susiemadrak.com - 12/7/2008
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On everything they touch:
In another regulatory action in the waning days of the Bush administration, the Interior Department on Thursday unveiled a new rule that challenges Congress’s authority to prevent mining planned on public lands.
Congress has emergency power to stop mineral ...
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... places, having to do with why it takes only a 50% majority to get what people say they want, but a 2/3rds majority to get what people just might need. Barack Obama will put forward retired Gen. Eric Shinseki as Secretary of Veterans Affairs in his cabinet - which is good, because if they'd listened to Shinseki, there wouldn't be so many vets desperately needing help in the first place. What happened when Obama phoned a Republican. Bush administration to eliminate Congressional authority. The Real Bill Ayers by William Ayers in The New York ...
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