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| + | == JUNEAU, Alaska- Murkowski, Begich split on student loan vote == | ||
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| + | The vote was 51-49. Sixty votes were needed to move forward. Democratic Sen. Mark Begich voted yes. Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski voted no. | ||
| + | The measure was intended to provide time for comprehensive college affordability legislation and to avoid higher interest rates on new loans. The loan rate doubled to 6.8 percent on July 1. | ||
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| + | Murkowski said students deserve the lowest rates possible and a permanent solution. She said she's optimistic one can be found.</html> | ||
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| + | == WASHINGTON- Republicans drop food stamps from farm bill == | ||
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| + | <html>WASHINGTON House Republican leaders bruised by the defeat of a massive farm bill last month are working to quickly revive the measure with a vote on a pared-down version that avoids an immediate showdown on food stamp cuts. | ||
| + | Just hours before Thursday's expected floor vote, it was still unclear whether GOP leaders had the 218 votes needed to pass the new measure containing only farm programs. The food stamp part of the legislation would be dealt with separately at a later date. | ||
| + | The legislation faces a veto threat from the White House, and House Democrats have reacted angrily to the last-minute move by the GOP. | ||
| + | As late as Thursday morning, conservative groups and farm groups traditionally aligned with Republicans were also lobbying against the measure, as was the top Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson. | ||
| + | In an apparent effort to stem that opposition to the bill, the leaders were planning to move quickly. The new legislation was released late Wednesday and a vote was expected in the afternoon. No amendments were to be allowed. | ||
| + | House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, acknowledged that the process was unusual but said "my goal right now is to get a farm bill passed." | ||
| + | The dropped food stamp section would have made a 3 percent cut to the $80 billion-a-year feeding program. Many Republicans say that isn't enough since the program's cost has doubled in the last five years. Democrats have opposed any cuts. The food stamp program doesn't need legislation to continue, but Congress would have to pass a bill to enact reforms. | ||
| + | The split bill is an attempt to gather support from conservatives who voted against the $100 billion-a-year farm bill. The House rejected the farm bill in June by a vote of 234-195, with 62 Republicans voting against it. | ||
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| + | Democrats opposing the bill called for procedural votes to delay the vote on the split bill and painted the legislation as taking the food stamps away from the hungry. | ||
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| + | The White House agreed that food stamps should not be left out of the bill and threatened to veto it. The Obama administration had also threatened to veto the original bill, saying it did not include enough reductions to farm subsidies and the food stamp cuts were too severe. | ||
| + | Few Democrats are expected to vote for the measure. Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer, the No. 2 Democrat in the House, called it a "bill to nowhere" since the Democratic Senate is likely to add the food stamp money back in. | ||
| + | "This dead-on-arrival messaging bill only seeks to accomplish one objective: to make it appear that Republicans are moving forward with important legislation even while they continue to struggle at governing," Hoyer said. | ||
| + | Peterson was urging his colleagues to vote no, saying he sees "no clear path to getting a bill passed by the House and Senate and signed by the president." | ||
| + | The Club for Growth and Heritage Action said they would use a vote for the bill against Republicans in upcoming campaigns, maintaining that the idea was a ruse to get the bill in conference with the Democratic-led Senate, where food stamps will be added back in with smaller cuts. | ||
| + | The Senate overwhelmingly passed a farm bill last month with only a half-percent cut to food stamps and would be reluctant to go along with a split bill or further cuts to the programs. | ||
| + | A memo sent out by Heritage Action Thursday morning targeted the only new provision in the revised farm bill - a repeal of farm laws from the 1930s and 1940s that kick in when current farm law expires. Farm-state lawmakers have kept those laws on the books so there would be incentive to pass new farm bills and avoid expiration, but the threat of outdated policies kicking in has been a headache for farmers who worry they can't depend on Congress to create new laws or extend more recent versions of the law. | ||
| + | Repealing those decades-old laws could mean that Congress would have little incentive to create new farm bills, however, and could make many farm programs permanent. The conservative groups seized on that point to try and dissuade Republicans from voting for the bill, saying many of those farm programs are costly. | ||
| + | "Market-distorting programs would continue indefinitely, like the government-imposed tariffs on sugar imports and quotas on domestic sugar production," read the Heritage Action memo. | ||
| + | American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman sent a letter to members Thursday morning saying that passing only half of the farm bill could make eventual passage of farm legislation impossible. | ||
| + | He said it was frustrating to the group's members that a broad agriculture coalition "appears to have been pushed aside in favor of interests that have no real stake in this farm bill." | ||
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| + | "Maybe the old dynamic of how we have done things since 1965 isn't valid anymore," he said. "Maybe it is time to try something different." | ||
| + | Lucas said as he left the meeting just before midnight Wednesday that he didn't know whether the leadership had the 218 votes necessary for passage. | ||
| + | Farm groups and anti-hunger groups have warned that separating the farm and nutrition programs after decades of linking them would be misguided. Rural lawmakers have long-added money for food stamps to the farm bill, which sets policy for agricultural subsidies and other farm programs, to gather urban votes for the measure. | ||
| + | In a letter to Boehner, more than 500 farm groups last week asked the GOP leadership not to split the legislation. | ||
| + | Lucas said he hopes a food stamp bill would come to the floor quickly, so the House and Senate can begin negotiations and get a farm bill passed. | ||
| + | "The quicker that second bill is passed the easier it is to complete the whole process," he said. | ||
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| + | == Ask Amy- Man ponders fleeting beauty; Amy blames '80s == | ||
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| + | <html>DEAR READERS: I'm marking my 10-year anniversary of writing the "Ask Amy" column by rerunning some of my favorite Q-and-A's from a decade of advice. Today's column features letters devoted to missed connections. | ||
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| + | Recently, I have become curious about a phenomenon I have noticed: It seems to me that women in their 20s are exponentially better-looking than they were when I was in my 20s and first moved to the city. | ||
| + | Don't get me wrong I fully realize I am too old to try to date them, and I seriously doubt that I have become less repulsive to them as I have grown older. I would just like to know if there has been an actual demographic change, if this is merely the glandular consequence of middle age, or if it is due to global warming? Perplexed in Chicago | ||
| + | DEAR PERPLEXED: I agree. Young people do seem to be exponentially better-looking than when you and I were in our 20s. | ||
| + | Perhaps we belong to a distinctly unattractive generation. Maybe we can blame this phenomenon on the style of the 1980s. No one can look good in a mullet. | ||
| + | Or perhaps it has to do with our eyesight and theirs because have you noticed that as you approach middle age, you seem to be growing ever more invisible? | ||
| + | Talk about macular de-generation. (2005) | ||
| + | DEAR AMY: I got engaged at Christmas, and a few days later we visited my fiance's aunt. My fiance's sister was there. She took me aside and said, "You're not good enough to marry my brother. In fact, the only one he should be married to is me." | ||
| + | She is married and has a son. I am 20, she is 23 and my fiance is 28. His sister broke up the last girl he went with. What should I do? Worried | ||
| + | DEAR WORRIED: First you should ask your fiance for a thorough explanation of this sisterly attachment, her comment to you and her history of breaking up his relationships. Even if you find his explanation plausible, I think you should then opt for one of two choices: | ||
| + | (1) Insist on a very long engagement. You need to see how much of an impact his sister has on his and your life. If this is a once-a-year comment from someone you rarely see, you might find it easy to ignore. | ||
| + | (2) Lace up your fastest sneakers and run for the hills. Get the kind with the waffle soles you're going to want good traction. | ||
| + | Either way tread carefully. When you marry your guy, you marry into his family. His sister's attitude toward you is unlikely to change unless he insists upon it, and he should insist upon it. (2004) | ||
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| + | She thinks we're "hanging out." Anonymous | ||
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| + | I think a quick private word with the homeowner would be in order. You can always try to blame the dog. (2004) | ||
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| + | == ALBANY, N.Y.- Former Syracuse coach dropping ESPN lawsuit 0 == | ||
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| + | <html>ALBANY, N.Y. Former Syracuse assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine is dropping his defamation lawsuit against ESPN, his lawyers said Tuesday. | ||
| + | Fine sued over broadcasts aired by ESPN with claims by two former ball boys that Fine molested them more than two decades ago. Fine was fired in November 2011, days after the broadcasts. | ||
| + | The 67-year-old Fine was investigated by federal prosecutors and never charged and has maintained his innocence. | ||
| + | William Albert, spokesman for the Harris Beach law firm, said Fine voluntarily filed notice of dismissal Tuesday although both he and his attorneys believe his legal claim has merit. | ||
| + | "Mr. Fine desires to finally put all of the turmoil of the past year and a half behind him, so that he may concentrate on his future as well as the future of his family," Albert said. He added that Fine has been overwhelmed by the many friends who stood by him. | ||
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| + | The ex-coach's wife, Laurie Fine, has a separate defamation suit against ESPN pending in federal court. It was filed in May 2012, with trial tentatively set for November 2014. | ||
| + | After a probe spanning nearly a year, federal authorities dropped their investigation into one of the sexual abuse claims against Fine, saying there was not enough evidence to support a claim that Fine had molested a boy in a Pittsburgh hotel room in 2002. | ||
| + | The investigation began in the immediate aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal at Penn State. Two former Syracuse ball boys, Bobby Davis and stepbrother Michael Lang, came forward and accused Fine of fondling them when they were teens. Davis said the sexual contact continued for years. | ||
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| + | Fine was fired Nov. 27, 2011, after Tomaselli came forward and the federal government began investigating Tomaselli's claim, the only one that fell within the statute of limitations. | ||
| + | Tomaselli was accused of sexually abusing a boy at a camp in 2010 and his father had said his son was lying about Fine. Tomaselli, who eventually was convicted of sexual abuse and sentenced to three years and three months in prison, insisted he was telling the truth. | ||
| + | Before he went to jail, Tomaselli took the media on a wild spin, repeatedly lying in a bid, he said, to keep his name in print.</html> | ||
