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Senate to Vote to Repeal Part of Obama's Health Law
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON - Congress is poised to send the White House its first rollback of last year's health care law, a bipartisan repeal of a burdensome tax reporting requirement that's widely unpopular with businesses. Even President Barack Obama is eager to see it gone. The Senate is scheduled to vote on the bill Tuesday. Republicans hope it is the first of many such bills, resulting in the entire health care law being scrapped. Democrats say the bill is part of an inevitable tinkering that will be needed to improve the health measure. The bill, which passed the House last month, would rescind a tax ...
Priest-Molesters Often Aren't Monitored, Despite Church Promise
By David Gibson - Politics DailyFiguring out how to keep children safe from child molesters released from prison is a longstanding problem facing American society, since even neighborhood notification programs can only do so much. Protecting children from predators who escaped criminal punishment, as most clergy accused in the Catholic abuse scandal did, is likewise a dilemma. The Catholic Church hoped to have a better solution, since it could insist that priests found to have abused children but who were beyond the reach of the law might be closely monitored and kept away from minors if they remained priests in the employ ...
Top Moments of the Health Summit
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Feb. 25) -- Political theater doesn't get more dramatic than today's bipartisan summit on health care. But who has six hours on a weekday to tune in? AOL News does. Watch this space for a rundown of the very best -- and worst -- moments you won't want to miss as we watch the Blair House project so you don't have to. HOUR 7: What Have We Learned Today? An hour after the summit was scheduled to end, the president states the obvious -- "This has been hard work" -- and thanks the gathering for conducting themselves "in a civil tone." He then, like the college professor he once was, ...
Iran's Senior Dissident Cleric Montazeri Dies
By not in system - AOL NewsTEHRAN, Iran (Dec. 20) - Iran's most senior dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who emerged as the spiritual father of its reform movement, died on Sunday. He was 87. Vahid Salemi, AP Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, Iran's most senior dissident cleric, appears in 2003. For years, Montazeri had accused the country's ruling Islamic establishment of imposing dictatorship in the name of Islam, and he persisted with his criticism after June's disputed presidential election. His stance made him a hero to the opposition, and his criticisms were even more stinging ...
Chaos Theory - Inside the Health Care Reform Sausage Factory
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Health, Wealth and the American Way: Simple Questions, Hard Answers About Reform
By Bob Franken - Politics DailyThe many elements of health care reform are mind-bogglingly complex, but there are some simple questions that anyone hoping to address it needs to ask first. ...
The Truth About 'Truth Commissions'
By Bob Franken - Politics Daily"Truth Commissions" are spouting like weeds, and as with weeds, the need to find out what happened threatens to choke off efforts to do something about the problems. ...
Immigration Reform Is and Is Not on the Agenda
By Dave - Politics DailyThe IndependentOpening a debate he admits is both "controversial" and "emotional", Barack Obama signalled his intention to overhaul America's immigration system yesterday, finally creating a means for the nation's millions of illegal residents to become fully-fledged citizens.The President plans to take on the issue next month, confounding predictions that it would be kicked into the long grass as a result of the current gloomy economic climate.Under proposals floated by the White House, undocumented workers who admit that they violated the law will be given a "path to citizenship", provided ...
Palin Falsified Expense Reports?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyFrom the AP:Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business.The charges included costs for hotel and commercial flights for three daughters to join Palin to watch their father in a snowmobile race, and a trip to New York, where the governor attended a five-hour conference and stayed with 17-year-old Bristol for five days and four nights in a luxury hotel. So, she brought her kids along on trips that they weren't officially invited to attend, ...
Palin, a Portrait in Corruption
By David Knowles - Politics DailyAs Sarah Palin retreats to the press isolation of one of John McCain's 8 residences to cram for her Thursday debate (yes, that means another 6 days without a news conference), we're learning more about the kind of politician this woman showed herself to be in Alaska. As the Associated Press details in an article today, her tenure as mayor was marked by noted examples of corruption:When Palin needed to sell her house during her last year as Wasilla mayor, she got the city to sign off on a special zoning exception--and did so without keeping a promise to remove a potential fire hazard.She gladly ...
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