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July 16, 2009
July 16, 2009The American Association for Homecare applauds Representatives Mike Ross (D-Ark.) and Kendrick Meek (D-Fla.) for introducing the Medicare Home Oxygen Therapy Act of 2009, which would protect more than one million Medicare beneficiaries by focusing the oxygen benefit on patient needs. Full release.
Every kid knows you can only suck so much liquid through a straw. That simple lesson seems to be lost on adults, particularly when it comes to trying to do more with the same infrastructure. Higher education is a case in point. Full release.
Governments are playing a critical role in the restructuring of the global automotive industry. In the United States, President Obama's Automotive Task Force has presided over the successful emergence of General Motors and Chrysler from bankruptcy, and has provided critical assistance to automotive finance and supplier firms. Full release.
Campaign for America's Future health care project director Diane Archer today praised the House for introducing a health reform bill that delivers on President Obama's vision. Archer declared that America's Affordable Health Choices Act is designed to control costs and deliver quality affordable health care to all. She said the bill, if passed without serious changes, can accomplish these goals. Full release.
Accuracy in Media (AIM), America's original media watchdog group, debuts a new show on Blog Talk Radio today. The news program, called "Take AIM," will be live at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time. Full release.
One major component of the energy bill that recently passed in the House and will soon be put before the Senate is the need for forest carbon offsets in our efforts to mitigate climate change. Similarly, the concluding documents issued at the June U.N. climate change talks at Bonn discuss ways of preventing global deforestation. Full release.
Shared Hope International will release a groundbreaking report on child sex trafficking in the United States at the Congressional Human Trafficking Briefing on Capitol Hill hosted by the Human Trafficking Caucus and Victims' Rights Caucus led by Congressman Poe (TX) and Congressman Smith (NJ), long-time advocates for victims protections. Former Congresswoman Linda Smith (1994-98), Founder of Shared Hope International, will open a panel discussion on the findings of more than four years of research in America. Shared Hope International's National Report on Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking, America's Prostituted Children highlights the harsh reality that hundreds of thousands of American children are victimized through sex trafficking in the United States driven by the demand for the commercial sex acts they perform. A child sex trafficking victim who is purchased for sex by 5 different men per night, 5 nights per week for an average of 5 years would have been raped by 6,000 buyers during her victimization through prostitution. Many of these child rapists are never charged or prosecuted while the young victims' lives are destroyed. Full release.