Category Archives: Help

Bachmann: I’ll bring back $2 gas

By doris | Published: August 19, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — President Michele Bachmann has a promise: $2 gas. “Under President Bachmann you will see gasoline come down below $2 a gallon again,” Bachmann told a crowd Tuesday in South Carolina. “That will happen.” Sure, politicians promise all kinds of things on the campaign trail. But Bachmann, a [...]

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Obama pumps plan to develop renewable energy

By doris | Published: April 23, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says one answer to high gasoline prices is to spend money developing renewable energy sources. “That’s the key to helping families at the pump and reducing our dependence on foreign oil” in the long term, he said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address.

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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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Giffords arrives at Houston hospital

By doris | Published: January 21, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com HOUSTON — Rep. Gabrielle Giffords got a dramatic send-off from her hometown Friday as throngs of sign-carrying well-wishers lined the streets to wave at the ambulance taking the wounded congresswoman from the hospital to the airport, where she was flown to Houston just two weeks after she was shot. The trip [...]

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Official: More Marines headed to Afghanistan

By doris | Published: January 6, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The United States plans to send more than 1,000 Marines to Afghanistan soon, a U.S. military official told CNN on Thursday. The Marines will support the expansion of security efforts in southern Afghanistan, and they will be on the ground for only a few months, the official said. [...]

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TRENDING: Dem warns Bill Clinton: Back off

By doris | Published: December 29, 2010

Full Story at PoliticalTicker.blogs.cnn.com (CNN) – Rep. Danny Davis, a Democrat from Illinois and mayoral candidate in Chicago has a message for former President Bill Clinton: Butt out. Davis, a onetime ally of Clinton’s, issued a strongly worded statement Tuesday, in which the Chicago Democrat said he is “seriously concerned and disturbed” by the news [...]

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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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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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Five years later, Gulf coast gets more help for Katrina damage

By doris | Published: August 25, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Just five days before the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastating assault on the Gulf coast, millions of dollars are heading to public and private projects for Louisianans still trying to recover, two top Obama administration officials said at a news conference Tuesday. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) [...]

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Senate passes state aid bill, House to return for vote

By doris | Published: August 6, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — Congress is moving rapidly just weeks before the start of the school year to speed billions of dollars in emergency education aid to states in hopes of reversing the layoffs of tens of thousands of teachers. Some $10 billion in aid to school districts is set to flow after [...]

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Bin Laden hunter: I had help

By doris | Published: June 26, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Los Angeles, California (CNN) — Fresh off the plane from Pakistan, Gary Faulkner speaks passionately about his mission to capture Osama bin Laden. “There’s a lot of people who talk,” Faulkner told CNN. “I got off my butt, and I put my life on the line.” This wasn’t some fly-by-night trip, [...]

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Political fallout for Obama amid oil spill disaster?

By doris | Published: May 4, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — As the oil slick from the recent offshore oil rig disaster makes its way to Gulf Coast shores — expected to devastate the precious ecosystem and hurt struggling businesses — the seeds of political fallout for the Obama administration are beginning to sprout. Conservative radio talk show host [...]

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