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Buried within the 844 pages of the bipartisan immigration bill -- amid historic shifts in policies such as a path to citizenship for 11 million unauthorized immigrants -- are pet provisions of the senators who crafted it. South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham wants more visas for the meat industry, a major employer in his state

Two items from Drudge-- the first, an unprecedented Administration rebuttal to a Drudge post (the ham item I gleefully posted yesterday, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2296111/posts) which merely increases their IQ (Idiocy Quotient) by several notches. In response to the astonishingly inept recovery.gov website which implied two-pounds-of-ham were purchased for more-than-a-million-bucks, the Administration has even more lamely dug itself into an even deeper hole by extolling the actual price of the ham... approximately double what Food Lion is selling it for... the good stuff, in Food Lion's case, a nice Smithfield smoked ham. Now that's pork! No wonder Obama's latest czar, Cass Sunstein, wants...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday that Congress needs to "keep the door open" to a another stimulus package -- raising the question of how much the government could eventually spend on top of the $787 billion already allocated to rescue the country from dire economic straits. "The word of the day is confidence. Confidence in our markets, confidence in lending, confidence in our financial institutions," Pelosi said before suggesting the need for another rescue package during a press conference Tuesday following a meeting with top economists. Mark Zandi, chief economist and founder of Moody's Economy, took a more definitive...

Obama pitches plan to amend bailout bill By Klaus Marre Posted: 09/30/08 10:26 AM [ET] Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) on Tuesday proposed to increase the bank deposit insurance limit, hoping that the move could help get a Wall Street bailout passed. “Continued inaction in the face of the gathering storm in our financial markets would be catastrophic for our economy and our families,” Obama stated, urging continued bipartisanship to get the measure passed. The Illinois senator said the bailout measure rejected in the House on Monday was a “marked improvement” over Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s original proposal....