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...votes required to clear the next hurdle in the House, they have one hand tied behind them. Business-as-usual eleventh-hour incentives are off limits after the pointed backlash against a spate of clumsy sweetheart deals like the so-called Cornhusker Kickback given to Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson. That's why the reality for the Democratic Party - that they must all hang together on the health care vote or they will surely all be hung separately in the midterm elections - is at the center of the case the President is now making, both in public and (more intensely) behind...
...nations during his three-day visit to Australia this week. The Indonesian president was also awarded the Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia, the highest civilian honor in Australia, for encouraging democracy and economic ties between the two countries. (Other recipients of the prize include Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandela.) (Read how Yudhoyono is the man behind Indonesia's rise...
...letter was seen as a blow to the independence of the state's education institutions, which normally have "a great deal of autonomy," says Kirsten Nelson, spokeswoman for the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. "Changes must be made by the General Assembly. Without changes, historically it has been assumed that it is the will of the General Assembly that the institutions retain broad control of their governance." The Council will discuss this issue at their regularly planned meeting next week...
...Let’s all hope that everything’s going to turn around,” Nelson said. “The whole country hopes for this. All of us will have more breathing room with our budgets...
Where budgetary priorities will lie after the financial crisis is alleviated is also not clear. Assuming an economic recovery in 2011, any possible subsequent increase in the House budgets would coincide with the House renewal project, whose start date of 2012 was maintained as recently as February by Nelson...