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Boxer to push funding for health costs of uninsured immigrants
WASHINGTON—Sen. Barbara Boxer plans to push for Washington to provide $250 million and perhaps more to help local and state governments pay the cost of healthcare to uninsured immigrants who seek legal status under legislation now before the Senate....
Tags: Politics, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Migration, Labor Legislation, Health Insurance
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A long cooling-off period for San Onofre nuclear plant
Southern California Edison built San Onofre's two nuclear reactors in about nine years, but tearing them down will be a technically complex, multibillion-dollar job completed over decades. It is likely that Edison first will mothball the plant, which...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Southern California Edison Company, U.S. Marine Corps, Economy, Business and Finance
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Debt-limit fight heats up with Pay Your Bills measure
WASHINGTON — As Congress readied for a new battle over raising the debt limit, Sen. Barbara Boxer announced legislation that would prevent lawmakers from being paid if they do not increase the nation's borrowing authority. "It is an American value...
Tags: Congressional Budget Office, Jim McDermott, Parties and Movements, Labor Markets, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
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Bill Lockyer says he won't run for office in 2014
SACRAMENTO -- Bill Lockyer, who has served in Sacramento for four decades as a legislator, attorney general and state treasurer, announced he will retire from elective office when his term expires in 2014. Lockyer, a Democrat who was first elected to...
Tags: Parties and Movements, John Chiang, Government, Regional Authority, Politics
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Military is on the spot over sexual assaults
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers from both major parties rebuked the Pentagon on Tuesday for failing to curtail sexual assaults in the military, arguing that the inability of commanders to solve the problem may mean they need to be stripped of the power to...
Tags: Assault, Courts-Martial, Sex Crimes, Justice System, Martin Dempsey
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Ganging up on Greuel [Blowback]
More often than not, columnist Jim Newton gets things right. But his analysis of Controller Wendy Greuel’s campaign for mayor of Los Angeles, which I advised, is dead wrong. Newton: "Greuel never introduced herself in a positive way to voters."...
Tags: Kevin James, Fox News Channel (tv network), Referenda, Mitt Romney, Magic Johnson
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Pentagon reports sharp rise in military sexual assaults
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon estimated that 26,000 members of the military were sexually assaulted in unreported incidents last year — 35% more than in 2010 — a severe trend that senior officials warned could threaten recruiting and...
Tags: Assault, Courts-Martial, Criminals, Politics, Sex Crimes
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Republican senators boycott vote on EPA nominee
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans boycotted a committee vote Thursday on President Obama's nomination of Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency, drawing accusations of obstructionism from Democrats. Republicans on the Senate...
Tags: Mitch McConnell, Science and Technology, Rick Perry, Politics, Environmental Politics
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Poll finds Garcetti, Greuel in dead heat
A poll released Thursday shows City Controller Wendy Greuel and City Councilman Eric Garcetti in a virtual dead heat in the campaign to be the next mayor of Los Angeles. The poll, by the Edmund G. "Pat" Brown Institute of Public Affairs at Cal State L....
Tags: Mark Ridley-Thomas, Eric Garcetti, Magic Johnson, Voting, Antonio Villaraigosa
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Letters: Immigration and quality of life
Re "Immigration bill moves on," Editorial, May 23 Our freeways are clogged, public services are stretched thin, schools are overcrowded and the once prized University of California system is taking a dive, and yet The Times and the senators pushing...Tags: Civil and Public Service, Immigration, Government, Politics, Dianne Feinstein
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Why the medical device tax needs to stay
The chief drawback of a law as complex as the Affordable Care Act, the health insurance reform measure passed in 2010, is that it provides self-interested opponents a multitude of places to stick a wedge in and hammer away. But you'd be hard-pressed...
Tags: Science and Technology, Amy Klobuchar, Employment, Politics, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Senate Republicans stonewall Obama's EPA nominee
WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans boycotted a committee vote Thursday morning on President Obama’s nomination of Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency, prompting accusations of obstructionism from Democrats and calls to...
Tags: Mitch McConnell, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Politics, Environmental Pollution
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