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Tom Daschle on Health Care, Obama and Raging Partisanship
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyDAVIDSON, N.C. -- In 2007, Tom Daschle – with other former Senate majority leaders – formed the nonprofit Bipartisan Policy Center to "engage top political figures, advocates, academics and business leaders in the art of principled compromise," according to the group's website. Good luck with that. Despite all evidence that the country's political scene is becoming more divisive, Daschle and the center's other founders -- Howard Baker, Bob Dole and George Mitchell – believe that while "electoral politics are partisan, policy should not be." On Wednesday night, Daschle, ...
New Congress Less Likely to Tackle Drugs in Sports
By A.J. Perez - AOL NewsCongressional hearings that have put the likes of Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Roger Clemens in the crosshairs appear to be far less likely to occur as the Republicans seized control of the House of Representatives this week. Rep. Darrell Issa, the incoming chairman of the House subcommittee that called the iconic hearings into steroid use in baseball, has no interest in exploring performance-enhancing drugs in sports, his spokesman told FanHouse. "I think it's clear to the American people that jobs and the economy are more important than steroids in baseball," Frederick Hill said. "It would ...
Moderate Arabs Seek Return to Indirect Mideast Peace Talks
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SIRTE, Libya (Oct. 8) -- Moderate Arab nations trying to prevent a breakdown of troubled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are proposing a return to indirect negotiations as a face-saving device, diplomats said Friday. The proposal was raised as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Arab League leaders gathered this weekend in Libya to discuss a deepening crisis over Israel's refusal to extend a slowdown in settlement construction in the Palestinian territories. Amr Nabil, AP Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, center, sits next to Qatar Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassem, right, and ...
In UN Speech, Obama Pushes for Mideast Peace
By not in system - AOL NewsUNITED NATIONS (Sept. 23) -- Exhorting world leaders to push past years of cynicism and pessimism, President Barack Obama challenged the countries of the United Nations on Thursday to unite around peace efforts that he said could achieve agreement within a year to create an independent Palestine and a secure Israel. Obama, in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly, urged fellow world leaders to press forward with renewed determination in the quest for Mideast peace, an effort that he acknowledged has encountered "few peaks and many valleys." Without an agreement, he said, "more blood will be ...
Government Grants Have West Bank Settlers Better Off Than Other Israelis
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Sept. 14) -- With U.S. officials urging Israel to extend its freeze on new settlement construction, there's a new report detailing the large financial outlays the Israeli government makes to sustain current settlements. "Every Israeli settlement in the West Bank, including those that are relatively well-off, is entitled to receive a 'balancing grant' from the Interior Ministry to help it balance its budget, even though such grants mainly exist to help less well-off communities," the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports. Under the policy, Israeli settlers do better than those who don't live in ...
Clinton Says 'Time Is Ripe' for Mideast Peace Deal
By not in system - AOL NewsSHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Sept. 14) -- Convening a new round of negotiations Tuesday between Israel and the Palestinians, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the "time is ripe" for a Mideast peace deal. Clinton sat down with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to tackle the most immediate dispute between the two sides: a soon-to-expire curb on new construction for Israeli settlers in the West Bank. The Palestinians want the curb extended beyond the current Sept. 26 deadline, but Netanyahu has suggested at least some of the ...
Clinton to Attend Mideast Peace Talks in Egypt
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailySecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will go to Egypt for the second round of the Obama administration's Israeli-Palestinian peace talks Sept. 14-15, The Hill newspaper reports. "Egypt will host the second round of . . . negotiations in Sharm el-Sheikh," Egypt's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki said in a statement carried by the state news agency MENA. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who began talks in Washington last week, will meet again in Egypt. A State Department official told Agence France-Presse that special envoy ...
Opinion: Reagan's Lessons for Obama in Mideast
By Barbara Slavin - AOL News(Sept. 1) -- There is a nice symmetry between the two major foreign policy events this week in the Obama White House. On Tuesday, President Barack Obama marked the end of a formal U.S. combat role in Iraq. Today he launches a major new effort to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians. There is no question that Obama prefers the role of peacemaker to wartime leader. He has accelerated the timetable for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and announced a date to begin pulling out of Afghanistan at the same time he authorized a surge of U.S. troops. But if he's going to succeed in this role, he ...
Top Envoy Cites Iran Threat Before Peace Talks
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Aug. 31) -- The latest peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority may be most noticeable for who won't be there but will be on everyone's mind: Iran. The nuclear wannabe nation poses what Israel considers an existential threat more dangerous than the long-simmering conflict with the Palestinians. And on the eve of new direct negotiations, Special Envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell said the Tehran regime is "obviously an issue of high importance, not just to Israel and the United States but to all of the countries in the region and indeed around the ...
Roger Clemens Pleads Not Guilty on Perjury Charges
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyAs a seven-time Cy Young Award winner, Roger Clemens worked his way out of countless jams. On Monday he stared down one of a quite different sort when he entered a not guilty plea in federal court on charges he lied to Congress about never using steroids or human growth hormone. Clemens, 48, faces six felony charges, including perjury, obstruction of Congress and making false statement. The former all-star pitcher entered his plea before U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton, the AP reports. The charges stem from Clemens' February 2008 appearance before the House Oversight and Government ...
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