i see a fy09 deficit of nearly 600 b.a since i made that preliminary forecast on august 15 several wall street analysts have pushed back saying im too high.a heres why i disagree. start with ombs 482 b. fy09 deficit.a normally i would start with the congressional budget offices estimate but that wont be available until september 9.a first subtract administration policy ...
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ier analyzes energy plan proposed by the speaker of the house 08wo nderfulwor ld on saturday august 16 the speaker of the house delivered a radio address focused on energy issues. the following analyzes some of the claims and proposal outlined by the speaker in that address. the speaker over the past few months alone republicans have voted down our efforts to expand domestic drilling opposed clean...
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las herramientas web 2.0 son tan exitosas que aunque algunos sigan apoyando y confiando en el desarrollo y progreso de plurk otros tantos siguen usando twitter para hacer microblogging y para hacer liveblogging. en el caso que nos ocupa un reportero ciudadano de la china usando su celular y twitter notifica a sus seguidores de su detencian por parte de la autoridades chinas asi como su preocupaci...
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feeling pressure from the house republican revolt on energy prices speaker nancy pelosi took time from her busy book tour current amazon sales rank no. 1631 and priced to sell at 16.29 down from the original 23.95 to release a top ten questions for the house gop on energy. the first thing one notices about these 10 questions is that there are only nine of them. but leaving math aside and ignorin...
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sincere republican voters led by rep. john culberson r texas professional campaign operatives and right wing geeks initiated a category on twitter called dontgo to urge congress to consider the bush domestic offshore and anwr drilling proposals. the movement has legs and is at this moment generating more conversation on the messaging service than freddie mac beijing the iphone and paris hilton. ...
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the politico reports today that according to democratic house aides speaker nancy pelosis energy agenda has been carefully gamed out in strategy sessions with pelosi taking heat on gas prices while tacitly encouraging more vulnerable democrats to publicly disagree with her and show their independence. one senior house democratic aide said the reality is we will have a new president in three months...
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...ts secondquarter profit rose 13 percent over adjusted results from one year ago. on tuesday bp announced a 28percent rise in net profits.musgaves opportunities to lower gas pricesfree our oil httpwww.sp eaker.govl egisla...d rill act httpwww.sp eaker.govl egisla...u se it or lose it httpwww.sp eaker.govl egisla...p rice gouging httpwww.sp eaker.govl egisla...r enewable energy httpwww.sp eaker.govl egisla...e nergy ...
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in the wake of the favorable decision in the case of committee on the judiciary u.s. house of representatives v. harriet miers et al. the congress has its eye back on the subpoena power ball. the courts decision has done more than simply reaffirm that harriet miers and josh bolten must obey congressional subpoenas under penalty of exactly what we still have not figured out. it may also have embold...
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the house passed the higher education opportunity act which includes provisions that require higher education institutions to take steps to curb illegal file sharing. on july 30 2008 educause issued a letter about the revised copyright provisions of the bill. heres an excerpt from that letter section 493 also below is the result of much tugandpull over the last few months. in the end it will requ...
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hey what do you know the department of justice was illegally politicized by monica goodling just like the dirty hippies on those blogs said heres the dirty hippies from the like totally associated press man giving their their typically patchouliinfused take doj former aide broke law in hiring scandal by lara jakes jordan 1 hour ago washington ap a new justice department report concludes that po...
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filed under love sex pregnancy birthaccording to the definition of abortion contained in a new proposal any of the various procedures including the prescription dispensing and administration of any drug or the performance of any procedure or any other action that results in the termination of the life of a human being in utero between conception and natural birth whether before or after impla...
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speaker nancy pelosi and house democratic leaders have been meeting with economists to develop a new stimulus plan and speaker pelosi said the plan was likely to include aid for states suffering declining tax revenues and help with the states share of costs for medicaid services to the poor as well as transportation infrastructure public schools and other public facilities. speaker pelosi suggeste...
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so the administration wants us to take a step back in time sheessshhh. from the article ...this provision would threaten the funding of organizations and health facilities if they do not hire people who would refuse to provide birth control and defines abortion so broadly that it would include many types of birth control including oral contracept ion. fu ll article the gavel blog archive ...
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the bush squad wants to redefine birth control as abortion. my take they sat back and reflected and realized that they hadnt wreaked enough physical moral and sexual havoc on the nation and the world and decided this would really get the ball rolling again circa 20 a.d. style. bastards. at least speaker nancy pelosi had the decency to waste no time denouncing the move.......
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according to a post on the us speakers site the bush administration wants to classify contraception as abortion. technically they want to expand the definition of abortion to include contraception. how postmodern is that seriously how postmodern have we become i thought things were bad when bill clinton was chastised over that depends on the meaning of the word is. this definition expansion wo...
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from the gavel the new york times reports that the bush administrations department of health and human services is drafting a rule that would place new restrictions on domestic family planning programs. while current law allows health care providers and professionals to refuse to provide abortions based on their religious beliefs this provision would threaten the funding of organizations and heal...
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this may cause my friend jeremy some dismay but he gets a hat tip for this link democrat michael capuano tries to stop members of congress from using the internet speaker pelosi weighed in on the matter we share the goal of modernizing the antiquated franking regulations to address the rapidly changing realities of communications in the internet age. like many other members i have a blog use yout...
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in an example of an early failure to foresee how the internet would change everyday communication the rules restricted members from sending emails to their family and friends and from using the internet to access web sites that may be considered outside the realm of official business. as one house aide later complained some members say you should be able to email your son but you cant send franked...
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there has been some controversy lately about what a letter from rep. capuano of the franking committee means for house members web presence. the franking committee which in part regulates members communications so they dont appear to endorse a particular product service or ideology are looking into how members should be able to use the internet and have sent a letter to the committee on house admi...
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the blogosphere is all atwitter over preliminary recommendations on new rules regarding how members of house of representatives may use the internet to communicate wired reported. the sunlight foundation and the speaker have these responses.the proposed rules in granting permission to members to post official video material outside of the house.gov domain would require official content posted o...
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so in brief a republican congressman from texas by the name of john culberson is up in arms about a letter on how members of the house of representatives use the internet and i took to the huffington post to push back a bit on the conventional wisdom that democrats in congress are intent upon cracking down on twitter qik youtube so on and so forth. im posting it in full below and then im off to do...
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pat roberts finally decided to do something about gas prices by introducing the gas price reduction act last week. too bad his voting record in washington has helped to create the problem. while kansans are suffering at the pump oil companies have posted record profits for the last five years. instead of doing anything about it roberts has been accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from big o...
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