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House - meets at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 14, 2010.
Senate - meets at 2:30 p.m. on Monday, September 13, 2010.
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From washingtonpost.com:
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More tax breaks on the way?
| White House advisers mull package of business tax breaks to spur hiring, combat GOP charges. | Oil platform fire reignites debate
| Blaze aboard oil platform in Gulf of Mexico adds to political debate over safety of offshore wells. | Selling abstinence in China
| The obstacles U.S. evangelicals faced in trying to bring sex education to China's teens. | Hurricane Earl, downgraded to Category 2, lashes Outer Banks with strong winds, rain
| Hurricane Earl pounded the Outer Banks with heavy rains and strong winds early Friday morning as the eye of the storm passed around 90 miles off the coast. Early signs suggested the ocean surge was not as severe as predicted, but residents awaited full daylight to assess the damage. | Retail sales, home contracts rise modestly
| Americans have not lost their will to spend, according to a modest and surprising bump in retail sales last month and the number of contracts signed by home buyers in July. | 'Overhaul' details rescue of U.S. automakers
| In one of the first detailed insider accounts by a member of President Obama's team, a chief architect of the federal bailouts for General Motors and Chrysler has penned a 300-plus page description of the policy improvisation performed by the administration as the economy swooned at the outset of... | Put the millionaires' tax money to good use
| With the economy downshifting into first gear and their poll numbers sagging, the White House and Democratic congressional leaders are desperate for an economic and political game-changer as they head into the November elections. As it happens, there's one close at hand: the expiration of the "Bu... | Justice Department sues Arizona sheriff Arpaio
| The federal government is suing Joe Arpaio, the controversial Arizona sheriff, over his refusal to turn over documents in a civil rights probe. | Race to the Top grants go to groups developing new student assessment strategies
| The federal government awarded $330 million Thursday to two groups that are developing new student assessment systems for the District, Maryland and dozens of other states in an effort to upgrade their much-maligned standardized tests. | BP points to innovations arising from gulf oil spill
| A glossy "Lessons Learned" document released on Thursday by BP describes the Deepwater Horizon blowout and oil spill as a valuable spur for innovation in containing future oil rig failures. | White House considers pre-midterm package of business tax breaks to spur hiring
| With less than two months until the November elections, the White House is weighing a package of business tax breaks potentially worth hundreds of billions of dollars. | As Mideast talks begin, Clinton urges Israelis, Palestinians to seek 'future of peace'
| Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton officially inaugurated a new Middle East peace process Thursday urging patience and leadership from the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, who soon after agreed to meet in less than two weeks for a second round of talks. | In speech, Calderon acknowledges "central threat" of drug cartels to Mexico
| MEXICO CITY - President Felipe Calderon acknowledged Thursday that an increasingly bloody war with powerful drug trafficking organizations continues to pose "the central threat" to Mexico. | Abstinence program partners Chinese officials with U.S. evangelicals
| BEIJING - If all goes according to plan, this fall a girl somewhere in China's Yunnan Province will tell her boyfriend she can't have sex with him. And he'll have an abstinence program from the United States to thank. | Karzai calls aide's arrest reminiscent of Soviet times
| Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke out angrily against the arrest of one of his closest aides last month on corruption charges, saying that the detention was conducted in a manner "exactly reminiscent of the Soviet presence in Afghanistan. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, who appeared with Karzai | A veteran rock-and-roll manager returns - in South America
| BOGOTA, COLOMBIA - He was once one of London's best-known '60s-era rogues, dressed flamboyantly, spinning around town in a Mini Cooper and using a bodyguard known as "the butcher" to threaten his rivals. | Karzai urges Afghans not to panic as bank withdrawals accelerate
| As depositors thronged branches of Afghanistan's biggest bank, Mahmoud Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a major shareholder in the beleaguered Kabul Bank, called Thursday for intervention by the United States to head off a financial meltdown. | Regulators fell short in identifying and addressing problems, Bernanke says
| Regulators fell short in using their powers "forcefully or effectively" to stop risky practices by banks and were slow to identify and address abuses in the U.S. financial system that led to global economic crisis, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke told a panel investigating the financial ... | AOL-Google revenue-sharing pact includes mobile, online video services
| AOL and Google announced Thursday a five-year renewal of their revenue-sharing pact, which will now include mobile search and online video, two areas that AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong called critical to the future of his company as it tries to revamp and return to profitability. |
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stateline.org - State and Local Issues
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Education's less-than-certain windfall
There's $10 billion for schools in the state aid bill Congress passed last month. But some school systems have reason to wonder whether they are going to see the money. |
New state tests coming to schools
TODAY'S TAKE: The Obama administration is continuing its recent effort to make schools across states adhere to the same standards. On Thursday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan rolled out a plan to prepare common standardized tests for states to adopt. The new tests, which would replace existing state assessments, have already run into some political opposition. |
Rhetoric trumps realism in campaigns for governor
There’s no shortage of reform ideas in this year’s gubernatorial campaigns. But there aren’t many specifics about how the huge budget gaps that exist in most states can be resolved. |
Pressure mounts over drilling moratorium
TODAY'S TAKE: Oil companies -- and the Gulf Coast states that depend on them -- won a court victory Wednesday (Sept. 1) when a federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a temporary federal ban on deepwater drilling. Despite the BP oil spill, Louisiana and Texas are among the states that want drilling to resume as soon as possible, citing lost revenues and economic activity. |
LA: Oil platform explosion is in marked contrast with BP disaster in Gulf of Mexico
An oil and natural gas production platform exploded in flames Thursday morning, sending 13 workers on board plunging into the Gulf of Mexico and touching raw nerves about the safety of offshore energy operations in the wake of the BP spill. |
US: U.S. asks educators to reinvent student tests, and how they are given
Standardized exams — the multiple-choice, bubble tests in math and reading that have played a growing role in American public education in recent years — are being overhauled. |
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Stem Cell Research and Cloning
Information and resources to help you explore the issues.
Recent News and Developments:
- Stem Cell Strides Test Bush Policy (Wash.Post,04/22/03)
- House Votes To Prohibit All Human Cloning (Wash.Post,02/28/03)
- New Status For Embryos In Research (Wash.Post,10/30/02)
- Calif. to Enact Bill Promoting Stem Cell Research (Wash.Post,09/22/02)
- Stem Cell Research Not Yet Booming (Wash.Post,08/06/02)
- Bush Panel Has 2 Views on Embryonic Cloning (Wash.Post,07/11/02)
- New Genes Cure Rare Disorder in 2 Children (Wash.Post,06/28/02)
- Study Finds Potential in Adult Cells (Wash.Post,06/21/02)
- Anti-Cloning Bills Stall in Senate; Vote Unlikely Soon (Wash.Post,06/14/02)
- Debate Over Cloning Puts the Political in Science (Wash.Post,06/10/02)
- Hatch to Support Bill Allowing Stem Cell Study (Wash.Post,05/01/02)
- Thompson: Stem Cell Work Viable;
Most Lines Unproven, HHS Chief Concedes (Wash.Post,09/06/01)
- Embryonic Stem Cells Turned Into Blood Cells (Wash.Post,09/04/01)
- U.S. Count of Stem Cell Lines Surprised Swedes (Wash.Post,08/30/01)
- Stem Cell Colonies' Viability Unproven (Wash.Post,08/28/01)
- U.S. Identifies Stem Cell Labs (Wash.Post,08/27/01)
- Stem Cell Research Faces FDA Hurdle:
With Mouse Cell Base, Tough Rules Apply (Wash.Post,08/24/01)
- Viability Of Stem Cell Plan Doubted:
Bush Policy Could Limit Research, Scientists Say (Wash.Post,08/20/01)
- Bush's Stem Cell Data Disputed:
Scientists, Some Hill Democrats Want Proof That 60 'Lines' Exist (Wash.Post,08/18/01)
- Bush Aides Stress Curbs on Stem Cells (Wash.Post,08/13/01)
- Stem Cell Policy Eased by Bush Decision:
Bush Decision May Add Colonies for Research (Wash.Post,08/11/01)
- Researchers Uncertain About 60 Cells Lines Named by President (ABC,08/10/01)
- Bush Backs Partial Stem Cell Funding (Wash.Post,08/10/01)
- Prime Time Bush, Live from Crawford (Wash.Post,08/10/01)
- U.S. to create registry of stem cell lines (CNN,08/10/01)
- Bush Backs Limited Research (ABC,08/10/01)
- Stem cell research around the world (CNN,08/10/01)
- Adult stem cells or embryonic? Scientists differ (CNN,08/10/01)
- Bush to allow limited stem cell funding (CNN,08/10/01)
- Reaction mixed to stem cell decision (CNN,08/10/01)
- Bush Backs Limited Stem Cell Research (Wash.Post,08/09/01)
- Nearly half House members urge stem cell funding (CNN,08/09/01)
- Candidate Bush opposed embryo stem cell research (CNN,08/09/01)
- Bush Hints at Stem-Cell Decision (ABC,08/08/01)
- Local Firms Among Players in Stem-Cell Research (Wash.Post,08/05/01)
- Stem-Cell Backing Holds at Six in 10 (ABC,08/03/01)
- Stem cells help heal paralyzed rats (CNN,08/03)
- Women represent two sides of stem cell debate (CNN,07/31/01)
- First Lady Won't Reveal Position on Stem Cell Research (Wash.Post,07/31)
- Bush pondering stem cell issue, first lady says (CNN,07/30/01)
- Christopher Reeve on politics and stem cell research (CNN,07/30/01)
- Scientists, senators testify on stem cell research (CNN,07/25/01)
- Pope Meets With Bush, Condemns Stem-Cell Research (ABC,07/23/01)
- Stem-Cell Tug of War (ABC,07/17/01)
- Lott opposed to funding stem-cell research (CNN,07/17/01)
- Stem cells and a new brain drain (CNN,07/09/01)
- GOP Split on Stem-Cell Research
as White House Nears Decision (ABC,07/03/01)
- Michael J. Fox on Parkinson's Battle (ABC,06/08/01)
- Skeletal stem cells may save ailing hearts (CNN,05/29/01)
- New Treatment Possible Using Human Embryos to Treat Diseases (ABC,04/27/01)
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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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