Pat Dollard

Washington Post: The Food and Drug Administration is planning an unprecedented effort to gradually reduce the salt consumed each day by Americans, saying that less sodium in everything from soup to nuts would prevent thousands of deaths from hypertension and heart disease. The initiative, to be launched this year, would eventually lead to the first [...]

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Politics: Sen. John McCain has endorsed a tough Arizona anti-immigration bill that will let police arrest people who aren’t carrying identification, the latest move in McCain’s rightward shift in advance of a tough Republican Senate primary this summer. “I think it’s a very important step forward,” McCain said Monday. “I can fully understand why the [...]

“Collins’s stance means that Democrats will likely not have the 60 votes needed to begin floor debate.” The Hill: Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced after meeting with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Monday that she will vote to filibuster a Democratic Wall Street reform bill. Her announcement hurts Democratic chances of moving financial reform legislation [...]

Politico: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) called on Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to disclose details of his meeting two weeks ago with Wall Street executives – a move that ratchets up the partisan tension ahead of Senate consideration this week of a financial regulatory reform bill. Reid issued the challenge through his spokesman [...]

Baghdad (AP) – – Vice President Joe Biden called the killing of two top Al Qaeda leaders in Iraq a “potentially devastating” blow to the terrorist network and said the operation signals a significant improvement in Iraq’s security and intelligence gathering. The U.S. military confirmed Monday that Al Qaeda in Iraq leaders Abu Ayyub al-Masri [...]

Fox News: Tea Partiers, the Obama administration is on your side. That’s been the message from the White House over the past few days, as top officials dispute charges that Washington is on a spending binge and encourage conservative protesters to count their blessings. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, when asked about the Tea Party protests, [...]

(CNSNews.com) – President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency is encouraging the public to create video advertisements that explain why federal regulations are “important to everyone.” The contest, which ends May 17, will award $2,500 to the makers of the video that best explains why federal regulations are good and how ordinary citizens can become more involved [...]

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April 19 (Bloomberg) – The case against Goldman Sachs Group Inc. may turn on the meaning of the word “selected.” The Securities and Exchange Commission must prove that the most profitable company in Wall Street history defrauded investors by failing to disclose that a hedge-fund firm betting against them played a role in creating what [...]

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Nearly one out of three Americans view the US government as a “major threat” to their freedoms, and four out of five say they don’t trust Washington to solve their problems, according to a new poll out Monday. Just 19 percent say they are “basically content” with the federal government, against 56 [...]

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