Hastert, Frist Said to Rig Bill for Drug Firms

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Hastert, Frist Said to Rig Bill for Drug Firms

Thu, 09 Feb 2006 16:09:56 -0800

 

 

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and House Speaker Dennis Hastert

rigged bill for drug firms; Abramoff paid for congressional aide's

travel; wounded soldier forced to pay for damaged body armor; and more

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Hastert, Frist Said to Rig Bill for Drug Firms

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020906R.shtml

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and House Speaker Dennis Hastert

engineered a backroom legislative maneuver to protect pharmaceutical

companies from lawsuits, say witnesses to the pre-Christmas power play.

 

Abramoff Paid for Aide to Rep. Doolittle's Trip, Records Show

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020906S.shtml

A former top aide to California Republican Rep. John Doolittle

traveled to Puerto Rico on a trip paid for by Jack Abramoff's lobbying

firm, records show. House rules prohibit lawmakers and staff from

taking trips paid for by registered lobbyists or lobbying firms.

 

Army Blasted over Soldier's Body Armor

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020906T.shtml

West Virginia's two US Senators asked top military leaders Tuesday to

explain why 1st Lt. William " Eddie " Rebrook IV had to reimburse the US

Army $700 last week for body armor and other gear damaged after he was

seriously wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq.

 

Energy Gaps Seen in Bush's Budget

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020906EA.shtml

President Bush's latest spending plan slashes $100 million from

federal programs promoting conservation, and falls short of the

commitment in last year's energy bill to make vast new investments in

renewable and emerging technologies like hydrogen fuel and solar power.

 

New York Health Care Industry Says It Faces $1.2 Billion in Cutbacks

under Bush Plan

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020906HA.shtml

The Medicare cutbacks that President Bush proposed this week would

eventually wring $1.2 billion a year from New York's troubled health

care industry, cuts that would come as the state is already losing

hospitals to wrenching changes in health care, industry officials said

on Tuesday.

 

Lynn Harris | The Baby Industrial Complex

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020906HB.shtml

A Harvard economist reveals that the booming fertility industry is

shockingly unregulated - and says it's time for the US government to

step in.

 

David Holthouse | Anti-Gay Researcher's Falsehoods Are Well-Known

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020906HC.shtml

Anti-gay researcher Paul Cameron's falsehoods are well-known. While he

makes no attempt to disguise his personal bias, Cameron dresses up his

studies with footnotes, bibliographies and charts, and then publishes

them in bogus " academic " journals. His work has been repeatedly

unmasked as propaganda by many legitimate scientists.

 

State Subsidy to Wal-Mart Employees Put at $12 Million

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020906LA.shtml

It cost the state of Washington an estimated $12 million in 2004 to

provide government-subsidized health care to Wal-Mart employees,

according to a state Senate analysis released Tuesday.

 

Benefits Go the Way of Pensions

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020906LB.shtml

GM, struggling to maintain its grip in the global auto industry, is

being forced to bow to a changing competitive landscape and join the

ranks of hundreds of other companies that are moving to unburden

themselves of as much of the cost of supporting their retired work

force as they can.

 

Demonstrators Call for Journalist Jill Carroll's Release

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020906WA.shtml

Reporters Without Borders (RWB) held a demonstration in Paris on

Tuesday to mark the 30th day of captivity for American freelance

journalist Jill Carroll, who was kidnapped in Baghdad. According to

RWB, 37 journalists, including eight women, have been abducted in Iraq

since March of 2003, and five have been killed.

 

World Social Forum Finale

A Film by Chris Hume and Sari Gelzer

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On the last day of the VI World Social Forum in Caracas, Venezuela,

Chris Hume and Sari Gelzer hear participants' reflections on how

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