Senate

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U.S. Senate hopeful Bob Conley endorsed the concept of a national sales tax to replace numerous federal income taxes before a small group of Fair Tax Act supporters Wednesday in North Charleston. ...

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Pearce foes trumpet decades-old divorce filing The Arizona Republic The race for a state Senate seat in west Mesa broke out into a wide-open brawl Wednesday, with allegations that Rep. ...

Source: blog.washingtonpost.com --- 9 hours ago
The Senate on Wednesday passed legislation to modernize the nation's computer crime laws and give prosecutors more leeway in pursuing cyber crooks. Under current federal cyber-crime laws prosecutors must show that the illegal activity caused at least $5,000 in damages before they can bring charges for unauthorized access to a computer. Under the bill approved today, that threshold would be eliminated. Instead, the legislation would make it a felony to install spyware or keystroke-monitoring programs on 10 or more computers regardless of the amount of damage caused. This change is important because most of today's cyber criminals break into thousands of computers at a time, but seldom inflict $5,000 worth of damages on any one individual. Moreover, while most commit their crimes by tunneling their connections through hacked computers, the crooks may never damage the PCs they are using as a proxy or try to steal personal and financial data ...

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Rick Noriega touted his plan as a "bold" measure to fix a "broken" immigration system, but it was almost identical to bipartisan legislation that had been backed by President Bush and Texas business leaders in June 2007. ...

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Georgia's two major U.S. Senate candidates wasted little time Wednesday preparing the battlefield for their four-month duel that ends with the November general election. Incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, 64, painted former state lawmaker Jim Martin as a liberal Democrat backed by back-room liberals in Washington. "He's a [U.S. Sen.] Chuck Schumer [D-N.Y.] hand-picked guy," Chambliss told reporters at a morning press conference, just hours after voters picked Martin over DeKalb County CEO Vernon Jones as the Democratic Party nominee. "And there's no more liberal member of the U.S. Senate than Chuck Schumer." ...

Source: www.indystar.com --- 11 hours ago
Cynthia Moyo has lived comfortably in a subsidized unit at the Senate Manor apartments for three years, but she fears she may soon find herself without a home because of a dispute between her landlord and the federal government. ...

Source: marcambinder.theatlantic.com --- 1 hour ago
In a new statewide ad, Senate candidate Bruce Lunsford (D-KY) calls Sen. Mitch McConnell "master of the system" that "gets Senators indicted." "Here's how it works in Washington. The politicians get millions in campaign cash. The special interests get what they want. And we get the short end of the stick. Mitch McConnell is the master of this system. It's how Big Oil gets billions in tax breaks, and we get $4 a gallon gas. It's how Wall Street gets bailed out, and people lose their homes. It's how senators get indicted, and Mitch McConnell says nothing. If you're tired of this system, I say it's time for a change. I'm Bruce Lunsford and I approve this message." This seems to be the first advertising reference to Sen. Ted Stevens' indictment..     ...

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The Alaska House of Representatives late Wednesday passed a major energy bill with a $1,200 "resource rebate" for Alaskans, setting up what could be a tense, billion-dollar showdown with the Senate today -- the final day of the special session. ...

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The Vermont Senate Judiciary Committee is going to hold the first of six hearings today to look for ways to toughen Vermont's laws against sex crimes involving children. ...

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The Alaska House of Representatives on Tuesday moved closer to a showdown with the Senate over how energy relief should be delivered to Alaskans. ...

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A new runner in the race for the Senate says that the Democrats have made a mistake in choosing Al Franken to run against Norm Coleman. ...

Source: www.fiercepharma.com --- 18 minutes ago
How do different antidepressants stack up? Blood-pressure meds? Diabetes drugs? Do we know? Well, Sen. Max Baucus says he aims to find out: He's introduced a bill  that would create an institute for comparative-effectiveness research. The not-for-profit would operate separately from the government, but would include reps from Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality--plus drug and device makers, patients, and doctors. The institute would be funded by public and private payers--a.k.a. Medicare and insurance companies. “Doctors and patients need reliable, unbiased information about the effectiveness of treatments to determine the best care possible," Baucus said in a statment, "but right now that data is scarce and unorganized." Not everyone is sold on the comparative effectiveness idea. Some fear that it would end up going the way of the U.K.'s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence--which, though well respected, does get into hot water from time to time for rejecting treatments based on cost. We'll see who prevails. - read the press release - see the post at Pharmalot Related Articles: Bill to propose federal drug comparisons Pact adds cost effectiveness to drug study Where's the ROI on drug R&D budgets? ...

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he AFL-CIO has set a political goal, second only to helping presumed Democratic nominee Barack Obama win the White House, of achieving a filibuster-proof 60-vote pro-worker majority in this year’s elections. ...

Source: albanysinsanity.wnymedia.net --- 9 hours ago
Mandates, unfunded mandates are killing local economies across this state. We need to focus on ALL of these mandates coming down from Albany. We are forced to do this and do that and the burden is put on us here locally and it’s high time this ended. Seems that the problem is in the Assembly, [...] ...

Source: www.macon.com --- 10 hours ago
Today's Democratic U.S. Senate runoff will turn on turnout. ...

Source: www.muskogeephoenix.com --- 12 hours ago
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Later today, Senate Democrats will talk about their plan to cut energy costs for low-to-middle income families. ...

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Jim Martin, a former Georgia lawmaker hand-picked by Democratic leaders, defeated DeKalb County Chief Executive Officer Vernon Jones on Tuesday night to claim his party's nomination for the U.S. Senate. ...