Health care bill heads for showdown

USA Today

His top priority on the line, Obama postponed a trip to Indonesia and Australia so he would be present for the vote and what could be a week of Senate ...

Budget office says health care bill saves money San Francisco Chronicle

President Obama, Pelosi working OT as Congress moves closer to historic health ... New York Daily News

House to Hold Crucial Health Care Vote Sunday Voice of America

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Australian Senate rejects Scientology inquiry call

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CANBERRA, Australia Australia's Senate on Thursday overwhelming rejected a call for an inquiry into allegations against the Church of Scientology made by ...

Not all grievances are created equal in politics Sydney Morning Herald



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MP predicts electoral backlash over waste dump

ABC Online

The Senate inquiry will not travel to Tennant Creek where there's been opposition to the dump. (7pm TV News NT) The Senate committee in ...



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Australia Regulator Favors License for ASX Rival, Review Says

Bloomberg

Last week, Australia's Senate voted to hand over oversight of real-time trading on licensed markets to ASIC, replacing self-regulation arrangements that ...

editorial: Problems remain the same

Geelong Advertiser

Pressing domestic problems at home, in particular his health package, an obstructive Senate and falling popularity _ sound familiar? ...

PM missing in action, say Senate independents

The Age

But, he said yesterday he had not met the Prime Minister for more than six months - despite all the legislation piling up in the Senate . ...

Australia PM Rudd's Rating Slips Below 50% Wall Street Journal

PM will need to talk turkey with Greens on hospitals Herald Sun

Australia PM Rudd's popularity hits new low: poll Reuters India

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Scientology insider's nightmare childhood

ABC Online

" Australia is an egalitarian society; Scientology is not egalitarian," she told ABC News Online. "There is no protection for workers and no protection for ...

Senate in alignment with the planet Ron Sydney Morning Herald

Tom Cruise's Religion in the Spotlight Over Forced Abortion Allegations Lifesite

Xenophon vow on Scientology probe The Age

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Contracts beware the Government is coming after you: Gottliebsen

Smart Company (blog)

... which would decimate contracting in Australia . Yesterday, a jubilant Bruce Billson, Shadow Minister for Small Business, announced in the Senate during ...



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Obama intensifies health-care efforts

Washington Post

... when Obama leaves for travel to Indonesia, Guam and Australia . Later, Gibbs said he thinks the House is on track to approve the Senate -passed health ...

Obama's Health Care Push: The Race is On CBS News

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Obama wants "straight answer" from health insurers Reuters

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Dow at 18-month high...Wary lawmakers...al-Qaida death

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(a0872) washington (AP) Some House members still aren't convinced -- if they approve the Senate's health care bill, will the Senate then go ahead and ...



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Editorial Roundup: Excerpts From Recent Editorials

The Associated Press

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell warned that the Democrats can forget about future bipartisan cooperation if they push through health care reform on ...



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Senate inquiry backs Medicare super clearing house

Trading Room

Instead, Medicare Australia would become an approved clearing house, with the service to start from July. To minimise the impact on commercial clearing ...

Democrats Who Once Railed Against Medicare Part D Now Insist Members Must Vote ... Firedoglake (blog)

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Obama Drops Objections to Sweetheart Deals as House Moves to Craft Health Care ...

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For instance, the Senate deal gives Medicare coverage to asbestos-sickened residents of Libby, Mont., the only place where that's happened so far. ...



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Australia - Prime Minister Transcript of interview with Melissa Doyle Sunrise ...

ISRIA (registration)

I said to him I sympathise with him in two respects - one, I've got a Senate , too, and it blocks most things I try to do, and the second is we're trying to ...

Renewable energy is back on track

Business Spectator

In Australia , we saw the federal government's emissions trading scheme plans pushed back by an aggressive federal opposition, Senate and a less enthusiastic ...

Freehills > Renewable Energy Target (RET) update Linex Legal (registration)

Energy policy feels like 1973 Business Spectator



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The Status Of Health Reform: Questions and Answers

Atlantic Online (blog)

41 senators have signed on to a pledge to try add the public option to the Senate reconciliation measure, but the White House is pushing back against this, ...

Health Care Endgame: Obama, Dems Duel Over Deadline ABC News



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The film Uribe doesn't want you to see

Green Left Weekly

The premiere screening took place on March 6, outside the Colombian embassy in Canberra, Australia . This coincided with a national day of protest against ...



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Hazelwood powers a 40% profit surge

Sydney Morning Herald

The profit comes shortly before the Senate is due to debate again the federal government's carbon pollution reduction scheme, having twice rejected the bill ...

Hazelwood powers bumper year Sydney Morning Herald



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Funding boosts carbon sequestration

Laramie Boomerang

The US House of Representatives passed a cap-and-trade bill last year that has languished in the Senate . Sen. Mike Enzi said last month when he visited ...

Carbon-trading delays prompt market exit

Sydney Morning Herald

... Societe Generale, comes as Australia's "green market" is in disarray after the Senate twice rejected the government's proposed emissions trading scheme. ...



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