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- Biden stresses U.S. aid commitment in visit to Miami's Little Haiti - McClatchy
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- Interfaith service offers p ... - Martinsville Reporter-Times
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| Biden stresses U.S. aid commitment in visit to Miami's Little Haiti - McClatchy Posted: 18 Jan 2010 04:23 AM PST By Beth Reinhard | The Miami HeraldVice President Joe Biden came to Miami on Saturday to assure Haitian-American leaders that the administration was committed to Haiti's recovery — for as long as it takes. Biden sought to spread the message from President Barack Obama far and wide, from the Little Haiti Cultural Center to the Notre Dame d'Haiti Catholic Church to Homestead Air Reserve Base, which has loaded and launched more than 150 cargo planes to the earthquake-ravaged island. "The president does not view this as a humanitarian mission that is going to have the life cycle of a month. When we have done our job, we come home," Biden told about 30 community leaders and elected officials at the cultural center. "This will still be on our radar screen long after it's off the crawler at CNN. This is going to be a long slog." Biden's visit came one day after the White House vowed to give tens of thousands of undocumented Haitians in the United States the chance to stay here and work under the "Temporary Protected Status" program, known as TPS. The vice president's trip allowed the Haitian-American community to thank him for the administration's response, but also to press for more. The Rev. Reginald Jean-Mary urged Biden to allow Haitian orphans to come to the United States, as Cuban children sent by their parents did in the 1960s under Operation Peter Pan. The priest closed the meeting with words of gratitude. "The doing for is meaningless without the being with," Jean-Mary said. "By being with us today, you show by your presence that what the Obama-Biden administration is doing for Haiti comes from your heart." To read the complete article, visit www.miamiherald.com. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Daily Press Briefing - U.S. Department of State Posted: 14 Jan 2010 06:18 PM PST Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Interfaith service offers p ... - Martinsville Reporter-Times Posted: 17 Jan 2010 10:36 AM PST |
| Secret US Senate digs proliferate in Capitol - MLive.com Posted: 17 Jan 2010 06:36 PM PST (AP) — WASHINGTON - The perquisites of membership in the U.S. Senate just got sweeter. For the first time, all 100 members of the chamber will have their own cloistered hideaways in the U.S. Capitol, traditionally a coveted mark of seniority and influence that lowly first-term senators could only dream about. This year, even junior senators will get their own private, unmarked offices that are a convenient few steps from the Senate chamber.
The addition of a dozen or so newly renovated rooms in the bowels of the Capitol represents a cultural shift in the custom-bound institution, made possible by moving a Capitol Police facility from the building's basement into the new, $621 million Capitol Visitor Center. The vacated space inside the Capitol's West Front made room for even first-year minority Republicans and shunned members of the Senate-for example Illinois Democrat Roland Burris, serving with a tainted appointment from a disgraced governor-to move in. While both parties make claims and counterclaims about openness in government, some things never change. The first rule of Senate hideaways: Only senators talk about them. And then, selectively and only about their own. The only ways to know who occupies which office are to be invited in, witness a senator entering or exiting, or see a home-state newspaper lying outside the door in the morning. The hush-hush tradition creates sanctuaries for legislative work and meetings, as well as less official business: a nap, perhaps. Hideaways occupy ancient nooks on all four floors of the historic building and are institutions within an institution and one of the last vestiges of nonpartisanship in an increasingly divided chamber. The most senior senators get first dibs on the best quarters, regardless of party. They bear room numbers but no names. Some are hidden in plain sight, along corridors used by thousands of unknowing tourists. The portals to others hide beyond massive statues. Still others are crammed in the spaces around rotundas, or at the ends of hallways with multiple sets of stairs. Many cannot be found without a guide. Those occupied by such senior senators as Democrats Robert Byrd and Patrick Leahy tend to be grand affairs, with bathrooms, fireplaces, chandeliers and million-dollar views of the Washington and Lincoln Memorials or the Supreme Court. The newly renovated basement hideaways feature no such frills. These offices and some of their blueprints, examined by The Associated Press during the past year, reveal rooms that tend to be around 300 square feet (27 square meters), with low ceilings, no windows or bathrooms, and furnished with stock Senate tables and chairs. One such space, to be occupied by second-term Democratic Sen. Tom Carper, is cramped with a desk, sofa and small conference table. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| City Builds Homes to Settle Bias Case - CBS News Posted: 18 Jan 2010 08:08 PM PST Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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