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...Everyone guessed wrong.' JOE BIDEN, Vice President, acknowledging that the Administration's $787 billion economic-stimulus plan has failed to reduce the unemployment rate...
...here," says Cochran. But if this is the most that is politically possible in America, we're in trouble, because climate change demands far more. "We are at an extraordinary moment, with a historic opportunity to confront one of the world's most serious challenges," said former Vice President Al Gore after the bill passed. "Our actions now will be remembered by this generation and all those to follow." He's right - which is why the battle has just begun...
...release information on the FBI interview with Dick Cheney regarding the Valerie Plame-CIA leak is connected to concern that future government officials might refuse to cooperate with criminal investigations if they think what they say could open them up to ridicule ("I don't want a future Vice President to say, "I'm not going to cooperate with you because I don't want to be fodder for The Daily Show...
...House floor during votes, even following a member into the Speaker's lobby - the domain of the press - to make her case in full view of a pack of reporters. She also met with seven GOP moderates on Wednesday, extending a rare hand across the aisle. Even former Vice President Al Gore was recruited to work the phones from Tennessee. Obama made the case himself for the bill on Thursday, telling reporters, "This is going to be a close vote because of misinformation out there that there's somehow a contradiction between clean energy and economic growth...
...Tuesday morning, Harvard President Drew G. Faust and Vice President for Human Resources Marilyn Hausammann announced in e-mails that the University would be eliminating 275 staff positions in coming days, with administrative and professional jobs comprising half the cuts and clerical and technical jobs comprising the remainder. Approximately 40 other staffers would see their work hours reduced or shifted to a seasonal schedule, but trade workers would be largely unaffected, the e-mails noted...