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Panel’s Bipartisan View: F.D.A. Is Underfinanced

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April 16th, 2008
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nytimes.com — The Food and Drug Administration needs far more money than the White House has proposed for next year, senators of both parties said Tuesday. “To us, it’s clear that they’re seriously underfunded,” Senator Herb Kohl, Democrat of Wisconsin, said after a hearing of the Appropriations subcommittee, headed by Mr. Kohl, that oversees the agency’s spending.

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Agency Is Under Pressure to Develop Disaster Housing

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April 14th, 2008
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nytimes.com — After the federal government announced in February that it would no longer use travel trailers to house the victims of future disasters, there was an initial sense of relief along the hurricane-scarred Gulf Coast.

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FEMA Limits Formaldehyde in Trailers

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April 14th, 2008
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ap.google.com — After resisting for years, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is setting strict new limits on formaldehyde levels in the mobile homes it buys for disaster victims.

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Conservatism Is Dying

By Eric Lotke
March 13th, 2008

Conservatism as we’ve known it since Ronald Reagan is dying, ground down in the desert of Iraq, drowned in the floods of Hurricane Katrina, foreclosed by the housing crisis and poisoned on toys imported from China. more »

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Creative Conservatism

By Digby
January 25th, 2008

Dave Roberts of Grist takes a look at Newt Gingrich's innovative new environmental proposals which, unsurprisingly, looks like another fantastic opportunity for rich people to bleed the taxpayers: more »

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State of the Union Rated Poorly by 4 out of 5 Americans

Submitted by Brian Dockstader
January 25th, 2008

As President George W. Bush is fine tuning his last State of the Union address, American adults do not think much of the current state of the country. Four out of five Americans (81%) think that the current state of the country is fair or poor while just 19 percent think it is excellent or good (2% and 17% respectively).

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While Middle-Class Families Struggle, Tax Cuts Given to the Wealthy

- Representative Nancy Pelosi
Submitted by Robert Dorst2 (not verified)
January 14th, 2008
"The president claims he has created a strong economy, but working Americans are telling a different story. They feel the American dream slipping further from their grasp and they know the reality is that this economy is not delivering for middle-class families."

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Robert L. Borosage, Robert Loper, et al. Straight Talk: Common Sense for the Common Good. http://ourfuture.org/straighttalk.

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The Big Con Exposed

By Isaiah J. Poole
January 12th, 2008
May 3, 2007
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No bid contract goes to Ashcroft firm

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January 10th, 2008
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nytimes.com — When the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey needed to find an outside lawyer to monitor a large corporation willing to settle criminal charges out of court last fall, he turned to former Attorney General John Ashcroft, his onetime boss. With no public notice and no bidding, the company awarded Mr. Ashcroft an 18-month contract worth $28 million to $52 million.

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Unite Around a Common Strategy

By Alex Carter
November 27th, 2007

We have to end the partisan politics around the war with al Qaeda. And we have to get serious about security at home. Let’s stop letting cronyism and corruption cripple this central task and invest the resources needed to secure our borders and our ports, to bolster our public health and first-responder capacities and to ensure that nuclear, chemical and other prime targets have adequate defense plans.

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