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  • Obama's recess appointment reignites debate over healthcare

    07/07/2010 4:32:42 PM PDT · by Nachum · 18 replies
    the hill ^ | 7/7/10 | Mike Lillis
    President Barack Obama's recess appointment of Donald Berwick to lead Medicare was intended to avoid another high-profile congressional fight over healthcare reform. Instead, it’s renewed — at least temporarily — the well-worn partisan debate over the government's role in medicine. The White House, with the help of congressional Democrats, had of late begun playing up the tangible benefits of the new law in hopes of picking up votes in November's midterms. But Berwick's appointment to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services [CMS] — without any formal discussion on Capitol Hill — offers Republicans an opportunity to rehash the...
  • CA: New legal opinion reignites speculation over budget vote

    04/02/2009 11:52:15 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 11 replies · 546+ views
    Capitol Weekly ^ | 4/2/09 | Anthony York
    As state budgeters look toward another multi-billion dollar budget deficit this summer, attorneys for the Legislature and Gov. Schwarzenegger have issued a new opinion reaffirming the legality of a plan passed by Democrats last December that raised revenues without requiring a two-thirds vote. The March 9 opinion from Legislative Counsel Diane Boyer-Vine, addressed to Gov. Schwarzenegger, reaffirms a 2003 opinion by her office that finds a bill that raises one tax and lowers another by an equal or greater amount only needs simple majority votes in each legislative house. “We think that a tax bill is not subject to the...
  • China's Mrs Fixit Reignites Row With Japan

    05/24/2005 6:30:04 PM PDT · by blam · 3 replies · 437+ views
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 5-25-2005 | Richard Spencer
    China's Mrs Fixit reignites row with Japan By Richard Spencer in Beijing (Filed: 25/05/2005) Diplomatic hostilities between China and Japan exploded into life again yesterday after a Chinese politburo member known as Mrs Fixit snubbed her hosts by ending a visit to Tokyo a day early. No reason was given for Wu Yi's failure to meet Junichiro Koizumi, the Japanese prime minister, thereby missing talks supposed to improve relations between the economic giants. But it became clear that the snub was deliberate when the Chinese media reopened a campaign of vilification against Mr Koizumi. The countries have been at loggerheads...
  • Bill in Congress to bring back military draft reignites debate

    03/10/2003 8:11:55 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 14 replies · 625+ views
    SJ Mercury News ^ | 3/10/03 | Brandon Bailey
    <p>More than 30 years ago, U.S. Rep. Pete Stark was one of thousands of activists who opposed the Vietnam War and the military draft. Now the Fremont Democrat has joined a small band of Congress members with a radical proposal to head off war with Iraq.</p>