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Clinton, Obama to Back Vote to Cut Off Funding for Troops in Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/15/AR2007051502207.html
Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) and Barack Obama (Ill.) announced yesterday that they will support a symbolic vote to cut off funding for combat troops in Iraq within a year, an important shift for both Democratic presidential candidates as the war debate on Capitol Hill intensifies. The funding vote is expected in the Senate today, as one of four test votes on Iraq that Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) had scheduled in advance of final talks with the House and the Bush administration over a $124 billion war-spending bill.
RELATED: Obama and Clinton Back Ending Iraq Combat by March 31
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/us/politics/16cong.html
RELATED: N.H. lawmaker endorses Clinton
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/05/16/nh_lawmaker_endorses_clinton/
Gonzales Hospital Episode Detailed
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/15/AR2007051500864.html
On the night of March 10, 2004, as Attorney General John D. Ashcroft lay ill in an intensive-care unit, his deputy, James B. Comey, received an urgent call. White House Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales and President Bush's chief of staff, Andrew H. Card Jr., were on their way to the hospital to persuade Ashcroft to reauthorize Bush's domestic surveillance program, which the Justice Department had just determined was illegal. In vivid testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, Comey said he alerted FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III and raced, sirens blaring, to join Ashcroft in his hospital room, arriving minutes before Gonzales and Card. Ashcroft, summoning the strength to lift his head and speak, refused to sign the papers they had brought. Gonzales and Card, who had never acknowledged Comey's presence in the room, turned and left.
RELATED: Ashcroft ex-aide details wiretap infighting
RELATED: Gonzales' visit to hospitalized Ashcroft criticized
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-05-15-ashcroft-wiretapping_N.htm
RELATED: Senate hears of split over wiretaps in '04
Prices Rose Faster Than Wages in April
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/15/AR2007051500493.html
Prices for food, gasoline, medical care and other items rose faster than most workers' wages last month, the government reported yesterday, adding to concerns that a squeeze on consumer spending might further weaken the sluggish economy. The Labor Department said yesterday that its consumer price index, a broadly followed gauge of inflation, rose 0.4 percent in April, largely reflecting a 2.4 percent increase in energy costs, including gasoline, fuel oil and electricity. After adjusting for inflation, average weekly earnings fell 0.5 percent last month and are up 0.9 percent from a year before, the department said in a separate report. These are the wages paid to private factory and non-managerial service workers, who account for four of every five workers.
RELATED: Inflation and Wages Show Slower Growth
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/business/16econ.html?ref=business
Gas likely to hit $4, transportation chief says
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2007/05/16/0516metpeters.html
Americans can expect $4-a-gallon gas, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters said Tuesday in an interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution during a daylong visit to Atlanta. She stressed she wasn't speaking from specific data but had seen $4 gas in San Francisco and predicted it would spread to regions like Atlanta "certainly in the next few years." Peters, who was in town to release a study on air travel, made that observation between meetings with airport officials, Georgia Transportation Commissioner Harold Linnenkohl, the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and the chairmen of the House and Senate transportation committees, her staff said.
RELATED: Experts say oil refineries stretched too thin
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2007-05-15-gas-hearing-usat_N.htm
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Colorado
Greeley mayor heads to Washington to stop immigration raids
http://www.greeleytrib.com/article/20070516/NEWS/105160093
Greeley Mayor Tom Selders will go to Washington on Thursday along with several religious groups to ask the President and Congress to stop immigration raids and urge for legislation on immigration reform. "I'm not making a stance one way or the other, but I am saying that we need some policies that work," Selders said. "Every time there is a raid, it creates a lot of turmoil in the community, and I think we can overt that turmoil by having better policies." Selders is set to present during a hearing on the social impact of raids on families and communities for the White House, Department of Homeland Security and congressional leaders as negotiations begin this week to pass an immigration reform bill. He said he plans to talk about how the December Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid at Swift & Co. meatpacking plant in Greeley has divided the community.
RELATED: Latinos Unidos members urge city council to oppose ICE office in Greeley
http://www.greeleytrib.com/article/20070516/NEWS/105160090
RELATED: Talk food, child care at next meeting on immigration money
http://www.greeleytrib.com/article/20070516/NEWS/105150096
Udall, Salazar call for delay on Roan Plateau drilling
http://www.denverpost.com/newsheadlines/ci_5901296
Congressmen Mark Udall and John Salazar called for a one-year moratorium on oil and gas exploration on top of the Roan Plateau on Tuesday, saying the federal government needs more time to gather public comment and study alternatives. The two Democrats asked Congress to delay funds for the Bureau of Land Management to oversee Roan Plateau development for a year and to prevent new projects in the meantime. "We're very concerned about the top of the Roan," Salazar said. "It's species-rich, it's a beautiful area." Udall said he is not trying to stop development, just delay it long enough to make sure alternatives are reviewed. "To take a year time-out seems the right way to proceed," he said. A spokesman for the Colorado Oil and Gas Association did not return a phone call seeking comment.
RELATED: Roan leasing delay lauded by officials, planned by industry
http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/05/16/5_16_Roan_delay.html
RELATED: Roan drilling would net immediate $1B, Penry says
http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/05/16/5_16_Roan_worth.html
RELATED: Putting the brakes on gas drilling
http://postindependent.com/article/20070516/VALLEYNEWS/105160047
Laws address health issues, foster care, meals for kids
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/government/article/0,2777,DRMN_23906_5539384,00.html
Gov. Bill Ritter on Tuesday signed a package of bills to help developmentally disabled children, young adults in foster care and poor youngsters who may not get regular breakfasts. "These new laws make good health care sense and good fiscal sense," Ritter said. "When we talk about bills like these, we should always ask a few questions: Is it good for kids? Will it make a real difference in the lives of children? Is it a good investment? The answer . . . is yes, yes and yes," he said.
RELATED: Ritter signs package of health-care bills
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20070515/NEWS/105150062
Homeless watch convention plans
http://www.denverpost.com/newsheadlines/ci_5904067
Denver's homeless advocates are closely monitoring and offering strong words of caution about plans to increase shelter capacity and hours during the 2008 Democratic National Convention. "During the convention, (the homeless) should be as free as anyone to participate in the activities or do as they please," said John Parvensky, the president and chief executive of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, who is working with city planners to prepare for the convention. At issue are the security zones that will spring up in and around the Pepsi Center, where the convention will be held. The urban landscape surrounding the site includes areas where the homeless camp or hang out during the summer. If those areas are closed, the homeless - and anyone else - would be forced to stay away.
RELATED: Homeless will be cleared off streets when Dems meet in Denver
http://dailycamera.com/news/2007/may/15/homeless-will-be-cleared-streets-when-dems-meet-de/
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