Afternoon News Nuggets: 21 July 2009
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ROAD RULES, BOULDER: When Second District U.S. Democratic Rep. Jared Polis wasn't busy laying waste to the nation's health-care future...
Polis flare-up: freshman turns politics upside down on health-care reform
What is wealthy Boulder Democratic Congressman Jared Polis doing? Polis believes the proposed tax policy that would pay for health-care reform would be...
GOP betting on health-care stall tactics
WASHINGTON-- Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele's speech Monday at the National Press Club was short on details. He said Republicans wanted to address “runaway costs” by perhaps posting the cost of treatments “openly on the Internet,” supporting “bold new incentives” for medical breakthroughs, and ending "life-time health care benefits and insurance for Congressmen who leave their jobs.”
During reform debate, senators still accepting mega industry cash
It should come as no surprise that health care companies, executives and lobbyists would target their political donations to the lawmakers who will guide...
Market magic: stacking the deck from toll-taker to pacemaker
Lawmakers and policy people who advance private-sector solutions for public-service needs talk about competition-- competition like maybe the kind we got with the Colorado...
Sonia Sotomayor’s hearings face: A visual record of our national politics
Judge Sonia Sotomayor's face during her Supreme Court nomination hearings is a YouTube-era national treasure. Turn down the volume as you watch her and...
Fed Economic Council: future jobs lie in education, health care, clean energy
The Obama Administration's Council of Economic Advisers released a report today called "Preparing the Workers of Today for the Jobs of Tomorrow." ...
Perlmutter energy-efficiency bill tackles range of big issues
U.S. Rep Ed Perlmutter, CO-7, introduced companion legislation Wednesday that seeks to encourage consumers to improve the energy-efficiency of their homes, including homes they're...
Palin resignation excites her anti-abortion-movement fans
WASHINGTON — Debbie Joslin wasn’t happy to see Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announce her resignation. “I was disappointed that she wouldn’t be governor anymore,” the president of the Alaska branch of the conservative Eagle Forum and a longtime Republican activist said in an interview. “It’s hard to get things done now because of the 10-10 split between the parties in the State Senate. What she did was out of the box, and anybody else would be politically dead.”
As some question Palin's decision, anti-abortion activists, who embraced Palin after the birth of Trig and after the unmarried pregnancy of Palin’s daughter Bristol, are ecstatic about the possibility that Palin, freed from the duties and turmoils of office, could become a historic leader and spokeswoman for their cause.
Bennet engages religious leaders in health-care debate
As members of Congress return to their states for the July Fourth recess, national health care reform, one of the thorniest of the thorny legislative initiatives lawmakers are grappling with this term, brought U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet to a Thursday night discussion hosted by Rev. Bill Calhoun at Montview Boulevard Presbyterian Church in Denver. The meeting was part of a campaign being waged by Calhoun and a network of more than 600 religious leaders, who are demanding that policy presently being drafted in Washington, D.C., deliver affordable coverage for all Americans.