2009年9月30日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Elections


Health bill survives attacks — vote by week's end? (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 05:12 PM PDT

Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., left, holds up the gavel he used as speaker pro tempore when Medicare passed in 1965, during a news conference on seniors and health care reform with Speaker of the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - A White House-backed overhaul of the nation's health care system weathered repeated challenges from Republican critics over taxes, abortion and more on Wednesday, and the bill's architect claimed enough votes to push it through the Senate Finance Committee as early as week's end.


Senate rebuffs Obama, McCain in backing cargo jets (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 05:08 PM PDT

AP - In a rebuff to both President Barack Obama and his former presidential opponent, Republican Sen. John McCain, the Senate on Wednesday rejected an effort to kill $2.5 billion for 10 new C-17 cargo jets and devote the money to military readiness accounts.

Bernanke asks Congress to empower regulators (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 05:05 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 17, 2009 file photo, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks at the Federal Reserve Sixth Biennial Community Affairs Research Conference in Washington. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Friday, Sept. 25, 2009, a government program intended to spark lending to consumers and businesses is still necessary even with other emergency lending programs winding down as the economy recovers.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file)AP - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says federal regulators should be responsible for ensuring that the financial institutions they oversee don't become so big and unwieldy that their failure could bring down the economy.


FACT CHECK: Loose facts in health horror story (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 05:09 PM PDT

FILE - This Sept. 6, 2007, photo shows Shona Holmes at her home in Waterdown, Ont.  Holmes had a cyst, that was harming her vision, surgically removed at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona rather than wait for months in Canada to have the procedure. She's become an advocate against President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, but her story is not the clear-cut indictment of Canadian health care that has been portrayed. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Hamilton Spectator, Kaz Novak)AP - Shona Holmes is the Harry and Louise of this year's health care debate, only unlike the fictional folks who memorably trashed the Clinton-era health plan in advocacy ads 15 years ago, Holmes is real.


Boehner blasts Obama's Olympic move (Politico)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 09:02 AM PDT

Politico - House Minority Leader John Boehner torched President Barack Obama Wednesday for his European trip to pitch the Chicago Olympics bid, criticizing the president for "going to go off to Copenhagen when we've got serious issues here at home that need to be debated."

Ban handguns? Supreme Court taking a new look (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:43 PM PDT

With the addition of the Supreme Court's newest member, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, center, the high court sits for a new group photograph, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009, at the Supreme Court in Washington. From left are: Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, Sotomayor, and Associate Justice Clarence Thomas. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - The Supreme Court says it will take up a challenge to Chicago's ban on handguns, opening the way for a ruling that could set off a vigorous new campaign to roll back state and local gun controls across the nation.


New missile defense plan bets on Navy interceptors (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:14 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 18, 2008 handout file photo provided by the U.S. Navy, shows a developmental Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) launched from the U.S. Navy cruiser USS Lake Erie. Ever since President Ronald Reagan proposed building a ballistic missile shield to prevent a doomsday scenario, the idea has been dogged by an unanswered question: Will it work? (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, FILE)AP - Ever since President Ronald Reagan proposed building a ballistic missile shield in 1983 to prevent a doomsday scenario, the idea has been dogged by an unanswered question: Will it work?


Administration takes aim at distracted driving (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 03:42 PM PDT

UPDATES graphic to match write through status of states; graphic shows states with laws against texting while drivingAP - Driving while distracted is a growing peril in a nation reluctant to put down its cell phones and handheld devices even behind the wheel, the Obama administration declared on Wednesday. Officials said Congress and the public must team up to reduce the danger.


EPA moves to regulate smokestack greenhouse gases (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:59 PM PDT

AP - The Environmental Protection Agency took steps Wednesday to control the emissions blamed for global warming from power plants, factories and refineries for the first time.

Congress approves tripling aid to Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 03:15 PM PDT

In this photo taken Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009, a man waits for his lawyer at the Mingora courthouse in Swat Valley, Pakistan. Three months after the army pushed back the Taliban from most of the valley, courts are back in session, a sign of progress in the scenic region following what the West has held up as a successful military campaign. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP - Legislation to triple aid to Pakistan and stem the tide of radicalism and anti-Americanism in that Asian nation cleared Congress on Wednesday and moved to President Barack Obama for his signature.


Obama to take weeks to study Afghanistan strategy (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 05:12 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama will take several weeks to review U.S. strategy on Afghanistan and Pakistan, the White House said on Wednesday after a meeting between top U.S. officials about the region.

Court to decide on expansion of Miranda rights (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:56 PM PDT

AP - The Supreme Court is once again trying to clarify what the long-established Miranda rights require the police to do, with the justices on Wednesday agreeing to decide whether officers can interrogate a suspect who said he understood his rights but didn't invoke them.

Democrat says GOP wants sick to just 'die quickly' (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:19 PM PDT

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. gestures during her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - House Republicans say it's payback time for the recent reprimand of one of their own for heckling President Barack Obama. They want a Democratic lawmaker to apologize or face a reprimand for saying the GOP wants Americans to "die quickly" if they get sick.


UN fires top US official at UN in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 03:46 PM PDT

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has dismissed Peter Galbraith -- the deputy UN special envoy to Afghanistan -- who has been involved in a row with his boss over the country's fraud-tainted election.(AFP/DDP/File/JOERG KOCH)AP - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon fired the top American official at the U.N. mission in Afghanistan Wednesday after a widely publicized dispute with his boss over how to deal with widespread fraud charges in the country's presidential election.


Obama official regrets advice to gay student (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 03:40 PM PDT

AP - The Obama administration Wednesday defended an Education Department official over advice he gave a gay student about sex 21 years ago.

Congress adds on to stopgap funding bill (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 03:19 PM PDT

AP - Congress on Wednesday sent President Barack Obama a one-month stopgap spending bill to keep the government from shutting down with the start of the new fiscal year on Thursday. The legislation:

House members seek ways to stop Internet bullying (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 03:05 PM PDT

AP - House members struggled Wednesday for a way to stop Internet bullying of children without violating free speech.

Regulators: G-20 goals noble but hard to meet (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 02:51 PM PDT

AP - U.S. financial regulators told Congress on Wednesday that national differences are vexing efforts to make good on pledges by world leaders to establish new international mechanisms to prevent another financial meltdown.

White House disputes lawmaker's Afghan war comment (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 02:46 PM PDT

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs speaks at the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 28, 2009. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - A senior Republican congressman said Wednesday that President Barack Obama was endangering U.S. troops in Afghanistan by spending time weighing his next move in Afghanistan. The White House called the lawmaker's comment a "bunch of game playing."


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