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Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
After being sent home the day before, former secretary of state Colin Powell today testified at the Ted Stevens corruption trial. Turns out, Powell loves him some Sen. Toobz. He said of Stevens: he's a "trusted individual" with a "sterling" reputation. "He was someone whose word you could rely on." The former secretary of state said he had known Stevens for 25 years, mostly in the senator's role as...
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StarTribune.com (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
A list of character witnesses that Sen. Ted Stevens wants to call to the stand in his corruption trial — a list that includes Sens. Orrin Hatch and Edward Kennedy — must be cut in half, the judge said Friday.
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Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
The Utah Republican appears on the latest list of character witnesses produced by the defense. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell was slated to testify Friday on Stevens' behalf, but the judge still must sign off on other witnesses.
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Thomas Dyches knows what it's like to lose everything. He has gone through a foreclosure and bankruptcy, but he blames only himself for the situation he's in.
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Posted: 12:58 PM- Thomas Dyches knows what it's like to lose everything. He has gone through a foreclosure and bankruptcy, but he blames only himself for the situation he's in.
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Provision Attached to Financial Markets Rescue Bill Signed into Law
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants thanks Congress for passing a new law equalizing the tax
return reporting standards for taxpayers and tax preparers. The legislation
was part of the financial markets rescue package Congress passed and
President Bush signed on Oct. 3.
"Equalizing...
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Random Jottings (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Peter Guttman has written a piece which argues that no one should be President who hasn't traveled. (He's a travel writer!) I think he's got it exactly backwards... ...Although historians will long debate how this country arrived at the global...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
I will pay you tomorrow for a hamburger today. Bob Bennett and Orrin Hatch are feasting on their own fat-cat appetites they have had for years and now are expecting others to pay for their extravagant lifestyles. They voted for the bailout.
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Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
All the extra sweetening that the Senate put into the $700 billion rescue bill for financial institutions was still not enough to lure the support of Reps. Rob Bishop or Jim Matheson when the House finally passed that bill on Friday.
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StandardNET Local News Feed (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
WASHINGTON DC - Utah Representatives were split on the $700 billion economic bailout package which passed the U.S. House earlier today.
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NEI Nuclear Notes (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Kirk Sorensen has the story : The following legislation has been introduced in the US Senate today by Senator Orrin Hatch and Senator Harry Reid: A BILL To amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to provide for thorium fuel cycle nuclear power generation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may...
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
WASHINGTON - The House may pass the $700 billion Wall Street bailout today, but it won't get any help from Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah. Despite the additions to the bill, which includes money for rural counties with large federal land holdings, Matheson will once again vote
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Market Wire - Government: National (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
MCLEAN, VA (MARKET WIRE) Thorium Power, Ltd. (OTCBB: THPW), the leading developer of non-proliferative nuclear fuel technology and provider of comprehensive advisory services for emerging nuclear programs, today welcomed the actions of Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to introduce the "2008 Thorium Energy Independence and Security Act" legislation to significantly...
