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- "Scientists:
Smog contributes to premature death." ... "Short-term
exposure to smog, or ozone, is clearly linked to premature deaths that
should be taken into account when measuring the health benefits of reducing
air pollution, a National Academy of Sciences review concludes." ... "The
findings contradict arguments made by some [Republican President Bush]
White House officials that the connection between smog and premature death
has not been shown sufficiently and that the number of saved lives should
not be calculated in determining clean air benefits." ... "The report released
Tuesday by a panel of the Academy's National Research Council says government
agencies "should give little or no weight" to such arguments." ... ""The
committee has concluded from its review of health-based evidence that short-term
exposure to ambient ozone is likely to contribute to premature deaths,"
the 13-member panel said." ... "It added that "studies have yielded strong
evidence that short-term exposure to ozone can exacerbate lung conditions,
causing illness and hospitalization and can potentially lead to death.""
... "Ground-level ozone is formed from nitrogen oxide and organic compounds
created by burning fossil fuels and is demonstrated often by the yellow
haze or smog that lingers in the air. Ozone exposure is a leading cause
of respiratory illnesses and especially affects the elderly, those with
respiratory problems and children." -APvia
-CNN
Women's
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Health
- Science
- Life-Expectancy
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Washington
- "Life
Expectancy Drops for Some U.S. Women: Historic Reversal,
Found in 1,000 Counties, May Be Result of Smoking and Obesity." ... "For
the first time since the Spanish influenza of 1918, life expectancy is
falling for a significant number of American women." ... "In nearly 1,000
counties that together are home to about 12 percent of the nation's women,
life expectancy is now shorter than it was in the early 1980s, according
to a study published today." ... ""I think this is a harbinger. This is
not going to be isolated to this set of counties, is my guess," said Christopher
J.L. Murray, a physician and epidemiologist at the University of Washington
who led the study. It is being published in PLoS
Medicine [PDF], an open-access journal of the Public Library of Science."
... "The study found a smaller decline, in far fewer places, in the life
expectancy of men in this country. In all, longevity is declining for about
4 percent of males." ... "The phenomenon appears to be not only new but
distinctly American." ... "Life expectancy is not a direct measure of how
long people live. Instead, it is a prediction of how long the average person
would live if the death rates at the time of his or her birth lasted a
lifetime." ... "About 33 percent of women are now obese, compared with
31 percent of men. Extreme obesity is twice as common in women (7 percent)
as in men (3 percent)." (1, 2)
-By David Brown -WashingtonPost
Barack
Obama - United
States - Social
Security - Health
Care - Housing
- Markets
- Public
Schools - Poverty
- Race
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Global
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Climate
- Law
- Politics
- 2008
Election - "[Robert
Reich:] Obama for President." ... "I believe that
Barack Obama should be elected President of the United States." ... "Although
Hillary Clinton has offered solid and sensible policy proposals, Obama's
strike me as even more so. His plans for reforming Social Security and
health care have a better chance of succeeding. His approaches to the housing
crisis and the failures of our financial markets are sounder than hers.
His ideas for improving our public schools and confronting the problems
of poverty and inequality are more coherent and compelling. He has put
forward the more enlightened foreign policy and the more thoughtful plan
for controlling global warming." ... "He also presents the best chance
of creating a new politics in which citizens become active participants
rather than cynical spectators. He has energized many who had given up
on politics. He has engaged young people to an extent not seen in decades.
He has spoken about the most difficult problems our society faces, such
as race, without spinning or simplifying. He has rightly identified the
armies of lawyers and lobbyists that have commandeered our democracy, and
pointed the way toward taking it back." ... "Finally, he offers the best
hope of transcending the boundaries of class, race, and nationality that
have divided us. His life history exemplifies this, as do his writings
and his record of public service. For these same reasons, he offers the
best possibility of restoring America's moral authority in the world."
-By Robert
Reich
John
McCain - Health
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History
- Senior
- Politics
- Parents
- Women
- Education
- Science
- Money
- 2008
Election - 
WVa
- "Dean:
McCain's Age Worries Voters: DNC Chair Cites Health,
'Old-Fashioned' Views." ... "Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard
Dean said Thursday that swing voters participating in focus groups commissioned
by the D.N.C. [Democratic National Committee] bring up [2008 Election Republican
Presidential Candidate] John McCain's age unprompted." ... ""We didn't
bring it up, but they volunteered it," said Dean who explained that voters
have two concerns about McCain's age. "One was a health concern, the other
was, and this is really interesting . . . that his views are old-fashioned.""
... "At the age of 72, McCain would be the oldest newly elected president
in U.S. [United States] history if inaugurated in 2009." ... "Referring
to what Dean characterized as the party's most conservative focus group
in Charleston, W. Va. [West Virginia], the DNC chairman said "the women
in that group were shocked that [McCain] believed health insurance shouldn't
cover birth control pills and they were shocked about his belief in abstinence
only education."" (1, 2)
-By Teddy Davis and Mike Elmore
-ABCNEWS.com
Dick
Cheney
- Corporate
- Military
- Government
- KBR-Halliburton
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Islands - 
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Arab Emirates (Dubai) - Secret
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- Oil
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- History
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- Workers
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- 
Massachusetts
- "Top
Iraq contractor skirts US taxes offshore: Shell companies
in Cayman Islands allow KBR to avoid Medicare, Social Security deductions."
... "Kellogg Brown & Root, the nation's top Iraq war contractor and
until last year a subsidiary of Halliburton Corp. [Corporation], has avoided
paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Medicare and Social Security
taxes by hiring workers through shell companies based in this tropical
tax haven [Cayman Islands]." ... "More than 21,000 people working for KBR
in Iraq - including about 10,500 Americans - are listed as employees of
two companies that exist in a computer file on the fourth floor of a building
on a palm-studded boulevard here in the Caribbean. Neither company has
an office or phone number in the Cayman Islands." ... "The Defense Department
has known since at least 2004 that KBR was avoiding taxes by declaring
its American workers as employees of Cayman Islands shell companies, and
officials said the move allowed KBR to perform the work more cheaply, saving
Defense dollars." ... "But the use of the loophole results in a significantly
greater loss of revenue to the government as a whole, particularly to the
Social Security and Medicare trust funds." ... ""Failing to contribute
to Social Security and Medicare thousands of times over isn't shielding
the taxpayers they claim to protect, it's costing our citizens in the name
of short-term corporate greed," said [Massachusetts Democratic] Senator
John F. Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee
who has introduced legislation to close loopholes for companies registering
overseas." ... "With an estimated $16 billion in contracts, KBR is by far
the largest contractor in Iraq, with eight times the work of its nearest
competitor." ... "The [secret] no-bid contract it received in 2002 to rebuild
Iraq's oil infrastructure and a multibillion-dollar contract to provide
support services to troops have long drawn scrutiny because [Republican]
Vice President Dick Cheney was Halliburton's chief executive from 1995
until he joined the Republican ticket with [Republican] President Bush
in 2000." ... "The largest of the Cayman Islands shell companies - called
[SEII] Service Employees International Inc. [Incorporated, which is not
associated with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)], which
is now listed as having more than 20,000 workers in Iraq, according to
KBR - was created two years before Cheney became Halliburton's chief executive.
But a second Cayman Islands company called Overseas Administrative Services,
which now is listed as the employer of 1,020 mostly managerial workers
in Iraq, was established two months after Cheney's appointment." ... "If
KBR's American workers averaged even as much as $63,000 per year, they
and KBR would have owed more than $100 million per year in Social Security
and Medicare taxes, split evenly between them. Over the course of the five-year
war, their tax bill would have been more than $500 million." ... "The real
managers of Service Employees International work out of KBR's office in
Dubai. KBR and Halliburton, which also moved to Dubai [an emirate of the
United Arab Emirates], severed ties last year." -By
Farah Stockman with contributions by Stephanie Vallejo and Matt Negrin
-Boston/Globe
Hillary
Clinton
- Barack
Obama
- Government
- Economic
- Legislation
- Veterans
- Health
- Retirees
- Unemployment
- 
New
York
- Illinois
- 2008
Election - "Republicans
block Senate economic stimulus plan." ... "Senate
Republicans on Wednesday narrowly blocked a Democratic-backed economic
stimulus plan that was costlier than a House of Representatives-passed
measure by extending cash rebates to retirees and disabled veterans and
stretching out unemployment benefits." ... "The [Democratic] bill [defeated
by the Republicans] further broadened the benefits by allowing cash payments
to an estimated 250,000 disabled veterans and 20 million senior citizens
who get government benefit checks but have little or no earned income."
... "[2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate and New York Senator]
Sens. Hillary Clinton of New York and [2008 Election Democratic Presidential
Candidate and Illinois Senator] Barack Obama of Illinois, who are battling
for the Democratic presidential nomination, interrupted their campaigns
and returned to Washington to cast votes in favor of the measure." (1,
2)
-By Richard Cowan and Donna Smith with contributions
by David Alexander -Reuters
John
McCain
- Barack
Obama
- Hillary
Clinton
- Government
- Economic
- Legislation
- Vets
- Health
- Elderly
- Unemployment
- Arizona
- Illinois
- New
York
- 2008
Election - "McCain
Caves To Far Right, Skips Vote On Economic Stimulus That He Promised To
Support." ... "[2008 Election Republican Presidential
Candidate] John McCain (R-AZ [Republican-Arizona Senator]) has been repeatedly
claiming on the stump that passing an economic stimulus package is at the
very top of his agenda. He has told audiences that the “first thing we
gotta do is pass the stimulus package through the Senate.” During a Jan.
[January] 24 GOP debate, he explicitly pledged to vote on such legislation
when it reached the Senate. Watch McCain make this promise on repeated
occasions: [VIDEO:
"McCain Said It Was Important To Pass The Stimulus."]" ... "As
recently as this morning, McCain again told reporters that he planned on
returning to the Senate for this evening’s vote on the economic stimulus,
stating that Congress needed to quickly
pass legislation." ... "The measure, blocked by conservatives, fell
just one vote short of the 60 needed to end debate. At the “last minute,”
McCain decided to skip the vote, even though his plane landed in DC in
time. McCain claimed that he was “too
busy“:"
John
McCain
- Government
- Economic
- Legislation
- Seniors
- Veterans
- Health
- 2008
Election - "McCain
Misses Vote on Economic Stimulus." ... "[2008 Election]
Republican presidential candidate John McCain skipped a difficult Senate
vote Wednesday on whether to make 20 million seniors and 250,000 disabled
veterans eligible for rebate checks as part of a proposed economic stimulus
package." ... "[Republican] President Bush and Republican leaders, as well
as conservatives McCain was scheduled to woo on Thursday, vehemently oppose
the expanded benefits and subsidies." ... "That put McCain in a bad political
spot." ... "Voting "no" with Republican leaders would have offended millions
of Social Security recipients and the disabled veterans not scheduled to
receive rebates. Voting "yes," on the other hand, risked alienating Bush,
GOP [GOP=Grand Old Party=Republican] leaders and conservatives already
suspicious of McCain's political leanings. McCain was speaking Thursday
before a meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference, a group
that booed him last year in absentia." ... "For McCain, not voting meant
not going on the record either way. He has missed all eight Senate roll
call votes this year." -By Laurie Kellman with contributions
by Libby Quaid and Andrew Taylor -WTOPnews.com
Hillary
Clinton
- Barack
Obama
- John
McCain
- Government
- Economic
- Legislation
- Veterans
- Health
- Elderly
- Unemployment
- New
York
- Illinois
- Arizona
- 
Nevada
- 2008
Election - "Republicans
join to block stimulus bill." ... "The fate of $600-$1,200
rebate checks for more than 100 million Americans is in limbo after Senate
Republicans blocked a bid by Democrats to add $44 billion in help for the
elderly, disabled veterans, the unemployed and businesses to the House-passed
economic aid package." ... "The tally was 58-41 to end debate on the Senate
measure, just short of the 60 votes Democrats would have needed to scale
procedural hurdles and move the bill to a final vote." ... "[2008 Election]
Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton [and Senator] of New
York and [2008 Election] Barack Obama [and Senator] of Illinois flew to
Washington for the vote. GOP [GOP=Grand Old Party=Republican 2008 Election
Presidential Candidate] front-runner John McCain [and Senator] of Arizona
did not vote." ... "Supporters actually had 59 votes in favor of the Democratic
proposal, but [Nevada Democratic Senator Harry] Reid switched his vote
to 'no' at the last moment, a parliamentary move that allows him to bring
the measure up for a revote." -By Julie Hirschfeld
Davis and Andrew Taylor -AP
via -SeattlePI
Barack
Obama
- 
John
Edwards
- Hillary
Clinton
- 
Iowa
-Political
- Generation
- Senior
- 
People
- 2008
Election - "Why
Obama Won." ... "[2008 Election Democratic Presidential
Candidate] Barack Obama's victory in the Iowa caucuses was driven by his
support from a new political generation, according to a CBS News entrance
poll of Democratic caucus-goers." ... "In a night of record turnout for
the Democratic caucuses, Obama and his message of change captured the vote
of the first-time caucus-goers, as well as the votes of young people and
political independents." ... "In contrast to Obama's strong support among
the young, [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate John] Edwards
and [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary] Clinton appealed
to older voters. Edwards won Baby Boomers with 31 percent, to 28 percent
for Clinton and 27 percent for Obama. Clinton handily won the senior vote
with 45 percent of those 65 and older, compared to 22 percent and 18 percent
for Edwards and Obama respectively." ... "Edwards' strong suit was his
ability to empathize with people. Nineteen percent of attendees said having
a candidate who cared about people like them was their most important character
consideration, and 44 percent of them supported Edwards." -By
Monika L. McDermott -CBSNews
Government
- Corporations
- Employee
- Retirees
- Health
- Law
- Politics
- History
- "U.S.
Ruling Backs Benefit Cut at 65 in Retiree Plans."
... "The [Republican President Bush run] Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
said Wednesday that employers could reduce or eliminate health benefits
for retirees when they turn 65 and become eligible for Medicare." ... "The
policy, set forth in a new regulation, allows employers to establish two
classes of retirees, with more comprehensive benefits for those under 65
and more limited benefits — or none at all — for those older." ... "More
than 10 million retirees rely on employer-sponsored health plans as a primary
source of coverage or as a supplement to Medicare, and Naomi C. Earp, the
commission’s chairwoman, said, “This rule will help employers continue
to voluntarily provide and maintain these critically important health benefits.”"
... "But AARP and other advocates for older Americans attacked the rule.
“This rule gives employers free rein to use age as a basis for reducing
or eliminating health care benefits for retirees 65 and older,” said Christopher
G. Mackaronis, a lawyer for AARP, which represents millions of people age
50 or above and which had sued in an effort to block issuance of the final
regulation. “Ten million people could be affected — adversely affected
— by the rule.”" ... "The new policy creates an explicit exemption from
age-discrimination laws for employers that scale back benefits of retirees
65 and over. Mr. Mackaronis asserted that the exemption was “in direct
conflict” with the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967." ... "Under
the new rule, employers may, if they choose, provide retiree health benefits
“only to those retirees who are not yet eligible for Medicare.” Likewise,
the rule says, retiree health benefits can be “altered, reduced or eliminated”
when a retiree becomes eligible for Medicare." ... "Further, employers
will be able to reduce or eliminate health benefits provided to the spouse
or dependents of a retired worker 65 or over, regardless of whether benefits
for the retiree are changed." -By Robert Pear
-NYTimes
Drug
- Money
- Sales
- Politics
- Elderly
- Consumer
- Health
- Law
- 
Audits
- 
Michigan
- "Medicare
Audits Show Problems in Private Plans." ... "Tens
of thousands of Medicare recipients have been victims of deceptive sales
tactics and had claims improperly denied by private insurers that run the
system’s huge new drug benefit program and offer other private insurance
options encouraged by the [Republican President] Bush administration, a
review of scores of federal audits has found." ... "The problems, described
in 91 audit reports reviewed by The New York Times, include the improper
termination of coverage for people with H.I.V. and AIDS, huge backlogs
of claims and complaints, and a failure to answer telephone calls from
consumers, doctors and drugstores." ... "Since March, Medicare has imposed
fines of more than $770,000 on 11 companies for marketing violations and
failure to provide timely notice to beneficiaries about changes in costs
and benefits." ... "The companies include three of the largest participants
in the Medicare market, UnitedHealth, Humana and WellPoint." ... "The audits
document widespread violations of patients’ rights and consumer protection
standards. Some violations could directly affect the health of patients
— for example, by delaying access to urgently needed medications." ...
"Representative Bart Stupak, a Michigan Democrat who is chairman of the
investigations subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee,
said he had “verified countless stories of deceptive sales practices by
insurance agents who prey upon the elderly and disabled to sell them expensive
and inappropriate private Medicare plans.”" (1, 2)
-By Robert Pear -NYTimes
US
- Seniors
- History
- International
- 
Japan
- "U.S.
deaths rise by 50,000 in 2005, a disappointing reversal."
... "he number of deaths in the United States rose in 2005 after a sharp
decline the year earlier, a disappointing reversal that suggests the 2004
numbers were a fluke." ... "But, U.S. life expectancy inched up to 77.9
from the previous record, 77.8, recorded for 2004. The increase was more
dramatic in contrast with 1995, when life expectancy was 75.8, and 1955,
when it was 69.6." ... "The U.S. continues to lag behind at least 40 other
nations. Andorra, a tiny country in the Pyrenees mountains between France
and Spain, has the longest life expectancy, at 83.5 years, according to
the U.S. Census Bureau of 2004 international data. It was followed by Japan,
Macau (which is part of China), San Marino and Singapore."
-AP via -IHT.com
John
Edwards
- Iowa
- Oil
- Drug
- Seniors
- Health
- Business
- Law
- 2008
Election - "Edwards
Attacks 'Robber Barons,' Lobbyists to Win Votes in Iowa."
... "[2008 election Democratic Presidential Candidate John Edwards,] In
campaign speeches and conversations with voters, the presidential candidate
calls some companies ``robber barons.'' Business lobbyists have ``rigged''
the system to block fair trade policies and efforts to curb reliance on
overseas oil, he says. Drug and insurance companies are to blame for 83-year-old
Marguerite Erickson's $3,000-a-year health bill, he told her at a rally
in Perry this week." ... "Did she believe it? ``You bet,'' she said after
the event. ``I think he's got the right idea.''" ... "Edwards's populist
themes are nothing new for him. His standard 2004 campaign speech lamented
the existence of ``two different Americas, one for people who have lived
the American dream and don't have to worry, and another for most Americans
who work hard and still struggle to make ends meet.''" ... "Still, his
rhetoric then, and even earlier in the current campaign, lacked the accusatory
edge it has acquired in the past month. ``We need to take back America
from the Washington insiders running the country,'' he said Aug. 14 in
Pocahontas, Iowa. Earlier in the week, Edwards told a crowd in Perry, about
40 miles northwest of Des Moines, that health-care costs remain high because
``we have not taken on and beaten down the drug companies and insurance
companies.'' " -By Nicholas Johnston
-Bloomberg
US
- International
- Seniors
- Babies
- Science
- History
- 
Canada
- 
EU
- Washington
- "U.S.
now trails 41 other nations in life expectancy."
... "Americans are living longer than ever, but not as long as people in
41 other countries." ... "For decades, the United States has been slipping
in international rankings of life expectancy, as other countries improve
health care, nutrition and lifestyles." ... ""Something's wrong here when
one of the richest countries in the world, the one that spends the most
on health care, is not able to keep up with other countries," said Dr.
Christopher Murray, head of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
at the University of Washington." ... "A baby born in the United States
in 2004 will live an average of 77.9 years." ... "That life expectancy
ranks 42nd, down from 11th two decades earlier, according to international
numbers provided by the Census Bureau and domestic numbers from the National
Center for Health Statistics." ... "Researchers said several factors have
contributed to the United States falling behind other industrialized nations."
... "A major one is that 45 million Americans lack health insurance, while
Canada and many European countries have universal health care, they say."
... "Adults in the United States have one of the highest obesity rates
in the world." ... "A relatively high percentage of babies born in the
U.S. die before their first birthday, compared with other industrialized
nations." -AP
via -AZStarNet.com
US_Debt
- Government
- Military
- Seniors
- Money
- Accounting
- Politics
- "Rules
'hiding' trillions in debt: Liability $516,348 per
U.S. household." ... "The federal government recorded a $1.3 trillion loss
last year — far more than the official $248 billion deficit —when corporate-style
accounting standards are used, a USA TODAY analysis shows." ... "The loss
reflects a continued deterioration in the finances of Social Security and
government retirement programs for civil servants and military personnel.
The loss — equal to $11,434 per household — is more than Americans paid
in income taxes in 2006." ... "Modern accounting requires that corporations,
state governments and local governments count expenses immediately when
a transaction occurs, even if the payment will be made later." ... "The
federal government does not follow the rule, so promises for Social Security
and Medicare don't show up when the government reports its financial condition."
... "Bottom line: Taxpayers are now on the hook for a record $59.1 trillion
in liabilities, a 2.3% increase from 2006." -By Dennis
Cauchon -USATODAY
BobPerry
- 
Tom
DeLay - Secret
- Money
- Politics
- Advertising
- Television
-2006
Election - 2004
Election - 2002
Election - People
- 
Colorado
- 
Virginia
- 
Texas
- Homebuilder
- Immigration
- Law
- Military
- Social
Security
Government
- Legislative
- Money
- Military
- Health
- 
Food
- Elderly
- 
Calif
- "Some
Republicans Take a Scorched-Hill Tack: Leaving Budget
Decisions To Democrats Could Disrupt New Leadership's Agenda." ... "Like
a retreating army, Republicans are tearing up railroad track and planting
legislative land mines to make it harder for Democrats to govern when they
take power in Congress next month." ... "Already, the Republican leadership
has moved to saddle the new Democratic majority with responsibility for
resolving $463 billion in spending bills for the fiscal year that began
Oct. 1. And the departing chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee,
Rep. Bill Thomas (R., Calif.), has been demanding that the Democrat-crafted
2008 budget absorb most of the $13 billion in costs incurred from a decision
now to protect physician reimbursements under Medicare, the federal health-care
program for the elderly and disabled." ... "The unstated goal is to disrupt
the Democratic agenda and make it harder for the new majority to meet its
promise to reinstitute "pay-as-you-go" budget rules, under which new costs
or tax cuts must be offset to protect the deficit from growing." ... "The
collapse of the appropriations process will be felt soon in the Justice
and Commerce departments, food-safety agencies and veterans' health care."
... ""It's a demonstration of the irresponsibility of Republicans that
they would leave this country with this mess," said the next House speaker,
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.). "But we won, we will deal with it."" -By
David Rogers -WSJ.com
US
- Government
- Iraq
- Military
- 
Intelligence
- 
Privacy
- Environment- Health
- Seniors
- 
Drugs
- Oil
- Industry
- Legal
- History
- 
Missouri
- "Democrats
are set to subpoena: The new majority is expected
to hold hearings on military spending and the Iraq war -- just for starters."
... "[Missouri Democrat] Rep. Ike Skelton knows what he will do in one
of his first acts as chairman of the Armed Services Committee in the Democratic-led
House: resurrect the subcommittee on oversight and investigations." ...
"The panel was disbanded by the Republicans after they won control of Congress
in 1994. Now, Skelton (D-Mo.) intends to use it as a forum to probe Pentagon
spending and the Bush administration's conduct of the Iraq war." ... "With
control of every committee in Congress starting in January, the new majority
will inherit broad powers to subpoena and investigate. And that is expected
to translate into wide-ranging and contentious hearings." ... "The agenda
is likely to be dominated by the Iraq war, but could include probes into
the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance, environmental policies
and new prescription-drug program for seniors. Industries, such as oil
companies, could also come under closer scrutiny." ... ""This could be
remembered as a historically unique period in which an administration got
immunity from Congress to engage in errors with impunity," said Charles
Tiefer, a University of Baltimore law professor and a former House counsel."
... "Democrats are expected to bore into the Iraq war, including review
of no-bid contracts for reconstruction, intelligence failures and decisions
to ignore the advice of military commanders about troop levels." (1, 2)
-By Richard B. Schmitt and Richard Simon
-LAtimes
Seniors
- Illinois
- Iowa
- 
Ohio
- 
Georgia
- "[Republican]
Candidates Duplicate in AARP Survey." ... "The answers
were so good, Republican candidates wanted to use them as their own. The
embarrassment was at least seven did." ... "Republicans in House races
copied their party's talking points and included parts of the answers as
their own for an AARP survey. The answers related to Medicare, Social Security,
insurance plans and retirement." ... "Among the candidates who used the
borrowed language were Andrea Zinga and Peter Roskam, both running in Illinois,
Jeff Lamberti in Iowa, Chuck Blasdel in Ohio and Max Burns in Georgia."
-By Philip Elliott -AP
via -Forbes
California
- Elderly
- Disaster
- Energy
- Food
- Work
- 
Water
- Animal
- 
Oregon
- 
Wildfire
- "At
least 132 deaths likely linked to heat Calif. heat wave."
... "At least 132 deaths, mostly elderly residents, were likely linked
to a nearly two-week heat wave in California, county coroner's offices
reported Friday." ... "Both Northern and Southern California had been gripped
by triple-digit temperatures since July 16, with the Central Valley suffering
the most with temperatures as high as 115." ... "Before this week, the
utility's highest peak energy use was recorded at 5,661 megawatts. The
heat wave created a demand of 6,165 megawatts — shocking officials who
predicted usage wouldn't top 6,100 megawatts for another four years." ...
"In Northern California, a wildfire near the Oregon state line was threatening
major power transmission lines between California and the Pacific Northwest."
...
"Farmers have been struggling as well, trying get work crews into the fields
in the early mornings to avoid the worst of the heat and running water
misters to keep cattle from dying. Vegetables, fruit and even wine grapes
could be affected." -By Olivia Munoz
-AP via -SFGate.com
Connecticut
- Energy- Seniors
- Law
- "Evaluating
Lieberman: A Party Guy?" ... "By the numbers, Joe
Lieberman is a true, consistent Democrat." ... "He votes with Democratic
colleagues almost all the time. His record gets him high marks from interest
groups close to the party, from the AFL-CIO to the NAACP." ... "But dig
beneath the votes and there's plenty of ammunition for critics - including
primary challenger Ned Lamont - who say Lieberman has a habit of straying
from the party when it suits him." ... "He broke with the region's Democratic
senators on a key energy vote last year. He has embraced a position on
Iraq that few Democrats share. He has questioned bedrock Democrat-backed
programs such as affirmative action and Social Security. He voted against
a filibuster that could have blocked the nomination of Supreme Court Justice
Samuel A. Alito Jr." ... "And just this week the senator launched his own
political party so he can still run in November even if Democratic voters
rebuff him in the Aug. 8 primary." -By David Lightman
-Courant.com
Health
- Drugs
- Seniors
- Technology
- Government
- "Health
Care Spending for U.S. May Double to $4 Trillion by 2015."
... "U.S. spending for health care may double to $4 trillion by 2015, propelled
by an aging population using more drugs, hospital care and technology,
according to a government forecast." ... "If medical spending rises that
much, it will consume about 20 cents of every dollar in goods and services
produced in the U.S, up from 16 cents last year, said authors of the outlook."
... "The health-care spending outlook was compiled by researchers at the
U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The Medicare and Medicaid
programs are the largest purchasers of health care in the U.S., paying
for treatments for 90 million older, poor and disabled people, or about
three in 10 Americans." -Bloomberg
Auto
- Company
- Retiree
- History
- Government
- "How
Bedrock Promises Of Security Have Fractured Across America:
Companies are discarding traditional pensions -- or making government foot
the bill. Delphi workers struggle with the changing landscape." ... "[Oct.
8,] That's when Delphi Chief Executive Robert S. "Steve" Miller, citing
global competition and crippling "legacy costs," ushered the $28.6 billion-a-year
company into one of the largest industrial bankruptcies in U.S. history.
In short order, Miller called for slashing workers' compensation by almost
two-thirds, threatened to void the company's union contracts, and hinted
broadly that he would follow the playbook he had used elsewhere of pushing
responsibility for paying the firm's pensions to the federal government
and dumping its retiree health benefits altogether." ... "Delphi is at
the cutting edge of a crisis that's engulfing the U.S. auto industry, much
as it did steel and airlines. Its actions are adding to a gathering trend,
a shift of economic risks once largely borne by business and government
to the backs of working families." ... "Before the trouble is over, some
believe, a corporate icon such as Ford Motor Co. or GM could be swept from
the American landscape. So too could much of what remains of the already
frayed relationship between millions of working people and their employers."
-By Peter G. Gosselin
-LAtimes
Dick
Cheney - Seniors
- Health
- Education
- "Senate
passes budget cuts: Cheney passes tiebreaking vote."
... "The Senate Friday morning passed a $40 billion deficit reduction bill,
but only after Vice President Cheney cast the tie-breaking vote." ... "Opponents
and supporters of the measure in the Senate were deadlocked 50-50 on the
bill, until Cheney cast the deciding vote." ... "For the first time in
eight years, the spending measure cuts funding for several entitlement
programs." ... "Programs affected include Medicaid and Medicare, and funding
for student loans." -By Greg Robb
-MarketWatch
Virginia
- Religion
- Politics
- Seniors
- "Mayor
charged with defrauding charity." ... "The mayor
of the south-central Virginia city of Lynchburg was indicted over allegations
that he looted a church charity of more than $30,000 and defrauded two
people of their Social Security disability benefits." ... "Mayor Carl B.
Hutcherson Jr. was charged with fraud, making false statements to federal
officials and bank representatives, and obstruction of justice." ... "The
federal indictment, issued Dec. 1 and unsealed Wednesday, alleges that
Hutcherson was struggling to pay the bills at a funeral home he runs as
he took money from the disability recipients and a charity connected to
Trinity United Methodist Church, where he is pastor." -By
Sue Lindsey -AP
via -SeattlePI.NWsource
Government
- Education
- Money
- Seniors
- "Court:
Disabled Can't Escape Student Loans." ... "America's
seniors and disabled cannot escape debts from old student loans, the Supreme
Court ruled Wednesday, freeing the government to pursue Social Security
benefits as part of an effort to collect billions in delinquent loans."
... "The Bush administration had argued that the ability to withhold Social
Security benefits is an important tool in the pursuit of $5.7 billion in
student loan debt that is over 10 years old. Overall, outstanding loans
total about $33 billion." -By Gina Holland
-AP via -SFGate.com
Business
- Labor
- Seniors
- "Senate
Passes Bill to Require Full Funding of Private Pensions."
... "The Senate yesterday overwhelmingly approved a bill to strengthen
the nation's private pension system by requiring employers to pay higher
premiums to the government's pension insurance agency and toughening rules
for keeping plans adequately funded." ... "The Senate action came the day
after the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp [PBGC]. reported that the liabilities
it has assumed to pay the pensions promised by failed companies remain
more than $22 billion greater than its assets. The agency's executive director
said the agency will run out of money if nothing is done." ... "An analysis
last month by the PBGC concluded that neither the House nor the Senate
bill strengthens the agency as much as would the administration's original
proposals early this year." (1, 2)
-By Albert B. Crenshaw-WashingtonPost
People
- Seniors
- Science
- "Study:
Working out can add 4 years to your life." ... "People
who engaged in moderate activity — the equivalent of walking for 30 minutes
a day for five days a week — lived about 1.3 to 1.5 years longer than those
who were less active. Those who took on more intense exercise — the equivalent
of running half an hour a day for five days every week —extended their
lives by about 3.5 to 3.7 years." -By Rob Stein
-WashingtonPost via -HoustonChronicle.com
New
York
- Michigan
- Travel
- Water
- Transportation
- Seniors
- "21
Dead After Tour Boat Sinks." ... "A seemingly ideal
day of sailing along a calm but busy mountain lake turned abruptly tragic
Sunday when a tour boat carrying a group of senior citizens overturned,
killing 21 people and injuring dozens more." ... "The 40-foot boat was
carrying a tour group from the Trenton, Mich., area, and was sailing just
north of the village of Lake George, a popular tourist destination about
50 miles north of Albany [New York] in the Adirondack Mountains. With calm
waters, clear skies and temperatures in the 70s, it seemed perfect boating
weather." (1, 2)-AP
via -CBSNews
Louisiana
- Hurricane
Katrina -
-
-
- "UPDATE
1-Louisiana nursing home operators charged in deaths."
... "The owners of a nursing home where 34 people were found dead after
Hurricane Katrina have been arrested and charged with 34 counts of negligent
homicide for not evacuating those patients, the Louisiana attorney general's
office said on Tuesday." -Reuters
Hurricane
Katrina - Disaster
-
- Louisiana
- TX
-
-
- "4,000
evacuees in Houston to be relocated to cruise ships."
... "The transfer of about 4,000 Katrina evacuees from Houston [Texas]
to cruise ships in Galveston is expected to begin later today, officials
announced late Monday." ... "Under criteria set by Louisiana Gov. Kathleen
Blanco, evacuees age 60 and over will have the top priority for the transfer
to the ships, said Tom Costello of the Federal Emergency Management Agency."
... "Next in line are single guardians with children ages 4 and younger,
followed by single guardians of children ages 8 and younger, and ages 12
and younger." ... "The ships will not sail but will remain docked in Galveston,
officials said." -By Carol Christian
-HoustonChronicle.com
-
- "U.S.
poverty rate rises 4th straight year." ... "Overall,
37 million people were living in poverty, 1.1 million people more than
in 2003." ... "Asians were the only ethnic group to show a decline in poverty,
from 11.8 percent in 2003 to 9.8 percent last year. The poverty rate among
the elderly declined as well, from 10.2 percent in 2003 to 9.8 percent
last year." ... "The last decline in the overall poverty rate was in 2000,
when 31.1 million people, or 11.3 percent of the population, lived under
the threshold. Since then, the poverty rate has increased steadily, reaching
11.7 percent in 2001, when the economy slipped into recession, and 12.5
percent in 2003." -AP
via -IHT.com
Missouri
-
- Psychology
-
- Alzheimer's
- "Idle
brain invites dementia: Researchers say daydreaming
may cause changes that lead to the onset of Alzheimer's disease." ... "Scientists
have scanned the brains of young people when they are doing, well, nothing,
and they found that a region active during this daydreaming state is the
one hard-hit by the scourge of old age: Alzheimer's." ... ""We never expected
to see this," said Randy L. Buckner, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute
investigator at Washington University in St. Louis [Missouri]. He said
he suspects these activity patterns may, over decades of daily use, wear
down the brain, sparking a chemical cascade that results in the disease's
classic deposits and tangles that damage the brain." -By
Jamie Talan -Newsday.com
- Psychology
-
- Alzheimer's
- "Alzheimer's
Hits Brain's 'Daydream' Centers." ... "Reporting
in the Aug. 24 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, they [the researchers]
unexpectedly found that the regions of the brain that light up when you
slip into comfortable patterns of thought are the same as those that later
in life exhibit disabling clumps of plaque, a key characteristic of Alzheimer's."
-By Dennis Thompson -Forbes
-
- "Why
Pensions Are Becoming Even Scarcer: More Old-Line
Industries May Follow United Airlines' Move to Default on Pension Obligations."
... "The nation's private pension system is fraying and at risk of unraveling
altogether." ... "The reason: More than three-quarters of the nation's
traditional private pension plans are underfunded — which means they currently
don't have enough assets to cover the benefits already promised to their
workers and current retirees." ... "And the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.,
the government insurer that is supposed to guarantee workers some protections
if companies go under, is facing a deficit of almost $30 billion." ...
"Add to that the threat of more bankruptcies in old-line industries, from
manufacturers to the so-called legacy carriers like United Airlines — which
last week won approval to default on its pension obligations to 120,000
workers — and experts predict that millions more retirees may suddenly
find themselves having to make due with less than they were promised."
-By Alexandra Marks-CSMonitor
via -ABCNEWS.com
-
-
-
- "Judge
clears United Airlines pension takeover." ... "A
federal judge ruled Tuesday in Chicago that United Airlines can walk away
from 6.6 bln usd worth of retirement obligations to 119,000 current and
former union employees, handing the program over to the government in a
move the company argues is essential to getting out of bankruptcy." ...
"The ruling also paves the way for the federal Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corp's biggest retirement plan takeover yet and will result in lower benefits
for thousands of workers. The PBGC caps annual payouts at 45,600 usd a
year." -AFXNews
via -Forbes
-
-
-
- "US
social security is among least generous." ... "US
Social Security is one of the least generous public pension systems in
advanced countries, providing an employee on average earnings a pension
after tax of 51 per cent of pre-retirement income, a comparative study
by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development shows." ...
"The average employee in an advanced country can expect a government pension
of 70 per cent of his or her after-tax earnings at retirement compared
with 39 per cent for an equivalent US citizen." -By
Chris Giles -FT.com
-
- "Bush
Social Security Plan Would Cut Future Benefits."
... "President Bush called on Congress last night to curtail future Social
Security benefits for all but low-income retirees in an urgent new effort
to address the popular program's shaky finances." ... "With virtually every
Democrat, as well as many Republicans, opposed to his plan for private
investment accounts, Bush sought to shift the focus of the Social Security
debate to a new proposal that would reduce benefits more as workers' incomes
rise." ... ""I believe the reformed system should protect those who depend
on Social Security the most," he said in a nationally televised news conference.
"So I propose a Social Security system in the future where benefits for
low-income workers will grow faster than benefits for people who are better
off." This is the first time Bush has backed a specific plan to reduce
future benefits for tens of millions of Americans." (1, 2)
-By Jim VandeHei and Michael A. Fletcher with contributions
by Robin Wright -WashingtonPost
-
- "Bush
Takes Social Security Push to Texas." ... "President
Bush took his Social Security restructuring campaign today to a [Texas]
county where public employees began opening personal retirement accounts
two decades ago, and said the rest of the country could learn from their
experience." ... "Yet the figures cited by the president clashed with the
findings of several studies of Galveston County's retirement plan, including
a new Democratic congressional analysis suggesting that most workers would
have been better off sticking with traditional Social Security." ... "The
dueling statistics and conflicting interpretations underscored the difficulties
Bush still faces as he nears the end of a 60-day effort to persuade Americans
that Social Security's finances should be shored up and that younger workers
should be allowed to open individual investment accounts." -By
Edwin Chen and Warren Vieth-LAtimes
-
-
-
- Ashland
- "Choosing
their time: The next contentious end-of-life issue:
assisted suicide. How Oregon offers a way out." ... "Steve Mason is ready
for death. Since last December, the 65-year-old writer has kept four small
bottles of clear liquid Nembutal-- a lethal dose of barbiturates--in his
Ashland, Ore., condominium." ... "And at some point in the next few months,
when terminal lung cancer has spread to his liver or brain, when his breath
is short and he feels too sick to eat or sleep, he will pick a day to gather
close friends and family about him. He will give away his belongings and
say his goodbyes. "It will be a celebration of life," Mason predicts."
... "A continent away from the political battle that has surrounded Terri
Schiavo, a radical experiment in end-of--life policy has unfolded much
more quietly over the past seven years. Oregon's Death with Dignity Act,
twice approved in statewide voter referendums, is the only statute in the
U.S. allowing doctors to write lethal prescriptions for terminally ill
patients who want to control the time and place of their death." -By
Margot Roosevelt -CNN
-
- "Why
Oregon is at the forefront of change on end-of-life care."
... "The Terri Schiavo case and its emphasis on end-of-life care could
put a spotlight on Oregon, where policies and practices point to a future
most Americans apparently want and are working toward: personal decision-making,
widely available hospice care, and the final act of human life played out
at home and not in a hospital." ... "In all these areas, studies show,
Oregon is ahead of the rest of the country." -By Brad
Knickerbocker -CSMonitor
-
- "Supreme
Court: Age bias need not be deliberate." ... "The
Supreme Court made it easier Wednesday for any worker over 40 to allege
age discrimination, ruling that employers can be held liable even if they
never intended any harm." ... "About 75 million people -- roughly half
the nation's work force -- are covered by the decision. However, the ruling
makes it clear that older workers will have a high threshold to prove their
claims." ... "Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that in some cases employers
are within their rights to treat workers differently because of age."
-AP via -CNN
-
-
- "Oregon's
assisted-suicide law to get high court airing: Supreme
Court agrees to review Bush administration's bid to block the nation's
only doctor-assisted suicide law." ... "The United States Supreme Court
has agreed to take up physician-assisted suicide, potentially one of the
most profound political and social issues today. The case involves Oregon's
law allowing certain individuals to take their own lives with the help
of a doctor. The outcome could determine whether such laws are enacted
in other parts of the country." ... "Oregon's "Death with Dignity Act"
became law in 1997 after voters twice had approved it at the polls by wide
margins. It applies only to mentally competent adults who declare their
intentions in writing, are diagnosed as terminally ill, and take the prescribed
drug themselves orally after a waiting period. Oregon's law specifically
prohibits "lethal injection, mercy killing, or active euthanasia."" -By
Brad Knickerbocker -CSMonitor
- "Cost
estimates rise to $540 billion for Medicare plan."
... "The new Medicare drug benefit will cost about 35 percent more than
Congress anticipated, helping to kick the federal budget deficit up to
a record $500 billion next year, according to officials familiar with the
fiscal 2005 budget that President Bush is to release Monday." ... "The
prescription drug plan, which will not be fully in effect until 2006, will
cost about $540 billion over 10 years, instead of the $396 billion projected
in the law that Congress approved late last year, said a government official
and private-sector economists who have been briefed on the budget." -By
Susan Milligan -Boston/Globe
-
- Consumer
News
- "Calpers
files lawsuit against NYSE." ... "The largest U.S.
public pension fund is taking the unprecedented step of suing the New York
Stock Exchange, alleging the embattled exchange condoned fraudulent practices
by specialist trading firms that cost investors at least $155-million (U.S.)."
... "The California Public Employees Retirement System (Calpers), which
has assets of $148-billion (U.S.), filed the suit in U.S. court yesterday,
and is asking other investors to join it in a class action." -By
Shawn McCarthy -GlobeAndMail
-
-
- "Seniors'
drug bill survives in House: GOP's late moves
win changes in Medicare." ... "After an extraordinary overnight session
of arm-twisting and parliamentary tricks, House Republican leaders narrowly
staved off defeat yesterday and passed a Medicare prescription drug benefit
that represented the most sweeping overhaul of the program in its 38-year
history." ... "The measure would provide nearly $400 billion in prescription
drug aid to seniors, and for the first time, allow private health care
firms to offer Medicare services long guaranteed by the federal government.
Its passage spared President Bush a political embarrassment over one of
his top priorities as the administration fought to push through his agenda
in the waning days of the legislative session." -By
Susan Milligan -Boston/Globe
- "Scientists
Enhance Ability to Feel: Method Might Restore
Sensory Function in Elderly, Improve It in Young." ... "The enhanced sensitivity,
achieved with a tiny stimulating device and a single dose of a drug, has
reversed fingertip numbness in older people, many of whom have trouble
performing everyday tasks such as buttoning shirts or turning switches
on and off. Researchers said they suspect it could also help blind people
read Braille. And applying the technique to the feet might prevent falls
in diabetics who have lost sensation in their toes, which are crucial for
balance.": ... "The ability to boost sensory sensitivity, scientists said,
could even allow people with normal function to achieve bionic supersensitivity
-- for work or recreational purposes -- enhancing the senses of taste or
smell or adding to the tactile pleasure of a romantic caress." -By
Rick Weiss -WashingtonPost
- "Li
Peng Heads Into Uncertain Retirement: Li Peng,
China's Political Survivor, Heads Into Uncertain Retirement." ... "He is
China's political survivor: In 16 years at the highest levels of power,
Li Peng outlasted the upheaval of 1989, a scandal in which a corrupt protege
was executed and critics who said he was just too dumb to run the country."
... "This week, the 74-year-old Li steps down as chairman of China's legislature,
surrendering his last formal post in a sweeping handover of power to a
younger generation of leaders." -AP
via -ABCNEWS.com
- "Oldest
American man, 113, dies in Florida." ... "John McMorran,
of Lakeland, considered coffee his elixir and quit cigars at age 97. He
was born June 19, 1889, in a log cabin in Michigan. He was the fourth-oldest
person in the world." -AP
-CNN
Christmas
News
- "55-Year-Old
Man Wins $314.9M Powerball: 55-Year-Old Contractor
Is Sole Winner of $314.9 Million Powerball Jackpot." ... "A 55-year-old
contractor won the $314.9 million Powerball jackpot, the largest single
lottery jackpot in history, lottery officials said Thursday." ... "Andrew
Jackson Whittaker Jr., opted to take the lump sum of more than $111 million
after taxes, Lottery spokeswoman Nancy Bulla said." ... "The ticket for
the Christmas night drawing was purchased Monday at the C&L Super Serve
in Hurricane [West Virginia], 25 miles west of Charleston, officials of
the multistate lottery said." -AP
via -ABCNEWS.com
-
-
- "Antiwar
Effort Gains Momentum: Growing Peace Movement's
Ranks Include Some Unlikely Allies." ... "... [Daphne] Reed fretted over
the particular suffering that would befall Iraqi women; their sons and
husbands would be killed, she said, and the women would be left in the
rubble to fend off contaminated water and starvation." ... ""I said that
all mothers should automatically be against war," Reed said. "It was against
their nature to be violent instead of nurturing." Maybe, she said, it was
time to start a movement -- Mothers Against War." ... "Most members of
Mothers Against War are grandmothers in their seventies whose lives are
already full. Yet they spend hours a day on the Internet, reading and spreading
information on Iraq and the United States and planning for marches, e-mail
campaigns and teach-ins." -By Evelyn Nieves-WashingtonPost
- "Big business
funding shift aids GOP: Tradition of bankrolling
both major parties falls by wayside." ... "Major industries such as accounting,
aerospace, commercial banking, defense, HMOs and pharmaceuticals have abandoned
their tradition of bipartisan campaign contributions in favor of a commitment
to the GOP, a trend that could deepen the problems of a Democratic Party
rocked by this month’s elections." ... "... in 1992, the pharmaceutical
industry split its contributions almost evenly: $2.5 million for Republican
campaigns, $2.3 million for Democrats. In the current election cycle, the
industry tilted to the GOP by 3 to 1: $10.8 million to $3.4 million." -By
Thomas B. Edsall -WashingtonPost
via -MSNBC
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