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Full texts of healthcare summit opening remarks: Obama, Alexander, Pelosi, Reid (Updated)
Top of the TicketThree Democrats and one Republican speak at the start of the healthcare summit.... -
Declassified in name only
JON WIENER, a professor of history at UC Irvine, is a contributing editor for the Nation and author of "Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files."ON DEC. 31 at midnight, hundreds of millions of pages of secret government documents were automatically declassified — the result of President Bush's Executive Order on Declassification, which covers all national security documents 25 years old or...Tags: Heads of State, Saddam Hussein, Justice System, Democratic Party, Police Investigations
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At This 'Animal House,' the Party Is Democratic
Times Staff WriterWASHINGTON — By day, veteran California Rep. George Miller (D-Martinez) advises party leaders on long-range strategy. He fights for increased school aid on the House Education and the Workforce committees. And, as befits one of the most senior...Tags: Drama (genre), Hospitals and Clinics, Colleges and Universities, Democratic Party, Children
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Constitutional smackdown
MARTIN KAPLAN directs the Norman Lear Center for the study of entertainment, media and society at the USC Annenberg School.WHEN someone like Tim Russert asks someone like Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), as he did Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," whether a conflict between Congress and the Bush White House will lead to a constitutional crisis, I get the sense that the news...Tags: Constitutional Issues, Justice System, Democratic Party, Lindsay Lohan, Orrin Hatch
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EPA chief is said to have ignored staff
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ignored his staff's written findings in denying California's request for a waiver to implement its landmark law to slash greenhouse gases from vehicles, sources inside and outside the agency told The...Tags: Dick Cheney, Automotive Equipment, Transportation, Litigation and Regulation, Barbara Boxer
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Dumping Dingell was overdue
Nobody ever refers to members of Congress as "lions of the House," but Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.) has as thick a mane as any (figuratively speaking, of course). The longest-serving current member, Dingell was writing legislation before Barack Obama...Tags: Weather, White House, Automotive Equipment, Petroleum Industry, Henry A Waxman
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Floating to save the L.A. River
A kayak trip I took this summer may cost me my job.
I am a civilian biologist working for the Army Corps of Engineers. On my personal time, I joined a trip down the Los Angeles River to protest actions by my own agency to undermine the Clean Water Act....Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Transportation, Bodies of Water, U.S. Supreme Court, Defense
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Throw the bums out!
It's baseball season, finally, so you know what that means—a hard-fought, months-long competition to see who can win the title of Most Grandstanding Politician, ready to butt the federal government's nose into places it has no business sniffing. There...Tags: Baseball, The Washington Post, Justice System, Boston Red Sox, Hank Aaron
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The Great Steroids Debate: A juicer nanny state?
All week long, Mat "Halos Heaven" Gleason and New York Sun baseball writer Tim Marchman have been debating steroids in baseball. Monday's installment probed the options for Angels owner Arte Moreno in disciplining suspected Human Growth Hormone orderer...Tags: Jon Kyl, Baseball, Jose Canseco, Lobbying, Gary Matthews
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The Great Steroids Debate: Witch-hunt or whack-a-mole?
All week long, Mat "Halos Heaven" Gleason and New York Sun baseball writer Tim Marchman are debating steroids in baseball. Monday's installment probed the possibilities and duties of Angels owner Arte Moreno in disciplining suspected Human Growth...Tags: National Basketball Association, Drug Trafficking, Crimes, Baseball, Death
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Outspoken scientist dismissed from panel on chemical safety
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterUnder pressure from the chemical industry, the Environmental Protection Agency has dismissed an outspoken scientist who chaired a federal panel responsible for helping the agency determine the dangers of a flame retardant widely used in electronic...Tags: National Government, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Lobbying, Government, Metal and Mineral
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A better way of dealing with society's neediest
So what exactly am I doing on Capitol Hill? I'm at a congressional briefing, which wouldn't be entirely out of the ordinary, except that I'm not taking notes and not planning to beat up on anyone. I'm the keynote speaker. Yes, friends, the republic is...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Dianne Feinstein, National Government, Diseases and Illnesses, Government
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