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Soultek.com (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
A natural gas truck at HybridFest According to Cars.com , "Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) and Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) have both introduced legislation that would offer tax credits and other incentives to gas stations that offer natural gas as a fuel, as well as tax breaks to automakers to build the cars that would run on it." Fortunately, Cars.com also provided a good response to this legislation that...
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It's My Mind (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
From The Hill : A proposal by Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) to take away the driver’s licenses of high school dropouts sparked a confrontation on the House floor with the leaders of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) and the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC). Emanuel pulled back on the legislation, but the episode inflamed existing tensions between Emanuel, the No. 4 leader in the House, and the minority...
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KickingTires (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
It began with Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens' proposal to move natural gas use from power generation to the transportation sector. Now both Republicans and Democrats are jumping on the bandwagon. Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) and Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.)...
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Green Car Congress (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Two members of the US Congress, Representative Rahm Emanuel (D-IL-5) and Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) separately announced legislative initiatives this past week to increase the use of natural gas as a transportation fuel. Currently, natural gas costs about half of...
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Political Punch (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
House Democratic Caucus Chair Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., today claimed that President Bush (not to mention Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.) are following the lead of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, in foreign policy. "Who is leading who on foreign policy?" asked...
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Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
The Politico: Before he was mentioned as a possible Senate successor to Barack Obama, before he helped lead the Democrats back to power in the House, before he was even elected to his first term as the congressman from the North Side of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel was telling friends that he had one goal in [...]
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News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., may have ambitions to become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, sources say. Emanuel, 48, is No. 4 in the leadership ladder of the U.S. House of Representatives and is seen as an ambitious Democrat with many cards to play after getting much of the credit for engineering the party's takeover of the body for the first time in 12 years. Some say he wants to become...
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Automotive Business Review (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Rahm Emanuel, Democratic member of the US House of Representatives from Illinois, has announced plans to introduce legislation that will mandate US automakers to account for 10% of their manufactured fleet with natural gas-fueled vehicles by 2018.
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Lynn Sweet (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Credit: New Yorker Put aside the flap over the cover of the new New Yorker, a cartoon portraying the Obamas' in the Oval Office--- Barack Obama in a turban with Michelle Obama wielding an AK-47 machine gun with a...
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Weapons of Mass Discussion (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
This just in... WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today responded to a letter sent to him earlier in the day by House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), reminding Rep. Emanuel that Democratic legislation passed earlier in this Congress (H.R. 6, Section 205[c]) was intended to prevent increased American energy production in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska...
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DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Conventional wisdom says that Democrats need to cringe with fear when same sex marriage is brought up in campaigns by homophobic Republicans. Cringers lose elections but the same way the Rahm Emanuel and the DCCC pushed candidates who subsequently lost in 2006 to tone down their anti-war rhetoric, they are being told to avoid standing up for principles of equality when it comes to marriage equality...
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Weapons of Mass Discussion (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
This just in... (Canton) – This past week Youngstown Senator John Boccieri’s Congressional Campaign showed signs that he’s not getting off to a great start with the voters here in the 16th Congressional District. 1. Rahm Emanuel misses Boccieri’s gas pump gimmick in Canton and Boccieri himself shows up late to his own stunt. 2. Voters surprise Boccieri by actually asking for energy solutions at his...
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IraqPundit (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Can anyone follow Barack Obama's positions on anything? Charles Krauthammer writes about the candidate's dizzying changes. The candidate's own team knows just how unsteady Obama's positions are. The other day Rahm Emanuel was so desperate to deflect criticism that he argued it was John McCain who was the flip-flopper. Yeah, right. The columnist reminds his readers why it's not good to have a president...
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Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Watch Fred Malek and Matt Yglesias debate John McCain, David Brooks wow the crowd with anecdotes (including one about Rahm Emanuel), and Ross Douthat describe the way forward for the Republican Party. All on this edition of The Table, part of the Allstate Ideas Exchange at the Aspen Ideas Festival.
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Weapons of Mass Discussion (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
This just in from the Stark County Republican Party... (Canton) – Yesterday Youngstown politician John Boccieri went negative and voters of the 16th Congressional district got a flavor for the kind of campaign Rahm Emanuel and his hand-picked candidates plan on waging this year; a campaign filled with gimmicks instead of solutions. It’s not surprising that Emanuel was eager to stump for John Boccieri...
