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Opinion: What's So Bad About Earmarks?

(Nov. 16) -- Few words are dirtier in Washington than "earmark." Soon-to-be House Speaker John Boehner has vowed to ban them. President Barack Obama has called for earmark reform. The chairmen of the president's debt commission say the practice should be eliminated. And on Monday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell,...

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05/02/12 Medicare Reform: Premium Support Is Bipartisan Source: The Heritage Foundation The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health held a hearing last Friday to discuss the bipartisan effort behind competing premium support plans.
05/01/12 Conservative Democrats agree Democrats will capitulate... Source: Daily Kos Today's award for totally clueless Democrats who want the Very Serious People to love them is a tie: former Lousiana Sen. John Breaux, and Alice Rivlin, the former head of the White House's Office of the Management and Budget in the Clinton administration.
04/18/12 Administration for Community Living to Promote... Source: PR Newswire Home healthcare community commends HHS for encouraging use of clinically advanced, cost-effective, patient preferred home healthcare - WASHINGTON , April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare – a national coalition representing more than 1,500 community- and hospital-based home health agencies nationwide – today commended the U.S. Department for Health and Human Services (HHS) on its announced establishment of the Administration for Community Living (ACL), which will promote community and independent living. The new agency's objective is to enable seniors and people with disabilities to access home healthcare and other services so they can remain in their homes and communities rather than in institutions.

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John Berlinger Breaux (; born March 1, 1944) is a former United States senator from Louisiana who served from 1987 until 2005. He was also a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1972 to 1987. He was considered one of the more conservative national legislators from the Democratic Party.

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