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• CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Clinton: Rich aren’t paying fair share « - Blogs from CNN.com

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  (CNN) – Hillary Clinton struck a strong populist chord while wading into territory secretary of states rarely go Thursday: Domestic policy

• Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Town Hall Meeting Discussion in Delray Beach Florida - MyPeace.TV

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  Sun Sentinel Reports submited by Anthony Mann http://sun-sentinel.com Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Kendrick Meek is traveling to Panama City on Sunday where he’s scheduled for a roundtable on the economic effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and a town hall meeting about drilling off Florida’s beaches

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• More on Rep. Sutton’s Buy America Amendment

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  Earlier this week, a Buy America amendment was added to a bill in the House thanks to the efforts of Representatives Betty Sutton (D-OH) and Tim Murphy (R-PA).
• Health News Florida

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  As Republican leaders offer dire warnings about states' cost burden under federal health reform, a new report says moving nearly 1 million Floridians into the Medicaid system would dramatically reduce the number of uninsured people in the state --- with Washington picking up most of the tab

• Amendment 7 is a sneaky attempt to trick Florida voters - St. Petersburg Times

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  Want to know one of the sneaky things the Florida Legislature did this year? It put Amendment 7 on this November's ballot.Amendment 7 is a piece of work. It is an attempt to trick the voters of Florida

• More Malarkey About Health Care | FactCheck.org

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  Summary We’ve seldom seen a piece of legislation so widely misrepresented, and misunderstood, as the new health care law. We stopped counting the number of articles and items we turned out on the subject after the total reached 100.

• Does Immigration Cost Jobs? | FactCheck.org

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  Do immigrants take American jobs? It’s a common refrain among those who want to tighten limits on legal immigration and deny a "path to citizenship" — which they call "amnesty" — to the millions of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. There’s even a new Reclaim American Jobs Caucus in the House, with at least 41 members
• Health Care Law and W-2 Forms | FactCheck.orgfactcheck.org/2010/05/health-care-law-and-w-2-forms/

: Does the new health care law require workers to pay income tax on the value of employer-provided health insurance? A: No. The value will appear on employees’ W-2 forms for information purposes, but will not be considered taxable income.

• How Immigrants Actually Reduce Crime - Newsweek - Flash Player Installation

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  Last Friday, supporters of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer posted an amusing little video on YouTube showing a Kermit-ish frog singing about the need to read and then going into a funk after screening clips of Obama administration officials admitting they opined on the recent Arizona immigration bill without having, well, read it.

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  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | New Brochure on Health Care Reform and Medicare Available

  Seniors around the country who count on Medicare for their health coverage and have questions about how the new health care reform law impacts their coverage can find many of those answers in a new brochure that will be in their mailboxes soon or by downloading a copy here

• Protect Our Shores

  Ban Drilling Off Florida's Coast

  The debate over the safety of offshore drilling is over. The spill from the Deepwater Horizon has ended it. Now, we must act quickly and decisively to make sure Big Oil isn't successful in putting rigs off Florida.

  
  
• 25 MAY 10

  On Faith Panelists Blog: What's really immoral: slave wages paid to illegal immigrants - Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite

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  he "larger moral or spiritual obligation" in the case of illegal immigration is to tell the truth about why it exists. Employers use the undocumented to drive down wages, enabling higher profits. The best biblical text to address this issue is not Genesis 4:9, "Am I my brother's keeper," it's Luke 10: 7,"[T]he worker deserves his wages.

  
  

• On Faith Panelists Blog: Illegal Immigration and Christian Values - David Gushee

  .Illegal immigrants are flouting U.S. laws, but does affluent America (or Arizona for that matter) have a larger moral or spiritual obligation to help illegal immigrants who are trying to better their lives? What about religious obligations to welcome the stranger? Are we our brother's keeper?

  
  

• Kendrick Meek | Join Team Kendrick Meek | Sign the Petition. Repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

  We must not let political games or ideological squabbles overwhelm our best chance to bring about this long-sought change.

  
  

• Is Charlie Crist The De Facto Democrat In The Florida Senate Race? | TPMDC

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  .In the two months since Gov. Charlie Crist began building up to and ultimately did switch from Republican to independent, he appears to have overtaken Rep. Kendrick Meek as the de-facto Democratic candidate in the race against Republican Marco Rubio, according to the polls

  
  

• AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Tell Congress: Vote for Jobs Now!

  If members of the U.S. House of Representatives support creating jobs and putting Americans back to work, as they so often claim, they’ll vote this week for a bill that creates jobs and makes Wall Street pay, says AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka

  
  

• Burrus Criticizes Exclusion of Postal Unions from OIG Workshare Audit

  APWU President William Burrus has criticized a decision by the USPS Office of Inspector General (OIG) to exclude postal unions from providing input into a recently-announced audit of postage workshare discounts. The OIG plans to interview a range of “stakeholders,” including mailers’ representatives — who are the beneficiaries of the discounts — Burrus noted

• Meek Slams Crist: ‘I Don’t Need Talking Points’ to Talk Union Issues | The Jacksonville Observer

  ..Saying that Gov. Charlie Crist’s speech to one of the state’s largest labor unions was not enough to make the newly independent U.S. Senate candidate a friend of the group, Democratic candidate Kendrick Meek said Saturday morning that he should receive the group’s endorsement, not the newly-independent governor.

  
  

  
  

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• 19 MAY 10

  DemocracyForAmerica.com » Groups » Democracy for Brevard

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  Help support progressive, Democratic candidates in Brevard County

  
  

• YouTube - Kendrick Meek: Across Florida

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• Election Roundup: 'Mini Super Tuesday' not so super for Tea Partiers' fondest hopes | Crooks and Liars

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  It's always fun to watch Election Night on Fox, especially when they get their hopes all fired up and things kind of fall flat instead.

  
  

• PETITION: NO "TOO BIG FOR JAIL" | Progressive Change Campaign Committee

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  PETITION: The U.S. Department of Justice is right to launch a criminal investigation of Goldman Sachs -- and should do so for other Wall Street companies who acted illegally while devastating millions of lives. Nobody on Wall Street is too big for jail."

  
  

• Environmental group grades cruise lines | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY

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  Today it's releasing its second annual report card grading cruise lines on their impact on the environment, and most of the world's major cruise lines, including those operating out of Port Canaveral, come under some pretty harsh criticism.

  
  

• Crist seeks labor aid | HeraldTribune.com

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  TALLAHASSEE - Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, up until last month a Republican, will step into a bastion of Democratic politics this weekend with a speech to the AFL-CIO of Florida as the union umbrella group vets candidates for possible endorsement.
  Crist will speak at the AFL-CIO's endorsing convention in Jacksonville on Friday, and union officials will make a decision in a closed-door meeting on Sunday on who will get the union's endorsement in several races, including the United States Senate contest in which Crist is now an unaffiliated candidate.

  
  
• 18 MAY 10

  Crowds turn up at the thought of passenger trains returning - Columns

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  Your correspondent was standing in one of the nondescript, fluorescent-lit, first-floor meeting rooms in City Hall on Wednesday and was surprised to find it packed. People were out in the halls

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• 18 MAY 10

  America's Lowest-Paying Jobs 2010 (PHOTOS)

  As you may have heard, the U.S. economy is predominantly a "service economy." Which means, for better or worse, a large percentage of Americans have been pushed away from once-stable positions to relatively low-paying and less secure jobs in service industries. (Newsweek recently dubbed this the "Blue-Collar Blues".)

  
  

• Representative Suzanne Kosmas - Congresswoman Kosmas to Host Telephone Town Hall

  
  

  Congresswoman Kosmas to Host Telephone Town Hall
  This Thursday, May 20, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas (FL-24) will host a telephone town hall to hear from her constituents and answer questions about the economy, small business, NASA, and other issues.
  
  Constituents can sign up by calling Congresswoman Kosmas’ office at 202-225-2706, or by clicking here . Please put "TTH" in the subject line of the message at the bottom of the page and be sure to enter your telephone number and information in all required fields. Once signed up, constituents will receive a call at 6 pm on Thursday which will automatically connect them to the tele-town hall at no charge.
  
  Constituents must call or sign up online by 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 20, to ensure they are included on the call. Only residents of Florida’s 24th Congressional District are eligible to sign up for the tele-town hall.

  
  

• PolitiFact | Vern Buchanan says balanced budgets are rare in Washington

  Vern Buchanan says balanced budgets are rare in Washington

  
  

• PolitiFact | Fact-checking the claims on Elena Kagan

  The political world didn't wait until President Barack Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. With speculation running high over the past few weeks that she would be picked, they've been critiquing her nomination for days

  
  

• 'Times' article praises shuttle launch, criticizes Titusville, Cocoa Beach | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY

  A travel article in Sunday's The New York Times encouraged tourists to catch one of the two remaining shuttle launches from Kennedy Space Center, but discourages them from staying in Cocoa Beach or Titusville.

  
  

• Kosmas pushes incubator fund for small businesses | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY

  LAKE BUENA VISTA — Hoping to spur more entrepreneurial development and innovation, U.S. Rep. Suzanne Kosmas on Monday announced proposed legislation to provide business incubators with federal grant money to help them get small companies off the ground.

  
  

• Wonk Room » FedEx Spent $21.1 Million In 15 Months To Preserve Its Ability To Prevent Drivers From Unionizing

  Currently, House and Senate negotiators are trying to work out the differences between each chamber’s respective bill reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration.

  
  TransitRider - News Flash - Save Sunset Limited
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  It's the time to speak out, we need to restore the route that used operated between Los Angeles to Orlando but until Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005 which that killed the train