New Pentagon Report: No Iraq - Al Qaeda links
It seems that everyone knows this now except for our president and vice president. They continue to suggest and in Cheney’s case outright state that there were links between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.
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Legislative Update 3/29/07
This is from Rep. Susan Fisher:
The House moved several significant pieces of legislation this week, approving measures to improve confidence in the workings of the legislative branch and our courts. My colleagues and I also gave our approval to proposals that would return scheduling flexibility to school systems and made progress toward our promise to try to ensure that our most vulnerable citizens can receive affordable health care. Thanks as always for giving me a chance to share this update and I look forward to hearing your thoughts as the important work of this session continues.
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Ethics
_ Members of the House have repealed a law that allowed chiropractors to charge patients the same co-payments as doctors. North Carolina is the only state with such a law, and while many of my colleagues didn’t disagree with the policy, they felt obliged to throw out the law because of its link to illegal payments made to former House Speaker Jim Black. Black acknowledged in state and federal court that he took $29,000 in illegal cash payments from three chiropractors who sought the change. He had it inserted as a special provision to a budget corrections bill in 2005. [Read more →]
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Errington C. Thompson, MD, is a surgeon, scholar, fulltime sports fan and part-time political activist. He is active in a number of community projects and initiatives. Through medicine, he strives to improve the physical health of all he treats...
