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Democrats’ Health Bill Passes Key Senate Vote Republicans pledge to fight on despite losing early Monday WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats’ health care overhaul passed a key test in a party-line vote early Monday, in a dramatic defeat for Republicans that put the legislation on track for Christmas-week passage. In the run-up to the vote, the escalation in rhetoric was remarkable on both sides of an issue that has divided the two political parties for months. "This process is not legislation. This process is corruption," said Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., referring to the last-minute flurry of dealmaking that enabled Majority Leader...

As oil trades in excess of $135 a barrel the theme of the left has been to invest in “green alternative energy solutions.” But Sen. James Webb, D-Va., touted as a rising star in the liberal movement, isn’t playing along. “We need to look at nuclear,” Webb said on July 8. “We need to have a sensible nuclear policy. We haven’t built a nuclear power plant in this country in 30 years. Technology’s changed a lot in the last 30 years. You know when I was saying this two years ago, as some people in this room know – there...

March 12, 2004 U.N. Report Suggests Canada Pay Reparations ASSOCIATED PRESS TORONTO (AP) - A draft United Nations report says Canada should consider paying reparations for the immigrant tax once levied on Chinese and to blacks ousted from a town in 1970. The report was produced by special U.N. investigator Doudou Diene, who spent 10 days in Canada in September canvassing various groups and individuals about racism, intolerance and discrimination. He offered 15 recommendations, two of which suggested reparations. The recommendations are nonbinding. Canada's minister for multiculturalism rejected the concept of reparations, saying the government opposes payouts. "The government policy...