Rural health care bill aims to aid rural providers
U S Rep Mac Thornberry notes the 1997 Balanced Budget Act reduced Medicare payments harming rural hospitals in the Panhandle and across rural areas. He helped approve a bill allocating 35 billion dollars to rural hospitals nursing homes and home health agencies harmed by the cuts. The act allowed broader rules that steered funds away from intended goals, worsening finances.
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U.S
Mac Thornberry
Clarendon
Panhandle
Thornberry
Rural Health Care Coalition
Rural health bill gains House support boosts rural care
The rural health legislation passed the House 292 to 60 to aid rural hospitals through equitable treatment for rural disproportionate share hospitals and to delay a 15 percent cut in home health payments. It includes a full medical inflation update, reduces regulatory mandates, and eases nursing home consolidated billing. Thornberry calls it a Christmas present for rural providers as next year approaches.
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Thornberry
Oddball Holiday Gifts Mock Presidential Election
Milwaukee shoppers get a satirical gag catalog riffing on the 2000 presidential race. The piece promotes various novelty items and memorabilia, including Vote-O-Matic machines, dual concession speeches, Florida ballot debris keepsakes, and political bumper stickers with tongue in cheek commentary. It notes limited quantities and quirky prices as a holiday prompt.
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Milwaukee
Palm Beach County
Fla
al Gore
Gore
Bush
Florida
Chad
Jeb
Treasury secretary misfit hunt for a Rubin successor
Robert Reno analyzes the looming Treasury secretary selection as markets worry over uncertain economic seas. The piece contrasts Hillary Summers and George W Bush administrations, notes past picks, and flags names like Archer Marron Shipley Hennessy as potential contenders while underscoring the political and regulatory hurdles shaping the appointment.
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Washington
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Internal Revenue Service
Treasury
Robert Rubin
Albert Gore
Larry Summers
Rubin
Donald Marron
PaineWebber Inc
Walter Shipley
Chase Manhattan
John Hennessy
Credit Suisse-First Boston
Wall Street
Franklin Roosevelt
Hudson Valley
Henry Morgenthau Jr
Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin
John Kennedy
C. Douglas Dillon
John Connally
Nixon
Nicholas Brady
George Bush
Bush
Brady
Robins
Sea change in court politics echoes through era of rights
Paul Greenberg analyzes the Supreme Court clash over Bush v Gore and the era shift. He notes liberals and conservatives swapped doctrines, laments the loss of reverence for the court, and highlights figures like Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Alan Dershowitz. The piece contrasts past and present rhetoric while cautioning against simplistic readings of constitutional law.
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Little Rock, Ark
Supreme Court of the United States
Bush
Gore
Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the
United State
Jim Eastland
Hadmon Talmadge
Brown
Board of Education
George W. Bush
Confederacy
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Jefferson Davis
Earl Warren
Harvard Law School
Alan Dershowitz
Orval Faubus
Lester Maddox
Clinton presses pause on Garza execution amid politics
President Clinton delayed the December 7 execution of Juan Raul Garza to allow the Justice Department more time to study racial and geographic disparities in federal capital punishment. He noted the case’s heinous crimes, while signaling politics and public opinion influenced federal justice decisions.
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Clinton
Juan Raul Garza
U.S. Justice Department
Elian Gonzalez
U.S
Janet Reno
Garza
George W. Bush
Justice Department
Texas
Editorial page notice on opinions and columnists
The Amarillo Daily News clarifies that editorials on the left side reflect the editorial board’s views while columns by local and syndicated writers on this page reflect individual opinions and may not represent the paper’s stance.
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Paul Greenberg
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Little Rock
Amarillo Daily News
Colum
Nists
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