebadi left her home in Iran to attend a conference in
Spain just before violent chaos erupted in days after disputed
presidential elections last June. She has never returned. The
2003 winner...
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Iran
unveils missiles, launch pad spotted
from Iran News latest RSS headlines - Big
News Network.com
As the United States and other powers mull tightening economic
sanctions on Iran, Tehran says it has begin mass production of
cruise missiles -- just the thing to block the strategic Strait
of Hormuz....
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IE
Minister for Foreign Affairs addresses UN Disarmament Conference
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HUD
Advances Fight Against Loan Modification Scams
from HUD Press Releases
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development,
in partnership with the Loan Modification Scam Prevention Network,
today announced the launch of PreventLoanScams.org.
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HUD
Secretary Donovan Applauds Senator Landrieu, U.S. Senate for
Adoption of GO Zone Tax credit Extension
from HUD Press Releases
WASHINGTON - U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary
Shaun Donovan issued a statement today following the United States
Senate's adoption of an amendment extending the Gulf Coast Opportunity
Zone (GO Zone) Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) placed in
service date by two years, to December 31, 2012. Donovan and
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner sent a letter to U.S. Senator
Mary Landrieu earlier this week, expressing the Administration's
support of the amendment she sponsored and was adopted today.
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House
Floor Today
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HHS
Announces 2010 Tribal Consultation Blueprint
from HHS News and Events
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced the Department’s
compliance with President Barack Obama’s memorandum on Tribal
consultation and Executive Order 13175. HHS submitted its detailed
tribal consultation plan within the 90 day time frame set by
the President and is committed to continually work to improve
services, outreach, and consultation efforts to Indian Country.
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FDA
Issues Final Guidance to Boost Development of Cell-based Viral
Vaccines
from HHS News and Events
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued final guidance
to help manufacturers who are developing safe and effective cell-based
viral vaccines to address emerging and pandemic threats.
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Sebelius
to Meet with Insurance Company Leaders, Discuss Health Insurance
Premiums
from HHS News and Events
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius will meet with the CEOs of UnitedHealth Group
Inc., WellPoint Inc., Aetna Inc., Health Care Service Corporation
and CIGNA HealthCare Inc. along with leaders from the National
Association of Insurance Commissioners at the White House at
11:00 AM.
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Secretary
Sebelius Announces Senate Confirmation of Lillian Sparks as Commissioner
of the Administration for Native Americans
from HHS News and Events
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that, last night, the
United States Senate unanimously confirmed Lillian Sparks to
be Commissioner of the Administration for Native Americans, part
of the Administration for Children and Families at the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services.
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HHS
Secretary Sebelius Announces the Availability of Recovery Act
Funds for Community Prevention and Wellness Initiative
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Sebelius
Sends Letter to Insurance Company CEOs, Calls on Executives to
Publicly Justify Premium Hikes
from HHS News and Events
In a letter to the CEOs of UnitedHealth Group Inc., WellPoint
Inc., Aetna Inc., Health Care Service Corporation and CIGNA HealthCare
Inc., U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius called on the executives to publicly justify
proposed health insurance premium increases.
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Health
Highlights: March 8, 2010
from healthfinder.gov Daily News
Vaccine Case Goes to U.S. Supreme Court Oldest Living American
Dies Healthier Drinks in School Vending Machines New Technique
Reduces Brain Damage R
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Haiti's
president heads to Washington to talk aid
from Haiti News latest RSS headlines -
Big News Network.com
Haitian president Rene Preval visits the Port-au-Prince International
airport as relief workers arrive on January 13, 2010 in Port-au-Prince,
Haiti. Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies headed t...
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US,
Greece to talk finance reform
from Greece News latest RSS headlines -
Big News Network.com
US President Barack Obama and Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou
to hold talks overnight on economic issues amid concerns that
speculators are undermining Greece's efforts to overcome a sever...
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Greek
PM calls on world to restrict speculative trading
from Greece News latest RSS headlines -
Big News Network.com
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou on Monday called on the
international community to restrict speculative trading, saying
such act 'imperils not only...
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Students
gather for model UN
by Topeka Capital Journal
Sam Brownback, delivers the opening speech to about 700 delegates
Monday morning at the Topeka Model United Nations at the Ramada
Hotel and Convention ...
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UN
chief Ban says Nigeria violence 'appalling'
by Vancouver Sun
UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday
he was deeply concerned about the recent "appalling"
deaths in Nigeria, and urged the ...
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UN
Security Council hails Iraqi elections
by Channel News Asia
UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council Monday hailed parliamentary
elections in Iraq as an "important step" toward strengthening
the country's national ...
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US
says tentative Mideast peace talks under way
by AFP
AFP
JERUSALEM — The Palestinians and Israelis have begun indirect
talks, Washington said on Monday, in a tentative boost to the
Middle East peace process frozen ...
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PA
Democrats pick candidate for Murtha's seat
by USA Today
USA Today
Despite the Democrats' two-to-one registration edge, Gleason
is hopeful that a Republican can win the seat in May. "It's
doable," he says, because of the ...
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Abortion
battle on health bill may end
by Seattle Times
Prospects are good for resolving a dispute over abortion that
has led some House Democrats to threaten to withhold support
of President Obama's health-care ...
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Obama
Gets High Marks on National Security but Democrats Don't
by The Washington Independent
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US
eases web services sanctions on blocked nations
from France24 - France by admin
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday a US decision
to allow exports of Web tools to Iran was intended to allow Iranians
to "communicate without being blocked by their own government."
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Hillary
Wades Into the Falklands Dispute
by Wall Street Journal
By CON COUGHLIN Hillary Clinton's intervention in the deepening
dispute between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands
has caused great offense to ...
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France
To Pay Russia One Billion For 14 Soyuz Carrier Rockets
from France News latest RSS headlines -
Big News Network.com
France has put aside some $1 billion to buy 14 Soyuz carrier
rockets from Russia, French satellite launch firm Arianespace
CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall said Tuesday. "We have ordered 14
Soyuzes from the Rus...
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Minnesota
legislators smooth absentee balloting
Minneapolis Star Tribune
The 2008 US Senate election between Norm Coleman and Al Franken
seemed to be endless. It featured a recount in which election
judges scrutinized ballots and monitors for the candidates kept
watch. Republicans and DFLers in the House and Senate ...
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McChrystal
eyes securing Kandahar
from CNN.com
The top U.S. general in Afghanistan vowed that coalition forces
"are absolutely going to secure Kandahar," as security
efforts expand in the country's south.
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How
the Greek debt crisis affects Americans
from Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories
The Greek meltdown could negatively impact the US if demand for
its goods in Europe decreases or if the its high debt begins
to trouble creditors.
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China
Southern to raise $1.5b through new shares
from China Economic Review - Daily Briefs
China Southern Airlines hopes to raise over US$1.5 billion through
the issue of new shares in Hong Kong and Shanghai, BusinessWeek
reported. The company,
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German
industrial output slightly rises in January amid freezing weather
from CHINA Business
Germany's industrial production registered a modest gain in January
as rarely cold winter accelerated energy output, which help offset
the decline in construction sectors, the Ministry of Economics
and Technology said Monday. The ministry said that compared with
last month, the industrial production added 0.6 percent in January,
during which the output from energy sector soared 8.8 percent,
with construction activity slumping 14.3 percent. The coldest
winter in decades and large snowfalls ...
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Mining
industry to contribute 30% to Tibet's GDP by 2020
from CHINA Business
"The mining industry will have accounted for 30 to 50 percent
of Tibet's gross domestic product(GDP) by 2020," said Dorje,
a senior official of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Department
of Land and Resources. Tibet is rich in mineral resources with
102 kinds of minerals in more than 3,000 mines. The region ranks
first in China in terms of chromium and copper reserves and ranks
among the top five in reserves of 12 types of minerals. "At
present the mining industry in Tibet is just ...
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Tibet
drawing up plan for development in next 5 years
from China
A plan for the development in Tibet Autonomous Region, southwestern
China, during the 12th Five-Year Plan period (2011-2015) is now
in the pipeline, said a senior official of Tibet in Beijing.
"The 5th National Work Conference on Tibet has brought a
glimmer of new hope to Tibet," said Padma Choling, deputy
to the 11th National People's Congress (NPC) National Committee
and also chairman of the Tibet Regional Government. "Tourism,
Tibetan medicines, mineral products and farm and live ...
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China's
gold reserve ranks fifth in the world
from China
China's gold reserve amounts to 1,054 tons, ranking fifth in
the world, said Yi Gang, central bank vice governor on Tuesday.
China is the largest gold producer in the world, with a more
than 300 tons of gold produced annually. China is also a world's
second largest gold consumer, with a consumption of over 400
tons of gold a year, second only to India. It is conservatively
estimated that there are far more than 3000 tons of gold accumulated
among Chinese people. &$&$By People's Dai ...
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Electronic
Stock Trading to Boost Share in Asia, Greenwich Says
from BusinessWeek.com --
Electronic trading systems will boost their share of Asian equities
transactions to 28 percent in the next three years as investors
demand speed and lower costs, according to research company Greenwich
Associates.
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Yen
Strengthens as Exporters Bring Home Profits; Stocks Slide
from BusinessWeek.com --
The yen strengthened against all 16 of the most-traded currencies
as Japanese companies brought home profits before the fiscal
year ends, while the British pound weakened on disappointing
housing data. Most Asian stocks fell.
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US
in Mid-East push, amid homes row
from BBC News | Middle East | World Edition
US Vice-President Joe Biden leads the latest Mid-East peace drive,
after Israel enrages Palestinians by approving new settlements.
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Wash.
House approves transportation budget
from AP Top Washington Headlines At 2:30...
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- The state House has its version of an
updated state transportation budget that lawmakers say will create
3,000 jobs....
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Stupak:
Health bill abortion fight can be resolved
from AP Top U.S. News At 3:24 a.m. EST
by By JOHN FLESHER
TAWAS CITY, Mich. (AP) -- Prospects are good for resolving a
dispute over abortion that has led some House Democrats to threaten
to withhold support of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul,
a key Michigan Democrat said Monday....
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Haiti
frees US missionary; group leader still held
from AP Top U.S. News At 3:24 a.m. EST
by By EVENS SANON
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- One of two Baptist missionaries
still held on kidnapping charges in Haiti was released and flew
to Miami on Monday, but the U.S. group's leader remained in custody....
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Palin
notes irony of using Canada health care
from AP Top U.S. News At 3:24 a.m. EST
by By DAN JOLING
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Sarah Palin has been no friend lately
of socialized health care....
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IMF
suggests how to raise climate change funds
from AP Top International News At 5:48
a... by By TOM MALITI
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- The head of the International Monetary
Fund on Monday proposed a plan for the world's governments to
pool together to raise money needed to adapt to climate change,
a rare step for an organization that normally does not develop
environmental policies....
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Climate
Change Legislation Isn’t Dead — A New Bill Is Coming
from AlterNet.org
Climate legislation is returning to the Senate’s docket,
and leaders on Capitol Hill are hoping that this version, a compromise
bill spearheaded by Sens. John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
and Joe Lieberman (I-CT), can pass without getting caught in
the morass of money and politics that has delayed action so far.
A long, long time [...]
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