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June 09, 2009
June 9, 2009The following was released today by Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue. Full release.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined President Barack Obama and Democratic Members of Congress at a news conference at the White House this afternoon as the President expressed his strong support for legislation that would reinstitute statutory pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) rules, which will restore fiscal discipline to the federal government. Afterward, Speaker Pelosi issued the following statement: Full release.
The following is a statement from the family of John O'Neill, a retired Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigations with over 25 years of service in positions including head of the Counter-terrorism section and head of the National Security Division of the New York Field Office. Mr. O'Neill died on September 11, 2001, along with close to 3,000 other innocent individuals in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington D.C. At the time of his death, he was Director of Security at the World Trade Center and was killed assisting with the evacuation that ensured thousands made it to safety while sacrificing his own life so that others might live. Full release.
Glenn Beck called for a return to studying the classics rather than indoctrination in progressivism in his keynote address at George Wythe University's (GWU) annual gala Saturday night at the Utah State Capitol. Beck urged supporting the private classical liberal arts school's singular mission of building statesmen and made a personal donation of $25,000. The event coincided with the school's national debut of its live online virtual classrooms, which will allow students to attend classes in real-time from anywhere in the world. Full release.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave brief greetings at the Fourth Annual "Keeping the Promise to our Children" Conference hosted by Children Uniting Nations in association with Russell Simmons' "Hip Hop Summit Action Network" this morning in the Capitol. Below are the Speaker's remarks as prepared. Full release.
The Justice Department today announced that Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian national who had been held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility since September 2006, arrived early this morning in the Southern District of New York to face criminal charges stemming from his alleged role in the Aug. 7, 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya. Full release.
Calling its recommendations a "framework for comprehensive reform," the Bipartisan Policy Center's National Transportation Policy Project (NTPP) today released its plan for transforming federal surface transportation policy. If adopted by the Administration and Congress in this year's authorization bill, the plan would constitute the first major overhaul of transportation policy in more than 50 years. It proposes restructuring federal programs, updating the criteria for formulas, and creating a performance-based system that directly ties transportation spending to broader national goals, including economic growth, connectivity, accessibility, safety, energy security and environmental protection. Currently, transportation funding is distributed on a politically-driven basis with little analysis of benefits and no accountability for results. Full release.
In his Saturday weekly radio address, President Obama referred to the dangers of "skyrocketing costs" of healthcare. This doomsday scenario is untrue. Full release.