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Posted on 08 November 2009. Tags: Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, aides, analyst, assessment team, Barack Obama, coalition, commanders, europe, ICG, indigenous security force, insurgents, International Crisis Group, Islamic government, John Kerry, Kabul, Mark Schneider, military officers, mujaheddin rebels, Mujda, NATO, Pentagon, reinforcements, security force, senior lieutenants, soldiers, Soviet Union, Stanley McChrystal, Stephen Biddle, Taliban, Taliban leader Mullah Brader Akhund, The New Republic journal, the Senate, The Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, think tank, troops, U.S. general, U.S. Senate, United Kingdom, United States, vice president of the ICG, Waheed Mujda, war, war strategy
By Chris Otton (AFP)
KABUL — With Hamid Karzai confirmed as Afghan president for another five years, the pressure is on Barack Obama to declare his plans for winning a war which commanders say is in danger of being lost. Read the full story
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Posted on 08 November 2009. Tags: "de facto ban", $1 Trillion, abortion, Abortion rights advocates, amendment, Americans, anti-abortion amendment, Antiabortion advocates, ban on abortion subsidies, Barack Obama, bill, bills, block, Capitol Hill, Catholics, caucuses, closed-door negotiations, committee vote, competition, compromise, compromise amendment, Congress, congressional budget analysts, Congressional Budget Office, Conservative, coverage, coverage of abortions, danger to the mother's life, Democratic leader Harry Reid, Democrats, Democrats' healthcare bill, employers, estimates, federal funding of abortion, federal government, federal subsidies, final vote, Finance measure, Finance panel, floor debate, former President Bill Clinton, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, funding for abortion, goal, government assistance, government program, government-run program, Health Benefits, Health bill, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Health panel, History, House Democratic Leaders, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, illegal immigrants, incest, Independent, insurance, insurance market, insurance plans, insurance policies, Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), lawmakers, legislation, Lousiana, mandate, Medicaid, Medicare, medicine, moderates, Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), national government-run public insurance option, national public option, National Right to Life Committee, negotiators, new restrictions, opt out, policyholders, preexisting conditions, premiums, preventive care, private meetings, private money, procedural hurdles, public option, rape, reform, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), Representative Joseph Cao of Louisiana, Republican, Republican John Boehner, Republican Olympia Snowe, Republican-leaning states, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Senator Ben Nelson, Senator Blanche Lincoln, Senator Evan Bayh, Senator Joe Lieberman, Senator Mary Landrieu, seniors, states, Stupak amendment, taxes, The House, the Senate, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, uninsured, White House
WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (Reuters) – After a narrow win in the U.S. House of Representatives, President Barack Obama’s fight for a sweeping healthcare overhaul moves to the U.S. Senate where it faces a difficult path to approval. Read the full story
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Posted on 26 October 2009. Tags: "public" insurance option, America's Health Insurance Plans, Barack Obama, bill, Christina Romer, committee vote, Congress, congressional budget analysts, debate, Democratic leader Harry Reid, Democrats, federal budget deficit, government-run, Harry Reid, healthcare, healthcare bill, healthcare costs, Healthcare reform, House of Representatives, insurance industry, insurance market, Karen Ignani, legislation, liberals, lobbying group, moderates, pre-existing conditions, private companies, public option, Republican, Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell, S&P 500 index, S&P Managed Healthcare index, Senate, Senate Finance Committee, Senator Olympia Snowe, stocks, U.S. Senate, uninsured, United States, White House, White House Council of Economic Advisers
Mon Oct 26, 2009 6:03pm EDT
(For full coverage of U.S. healthcare reform, click [nN20512341])
* Reid to include government-run plan in healthcare bill
* Public option would allow states to choose to opt out
* Republican Snowe not on board but White House pleased Read the full story
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Posted on 28 August 2009. Tags: 2001, Barack Obama, bill, Carnegie Mellon University, civil liberties, CNET, computer, cybersecurity, Democrat, Electronic Frontier Foundation, internet, Internet Security Alliance, Jay Rockefeller, Larry Clinton, Lee Tien, Maine, national, networks, non-governmental, Nortel, Olympia Snowe, President, private sector, San Francisco, Section 201, Senate, Sept. 11, Technology, U.S. Senate, vagueness, Verisign, Verizon, West Virginia
Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. Read the full story
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Posted on 06 August 2009. Tags: Constitution, government, Jim Bunning, Rand Paul, Republican, Ron Paul, Senate, Texas Congressman, U.S. Senate
From Kentucky Public Radio’s Lisa Autry
Bowling Green eye doctor Rand Paul says he will seek the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Jim Bunning. Paul officially declared his candidacy Wednesday, ending months of speculation. Read the full story
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