Month / November 8, 2010
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Issa In Charge
Apparently posed to make good on months’ worth of campaign promises, Darrell Issa looks slated to hold hundreds of investigations and hearings. Talking with Politico, Issa, the chairman-in-waiting of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, claimed to want “seven hearings a week times 40 weeks.” But while the Chairman to-be seems eager to bring his…
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544 Haitians Dead in Cholera Epidemic
Although there were reports that the recent cholera epidemic was reaching the end of its two week, killer sweep across the poverty-stricken island nation, deaths continue to mount in Haiti. 8,000 cholera patients are in hospitals, with that number expected to grow. The majority of the cases have been in rural areas where there is…
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Obama Backs Security Council Bid
President Barack Obama announced yesterday that he would support India’s attempt to get on the United Nations’ Security Council. Speaking in Mumbai, on the first leg of his ten-day tour of South Asia, he emphasized India’s role in partnering with the U.S to take steps against militancy and terrorism. India has been lobbying for a…