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Microsoft Taps Former Allen Aide
5 hours ago
Microsoft has tapped Frank Cavaliere as director of government affairs for the Senate. He was previously deputy legislative director to former Sen. George Allen, R-Va., when he chaired the Senate Republican High Technology Task Force and the Congressional Nanotechnology Caucus. Cavaliere most recent ...
Tech Daily Dose - techdailydose.nationaljournal.com · Rank: 1,542 ·  304 references
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Howard Dean: “Kill The Senate Bill”
6 hours ago
by laudyms
Greg Sargent’s blog In a blow to the bill grinding through the Senate, Howard Dean bluntly called for the bill to be killed in a pre-recorded interview set to air later this afternoon, denouncing it as “the collapse of health care reform in the United States Senate,” the reporter who conducted the i ...
Wake-up Call - laudyms.wordpress.com · Rank: 173,192 · 1 reference
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Whopper of the week: The banker-lobbyist gap
10 hours ago
by Laurie Bennett
There's a disconnect, President Obama says, between stated positions of banking CEOs and the actions of banking lobbyists.
Muckety.com - Exploring ... - news.muckety.com · Rank: 29,008 · 307 references
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By Not Losing, Bank Lobbyists Won — With Help From Their Democratic Friends
11 hours ago
by Mary Kane
Bloomberg takes a hard look at the lobbying fight over financial regulatory overhaul and concludes that despite last week’s passage of a financial regulatory overhaul package by the House, the banks won — simply by not losing as badly as they once thought they might. Their aggressive lobbying ensure ...
The Washington Independent - washingtonindependent.com · Rank: 81 · 3507 references
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Swine Flu Vaccine Recall, Short Ships, and Many Questions
21 hours ago
by bobbi85710
My interest peaked today after reading Michelle Malkin’s article on “ Terrific: Government Recalls 800,000 Doses of Kids’ Swine Flu Vaccine“, I began looking around for why and how that many doses might have lost their strength. I discovered that on the CDC’s own delivery schedule/supply site for to ...
Bobbi85710's Mouth in the ... - bobbi85710.wordpress.com · 1 reference
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Commission to Address Federal Deficit is an Affront to Representative Democracy
1 day ago
by The Thicket
by Karl Kurtz U.S. Senators Kent Conrad (N.D.) and Judd Gregg (N.H.) have proposed the creation of a commission to address the federal deficit. For Congress to give up the power of the purse to this commission would be to...
The Thicket at State ... - ncsl.typepad.com/the_thicket · Rank: 50,073 · 77 references
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