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Published: 01/4/11

Will Food Safety Law Be Toothless Without Funding?

By Andrew Schneider - AOL News

It has taken 73 years to finally pass a meaningful bill to ensure the safety of America's food supply, which President Barack Obama made law tonight. The bill will assure Americans that they won't wind up in a hospital just because they sat down for a meal, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Monday. But the high hopes for safer food will mean little or nothing unless Congress comes up with the $1.4 billion required to enforce the changes. Glen Stubbe, Minneapolis Star Tribune / MCT The food safety bill signed by the president will, among ...

Published: 12/23/10

Filmmaker Raising Funds to Make Movie About OCD

By Monica Garske - AOL News

Donald Trump. Howie Mandel. Howard Stern. What do these famous faces have in common besides celebrity? Believe it or not, they all suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder, a mental ailment affecting millions that hasn't quite made it into the Hollywood spotlight. That's all about to change, however, thanks to filmmaker Kellie Madison, who's on a mission to make a narrative film about OCD titled "Machine Man." Courtesy of Madison Films Filmmaker Kellie Madison is determined to make a narrative film about obssesive compulsive disorder; she just needs the funds for the ...

Published: 09/30/10

Flushing Tax Dollars Down the Toilet? The Military's Flying Humvee

By Paul Wachter - AOL News

(Sept. 30) -- Never underestimate the military's ability to invest money in far-fetched projects. There's Star Wars, of course, the missile defense system that's eaten up decades and billions of dollars but has yet to prove capable of stopping incoming missiles. The concept, though, at least sounds good in theory. After all, it would be nice to be able to shoot down nuclear missiles. But then there are programs, like the DARPA "Transformer" project, which just leave you scratching your head. DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is the Pentagon's futurist agency, which dreams ...

Published: 10/5/08

Biden Debates Palin, Facts

By Mark Impomeni - Politics Daily

While many in the mainstream press declared Sen. Joe Biden the winner of last Friday's vice-presidential debate over Republican Gov. Sarah Palin on the evening of the event, the light of day has begun to reveal that many of Sen. Biden's claims that night were often times at variance with the facts. The McCain campaign was quick to release a list of fourteen specific misrepresentations or factual errors that Biden committed during the debate, and segments of the media are beginning to notice.Surprisingly, Biden's misstatements came mostly in the area of foreign policy, supposedly his strong ...

Published: 05/12/08

Democratic Revolt Delays War Funding Bill

By Mark Impomeni - Politics Daily

The long-delayed supplemental war funding measure was delayed again in Congress last week, this time by an internal struggle within the Democratic caucus. Moderate and conservative Democrats, known as Blue Dogs, objected to the leadership's plan to load up the bill with billions in extra spending items. The Blue Dogs are upset with Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) plan to include spending for unemployment benefit extensions and a new entitlement for troop education, a new GI Bill, in the bill. They fear a backlash against the increased spending and the use of the supplemental as a vehicle to ...

Published: 05/5/08

Mullen Warns Soldiers' Pay in Jeopardy

By Mark Impomeni - Politics Daily

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen, is warning Congress that the Pentagon will be forced to stop paying soldiers after June 15th if a $108 billion supplemental war-funding measure is not passed soon. He told Roll Call (subscription required) that the uncertainty surrounding the bill creates unnecessary pressure in the military. "It makes it extremely difficult to execute the day-to-day business of the Pentagon without knowing the money is coming," he said.The Bush Administration and Congressional Republicans have been calling on Congress to pass the supplemental ...

Published: 04/30/08

WH Says Funding Cut Could Prolong Iraq War

By Mark Impomeni - Politics Daily

In a new line of argument, the White House cautioned Congress that any funding cuts in aid for Iraq could wind up lengthening the war effort there. This is the first time that the White House has used this reasoning in its annual battle with the Democratic-controlled Congress over war funding and could reflect a new confidence within the Administration about the eventual outcome of the war. In past funding debates, the Administration has focused its lobbying efforts around the strategic argument of completing the mission in Iraq and the moral imperative for Congress to provide resources to ...

Published: 03/27/08

Saddam Paid for Lawmakers' Trip

By Mark Impomeni - Politics Daily

In a stunning announcement in connection with the indictment of a Michigan charity official, Federal prosecutors said yesterday that former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein secretly financed a Congressional trip to Iraq in the run up to the Iraq War. The trip was undertaken by three anti-war Democrats in the month before the Congressional vote on the authorization to use military force against Iraq. Reps. Jim McDermott (D-WA), and Mike Thompson (D-CA), and then Rep. David Bonior (D-MI) visited Iraq on the trip arranged by Muthanna Al-Hanooti, the subject of the Federal indictment. For his ...

Published: 12/4/07

Bush to Cut Terror Funding?

By Jay Allbritton - Politics Daily

The Associated Press reported Saturday that they "obtained documents" that reveal the Bush Administration plans to cut homeland security funding for police, firefighters and rescue workers by more than half. The Department of Homeland Security requested $3.2 billion for 2009, but the White House, according to the AP's documents, went with a figure of $1.4 billion. ...