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POLITICO Q & A: Price on health care

In the end, Senate Democrats were able to muster enough support to overcome the first hurdle toward passage of their favored health care bill. Does this bode ill for opponents of the plan? Anytime they’re able to advance over another hurdle, it gives ...

From DAVID MARK, The Politico,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Senate,  Barack Obama

POLITICO Q & A: Begich on health care

You’re undecided on the Reid health care bill. What factors will affect your vote? We’ve got to make sure it’s deficit neutral or will have a positive effect on the deficit. I want to make sure some things in the existing bill aren’t modified, ...

From DAVID MARK, The Politico,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Mary Landrieu,  Blanche Lincoln,  Republican National Committee

POLITICO Q & A: Woolsey on health care

Were you relieved that the Senate bill didn’t contain the Stupak amendment abortion language? As far as reproductive choice goes, the Senate took a step in the right direction. I can’t believe the House would bring it back to Stupak. No matter how ...

From DAVID MARK, The Politico,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: U.S. House of Representatives,  Barack Obama

Hurdles to prosecution of interrogation abuses

his careful and largely leak-free investigation into the CIA's 2005 destruction of videotapes depicting harsh interrogations of two al-Qaida detainees. WASHINGTON — The federal prosecutor who will conduct the inquiry into the brutal interrogations of ...

From DAVID JOHNSTON AND MARK MAZZETTI NEW YORK TIMES, The San Jose Mercury News,  25 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Central Intelligence Agency,  Eric Holder,  U.S. Department of Justice,  George W. Bush,  Al-Qaeda

Armey leaves firm amid health care flap

Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey speaks at the State Capitol. Photo: AP Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas) is resigning from DLA Piper law firm amid a wave of negative attention his grassroots organization, ...

From DAVID MARK, The Politico,  14 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Dick Armey,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Republican Party,  MSNBC,  Rachel Maddow

A window into the CIA's embrace of secret jails

interrogate senior operatives of al-Qaida has long been known, but details about them have been a closely guarded secret. In recent interviews, though, several former intelligence officials have provided a fuller account of how they were built, where ...

From DAVID JOHNSTON AND MARK MAZZETTI NEW YORK TIMES, The San Jose Mercury News,  12 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Central Intelligence Agency,  Al-Qaeda,  George W. Bush,  Brent Wilkes,  Wal-Mart

Bush aides pushed in 2002 for arrests by military in U.S.

the military against international or foreign terrorists operating within the United States," the memorandum said. WASHINGTON — Top Bush administration officials in 2002 debated testing the Constitution by sending American troops into the suburbs ...

From MARK MAZZETTI AND DAVID JOHNSTON NEW YORK TIMES, The San Jose Mercury News,  24 Jul 2009
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  Dick Cheney,  Al-Qaeda,  White House,  U.S. Department of Justice

Sotomayor says Obama didn't ask about abortion

WASHINGTON—Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor declined repeatedly at Senate confirmation hearings Wednesday to talk about her views on abortion rights, and said President Barack Obama never asked her about the issue before he chose her for the bench. ...

From DAVID ESPO AND MARK SHERMAN, Denver Post,  15 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Sonia Sotomayor,  Senate Judiciary Committee,  Tom Coburn,  U.S. Republican Party

Sotomayor vows impartiality if confirmed to court

WASHINGTON — Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic Supreme Court nominee in history, vowed loyalty to "the impartiality of our justice system" Monday, confronting Republican skeptics at Senate hearings suffused with racial politics but all but certain ...

From DAVID ESPO AND MARK SHERMAN, The Vail Trail,  14 Jul 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  Sonia Sotomayor,  Senate Judiciary Committee,  U.S. Democratic Party

Graham predicts Sotomayor OK 'barring meltdown'

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats praised Sonia Sotomayor as a Hispanic pioneer well qualified for the Supreme Court on Monday, but Republicans questioned her impartiality and President Barack Obama's views as well at the start of confirmation ...

From DAVID ESPO AND MARK SHERMAN, Lahontan Valley News & Fallen Eagle Standard,  13 Jul 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Senate Judiciary Committee,  Barack Obama,  Lindsey Graham,  Sonia Sotomayor

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