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July 15, 2008
July 15, 2008Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democratic leaders today held a news conference with economic experts following an economic forum this morning. At the forum, five national economic experts endorsed Democrats' call for the President to immediately release a small amount of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to reduce energy prices for American consumers. Full release.
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The following is statement by Tyler Wilson, President and CEO, American Association for Homecare, July 15, 2008: It is unfortunate that President Bush has chosen to veto H.R. 6331, "The Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008." This legislation would save taxpayers billions of dollars through reduced spending on home medical equipment and it would help seniors and people with disabilities to continue receive quality home medical equipment and services through Medicare.
Reacting to today's release of a video publicly showing Canadian citizen Omar Khadr being questioned at the U.S.-controlled detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Amnesty International called for Khadr to be repatriated to Canada immediately. Full release.
John McCain is in New Mexico today, a state that has suffered under the Bush economy and would continue to suffer under those Bush Administration economic policies which John McCain has pledged to continue. With household income down, inflation and bankruptcies up, and over 419,000 people in New Mexico lacking health insurance, the last thing New Mexicans want is four more years of the same disastrous policies of President Bush that they would get from John McCain. Not only does John McCain support Bush-sponsored trade deals which have cost Americans millions of jobs, and not only has he pledged to make permanent President Bush's tax cuts for millionaires, billionaires and oil companies - he has gone further and called for even more tax giveaways to corporate America. Full release.
The following is being issued by the Republican National Committee: Brookings Institution's Michael O'Hanlon Called Obama's Plan For Iraq "The Height Of Absurdity." "'To say you're going to get out on a certain schedule -- regardless of what the Iraqis do, regardless of what our enemies do, regardless of what is happening on the ground -- is the height of absurdity,' said O'Hanlon, who described himself as 'livid.' 'I'm not going to go to the next level of invective and say he shouldn't be president. I'll leave that to someone else.'" Full release.
Obama lays out plan for Iraq before talking to military commanders and seeing conditions on the ground. Obama gives major Iraq speech before traveling there, despite previously saying his plan would be based on conditions on the ground and the advice of military commanders. Full release.