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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
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Left in the West has the link to Barack Obama's video announcement of his exploratory committee.
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8:58:39 PM 
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Reason.com: "GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has hired Mel Sembler as a top money man for his campaign. Sembler, you may remember, is a fierce drug warrior, and in the 1980s and 90s ran Straight, Inc., the string of 'tough love' teen rehab centers frequently accused of child abuse."
Thanks to Andrew Sullivan for the link.
"2008 pres"
6:11:20 PM
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ToTheRight.org: "Despite what his spokesman says, the floodgates for CD-6 are opening as U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo has announced he has created a presidential exploratory committee. The Rocky Mountain News' one-man Washington, D.C. bureau reports."
"2008 pres"
6:02:53 PM
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President Bush should see the stem cell legislation passed last week in the U.S. House of Representatives, in March, according to the Denver Post. From the article, "President Bush will get his next crack at Diana DeGette's stem-cell bill around February or March. That's how long Denver's Democratic congresswoman thinks it will take her legislation to come to a vote in the Senate. The outcome of the Senate vote on expanding federal funding for embryonic stem- cell research is no more in doubt than last week's vote in the House of Representatives. It's merely a matter of increasing the margin of victory. Most of all, however, it is about George W. Bush's legacy as an anti-science stooge. Last year, Bush used the first veto of his administration to stop an embryonic stem-cell research bill sponsored by DeGette and Republican Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware. That bill passed the Republican-controlled House and Senate. Now, the White House has signaled that Bush will veto an identical bill passed Thursday in the Democratic-controlled House and headed for the Democratic-controlled Senate. 'In light of the scientific progress we'll be seeing in the coming years,' DeGette predicted, a second veto 'is going to make him look like a Luddite.'"
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6:35:24 AM
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Congress has failed so far to fully fund President Bush's request for solar energy research, according to the Denver Post. From the article, "New solar-energy research pushed by President Bush last year is on hold in Colorado labs because the last Congress failed to pass several budget bills. Funding for a proposal to build a $300 million underground laboratory near Empire could be delayed for a year. And federal research groups across the state have frozen hiring, limited travel and delayed computer updates. From the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, scientists are spending conservatively as they wait to see how the new Congress appropriates funds. In December, the outgoing Congress passed a 'continuing resolution,' which holds budgets at about 2006 levels through Feb. 15, said Drew Nannis, spokesman for U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo. Later this month, Congress will probably continue the resolution through the end of September, Nannis said, but it may make some exceptions for programs expecting major increases."
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6:30:35 AM
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Political Wire: "New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) told CNN he will decide on a 2008 presidential run by the end of the month."
Political Wire: "Under the header 'Silence is Betrayal,' John Edwards sent an email to his supporters tonight saying only Congress can stop President Bush's escalation of the war in Iraq...As far as presidential campaign politics go, it's an in-your-face challenge to Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama to take a clear position on funding for the war."
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5:35:31 AM
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