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- House Republicans Scramble to Rewrite Debt Bill in Bid to Draw More Support
- Volunteers Wanted to Transcribe ‘Lost Gospels’
- Sanders: Would be ‘good’ for Obama to face primary challenge
- Atheist group wants to stop World Trade Center cross
- Tea Party activists tell Boehner to stand firm
| House Republicans Scramble to Rewrite Debt Bill in Bid to Draw More Support Posted: 26 Jul 2011 06:22 PM PDT
With just a week to go until the Treasury says the federal government will run out of money to pay all of its bills, House Republicans are scrambling to rewrite a deficit-reduction bill pushed by Speaker John Boehner that failed to garner any significant support in either political party. The rewrite came one day before the House was set to vote on the legislation, which sought to cut $1.2 trillion in spending over the next decade. But the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday that the package would cut less than $1 trillion. “We’re here to change Washington — no more smoke-and-mirrors, no more ‘phantom cuts.’ We promised that we will cut spending more than we increase the debt limit — with no tax hikes — and we will keep that promise,” Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said. “As we speak, congressional staff are looking at options to re-write the legislation to meet our pledge,” Steel said. “This is what can happen when you have an actual plan and submit it for independent review — which the Democrats who run Washington have refused to do.” House conservatives refused to throw their support behind Boehner’s bill, and a source told Fox News that there were no House Democrats who would vote for it. House Republican leaders were very worried about putting the bill on the floor Wednesday and seeing it fail or being forced to yank it while the stock markets were open, possibly triggering a repeat of the steep market drop after the first Wall Street bailout vote failed in 2008, the source said. Republicans say they are rewriting the bill to develop more savings than what the CBO projected. But the source said they are rewriting it because they lack the votes to pass it. Republicans have only two options for a rewrite — they can lower the debt-ceiling increase (which means it would need a further increase before the spring 2012 mark initially discussed) or they could enhance the number of cuts. Earlier Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid warned that the bill is “dead on arrival” in his chamber, as the Obama administration issued a formal veto threat and pushed lawmakers to reach a “compromise.” Republican leaders had their own caucus to deal with, too, as conservatives voiced concerns about the bill proposed by Boehner. To read more, visit: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/07/26/house-gop-preps-boehner-bill-as-obama-calls-for-balanced-approach/ |
| Volunteers Wanted to Transcribe ‘Lost Gospels’ Posted: 26 Jul 2011 06:19 PM PDT
OXFORD, England – Thousands of volunteers are needed to help transcribe two million segments of ancient Greek writings in a bid to find the next “lost gospel,” researchers at the University of Oxford said. Some 200,000 segments of the ancient papyri, found in Egypt, were uploaded to the website www.ancientlives.org — and now volunteers are needed to transcribe the Greek letters using character-recognition tools. Researchers from the project already discovered previously-unknown “gospels,” including stories about Jesus casting out demons that were written in the third century. But now the project is looking for people across the world — who are not required to read classical Greek — to help translate the ancient documents because the task is too big for the research team. The software allows people to match Greek letters with the symbols on the papyri, then translates the words and stores them on a searchable database. The scripts include a range of bills, receipts, letters and other everyday documents, but researchers believe they also could contain more stories about Jesus. To read more, visit: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/26/volunteers-wanted-to-transcribe-lost-gospels-online/ |
| Sanders: Would be ‘good’ for Obama to face primary challenge Posted: 26 Jul 2011 05:56 PM PDT By Michael O’Brien, The Hill One of the Senate’s liberal stalwarts suggested over the weekend that President Obama could benefit from a primary challenger over the next year. Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), an Independent who caucuses with Democrats, said it would be a “good idea” for Obama to face a primary challenger, if for nothing else than as a counterweight to Republican voices in the presidential debate. “My suggestion is, I think one of the reasons the president has been able to move so far to the right is that there is no primary opposition to him, and I think it would do this country a good deal of service if people started thinking about candidates out there to begin contrasting what is a progressive agenda as opposed to what Obama is doing,” Sanders told talk show host Thom Hartmann over the weekend. “I think it would be a good idea if President Obama faced some primary opposition.” Liberals like Sanders have been critical of Obama for engaging with Republicans in negotiations over how much to cut spending, in connection with an agreement to raise the nation’s debt ceiling. Sanders in particular has been a vocal opponent of any plans to transform entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare. To read more, visit: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/173201-sanders-says-it-would-be-good-for-obama-to-face-primary-challenge |
| Atheist group wants to stop World Trade Center cross Posted: 26 Jul 2011 05:50 PM PDT
A group of atheists has filed a lawsuit to stop the display of the World Trade Center cross at a memorial of the 9/11 terror attacks. The “government enshrinement of the cross was an impermissible mingling of church and state,” the American Atheists say in a press statement. The group says it filed the lawsuit this week in state court in New York and posted a copy of the lawsuit on its website. The lawsuit names many defendants, including the state of New Jersey, the city of New York , New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. The World Trade Center cross, two intersecting steel beams that held up when the twin towers collapsed on September 11, 2001, is seen as iconic to some. The cross was moved Saturday from near a church to its new home at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. There was also ceremonial blessing of the cross in a service led by Father Brian Jordan, a Franciscan monk who ministered to workers clearing the area after the 9/11 attacks. Joe Daniels, 9/11 Memorial president, said Saturday that the cross is “an important part of our commitment to bring back the authentic physical reminders that tell the history of 9/11 in a way nothing else could. To read more, visit: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/07/26/new.york.wtc.cross/index.html#ixzz1TEMlu4Qq |
| Tea Party activists tell Boehner to stand firm Posted: 26 Jul 2011 04:20 PM PDT
Tea Party activists demanded House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner deliver on budget cuts at a rally on Monday at his Ohio offices, urging the Republican leader to “stand strong” in debt negotiations. About 100 people chanted “no more spending” and hoisted banners and signs reading “No New Taxes” and “Do Not Cave” outside the 11-term Republican’s offices near Cincinnati. “He needs to hear a resounding message that Americans want him to BE BOLD, STAND STRONG, CUT THE SPENDING,” said the rally announcement from the local Tea Party. Around the same time as the rally, Boehner outlined his party’s budget strategy as pressure grew on Congress to raise the government’s $14.3 trillion debt ceiling before an August 2 deadline. Demonstrators listening to Boehner on the radio cheered when he urged President Barack Obama, a Democrat, to put “people before politics” in resolving the stalemate. To read more, visit: http://hken.ibtimes.com/articles/187278/20110727/tea-party-activists-tell-boehner-to-stand-firm.htm |
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