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11:14:39 PM As Cap and Trade Dies, It's Time To Bury Offsets With It
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

Although the proposal from Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) was watered down and industry-friendly, the argument was made that we needed ... [more]

10:55:31 PM Berkeley lab coleads $122 million sunlight-to-fuel effort
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, stated that it would create 100 new jobs, not including construction and other contract jobs. .... [more]

8:54:59 PM John Kerry's Yacht: A Symbol Of Hypocrisy?
Right Pundits - Lafayette,CA,USA

By Shannon Bell Senator John Kerry's yacht “Isabel” is moored in Rhode Island. This wouldn't be a big deal except for the fact that John Kerry is a Senator ... [more]

7:52:19 PM Obama agenda: All about race…
Abortion politics: Biden never refused communion

... Braney Frank, Ted Kenedy, John Kerry, Al Gore, ad nausium while GWB was President to find calls of liar, intellegence slams, you name it, they did it. ... [more]

7:30:47 PM Could it be a lonely birthday party for Rangel?
Albany Times Union (blog)

Tom DeLay? Dan Rostenkowski?) Even as Rangel prepares to defend himself, many eyes will turn to the longtime Congressman's state Democratic colleagues, ... [more]

7:12:47 PM Va senator calls for ending diversity programs
The Associated Press

The issue of ethnicity helped Webb win his seat in 2006 when Republican Sen. George Allen called a Webb aide of Indian descent "macaca," a slur in some ... [more]

6:18:24 PM Senate shelves cap and trade
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

This sentiment was echoed by California's US Senator Barbara Boxer, chairwoman of the Senate committee on Environment and Public Works and one of the most ... [more]

5:20:38 PM Bernanke Says Extending Bush's Tax Cuts Would Maintain Economic Stimulus
Bloomberg

While Democrats want to keep the 2001 and 2003 tax reductions passed during former President George W. Bush's administration for families earning as much as ... [more]

5:01:53 PM Kerry Says Broad Climate-Change Bill Is `Not Dead': Video
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

July 23 (Bloomberg) -- US Senator John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, says his comprehensive climate-change bill is "not dead" after Senate Majority ... [more]

4:02:33 PM Growing number of Californians oppose offshore drilling
Press-Enterprise - Riverside,CA,USA

Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein were among half a dozen western senators who unveiled legislation that would make the West Coast drilling ban permanent ... [more]

3:59:57 PM Webb calls for cutting government diversity programs
Orange County Review

George Allen. "Forty years ago, as the United States experienced the civil rights movement, the supposed monolith of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant dominance ... [more]

3:46:55 PM Sen. Kerry Predicts 'Ice-Free Arctic' In '5 or 10 Years'
CNSNews.com - Alexandria,VA,USA

John Kerry (D-Mass.) predicted there will be “an ice-free Arctic” in five to 10 years.. “The arctic ice is disappearing faster than was predicted,” Kerry ... [more]

1:45:33 PM Mass. Sen. Kerry docks yacht in RI, saving $500K
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

John Kerry is docking his family's new $7 million yacht in neighboring Rhode Island, saving roughly $500000 in Bay State taxes. The Boston Herald reported ... [more]

12:35:18 PM Senator Kerry Says Democrats May Take Up Broad Climate Plan (Transcript)
Bloomberg

Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts said in an interview on Television's “Political Capital with Al Hunt” airing this weekend that Democrats still ... [more]

7:16:17 AM 'Glenn Beck': Sherrod Has White House Scrambling; They Need to Call Glenn
FOX News - USA

And I keep hearing from the White House and everyone else that Fox News isn't a real news network. It's practically the Cartoon Network. Really? .... [more]

7:05:47 AM Senators Shaheen, Boxer, Menendez raise key policy issues during Bryza's ...
Public Radio of Armenia

Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ) raised key policy issues during Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing ... [more]

5:55:33 AM Fury at Salmond Senate snub
The Herald

In a letter to John Kerry, chairman of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, the First Minister made clear Scottish ministers were accountable to ... [more]

5:12:36 AM Political appointees like Sherrod deserve due process
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

President Obama called to offer his regrets. Few workers are so quickly vindicated, let alone celebrated. Sherrod is considering the job offer, although one ... [more]

4:55:47 AM Independent group takes on Fiorina's ties to Palin and 'tea party' groups
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda?

Barbara Boxer(D-Calif). In one of the first independent expenditures of the general election campaign, Brave New Films has released a viral video that plays ... [more]

3:49:42 AM Natural Gas Vehicles, Here We Come
New Republic - Washington,D.C.,USA

That's right, the billionaire who financed the Swift Boat ads against John Kerry in 2004. According to Harry Reid, the slimmed-down energy bill that's .... [more]

3:06:25 AM Addicted to Bush
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

But they have a problem: how can they embrace President Bush's policies, given his record? After all, Mr. Bush's two signature initiatives were tax cuts and ... [more]

2:30:28 AM Kerry vows to push ahead with effort for broader energy bill
Lobbying World

John Kerry (D-Mass.) vowed to push forward with his effort to pass a comprehensive energy bill, despite Democrats' current focus on a scaled-back version. ... [more]

2:28:05 AM Midterm Elections: Anyone's Game
Town Hall

Barbara Boxer was certain to hold her seat a few weeks ago. No longer. She holds just a three-point margin over former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina (47 ... [more]

12:42:46 AM Educators Expect Low Test Scores This Fall
Eyewitness News Memphis - TN, USA

“Right now, among a peer group in the southeast, we are close to the bottom if you use standards overall,” said former US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, ... [more]

12:08:32 AM Sen. Kerry calls for better phone service
Amherst Bulletin - Amherst,MA,USA

John Kerry sent a letter to a top Verizon official Tuesday urging the telecommunications company to work with the state to provide more consistent telephone ... [more]



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