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September 30, 2009
“The strategic partnership between the United States and Pakistan is essential to international security. Pakistan stands on the front lines in the battle to dismantle terrorist networks and deny them safe haven around the world..."
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September 30, 2009
“But all roads lead back to education. Education is the key. It is the key..."
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September 30, 2009
“The Boxer-Kerry bill is a strong foundation for Senate action on our clean energy future. I look forward to working with my Senate colleagues to deliver to the President a comprehensive clean energy and climate bill as soon as possible to ensure the success of the Copenhagen negotiations.”
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September 30, 2009
Today, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute released a study, The Cost of Failure to Enact Health Reform:Implications for States, underscoring the urgent need for reform and why inaction is not an option for Americans. Without health insurance reform, within 10 years, we can expect:
Blog Post
September 30, 2009
The Boxer-Kerry bill is a strong foundation for Senate action on our clean energy future. I look forward to working with my Senate colleagues to deliver to the President a comprehensive clean energy and climate bill as soon as possible to ensure the success of the Copenhagen negotiations.
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September 30, 2009
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about components of America's Affordable Health Choices Act, including the notion that mandating people to get health insurance coverage is like imposing a new tax on them.
MYTH: Mandating health insurance coverage is a new tax.
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September 29, 2009
"And again, our goal is to have stability in our health care system, with affordability for the middle class, and security and protection of Medicare for our seniors..."
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September 29, 2009
America's Affordable Health Choice's Act makes improvements in Medicare benefits, lower costs, and preserves choice for America's seniors while at the same time achieving new efficiencies in Medicare -- expanding authority to fight waste, fraud and abuse and eliminating the wasteful Medicare Advantage subsidies to private insurance companies--mone
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September 29, 2009
Polls continue to show that Americans strongly support a public option because it lowers cost, expands choice, and keeps the insurance companies honest.
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September 28, 2009
"It is a great honor to welcome the President of Tanzania to the Capitol of the United States. He has many friends and fans here because of his leadership -- on education, on growing the economy of Tanzania and his leadership on the issue relating to HIV/AIDS, as well as on the issue of climate change and the environment..."