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Todd Stern and Hillary Clinton (Photo: EPA) The head US climate negotiator, Todd Stern, and Sen. John Kerry have announced that they are giving up hope of reaching a deal for a new climate change pact at next month's meeting in Copenhagen. Full Article at Treehugger
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As the last round of "intersessional" climate talks before Copenhagen opened yesterday in Barcelona, all eyes were looking in the same direction they were when we left Bangkok three weeks earlier: at the United States. Full Article at Treehugger
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BOSTON, MA - SEPTEMBER 24: Interim Senator Paul G. Kirk Jr. (D-MA) speaks at a press conference on September 24, 2009 at the Statehouse in Boston, Massachusetts. View Photo »
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More COP15 Expectation Management: UN Plans Post-Copenhagen Talks - Kerry Says We've Done All We Can
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Climate change is not going to be resolved in Copenhagen in the next few weeks. We always knew that. It's a long-term problem that will be with us for many years, if not decades, to come. So Copenhagen has to be a milestone. Full Article at Treehugger
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the bill's lead sponsors, Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), can safely rely on 31 "yes" votes as they work on building their coalition. Full Article at Treehugger
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And it made a lot of sense, on paper--by working with Kerry, Graham was helping to achieve many distinctly Republican goals. Full Article at Planet Green
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BOSTON, MA - SEPTEMBER 24: Victoria (L) and Ted Kennedy Jr. listen as Interim Senator Paul G. Kirk Jr. (D-MA) speaks at a press conference on September 24, 2009 at the Statehouse in Boston, Massachusetts. View Photo »
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GOP Senator Called "Half-a-Sissy," "Wussypants," "Asshat" for Supporting Clean Energy Reform
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The insults poured in from around the right-wing blogosphere, after Graham and Kerry's op-ed ran in the New York Times over the weekend. Full Article at Treehugger
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"Every idea is on the table," said Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.), the lead sponsor of Senate climate legislation. "We're going to work in a bona fide way with everybody to see how to bridge a gap here. Full Article at Treehugger
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7,500 facilities covered in 2012 -- mostly power plants, industrial facilities and petroleum and petrochemical operations -- account for nearly three-quarters of America's carbon emissions. Farmers and nearly all small business are exempt. Full Article at Treehugger
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REFRESHING LIEBERMAN'S MEMORY.... When it comes to the larger health care reform debate, the public option is a pretty new idea. Full Article at Political Animal
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A college student home for the weekend might expect a warm bed and a hot meal. Full Article at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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The Buzz | C notes MARION CURTIS FILE- In this May 26, 2009 file photo provided by StarPix, former Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove talks during Madison Square Garden Entertainment's 2009 Speaker Series, at Radio City Music Hall in New York. Full Article at KansasCity.com
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The fate of a political columnist is generally not a happy one. Lionised in their lifetimes, feared in government circles, their wit quoted at dinner parties, they are the object of much envy while they command the column. Full Article at The National Newspaper
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GetUp! campaigner Selwyn Rodda signs up Kerry Chesher and Sarah Butler on a door knock in Kensington. Full Article at The Age
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The PPP government is again facing a crisis. How does one locate its current position on the political landscape? Is a collapse of the government or the political system imminent? Full Article at Dawn
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she's not me and she never will be (slow_drank) wrote in ohnotheydidnt, 2009-11-21 00:29:00 Alexandra Forbes Kerry, the daughter of U.S. Senator and former presidential candidate John Kerry, was arrested early this morning on suspicion of DUI. Full Article at OH NO THEY DIDN'T
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By now, millions of Americans are familiar with Anita Dunn, who recently resigned her post as Barack Obama's White House Communications Director after it was learned that she had previously cited Mao Zedong, the late Communist dictator and mass... Full Article at Rantburg
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Kerry Cahill receives a hug from Lt. Veronica Pacheco after the memorial service for her father Michael Grant Cahill, 62, outside St. Monica Catholic Church in Cameron, Texas, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009. Full Article at Canoe
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WASHINGTON: The US State Department said on Friday that it had received ‘very serious allegations’ from the US Senate against an American security firm formerly known as the Blackwater. Full Article at Dawn
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Reducing energy poverty and combating climate change cannot be mutually exclusive challenges ... We won't solve climate change unless we also seriously tackle energy poverty, and we haven't really solved energy poverty if we ravage our planet in the process.
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Kerry Stokes has paid $200,000 or there about to tell us - and it’s a disputed fact - that Mike Rann has had sex before marriage. Let’s get real guys. Mike Rann is secure in the job, his leadership is not under question, he'll lead Labor to the next election and he'll win it very well.
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Reducing energy poverty and combating climate change cannot be mutually exclusive challenges ... We won't solve climate change unless we also seriously tackle energy poverty, and we haven't really solved energy poverty if we ravage our planet in the process.
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I spent most of my time on TV against John Kerry, arguing in the presidential campaign. We did everything but the Food Channel ... I respect John. He’s a liberal Democrat and I’m a conservative Republican, but we try to find common ground.
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We have already begun this process by recognising the G20 as the premier economic coordinating forum, and it has made encouraging progress since. A year ago, at the height of the crisis, it convened for the first time at the leader's level and launched the largest and most coordinated fiscal and monetar...
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Melber has also served as a Legislative Aide in the U.S. Senate and was a national staff member of the 2004 John Kerry Presidential Campaign.
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Twenty years ago, the President's most important global financial trip would have been to Europe. Today it is to Beijing [ Images ]. Clearly, the developing world needs a legitimate seat at the table so that all of us can better address our shared challenges
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The new plan for Copenhagen makes the prospects for a successful international deal far more likely — and at the same time increases the chance for Senate passage of the bipartisan climate and clean energy bill that Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and John Kerry (D-MA) and Sen Lieberman (I-CT) are negotiating wit...
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Twenty years ago, the President's most important global financial trip would have been to Europe. Today it is to Beijing [ Images ]. Clearly, the developing world needs a legitimate seat at the table so that all of us can better address our shared challenges
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Go back one election to 2004 ... A difference of 60,000 votes in Ohio would have given the presidency to John Kerry, even though Bush won the popular vote by more than 3 million. It goes both ways.
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It is certainly true that rise of the so-called 'BRIC countries'-- Brazil [ Images ], Russia [ Images ], India [ Images ] and China -- represents a fundamental global economic shift
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Look at the way Democrats treated their own elected officials like George Dale who supported George W. Bush over John Kerry. They threatened to purge them from the party and not allow them to run as Democrats. They want party purity. Well, I intend on giving them as much party purity as they can stand.
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It is certainly true that the rise of the so-called BRIC countries -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- represents a fundamental global economic shift ... Twenty years ago, the president's most important global financial trip would have been to Europe. Today it is to Beijing.
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There are Republicans outside of the (Senate Environment and Public Works) committee who are reaching out to people -- to Senator Kerry (D-Mass.) primarily, who is one of the authors of the bill -- trying to forge a compromise for legislation that could then be supported by more Republicans
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Every day we read about the importance of bending the cost curve in health care reform, and this idea actually helps make it happen. We know prudent purchasing works because it’s working in Massachusetts. It will control costs while providing middle class workers with the affordable health care options ...
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A trio of senators with differing political views is working behind-the-scenes to rescue troubled climate legislation. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., together with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., said Wednesday they would work in conjunction with the White House to patch togethe...
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engaged in a very intensive process. What I wanted to convey to the secretary-general -- and I think it's important to all those taking part in Copenhagen -- is we are very serious about our goal
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Like the House climate change bill ... the Senate’s Kerry-Boxer bill would hurt our economy by killing American jobs, increasing energy costs and undermining our nation’s energy security.
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I have been very concerned about the lack of political leadership at USAID, especially in the face of critical foreign policy, humanitarian and development priorities in places like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Sudan
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We all recall Senator Kerry's strained way in the 2004 campaign of explaining why he voted for it before he voted against ... I think it is perfectly clear that most Americans will treat the vote to get on the bill as a vote on the substance of the bill.
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I am pleased that the Administration has announced their nominee, Rajiv Shah, to be the Administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID)
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At long last, our nation’s unjust policy of excluding HIV-positive visitors and immigrants has ended ... We applaud the leadership of our allies in Congress, especially Senator Kerry, and of President Obama and Secretary Sebelius in bringing this discriminatory chapter of our history to a close.
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We are engaged in the process that will hopefully put us in a position to go to Copenhagen with a sort of framework, or outline, on where the Senate will be heading in its legislation
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The Senate finally voted to overturn the ban as part of approving legislation reauthorizing funding for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, in 2008, and President Bush signed it into law on July 30 of that year. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and then-Sen. Gordon H. Smith (R-Ore.) led ...
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He’s got a specific task—commander of the International Security Afghan Forces—and he does not go beyond that ... His responsibility is to view and win his theater, and he's looking at that, which why there’s not a lot of mention of Pakistan.
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