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House - meets at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 9, 2010.
Senate - meets at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, March 9, 2010.
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In the Committees - Tuesday, March 09, 2010
House Committees:
- Appropriations - Interior and Environment Subc. On the FY 2011 budget request for the Bureau of Land Management. Dept. witnesses. B-308 RHOB.(2:00); Select Intelligence Oversight Panel. On the National Reconnaissance Office. Dept. witnesses. H-405 Capitol.(5:00-Ex.)
- Armed Services - Military Personnel Subc. On reviewing studies of the effects of deployment on military children. Public witnesses. 2118 RHOB.(5:30)
- Financial Services - Full Committee. On Community Development Financial Institutions and the challenges these organizations face in serving lower-income, underserved, and minority communities. Dept. and public witnesses. 2128 RHOB.(2:00)
- Rules - Full Committee. On H.Con.Res. 248 - Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove the United States Armed Forces from Afghanistan. H-313 Capitol.(5:00)
Senate Committees:
- Appropriations - Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies. Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2011 for the Department of the
Interior. SD-124. (09:30 am); Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies. Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2011 for the Food and Drug
Administration. SD-192. (10:00 am)
- Armed Services - Hearings to examine U.S. European Command, U.S. Africa Command, and U.S. Joint Forces Command in review of the Defense Authorization request for fiscal year 2011 and the Future Years Defense Program; with the possibility of a closed session in
SR-222 following the open session. SH-216. (09:00 am)
- Energy - Hearings to examine financial transmission rights and other electricity market
mechanisms. SD-366. (10:00 am)
- Environment - Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health Subcommittee. Hearings to examine business perspectives on reforming U.S. chemical safety
laws. SD-406. (10:00 am)
- Finance - Hearings to examine United States preference programs, focusing on options for
reform. SD-215. (09:30 am)
- Health and Education - Hearings to examine Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) reauthorization, focusing on K-12 education for economic
success. SD-430. (02:30 pm)
- Intelligence - A closed meeting to consider certain intelligence
matters. SH-219. (02:30 pm)
- Veterans - A joint hearing with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to examine a legislative presentation from Veterans of Foreign
Wars. SDG-50. (09:30 am)
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Biden arrives in Mideast amid criticism of effort
| Attempts to mediate talks hindered by comments Obama administration has set back peace process. | Greece seeks curbs on deals
| Urging U.S. action, premier says Europe will target transactions blamed for worsening debt. | Officers recall Pentagon mayhem
| "There was no time to think, it happened so fast," says one of the guards who shot gunman. | Justices eye funeral protests
| Court will review whether the anti-gay protests at funerals of American soldiers are protected. | House liberals force vote on pullout from Afghanistan
| Liberals in the House, who have spent much of the past year complaining that other congressional Democrats and the White House are insufficiently progressive, will get a chance this week to vent about one of their biggest concerns: the war in Afghanistan. | Massa blames resignation on health-care debate
| The Associated Press ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) -- New York Rep. Eric Massa is blaming his resignation on a conspiracy by House Democratic leaders to force him out before a crucial vote on health care. | Senator offers Guantanamo Bay deal if 9/11 trials move to military tribunals
| TERRORISM A Republican senator is offering the White House a deal on terrorism trials. | Ethics clouds over Rangel and Paterson are the talk of political Harlem
| NEW YORK -- Few will deny that the political landscape here in Harlem has yielded rich and galvanizing story lines. The arcs of those narratives have been taught and shared in classrooms across America. | Key vacancies give Obama a chance to steer financial reform
| President Obama has the chance during his first term to appoint leaders for each of the federal agencies that oversee banks, an important opportunity to reshape the government's approach to regulation even as the White House struggles to push structural reforms through the Senate. | Washington lawyer Bob Barnett is the force behind many political book deals
| In "I, Alex Cross," the new bestseller set in Washington by James Patterson, fictional detective Alex Cross scans the ego wall in the office of a senator he's investigating: | Brown's election may ending up being a positive for health-care reform
| Remember how Republican Scott P. Brown's victory in January's Senate race in Massachusetts was supposed to represent a mortal blow to health-care reform? | Sunday Washington talk-show guests: March 7, 2010
| Guests to be interviewed Sunday on major television talk shows: | Democratic activists channel anger into Arkansas Senate race
| Democratic activists flooding money into a primary challenge against Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) say the race isn't simply about defeating the incumbent. It is also about rebuking a Democratic-controlled Congress that they say isn't pursuing an aggressive, populist agenda. | Scientists learn red grouper operate as underwater architects
| Red grouper are known for a few key characteristics -- their hue, which can range from pink to bright orange; their tastiness, whether they're grilled or saut??ed; and their predation method, in which they ambush fellow sea creatures and swallow them whole. | Court to rule in military funeral protest case
| The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will review whether the anti-gay protests at funerals of American soldiers are protected by the First Amendment. | Obama takes health care message to Philadelphia
| President Obama began a pivotal week for his health-care legislation with a Monday morning speech in which he strongly criticized the insurance industry, holding up rising premiums and lost coverage as the imperatives driving his reform efforts. | Bo Xilai's charm offensive is paying off politically in China
| BEIJING -- Of the nearly 3,000 members of China's ruling elite in the country's capital this weekend to kick off the biggest political gathering of the year, only one has the state media and online commentators abuzz: Bo Xilai. | Icelanders reject full repayment to British, Dutch caught in bank collapse
| LONDON -- Icelanders this weekend resoundingly rejected a plan to reimburse overseas depositors after the failure of an online Icelandic bank, a rare public referendum on the repayment of a foreign liability that could fuel further concerns over debt problems in Europe. | Gates discusses Afghan reconciliation efforts, new Kandahar offensive
| KABUL -- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Monday that recent military offensives against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan had gained momentum but that a reconciliation effort proposed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai was unlikely in the near term to cause senior Taliban leaders to lay do... | Greece seeks curbs on financial speculation
| LONDON -- A day before he meets with President Obama, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou on Monday called for "decisive and collective action" between Europe and the United States to curb the financial speculation believed by many to have exacerbated the debt crisis now hitting Greece and other... | Criticism of Obama peace process casts shadow on Biden's Israel visit
| JERUSALEM -- Vice President Biden arrived in Israel Monday to boost U.S. efforts to mediate talks between Israelis and Palestinians amid criticism that the Obama administration has set back the peace process. | Second Life's virtual money can become real-life cash
| Dana Moore sells rain. He sells a lot of it, for about a buck per reusable storm. | INSIDER TRANSACTIONS
U.S. reportedly gives billions to firms doing business with Iran
| The U.S. government, while pushing for tougher sanctions against Tehran, has given $107 billion in the past 10 years to U.S. and foreign companies doing business in Iran, much of it in the energy sector, the New York Times reported in its Sunday editions. |
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stateline.org - State and Local Issues
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Going to the mat over money
As states continue to find ways to plug an estimated $460 billion hole that opened up in their budgets between 2009 and 2012, “trimming the fat” and “cutting to the bone” are ancient history. But deeper cuts have gotten trickier. “Everything that hasn't been nailed down has been cut,” Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California, told The Sacramento Bee. “What's left is the legally questionable stuff.” And that’s just the point for targets of some of those cuts who are, in increasing numbers, taking their appeals to the courts. |
Fee hikes OK for some anti-tax govs
TODAY'S TAKE: Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons and Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell both are Republicans who have vowed not to raise taxes. Gibbons even has said that he would rather cut his way out of a projected $3 billion budget shortfall next year — or about half the state’s two-year budget — than raise taxes. But both governors are eyeing fee increases as a part of their budget solutions. |
Fresh air in Wyoming
 Outgoing Governor Dave Freudenthal and the Wyoming Legislature have agreed on a bipartisan plan to enact the nation’s first tax on wind-energy production. So why don’t other wind-state governors agree? |
US: Schools' new math -- the four-day week
A small but growing number of school districts across the country are moving to a four-day week, in a shift they hope will help close gaping budget holes and stave off teacher layoffs, but that critics fear could hurt students' education. |
WI: Clues on how states made Race cut
Wisconsin's failure to make the cut in the first round of competition for a federal pool of $4.35 billion in school reform grants has afforded it one consolation prize: the ability to examine characteristics of states that did advance, to strengthen its application for a second round in June. |
CA: California to list 187 chronically low-performing schools
To align with the Obama administration's push to reform failing schools, California today will release a controversial list of the state's 187 "persistently lowest-achieving schools." The schools will be forced to close or adopt other drastic measures to improve. |
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State of the Union Address - 2004
Information and resources on Pres. Bush's 2004 State of the Union Address
President Bush's 2004 State of the Union Address, 1/20/2004:
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Governing.com - State and Local News
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The Way We Tax: A 50-State Report
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The vast majority of state tax systems are inadequate for the task of funding a 21st-century government. Most of those tax systems are also unfair. They break the golden rule of tax equity: collect the lowest possible rates on the widest possible base of taxpayers.
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Articles:
Assessments: Alan Ehrenhalt on living with "lifestyle centers"
Potomac Chronicle: Donald F. Kettl on the states as beggars
Technology: Thomas R. Davies on outside resources for new IT leaders
Tax Talk: David Brunori on the principles of sound tax policy
Economic Development: William Fulton on how a city's size affects its competitiveness
Environment: Tom Arrandale on the risks of weakening longstanding laws
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White House schedule information and recent statements and news releases.
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