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"The Federal Marriage Amendment is back — with Vitter’s and Craig’s support." ... "Republicans are looking at the political landscape, and they’re feeling awfully discouraged. The polls look bad, the base looks depressed, and fundraising looks iffy. Rallying the far-right troops with an anti-gay amendment to the Constitution — even though it has no chance at even getting so much as a hearing — might be helpful to the conservative movement." ... "But the funny part is looking over the list of the 10 original sponsors. Most of the names are predictable — [Kansas Republican Senator Sam] Brownback and [Oklahoma Republican Senator James] Inhofe, for example — but there are two others whose names stand out: [Republican Senators] Sens. David Vitter (R-La. [Republican-Louisiana]) and Larry Craig (R-Idaho [Republican])." ... "Yes, two of the principal sponsors of a constitutional amendment to “protect” marriage include one far-right Republican who hired prostitutes and another far-right Republican who was arrested for soliciting gay sex an airport men’s room." ... "As my friend Kyle put it, these two are “not exactly the poster boys of the family values crowd or particularly upstanding examples of the supposed sanctity of the ‘union of a man and a woman.”‘" -By Steve Benen -TheCarpetbaggerReport.com 
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People
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Health
- Drugs
- 
Companies
- Politics
- Kansas
- "'Sicko'
a pain in the neck for health care industry: Uncomfortable
attention on insurers, drug companies." ... "In "Sicko," his new film assailing
the U.S. health care system, filmmaker Michael Moore doesn't try to be
fair to health insurers and pharmaceutical companies." ... "That's because
Moore -- the man behind anti-Bush "Fahrenheit 9/11" and pro-gun control
"Bowling for Columbine" -- makes no pretense of balance. He has a point
of view: Greedy pharmaceutical companies need to be much more tightly regulated.
And health insurers? They shouldn't exist at all, replaced instead by government-subsidized
health care." ... "Moore builds his case against managed care through a
series of anecdotes: a woman whose health insurer denied treatment on the
basis she was "too young" to have cervical cancer; another who was billed
for an ambulance ride after a car accident because she failed to get the
trip "pre-approved."" ... "Some cases are heart-wrenching, such as a Kansas
City [Kansas] man who died from kidney cancer after his insurer deemed
his treatment options "experimental."" -By Victoria
Colliver -SFGate.com
US
- 
Iraq
- 
Afghanistan
- 
Military
- Mental
- Health
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Va
- Kansas
- "Senator
Webb calls for National Guard, Army Reserve support."
... "Concerned with the military’s continuing erratic deployment rotations,
freshman [Virginia Democratic Senator] Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) is planning
to introduce an amendment to the 2008 defense authorization bill that will
require the Pentagon to give troops at least as much time at home as they
spent on deployments." ... "“We’re seeing, in many cases, our ground troops
burned out,” Webb said at a press conference yesterday alongside Kansas
[Democratic Governor] Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D). “The current strategy
of this administration has not justified the deployment of troops in this
way.”" ... "Multiple deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan are causing an
increase in mental-health issues among members of the military and are
prompting more troops to leave the armed forces, he said." -By
Patrick Fitzgerald with contributions by Roxana Tiron
-TheHill.com
Alberto
Gonzales - 
Government
- US
Attorneys - Lawmakers
- 2008
Election - 
Vermont
- 
Connecticut
- 
New
York
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Delaware
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Illinois
- Kansas
- 
Arizona
- "Senate
Republicans Block Vote on Alberto Gonzales (Update1)."
... "A resolution to express ``no confidence'' in Alberto Gonzales, [Republican]
President George W. Bush's embattled attorney general, was blocked by U.S.
Senate Republicans who called it a meaningless gesture." ... "Congressional
Democrats are investigating whether eight U.S. attorneys were dismissed
last year because of political pressure from the president's staff. The
Justice Department has given conflicting accounts of why the prosecutors
were fired. Lawmakers of both parties challenged Gonzales's candor when
he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the dismissals
on April 19." ... "Bush, traveling in Bulgaria today, called the vote ``meaningless''
because it won't determine ``who serves in my government. There's been
no wrongdoing.''" ... "The 53 voting to end debate included 45 Democrats,
seven Republicans and independent Bernard Sanders of Vermont. Those voting
not to shut off debate included 37 Republicans and independent Joseph Lieberman
of Connecticut." ... "New York [Democratic] Senator Hillary Clinton, a
Democratic presidential candidate, voted to end debate. Other senators
who are [2008 election] presidential candidates didn't vote, including
Democrats Joseph Biden of Delaware, Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and
Barack Obama of Illinois and Republicans Sam Brownback of Kansas and John
McCain of Arizona. " -By James Rowley
-Bloomberg
David
Vitter - Sam
Brownback
- Gay
- 2008
Election - Politics
- Louisiana
- Kansas
- 
Massachusetts
- Family
- "Gay
marriage ban defeated in Senate vote: Bush rebuffed;
ban backers still hopeful, citing a few new votes in favor." ... "The Senate
on Wednesday rejected a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, dealing
a defeat to President Bush and Republicans who hope to use the measure
to energize conservative voters on Election Day [2008]." ... "“We were
hoping to get over 50 percent, but that didn’t happen today,” said [Louisiana
Republican Senator] Sen. David Vitter, R-La., one of the amendment’s supporters."
... "“We’re not going to stop until marriage between a man and a woman
is protected,” said [Kansas Republican Senator] Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan."
... "Democrats said the debate was a divisive political ploy. “The Republican
leadership is asking us to spend time writing bigotry into the Constitution,”
said Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, which legalized gay marriage
in 2003." ... "“A vote for it is a vote against civil unions, against domestic
partnership, against all other efforts for states to treat gays and lesbians
fairly under the law.”" (1, 2)
-AP via -MSNBC
Food
- Safety
- Animal
- Agriculture
- Companies
- Government
- Law
- Politics
- Kansas
- "U.S.
government fights to keep meatpackers from testing all slaughtered cattle
for mad cow." ... "The [Republican President] Bush
administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing
all their animals for mad cow disease." ... "The Agriculture Department
tests fewer than 1 percent of slaughtered cows for the disease, which can
be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. A beef producer in the western
state of Kansas, Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, wants to test all of its
cows." ... "Larger meat companies feared that move because, if Creekstone
should test its meat and advertised it as safe, they might have to perform
the expensive tests on their larger herds as well."
-AP via -IHT.com
Kansas
- Greensburg
- 
Tornado
- 
Vehicles
- 
Police
- "Kansas
Tornado Death Toll Rises: 11 Deaths Now Reported
After Injured Police Officer Taken Off Life Support." ... "Search and rescue
operations continued Tuesday in Greensburg [Kansas], where emergency responders
have struggled to determined if any of its 1,600 residents are missing
because many are staying with friends or relatives rather than in shelters."
... "The 1.7-mile-wide, Category F-5 enhanced tornado, with wind estimated
at 205 mph, destroyed about 95 percent of this farming town Friday." ...
"The government's response to the disaster was
undermined by ongoing National Guard deployments to the Middle East,
[Kansas Democratic Governor] Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said." ... ""I don't
think there is any question if you are missing trucks, Humvees and helicopters
that the response is going to be slower," Sebelius said. "The real victims
here will be the residents of Greensburg, because the recovery will be
at a slower pace."" -AP
via -CBSNews
US
- Iraq
- Kansas
- National
Guard - Disaster
- Vehicles
- "Wartime
Shortages Hamper National Guard: Iraq Deployments
Are Leading To A Lack Of Equipment At The State Level." ... "Kansas' governor
says tornado cleanup efforts are being hamstrung because the state National
Guard is on a mission in Iraq." ... "But the Kansas National Guard isn't
alone with its equipment shortages. According to the chief of the National
Guard, it's a national epidemic." ... "Listen to what he told a Senate
committee last month about the state of a Guard unit that had just returned
stateside from Iraq." ... ""He doesn't have a problem of old equipment.
He has a problem of no equipment," Lt. General H. Steven Blum said. "His
unit, when it came back in November, came back to two Humvees that were
left because they were not good enough to go to war — not suitable to go
to war — and that's the equipment that he has in his unit today."" ...
"The rest of the Humvees were either destroyed, damaged or left behind
in Iraq." ... ""You name it, we are short of — this is meat-and-potatoes
basic items," Blum said. "I'm talking about 'dozers, graders, loaders,
backhoes, dump trucks."" -CBSNews
Kansas
- Tornado
- Disaster
- US
- National
Guard - Iraq
- "Deadly
Kansas Tornado; Town Wiped Out." ... "The plains
states are recovering after a weekend of violent weather. Tornadoes left
10 people dead in Kansas, 9 of those from a twister Friday that nearly
destroyed the entire town of Greensburg [Kansas]." ... "[Kansas Democratic]
Governor Sebelius says that the situation is being made even harder by
the absence of Kansas National Guard soldiers and equipment due to the
war in Iraq." ... ""Not having the the National Guard equipment which used
to be positioned in various parts of the state to bring immediately is
really going to handicap this effort to rebuild.""
-KTTC.com
Kansas
- Emergencies
- US
- National
Guard - Iraq
- "Iraq
War Hampers Kansas Cleanup." ... "[Kansas Democratic]
Governor Kathleen Sebelius said much of the National Guard equipment usually
positioned around the state to respond to emergencies is gone." ... "The
Kansas National Guard has about 40 percent of the equipment it is allotted
because much of it has been sent to Iraq."
-AP via -KCBS.com
Health
- 
Science
- Consumer
- Food
- Drug
- Safety
- 
Terrorism
- Emergencies
- Lawmakers
- Politics
- Animal
- Pets
- 
Pennsylvania
- 
Colorado
- 
Michigan
- 
Calif
- Kan
- Mass
- "FDA
plan to close field labs draws fire." ... "A Food
and Drug Administration plan to close seven of 13 field laboratories has
angered some lawmakers, government workers and safety advocates, who fear
the move will chase away skilled veteran employees and hurt the FDA's ability
to respond to public health emergencies." ... "The FDA's field labs inspect
and analyze food, drugs, animal medications and feeds, medical devices
and other health products." ... "The labs check for compliance with federal
guidelines, protect consumers from unsafe, ineffective and mislabeled products,
and help investigate public health threats such as product tampering, bio-terrorism,
food-borne illnesses and contaminated blood supplies." ... "Several of
the facilities helped investigate the recent pet food scare and E. coli
and salmonella outbreaks in spinach and peanut butter. On the heels of
these crises, the proposed lab closings have been met with strong suspicion."
... "Over the next several years, the FDA wants to close labs in Philadelphia
[Pennsylvania]; Denver [Colorado]; Detroit [Michigan]; Alameda, Calif.
[California]; Lenexa, Kan.; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Winchester, Mass
[Massachusetts]. Those operations and an estimated 250 employees would
then be moved to five multi-purpose "mega-labs" that could handle all types
of FDA testing." ... "But some fear that fewer labs would delay the testing
of food, biological medical products or drugs in the event of a public
health emergency." -By Tony Pugh
-McClatchy via
-RealCities
Scott
J Bloch
- Government
- 
Employees
- Investigation
- Politics
- Kansas
- "Special
Counsel Accused Of Intimidation in Probe: Contact
With Investigators Controlled, Employees Say." ... "A trouble-plagued whistle-blower
investigation at the Office of Special Counsel -- whose duties include
shielding federal whistle-blowers -- hit another snag this week when employees
accused the special counsel of intimidation in the probe." ... "The Office
of Personnel Management's inspector general has been investigating allegations
by current and former OSC employees that Special Counsel Scott J. Bloch
retaliated against underlings who disagreed with his policies -- by, among
other means, transferring them out of state -- and tossed out legitimate
whistle-blower cases to reduce the office backlog. Bloch denies the accusations,
saying that under his leadership the agency has grown more efficient and
receptive to whistle-blowers." ... "The probe is the most serious of many
problems at the agency since Bloch, a Kansas lawyer who served at the Justice
Department's Task Force for Faith-based and Community Initiatives, was
appointed by [Republican] President Bush three years ago." ... "The 16-month
investigation has been beset by delays, accusations and counter-accusations.
The latest problem began two weeks ago, when Bloch's deputy sent staffers
a memo asking them to inform OSC higher-ups when investigators contact
them." -By Elizabeth Williamson
-WashingtonPost
Secret
- US
- Iraq
- 
Nuclear
- Government
- Military
- 
Intelligence
- 
Internet
- Archive
- 
History
- Hoekstra
- Michigan- Roberts
- Kansas
- Legislation
- Politics
- "U.S.
Web Archive Is Said to Reveal a Nuclear Primer."
... "Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public
a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration
did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans who had said they
hoped to “leverage the Internet” to find new evidence of the prewar dangers
posed by Saddam Hussein." ... "But in recent weeks, the site has posted
some documents that weapons experts say are a danger themselves: detailed
accounts of Iraq’s secret nuclear research before the 1991 Persian Gulf
war. The documents, the experts say, constitute a basic guide to building
an atom bomb." ... "Last night, the government shut down the Web site after
The New York Times asked about complaints from weapons experts and arms-contro
