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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Virginia’s two United States senators, within hours of each other earlier this week, were headlining efforts in the Senate aimed at impacting the health-care reform whirlwind winding up on Capitol Hill this December. Mark Warner was first out of the gate on Tuesday with the coalition of moderate Democrats…
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Column by Susan Wysocki and Susan Scanlan Columns, letters: [email protected] It’s not surprising that women are confused about the recently changed recommendations for cancer screening and prevention. New guidelines from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) – the leading medical group that provides health care for women – say women should wait…
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Staff Report www.webb.senate.gov Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) today cosponsored legislation to create a bipartisan fiscal task force to address the nation’s long-term budget crisis. The Bipartisan Task Force for Responsible Fiscal Action Act of 2009, S. 2853, was introduced by Sens. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) and Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), chairman and ranking member, respectively, of…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] With AFP Audio Tom Perriello picked a great time to be a freshman congressman, what with the country in January on the verge of the next Great Depression and with so much unresolved in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the push from the electorate in the ’08…
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Staff Report White House news: www.whitehouse.gov I have just concluded an informative and constructive discussion with Republican and Democratic leaders about job creation and our economic future. We spoke about the challenges facing our families, our businesses, and our country as a whole, and what we can do to overcome them. Today’s meeting built…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Going green isn’t about making a climate scientist in England or a bunch of bureaucrats in Copenhagen happy. It’s about the bottom line in places like the Town of Grottoes, where the new home for Wellness Concepts, a long-term care pharmacy, is being built with green-building principles foremost…
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Column by Bob Goodlatte www.goodlatte.house.gov The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently released November unemployment numbers. For the second month in a row, the unemployment rate is at 10 percent – the highest rate in 26 years. Equally sobering is the fact that last month the national debt surpassed $12 trillion. Earlier this year,…
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Speech at The Brookings Institution www.whitehouse.gov Almost exactly one year ago, on a frigid winter’s day, I met with my new economic team at the headquarters of my presidential transition offices in Chicago. And over the course of four hours, my advisors presented an analysis of where the economy at that time stood, accompanied…
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Staff Report www.warner.senate.gov A group of 11 freshman U.S. senators organized by Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., are introducing today a package of amendments that will broaden and accelerate efforts to encourage innovation and lower costs for consumers across the U.S. health-care system. “The health-reform legislation now being considered by the Senate makes big strides…
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Staff UVa. sports: www.virginiasports.com CRAIG LITTLEPAGE (director of athletics): Good afternoon, everybody. And we appreciate your taking time to be with us this afternoon to conduct some very important business as it relates to our football program. I want to reiterate the message that Jim brought us from President Casteen. He’s deeply disappointed that…
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