Category Archives: Children

Santorum cancels events to be with sick daughter

By doris | Published: January 29, 2012

Full Story at NBCPoliticsmsnbc.msn.com Updated at 1 a.m. ET: WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum canceled his Sunday morning campaign events and planned to spend time with his hospitalized daughter. “Rick and his wife Karen are admitting their daughter Bella to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia this evening,” spokesman Hogan Gidley said [...]

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House Slashes Spending for Food Safety, Nutrition Programs

By doris | Published: June 18, 2011

Full Story at blogs.abcnews.com House Republicans narrowly passed a bill that makes significant cuts across the Department of Agriculture and related agencies that is being chided by Democrats for making steep cuts to food safety and child nutrition programs. The measure narrowly passed on a vote of 217-203 Thursday, with 19 Republicans joining all House [...]

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2011 budget cuts revealed

By doris | Published: April 12, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Lawmakers lifted the curtain Tuesday on a 2011 spending plan that will slash nearly $40 billion — cutting back on a wide range of programs and services including high-speed rail, emergency first responders and the National Endowment for the Arts. The measure represents the single biggest cut [...]

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Lawmakers, grieving parents push federal standards for teen licenses

By doris | Published: March 8, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Flanked by parents whose children were killed in automobile accidents, congressional lawmakers Tuesday again launched a campaign for federal licensing standards for teenage drivers. Holding a poster-sized photograph of his daughter Michelle — a fatality at the age of 15 — a sobbing Ray Sanderbeck of Medina, Ohio, [...]

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So much for civility in politics

By doris | Published: January 23, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — If it’s over, it was nice while it lasted. The brief period of civility in politics in the wake of the shootings in Tucson, Arizona, two weeks ago was tested this week. Some in the nation’s capital forgot the call for a government that’s worthy of 9-year-old shooting [...]

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Obama expected to sign child nutrition bill

By doris | Published: December 13, 2010

Full Story atnews.Yahoo.com WASHINGTON – Legislation to provide more lunches and dinners to school children and make the meals healthier is expected to become law on Monday. President Barack Obama, accompanied by his wife, Michelle, is scheduled to sign the bill at a District of Columbia elementary school.[ For complete coverage of politics and policy, [...]

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Health law snag may cost hospitals

By doris | Published: November 25, 2010

Full Story at Boston.com WASHINGTON — Partisan tensions on Capitol Hill are delaying efforts to fix an error in the federal health care law that could cost Children’s Hospital Boston and others like it millions of dollars in added drug costs.Correcting the error would require changing just 47 words in the 1,880-page law, a task [...]

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Obama to Congress: make college tax credit permanent

By doris | Published: October 21, 2010

Full Story at FirstRead.msnbc.msn.com WASHINGTON, Oct 13 — As part of an effort to boost the number of American college graduates, President Obama on Wednesday asked Congress to make permanent a tax credit to help make higher education more affordable. The American Opportunity Tax Credit (AOTC) was part of the stimulus program passed soon after [...]

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Veteran’s family denied WH tour because of shorts

By doris | Published: October 1, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com SPOKANE, Wash. — The White House apologized Thursday for turning the family of a Medal of Honor recipient away from an exclusive tour last week because the late veteran’s 10-year-old grandson was wearing shorts. Vernon Baker, the last surviving black Medal of Honor winner from World War II, was buried Friday [...]

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Obama says health care reform helping people get by

By doris | Published: September 24, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Faced with a divided public over his signature legislative achievement, President Barack Obama on Wednesday hailed the health care reform bill passed in March as important for helping both the government and the American people deal with rising medical costs. The measure endured a bitter political fight that [...]

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Winners in Obama education reform unveiled

By doris | Published: August 26, 2010

Full Story at TODAYmsnbc.msn.com ATLANTA — More than 13 million students and 1 million educators will share $3.4 billion from the second round of the federal “Race to the Top” grant competition, the U.S. Education Department said Tuesday. The department chose nine states — Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and [...]

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Ditch the 14th Amendment? Why stop there?

By doris | Published: August 7, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Republicans such as Sens. Lindsey Graham, John Kyl and John Cornyn are tripping over themselves to jump on the latest “Dumb Way to Solve the Illegal Immigration Problem” bus by suggesting Congress examine repealing the 14th Amendment, which deals with one way of becoming a U.S. citizen. The far [...]

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