2011年2月16日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Elections


Public Support Overwhelming for EPA, Poll Says (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 05:55 PM PST

ContributorNetwork - With the EPA losing funding and support from all sides, it might be easy to assume that the EPA doesn't have much public support either. But a poll conducted by the American Lung Association says this is the exact opposite. In a nationwide, bipartisan survey of 1,021 likely voters regarding the public's view on the EPA and their enforcement of clean air standards and regulations, the American Lung Association found that the EPA has overwhelming support, even more so than originally thought.

House votes BLM budget cut over wild horse dispute (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 05:50 PM PST

AP - The U.S. House approved an amendment on a voice vote Wednesday that would cut the Bureau of Land Management's budget by $2 million in protest of the agency's wild horse roundups that some critics say are too costly and others say are inhumane.

South Carolina House backs move to boost state power (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 05:36 PM PST

Reuters - South Carolina's House of Representatives on Wednesday called for a federal Constitutional Convention to consider an amendment allowing a super-majority of states to repeal acts of Congress.

Obama: Talks on entitlements 'have already begun' (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 05:13 PM PST

President barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011, in Washington, about America's Great Outdoors initiative. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - President Barack Obama said Wednesday that difficult debates on how to address the costs of Social Security and Medicare are "starting now," even though his 2012 budget blueprint lacked any major changes to the large benefit programs.


Obama, GOP freshmen win in jet engine budget fight (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 04:56 PM PST

Defense Secretary Robert Gates testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011, before the House Armed Services Committee hearing on the Defense Department's budget. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Determined to reduce deficits, impatient House Republican freshmen made common cause with President Barack Obama on Wednesday, scoring their biggest victory to date in a vote to cancel $450 million for an alternative engine for the Pentagon's next-generation warplane.


House puts spending-cut knife to Pentagon (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 04:47 PM PST

Reuters - Republicans pressed ahead on Wednesday with legislation to immediately slice more than $61 billion from domestic spending but found their budget-cutting unity shaken in a House of Representatives vote to kill a big weapons project.

How to Privatize Public Broadcasting and Make Big Bird Get a Job (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 04:31 PM PST

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Congressional Democrats are launching a drive to save National Public Radio and the Public Broadcast System from Republican budget cutters by trotting out PBS cartoon characters such as Arthur the Aardvark to lend a hand.

WH official: Obama calls Logan after Egypt attack (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 04:15 PM PST

In this Feb. 11, 2011 photo released by CBS, '60 Minutes' correspondent Lara Logan is shown covering the reaction in in Cairo's Tahrir Square the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down.  CBS News says Logan was attacked Friday, and suffered a brutal beating and sexual assault before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers. She is recovering in a U.S. hospital. Logan, CBS News' chief foreign affairs correspondent, is one of at least 140 correspondents who have been injured or killed since Jan. 30 while covering the unrest in Egypt, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.  (AP Photo/CBS News)AP - A White House official says President Barack Obama has spoken with CBS reporter Lara Logan in the wake of the network's announcement that she was brutally attacked in Egypt.


Calif court to answer question on gay marriage ban (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 04:12 PM PST

Billy Bradford waves flags outside City Hall after a judge lifted the Proposition 8 stay on same sex marriages at City Hall in San Francisco, California August 12, 2010. The California Supreme Court waded back into the gay marriage debate on Wednesday, adding about a year's delay to a landmark case by agreeing to give guidance to federal judges considering the matter. REUTERS/Robert GalbraithAP - California's highest court decided Wednesday to wade back into the legal morass surrounding the state's voter-approved gay marriage ban, agreeing to rule on a question of state law considered crucial to the survival of Proposition 8.


AP sources: Obama, Kaine talk about VA Senate race (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 04:09 PM PST

AP - President Barack Obama spoke by phone Wednesday with Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine about the race to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Jim Webb in Virginia, officials said.

House GOP would limit consumer protection agency (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 04:06 PM PST

AP - The House Republican budget-cutting bill would shrink spending for the Obama administration's newly created agency designed to protect consumers who have mortgages, credit cards or use other financial services.

Obama pushes effort to protect public lands (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 04:03 PM PST

President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011, in Washington, about America's Great Outdoors initiative. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - President Barack Obama says a new administration effort to protect public lands will put people back to work in tourism and recreation and help Americans stay healthier by encouraging outdoor activities.


Palestinians want vote Friday on settlements (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 03:53 PM PST

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah speaks during a televised address to a rally marking the Shiite party's martyrs' day in southern Beirut. Leaked US embassy cables made public here report US suspicions that Hezbollah raised funds and maintained contacts among the Chile's small community of Islamic fundamentalists.(AFP)AP - The Palestinians are calling for a U.N. Security Council vote Friday on a resolution condemning Israeli settlements.


2 Va. businessmen indicted in campaign money case (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 03:45 PM PST

AP - Two Virginia businessmen were charged Wednesday in an alleged conspiracy to illegally reimburse campaign donors for $186,600 in contributions to a 2008 presidential candidate and to the candidate's 2006 Senate campaign.

After Egypt, top U.S. spies promise to do better (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 03:41 PM PST

Reuters - Top U.S. intelligence officials, facing criticism in Congress, on Wednesday defended their agencies' reporting on the recent upheavals in Tunisia and Egypt but pledged to do better in the future.

Obama budget reduces border agents overtime pay (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 03:14 PM PST

AP - Border Patrol agents would lose money under a change in the overtime pay proposed in the $3.7 trillion budget President Barack Obama sent Congress Monday, the agent's union said Wednesday.

Watchdog warns US govt oil revenues still at risk (AFP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 03:13 PM PST

An oil rig extracts crude in California. The US government may still not be collecting its fair share of revenues from oil and gas production on federal lands, a Congressional watchdog warned Wednesday, with billions of dollars at stake.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David McNew)AFP - The US government may still not be collecting its fair share of revenues from oil and gas production on federal lands, a Congressional watchdog warned Wednesday, with billions of dollars at stake.


Obama, Democratic leaders strategize on spending (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 02:55 PM PST

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev.  gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011, to discuss jobs. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - President Barack Obama has met with Senate Democratic leaders to strategize about taking on Republicans over spending cuts and overhauling Social Security and other entitlements.


House votes to kill F-35 second engine (AFP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 02:49 PM PST

This undated handout image courtesy of the Joint Strike Fighter program site shows the F-35 JSF. In a victory for President Barack Obama, the US House of Representatives voted Wednesday to kill funding for a costly alternate engine for the F-35 fighter aircraft that the Pentagon did not want.(AFP/JSF/File)AFP - In a victory for President Barack Obama, the US House of Representatives voted Wednesday to kill funding for a costly alternate engine for the F-35 fighter aircraft that the Pentagon did not want.


An Interview with Shane Smith, the man behind ‘The Vice Guide to North Korea,’ on the occasion of Kim Jong-il’s auspicious 69th birthday (Daily Caller)

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 02:23 PM PST

Daily Caller - Sixty-nine. It’s not the Valentine’s Day present you gave your sweet-something on Monday. It’s how old Kim Jong-il is today.

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