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What is your background like?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ICM)
Wed Jun 26 13:06:01 2013
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Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:06:00 -0700
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to lead Medicare and Medicaid. Rockefeller called the law the most complex
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measure was so complex that agencies and states would need years to
get ready.Surely they dont like being proven right so thoroughly.Secretary
of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius in a speech at Harvard
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all the way to the Supreme Court had not continued to resist
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coverage, Congress dumped much of the expense for expanded coverage on states
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marking the first time either chamber has advanced a major firearms bill
to the floor since the assault-weapons ban of 1994.But both sides are
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on procedural votes.The pressure from the gun lobby, as well as lingering
concerns from lawmakers in states with a tradition of gun rights that
the bill could limit them, continue to make final passage a heavy
lift.Sen. Chuck Schumer said it would be a "struggle" to get the
necessary votes to advance to final passage."The hard work starts now,"
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said after Thursday's procedural vote.The
Senate voted 68-31 Thursday to advance to debate on the bill. What
follows will be a string of votes on amendments, at least one
of which -- on reining in the background checks provision -- is
considered vital to winning conservative and moderate support. Sens. Joe
Manchin, D-W.Va., and Pat Toomey, R-Pa., offered a compromise measure that
would expand background checks to gun-show and Internet sales, while exempting
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<p style="font-size:xx-small;"> RALEIGH, N.C. The North Carolina House has approved a bill mandating
background checks for welfare recipients.The bill that passed 106-6 Thursday
requires all social services employees to perform background checks to bar
applicants and recipients with outstanding warrants or other active violations
from welfare and food stamp programs. Employees would have to report them
to law enforcement.Bill sponsor Rep. Dean Arp, a Republican from Monroe,
noted the federal government already prohibits giving public assistance
to fleeing felons and others with active violations.Arp appeased many opponents
after providing assurances that county offices won't shoulder additional
costs. Some Democrats previously expressed concern about creating new burdens
for social services employees and the perception that the bill unfairly
singles out poor people for distrust.The bill now heads to the Senate.
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Tunisia's ex-dictator embezzled more than $20 billion dollars from the North
African country.A U.N. team on Thursday presented Tunisia with a check for
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wife of deposed president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.Economist Ezzedine Saidane
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palace near the capital, making it relatively easy to recover.The Tunisian
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