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...exactly did two people manage to get into the White House of all places uninvited? Well thats what Congress is trying to find out as we speak...
...loved how we started, and I’m proud of how we started,” Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said. “It’s not unusual to get a big lead like that and then think that the game is over...
...unemployment, which is at a 26-year high of 10.2%. And so, even as the economy seems to have stabilized and priorities such as health care, climate change and Afghanistan fight for a dwindling pool of federal money, there's one piece of legislation that is almost certain to get passed: some form of a jobs bill. (See 10 perfect jobs for the recession - and after...
...large catch-all bill or several smaller bills. House leadership had been aiming to pass a bill, or bills, by the end of the year, though majority leader Steny Hoyer on Tuesday indicated that the timeline may slip. "The important thing - my perspective, speaking for Steny Hoyer - is to get a jobs package that will work, not getting one right now," he told reporters. "If we adopt it in the next two or three weeks or we adopt it in January, we need to make sure it'll work." Either way, the Senate cannot pass a comprehensive bill until next...
...Democrats are starting to treat everything as a potential jobs bill. "The appropriations bills can also be looked at as jobs bills," says a Senate Democratic leadership aide. "There's money in them for projects that will create jobs." Indeed, if tradition holds, many of these jobs provisions will get loaded on the back of the annual defense appropriations bill - typically the last bill passed in the year. After all, almost no member of Congress is willing to vote against funding the troops, even if some of that money finds its way back to help civilians at home...