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The bill from Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville, R-Monroe, was passed quickly and without debate, by a 23-14 vote, after a number of false starts earlier in the day, during a lame-duck session.
"Rand Paul didn’t hold back in a hearing on Thursday hearing, confronting P. David Lopez who has been nominated to serve as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission new general counsel. Paul used the hearing to lambaste the idea that the EEOC can investigate and punish businesses where a formal complaint hasn’t even been lodged against the business.… the number of guns sold could be many times higher. That is because background checks are done on gun purchasers, not on the number of guns being purchased.
Yet another questionable video of Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber has emerged, this time of Gruber bragging about how the people behind Romneycare managed to “rip off the feds.”“The dirty secret in Massachusetts is the feds pay for our bill. In Massachusetts, we had a powerful senator you may know named Ted Kennedy. Ted Kennedy and smart people in Massachusetts basically have figured out a way to rip off the feds for about $400 million a year.”
The administration and Gruber will deny that they are out to change employer-based health insurance, Weinstein asserted. But he also cautioned that you cannot rely on what they say in speeches — you must also listen to what they are saying at the universities, at economic forums, and among themselves.
"Berman’s fear is that the definition of a hero will be profoundly changed in the eyes of the children who attend the school. Talent, alone, he said doesn’t automatically make someone heroic. Another parent, Todd Holliday, agrees.
Savo Sound, the stretch of water amid Savo Island, Florida Island, and Guadalcanal has been nicknamed Ironbottom Sound because of the 4 dozen ships sitting on the ocean floor. It is considered sacred to both navies and silence is observed whenever a ship passes through it.
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Who pays for what in a potentially massive upgrade of high voltage transmission lines from the Dakotas to Indiana.
"Gruber has created a huge headache for Democrats all week, after video surfaced in which he said the bill was written in a way to hide the true cost of the legislation. He said the absence of transparency and the “stupidity of the American voter” were critical for its passage.
"Gym teachers across the country are finding ways to implement the Common Core State Standards into physical fitness, creating some concern that actual exercise time will be reduced and that teachers who aren’t prepared will be instructing students on English and math."