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- Debt Deal Compromise to Spark Debate on Medicare Cuts, Taxes
- Government Losses to Top $1 Billion After Congress Fails to Reach Deal on FAA
- Hospitals Cracking Down On Cameras In Delivery Rooms
- Governments, IOC and UN hit by massive cyber attack
- Toxins in Car Seats: Research Group Ranks the Best and Worst
- 2012-ers Take On Biden Over Alleged Use of the T Word
- Tea Party senator unveils new PAC
| Debt Deal Compromise to Spark Debate on Medicare Cuts, Taxes Posted: 03 Aug 2011 02:53 PM PDT From: SFGate.com Aug. 3 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama’s signature on a bill raising the debt limit sealed a compromise that averted a U.S. default even as it did nothing to narrow the gulf between Republicans and Democrats over tax increases and spending cuts. The measure postpones the thorniest fiscal dilemmas for later this year when the 2012 election campaign will intensify. A panel of lawmakers must push through a $1.5 trillion debt- reduction package by year’s end — or risk automatic spending cuts across the government, including defense and Medicare. That means the disputes that prolonged negotiations on the debt limit will be refought. The stakes were underscored hours after Obama signed the bill when Moody’s Investors Service said it may downgrade the U.S. credit rating for the first time on concern fiscal discipline may ease and the economy may weaken. In addition, China, the largest foreign investor in U.S. government securities, joined Russia in criticizing American policy makers for failing to ensure that U.S. borrowing is reined in. Obama, who pressed unsuccessfully during the talks for a “balanced approach” to shrink deficits with tax increases and spending cuts, said the panel must put both on the table. “We can’t balance the budget on the backs of the very people who have borne the brunt of this recession,” he said in the White House Rose Garden yesterday. “Everyone’s going to have to chip in. That’s only fair. That’s the principle I’ll be fighting for during the next phase of this process.” To read more, visit: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/08/03/bloomberg1376-LPBKLO07SXKX01-2M5MB3CGA5ISVJ6OI3ULQ94C45.DTL |
| Government Losses to Top $1 Billion After Congress Fails to Reach Deal on FAA Posted: 03 Aug 2011 02:48 PM PDT From: FOXNews.com WASHINGTON – The government is likely to lose more than $1 billion in airline ticket taxes because lawmakers have left town for a month without resolving a partisan standoff over a bill to end the partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration. The government already has lost more than $200 million since airlines are unable to collect taxes on ticket sales because the FAA’s operating authority has expired. The Senate recessed on Tuesday until September, erasing any possibility for quickly resolving the issue. The House left Monday night. Caught up in the partisan acrimony are nearly 4,000 FAA employees who have been furloughed. The FAA also has issued stop work orders on more than 200 construction projects, threatening the jobs of thousands of other workers. Air traffic controllers, however, remain on the job. The debacle could have had an upside for airline passengers because ticket taxes, which typically average about $30 on a $300 round-trip fare, are suspended during the shutdown. But airlines decided to pocket the windfall. Within hours of the shutdown on July 23, most airlines raised their fares by amounts equivalent to the taxes that disappeared. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood called airline CEOs to complain and lawmakers have sent letters demanding the fare hikes be reversed and the profits be placed in escrow. But their howls have largely been ignored. Airlines collectively lost about $440 million in the first six months of this year, according to the Air Transport Association. To read more, visit: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/02/faa-shutdown-to-continue-as-congress-leaves-town/?test=latestnews |
| Hospitals Cracking Down On Cameras In Delivery Rooms Posted: 03 Aug 2011 02:43 PM PDT From: CBS Pittsburgh.com PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – The birth of a child is special for any parent and a long-standing tradition has been to film the event. However, some hospitals are cracking down and aren't allowing cameras in the delivery room anymore. Kate Koontz treasures the video of the birth of her son. "It's just nice to show him and he enjoys watching it. And he enjoys seeing what he did when he was first born and in the hospital," Koontz said. The Koontzs kept it discreet, with a camera running on a side table through the whole process, But, some hospitals are saying recording in the delivery room is off-limits. "Some hospitals permit it, some have limits on it. Some hospitals require patients to sign a form saying that they'll stop if the doctor requests that they do so," Birth Injury Lawyer Victor Pribanic said. Among some Pittsburgh area hospitals, West Penn said no images of any kind, unless the father is stationed overseas. Photos are allowed after the baby is born. To read more, visit: http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2011/08/02/hospitals-cracking-down-on-cameras-in-delivery-rooms/ |
| Governments, IOC and UN hit by massive cyber attack Posted: 03 Aug 2011 02:39 PM PDT By Daniel Emery, BBC News IT security firm McAfee claims to have uncovered one of the largest ever series of cyber attacks. It lists 72 different organisations that were targeted over five years, including the International Olympic Committee, the UN and security firms. McAfee will not say who it thinks is responsible, but there is speculation that China may be behind the attacks. Beijing has always denied any state involvement in cyber-attacks, calling such accusations “groundless”. Speaking to BBC News, McAfee’s chief European technology officer, Raj Samani, said the attacks were still going on. “This is a whole different level to the Night Dragon attacks that occurred earlier this year. Those were attacks on a specific sector. This one is very, very broad.” To read more, visit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14387559 |
| Toxins in Car Seats: Research Group Ranks the Best and Worst Posted: 03 Aug 2011 02:35 PM PDT By Joseph Brownstein for MyHealthNewsDaily, FOXNews.com After a new baby arrives, one of the first products a parent uses is the car seat to take them home from the hospital. But while the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration provides information on how car seats perform in crashes, one consumer research group is aiming to provide parents information about the chemicals that may be contained in the seat material. Healthystuff.org, a project of the Michigan-based Ecology Center, looked at more than 150 new car seats and analyzed them for the presence of chemicals including bromine, chlorine, lead and other chemicals that have been linked to learning disabilities or other developmental problems. Researchers used X-ray fluorescence to determine the chemicals in each car seat. Because it’s unknown whether the chemical levels in car seats are high enough to cause harm, the researchers cautioned that the value of this study is secondary to the car seat’s primary purpose. “Car seats are a safety device,” said Jeff Gearhart, research director for healthystuff.org. “Parents should use a car seat regardless of what our tests show. None of the results of our findings mean you shouldn’t have a car seat, even if that car seat is the poorest one we tested.” Parents may want to use the ratings when purchasing a new seat when their child grows, Gearhart said. To read more, visit: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/08/03/toxins-in-car-seats-research-group-ranks-best-and-worst/ |
| 2012-ers Take On Biden Over Alleged Use of the T Word Posted: 03 Aug 2011 02:31 PM PDT By: Shushannah Walshe, ABC News When you are running for president, taking on the incumbent is standard stump on the campaign trail. But after Vice President Joe Biden reportedly said that Tea Party legislators "acted like terrorists" during the debt-ceiling negotiations, which he has denied saying, the 2012 GOP presidential contenders –and those still thinking about jumping in — are taking on the second-in-command. At this point in the campaign, Mitt Romney is the GOP frontrunner and his spokesperson Andrea Saul criticized the alleged “terrorist” comment. "It’s reprehensible. Decent Americans who are concerned about the future of their country should not be characterized in ugly and unflattering terms by the White House," Saul told ABC News. At a meeting with House Democrats Monday, Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Pa., reportedly told the vice president that “the Tea Party acted like terrorists in threatening to blow up the economy" before Biden repeated the phrase several times. Politico reported that Biden replied, "They have acted like terrorists." Biden quickly denied ever using the phrase, telling CBS News' Scott Pelley that he "did not use the terrorism word." “What happened was there were some people who said they felt like they were being held hostage by terrorists,” Biden said. “I never said that they were terrorists or weren’t terrorists, I just let them vent. I said, ‘Even if that were the case, what’s been happening when you now have taken and paid the debt and move that down so we can now discuss, the nuclear weapon’s been taken out of anyone’s hands.’” To read more, visit: http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/08/2012-ers-take-on-biden-over-alleged-use-of-the-t-word-.html |
| Tea Party senator unveils new PAC Posted: 03 Aug 2011 02:28 PM PDT By Alexander Bolton, TheHill.com Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), a member of the Senate Tea Party Caucus, has established a new fundraising committee to support conservative candidates, and will not rule out challenging GOP incumbents. Lee on Tuesday unveiled his new leadership political action committee (PAC), the Constitutional Conservatives Fund. It appears to be modeled on Sen. Jim DeMint's (R-S.C.) Senate Conservatives Fund, which helped elect Tea Party-backed candidates to the Senate in 2010. "The purpose of it is to help find and support candidates for federal office who share my view that federal government has become too big and too expensive and believe in the need to restore what I refer to as constitutional-limited government," Lee told The Hill. Lee has already endorsed two conservative candidates in GOP primaries for open Senate seats in Arizona and Texas: Rep. Jeff Flake (Ariz.) and Texas solicitor general Ted Cruz. Lee, who defeated three-term incumbent Sen. Bob Bennett (R) at Utah's Republican primary convention in 2010, is not ruling out backing conservatives who might challenge his Senate colleagues. To read more, visit: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/175055-tea-party-senator-unveils-new-leadership-pac-wont-rule-out-challenging-gop-incumbents- |
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