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Morning Brief: U.S. officials: Data shows bin Laden still planning attacks

U.S. officials: Data shows bin Laden still planning attacks Top news: Data seized during the raid that killed Osama bin Laden show that the al Qaeda leader was still involved in planning terrorist attacks, U.S. officials say. “He wasn’t just a figurehead,” said one official. “He continued to plot and plan, to come up with read more »

White House proposes tax incentives for energy efficient buildings

Tom Ramstack – AHN News Correspondent Philadelphia, PA, United States (AHN) – President Obama proposed a new incentive plan Thursday to make buildings more energy efficient while he faces opposition among Republicans who are more interested in reducing the national budget. Obama spoke at Penn State University about his “Better Buildings” initiative. The plan seeks read more »

GOP Hypocrisy on Recovery Act Projects Makes News Nationwide

Republicans assail Recovery Act one day, attend ribbon cuttings, request funds for projects the next — leading Republicans McCain, Pete Sessions among the worst hypocrites Washington Post (John Solomon and Aaron Mehta) “Legislators who criticized stimulus sought its funding” Rep. Pete Sessions, the firebrand conservative from Texas, has relentlessly assailed the Democratic stimulus efforts as read more »

Health-care bill passed 60-39 could mirror Canadian style rationing system

The health-care bill, which is President Obama’s top domestic priority, would extend insurance to about 30 million people who now lack it, expand the reach of Medicaid for the poor, and impose new rules on health insurance companies. It would cost about $871 billion over 10 years, but raise more than that in new taxes read more »

Polls show dim support for health care bill

Polls show Americans aren’t buying into the health care reform bill being crafted by Democrats as doubts surfaced Wednesday on Capitol Hill over the “public option” deal that President Obama said cleared the way for passage of his top agenda item. Democrats are plowing ahead with hopes of passing the bill by Christmas and to read more »

Lieberman Against Medicare Health Insurance Plan Buy-In

It appears that the renowned compromise struck by Senate Democrats on healthcare reform may have been too good to be true. Their agreement, approved by both moderate and liberal Democratic senators, eliminated the public option health insurance plan, but replaced it with–among other programs–the ability for Americans between the ages of 55 and 64 to read more »

Democratic Governors Voice Concern Over Health Care Bill

Republican governors are not alone in being concerned about what the proposed health care legislation might mean for their already overstrained budgets: Democrats share the same worries.         “We’ve got concerns,” Gov. Jack Markell of Delaware said in an interview Wednesday, hours before getting elected as the chairman of the Democratic Governors Association. “And we’re doing read more »

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