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Fri Nov 22 07:34:23 2013
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 04:34:23 -0800
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WASHINGTON In a rare move, House Republicans pulled their own health
care bill from the floor Wednesday after failing to secure enough votes
to ensure its passage.The bill offered a lifeline to a main feature
of President Obamas health care overhaul - affordable coverage for people
with pre-existing medical conditions -- after it ran into strong opposition
from both conservatives and Democrats.The legislation is a departure from
past GOP efforts to kill the Affordable Health Care Act outright, and
faced a White House veto threat.Democrats are against it because it would
bail out the struggling program to help those with pre-existing conditions
get insurance by raiding a disease prevention provision the administration
says is essential.Conservative groups also urged Republicans to vote against
it, saying it perpetuated the federal role in health care. Some said
they felt the bill embraced Obamacare.The measure was a pet project of
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia whose office pledged to keep
working on the bill.We had positive conversations today and made good progress,
Cantor spokesman Doug Heye told Fox News later in the day. We
remain focused on stopping the biggest entitlement expansion in a generation.House
Majority Whip Kevin McCarthys office said they had made a lot of
solid progress.There's still work to do and with Members leaving town for
the Bush Library dedication in Texas, we'll continue the conversations after
ty about whether Social Security will
be there for future retirees. Among voters under age 65, opinions are
almost evenly divided: 46 percent think there will be enough money to
pay their full benefits, while 50 percent think it's unlikely.Twelve percent
think it is "very" likely there will be enough money for full
benefits.Meanwhile, the notion of means-testing benefits as a cost-cutting
measure is a no-go. Fifty-nine percent of voters say everyone who paid
Social Security taxes should receive an equal amount when they retire. Just
over a third -- 36 percent -- would rather see the benefit
based on financial need.Poll Pourri ...Is the nation's job situation is
getting better or worse? Take your pick: 42 percent are optimistic, while
44 percent see darker clouds. Either way, just over half -- 51
percent -- disapprove of how Obama is handling job creation (43 percent
approve).Partisanship plays a big role in those views: 71 percent of Democrats
approve of Obama's record on job creation, while 81 percent of Republicans
disapprove.And 60 percent of Democrats think the situation is getting better,
while 63 percent of Republicans say it's getting worse.Overall, a 60-percent
majority is dissatisfied with conditions in the U.S. By comparison, 79 percent
were dissatisfied in the days before Obama took office in January 2009.Some
40 percent of voters are currently satisfied with the way things are
going in the country, up slightly from 37 percen
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<p style="font-size:xx-small;">Top-ranking lawmakers on both sides of the aisle declared Thursday that
the "red line" in Syria has been crossed, calling for "strong" U.S.
and international intervention after administration officials revealed the
intelligence community believes chemical weapons were used.Sen. John McCain,
R-Ariz., and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Senate intelligence
committee, were among those urging swift action.McCain, who has long called
for more involvement in Syria, voiced concern that the administration would
use "caveats" to avoid acting on the new intelligence. He said America's
enemies are paying "close attention" to whether the U.S. follows through,
as the White House signaled it wanted to see more proof before
responding to the new information."I worry that the president and the administration
will use these caveats as an excuse not to act right away
or act at all," McCain told Fox News. "The president clearly stated
that it was a red line and that it couldn't be crossed
without the United States taking vigorous action."He called for the U.S.
to help establish a no-fly zone and "safe zone" in Syria, as
well as provide weapons to the "right people."Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel
first revealed the intelligence assessment, which was detailed in a letter
to select members of Congress, while speaking to reporters on a visit
to Abu Dhabi. The administration then released those letters, which said
U.S. intelligence determined
with varying degrees of confidence that "the
Syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale in Syria,
specifically the chemical agent sarin."Secretary of State John Kerry further
confirmed that there were two documented instances of chemical weapons use.The
White House, however, stressed that this was not enough to confirm how
the nerve gas was released -- though acknowledged it is "very likely"
to have originated with the regime of Bashar Assad -- and pressed
the United Nations for a "comprehensive" investigation. The letter from
the White House director of the Office of Legislative Affairs to leading
members of the Senate Armed Services Committee said the assessment was based
in part on "physiological samples."McCain, speaking to Fox News, said in
his view the red line "was crossed."Feinstein, an important voice on matters
of intelligence and security, also said it is "clear" those lines have
been crossed and "action must be taken to prevent larger scale use."She
added, in a statement: "Syria has the ability to kill tens of
thousands with its chemical weapons. The world must come together to prevent
this by unified action which results in the secure containment of Syria's
significant stockpile of chemical weapons. On the basis of this new assessment,
which is matched by France and the United Kingdom, I urge the
United Nations Security Council -- including Russia -- to finally take strong
and meaningful action to end this cr
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