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• Senate Vote Imminent - One More Hurdle to Go

  
  BARACK OBAMA IN THE WHITEHOUSE — Authority: 99
  Early this morning, the Senate plans to vote on the health care plan that does not include the public option, something that many Senators promised that the bill would have. I will explain the public option a little later in this note, and why it is so important to so many Senators. Actually the bill has two more ...
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• Christmas Deal! Thursday Morning Health Reform Vote Scheduled

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 739
  Senate leaders have struck a deal to stage an 8 a.m. Thursday vote to finalize both health care reform and an expansion of the debt limit, Sen. Richard Durbin’s (D-Ill.) office just announced. That agreement, struck between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ...
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• 8 U.S. Senators Ask Pres. Obama to Keep America’s AIDS Commitments

  
  ONE — Authority: 560
  On Friday, eight US senators sent a letter to President Obama asking him to fund global AIDS programs in 2011 at levels consistent with Lantos-Hyde HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria Reauthoration Act of 2008. This is the concluding paragraph of the letter. “America has, with bipartisan support from Congress, made ...
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• Congenital Heart Futures Act REBORN!

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 470
  Ch-ch-changes…. – David Bowie, Changes (1972) A version of the Congenital Heart Futures Act was inserted into the Senate healthcare bill last night by primary sponsor Senator Richard Durbin! The new version was “stripped down” somewhat, but the two major points remain intact: Creating a national database ...
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• Illinois prison selected for Guantanamo detainees

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Dec 16 (DPA) The US government plans to send an unspecified number of Guantanamo detainees to a prison in Illinois as part of the plan to shutter the controversial facility for holding terrorist suspects, the White House said Tuesday.President Barack Obama has ordered the federal government to buy a state ...
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• Durbin Concedes Lieberman’s Leverage

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 739
  Another notable passage from Sen. Richard Durbin’s (D-Ill.) interview on MSNBC this morning finds the majority whip conceding that the Democrats have few alternatives but to bow to the sensitivities of Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), who this week single-handedly blew up a Democratic proposal to expand Medicare. ...
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• Durbin Explains Why the Democrats Won’t Use Reconciliation

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  With Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) threatening to kill health insurance reform legislation unless it’s diluted considerably, liberals nationwide are urging Democrats to side-step Lieberman by using the budget reconciliation process, which would allow them to pass parts of the bill with a simple majority vote of ...
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• Obama Administration to Announce Gitmo Detainees’ Move to Illinois Tuesday

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 739
  Jake Tapper at ABC News reports that the Obama administration will announce on Tuesday that at least some Guantanamo Bay detainees are headed to the federal prison in Thomson, Ill. Just how many of the inmates at Thomson will come from the Guantanamo Bay prison is unclear, though. As I’ve noted before, prominent ...
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• AP: Ill. prison to get Gitmo detainees

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 463
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- Taking an important step on the thorny path to closing the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the White House plans to announce Tuesday that the government will acquire an underutilized state prison in rural Illinois to be the new home for a limited number of terrorist suspects held at ...
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• News Blast: Guantanamo Bay Detainees to Be Moved to Illinois and Obama Wants Health Care Legislation Passed By X-Mas

  
  Black Entertainment, Money, Style and Beauty Blogs - Black Voices — Authority: 154
  Filed under: News Guantanamo Bay Detainees to Be Moved to Illinois Today two White House officials, Illinois Sen. Richard Durbin and Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn , are set to announce the closing of the U.S. detention facility, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the securing of the Thomson, Ill., Thomson ...
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• Illinois Correctional Facility Could House Guantanamo Detainees

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 510
  Hansen Sinclair - AHN Reporter Washington, D.C. (AHN) - Illinois state officials will head to the White House Tuesday to discuss using an Illinois prison to accommodate Guantanamo Bay detainees. Gov
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• Memo may point to IL as site for Gitmo detainees (AP)

  
  enUws — Authority: 469
  AP – A draft memo leaked to a conservative Web site is an encouraging sign the government intends to transfer Guantanamo terrorist suspects… Here is the original: (AP)"> (AP)">Memo may point to IL as site for Gitmo detainees (AP)
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• Memo may point to IL as site for Gitmo detainees (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  AP - A draft memo leaked to a conservative Web site is an encouraging sign the government intends to transfer Guantanamo terrorist suspects to Illinois, Sen. Richard Durbin and the states governor said Friday.
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• Francis Cardinal George asked to ban Senator Richard Durbin from receiving communion

  
  http://fratres.wordpress.com — Authority: 466
  “If you allow Durbin to defy and mock church teaching, and to glory over his victories in defeating the most precious right to life, you allow a sinner to elevate himself over the church and over the authority of the Holy Father.” Andy Martin U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin responds to Pope ...
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• Domestic Surveillance In Doubt as Patriot Act Expiration Looms

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 783
  Filed under: Senate , House , Democrats , Republicans , Terror , National Security , The Capitolist , Congress The House and Senate are working through a stack of must-do legislation before the end of the year, but neither has scheduled time to debate expiring provisions of the Patriot Act. Without at ...
  2 weeks ago

• NSSTA on Factoring Business Practices: Calling Attention Is Not Enough

  
  Structured Settlements 4Real: What's Real in the Structured Settlements, Settlement Planning, Settlement Consulting and Litigation Recovery Management Space? — Authority: 132
  The National Structured Settlement Trade Association (NSSTA) is FINALLY getting into the public discussion of factoring business practices.  The NSSTA posted a video featuring US Senator Richard Durbin that was recorded earlier this year to counter the expected annual holiday season "flea market" for structured ...
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• Inside Politics

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 463
  DEATH MARCH "Voters are increasingly worried about unemployment, but Democratic leaders in Congress remain obsessed with passing health care reform," John Fund writes at www.opinionjournal.com. "Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin was asked recently if a health care bill would pass the Senate by the end of this month. ...
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• Why Dems Are Obsessed by Health Reform

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  They believe the liberal base expects them to deliver and will punish them if they dont. Voters are increasingly worried about unemployment, but Democratic leaders in Congress remain obsessed with passing health- care reform. Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin was asked recently if a health-care bill would pass the ...
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• NO GITMO TERRORISTS IN AMERICA!

  
  brianlee — Authority: 135
  An interesting article from www.moveamericaforward.org . You can get more interesting articles like this by subscribing to this blog here . NO GITMO TERRORISTS IN AMERICA! MICHIGAN RESIDENTS FIGHTING BACK AGAINST LEAKED OBAMA PLAN TO BRING TERRORISTS TO THEIR COMMUNITY In Standish, Mich., site of a nearly vacant ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dems kamikaze mission: Health care by New Years

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin recently was asked if a national health care bill would pass the Senate by the end of the year. "It must," Durbin responded. "We have to finish it." Many other top Democrats share Durbins determination to meet this deadline. But its almost certainly not going to happen, for three ...
  4 weeks ago

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