DeWine bill tipped balance on terrorism powers
The editorial argues Sen. Mike DeWine’s bill would lower a warrant standard for foreigners suspected of terrorism from probable cause to reasonable suspicion. It warns that subjective standards empower officials and erode civil liberties, urging lawmakers to defeat the measure.
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Mike DeWine
Ohtio
DeWine
FRBI
United States
John Ashcroft
FBI
EPA reforms raise alarms over old plants and air safety
The Bush EPA proposed changes to the Clean Air Act that could ease modernization at refineries and coal plants without strict emission controls. Critics say the plan creates loopholes, lets facilities pick favorable baselines, and narrowly defines routine maintenance, risking longer lasting pollution and harm to public health along the Eastern seaboard.
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Bush Administration
Environmental Protection Agency
Seaboard
Midwest
EPA
Christie Whitman
Whitman
New York
Eliot Spitzer
Medicare fights block aid for seniors in 2002 war
The 2002 Medicare debate resumes with Four month delay as hospitals fend off cuts pushed by Ways and Means Chairman Bill Thomas. Congress seems set to aid hospitals doctors HMOs and rural centers while seniors face rising drug costs. Party politics and election concerns dominate as Republicans push reform while Democrats demand broader benefits and protections.
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Ways and Means
Bill Thomas
R-Calif
Congress
House
Thomas
GOP
American Hospital Association
The
Federation of American Hospitals
Coalition To Protect America’s
Billi McInturff
Rob Portman
Rohio
Roy Blunt
Energy and Commerce
Billy Tauzin
Rla
Edward Kennedy
D-Mass
National Press Club
Congressional Budget Office
Kennedy
Sens
Bob Graham
Florida
Zell Miller
Georgia
Bush
Rose Garden
World Health Group fights wrong battle says Murdoch
Deroy Murdoch argues that the UN and WHO misprioritize fat reduction in rich nations while hunger and undernutrition kill millions in the developing world. He cites obesity data, child mortality, and disease burdens, urging reallocation of a $2.2 billion WHO budget to fight infectious diseases in poorer regions.
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Reagan
United Nations
World Health Organization
Earth
WHO
WHO Sangrte
Jacques Diouf
U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization
New York Times
West
Hong Kong
Beijing
Tokyo
Narita
Japan
Newark
Mediterranean
Americas
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