We have updates on the Unemployment cover extension. People are getting more desperate as the time runs out and job searching seems to be futile. Now it seems the Congress has passed the vote to move forward the 30-day unemployment cover eligibility legislation.
Republican Senator Olympia Snowe has said that she will not interfere in the way of passing this unemployment cover 30-day extension. Four Republicans in total have given a procedural vote to forward the extension. According to Harry Reid, a final vote on the bill should take place by Thursday.
If it passes, the bill would restore unemployment benefits and COBRA healthcare subsidies that expired last Monday. The Senate failed to renew the government assistance before it broke for Easter recess two weeks ago.
Well let’s see if now the Congress can help people in the USA with an unemployment cover, instead of spending billions killing people in other countries…
A week of national mourning has been declared by the Polish government after the Saturday plane crash. In the tragic plane crash incident, 96 people lost their lives and the president of Poland and first lady was among them.The sudden death of the Polish President Lech Kaczynski cast a dark shadow all around the country and most of the people in Poland are still in shock. The unfortunate people who died in the plane crash also include senior military, political and religious leaders. The head of the Polish central bank, the deputy parliament speaker, the national security adviser and the deputy foreign minister were also among those who died in the crash. A couple of presidential candidates were also killed in the horrible plane crash.
Questions are being raised on the incident and the nation is devastated. A large number of people gathered in front of the president’s residence to pay their condolence. The people lay bouquets of flowers and lit candles in memory of those who lost their lives.
Slawka Spurek said that she was shocked when she was informed about the plane crash. Slawka Spurek said,
The lady said, ‘Have you heard our president is dead?’ — and it was a shock. We still can’t believe it. There are so many people under the presidential palace here in Warsaw, and so many candles,”
Spurek added,
There’s an endless river of people, and I can’t believe this.”
Nuclear summit leaves out Indo-Pak question. nuclear summit 2010
The nuclear security summit in the US will give priority to preventing terrorists from getting hold of atomic weapons but will skip the "politically divisive" issue of South Asian nukes, a leading daily here said today.
"The single biggest threat to US security, both short term, medium term and long term, would be the possibility of a terrorist organisation obtaining a nuclear weapon," said President Barack Obama, who has convened the two-day meet being attended by 47 heads of state and leaders, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
"But for all its symbolism and ceremony, this meeting has quite limited goals: seeking ways to better secure existing supplies of bomb-usable plutonium and highly enriched uranium.
"The problem that India and Pakistan represent, though, is deliberately not on the agenda," the New York Times said.
Administration officials say that taking up the Pakistan-India arms race at the summit meeting would be "too politically divisive," the paper said.
Meanwhile, Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, who had a bilateral meeting with Obama yesterday, said the US has reaffirmed its confidence in the safety of Pakistan's nuclear programme.
"I thanked President Obama for his expression of firm confidence in our nuclear programme," he told Pakistani newsmen in Washington.
Tea Party Ads Target Stupak for ‘Betrayal’ on Health-Care Vote.health care reform
Tea Party activists started an advertising campaign against Representative Bart Stupak yesterday for backing President Barack Obama’s health-care bill when it was passed by the House last month.
The Tea Party Express began a fundraising drive earlier this week to raise $250,000 from its more than 400,000 members to pay for television and radio ads against Stupak, the Michigan Democrat whose decision to support the final health-care bill upset his former allies in the anti-abortion camp.
Stupak, 58, is the second Democrat to be targeted by the group’s political action committee, Our Country Deserves Better, spokesman Levi Russell said.
The group raised more than $400,000 to support Republican Scott Brown in his surprise win in Massachusetts’ special Senate election earlier this year, Russell said, and it has spent more than $500,000 against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat. Reid is up for re-election in November and polls have shown him trailing in matchups with several Republican candidates.
The Tea Party Express, which is conducting a cross-country bus tour that began last month in Reid’s hometown of Searchlight, Nevada, decided to target Stupak for his betrayal of the people” and his betrayal of the Constitution,” Russell said.
‘Sold Us Out’
Congressman Bart Stupak, you’ve betrayed our constitution,” an announcer says in the group’s ad. You’ve sold us out on the health-care vote. And now it’s time for you to pay the political price. Join the Tea Party Express as we send Bart Stupak packing for an early retirement.”
Stupak became a flashpoint in the health-care debate after he forced House Democratic leaders late last year to accept in their health-care bill restrictions that would have prevented recipients of federal subsidies from purchasing an insurance plan that covers elective abortions.
As the March 21 House vote neared on an alternative bill that didn’t contain the restrictions, Stupak agreed to support the measure after Obama pledged to issue an executive order preserving the ban on federal funding for abortions. Obama signed the order on March 24, though anti-abortion groups have questioned its effect.
Revised Plans
Stupak’s decision to back the alternative bill spurred organizers of the Tea Party Express to change their travel plans to add events in Stupak’s district in northern Michigan, Russell said.
The group had raised $80,000 by this afternoon for its ad campaign, Russell said, and the anti-Stupak commercials debuted on television and radio stations in and around his district. The rest of the money will be used to keep the ad on the air.
When we shine the spotlight on something and ask our members to respond, they act pretty quickly,” Russell said.
Stupak, a former state police trooper, first won his seat in 1992 and in 2008 was re-elected with 65 percent of the vote. This year, NARAL Pro-Choice America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund have announced plans to back a Democrat running against him in Michigan’s primary. At least two Republicans have declared their candidacy for the seat
