A 24-year-old Columbus woman was indicted today for allegedly falsifying applications for absentee ballots for the casino issue that passed Nov. 3.
Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien announced that a grand jury indicted Deshara M. McKinney, 24, on two counts of voter fraud for securing false signatures.
McKinney fraudulently filled out two applications for absentee ballots by signing the names of two registered voters, O'Brien's office said. She worked with FieldWorks, a campaign management company hired by supporters of the casino issue to canvass voters.
FieldWorks resigned from the casino campaign two weeks before the election after evidence of voter fraud surfaced in Hamilton County.
Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph T. Deters said a worker for FieldWorks was indicted there for allegedly forging signatures on applications for absentee ballots.
The casino measure won with 53 percent of the vote Nov. 3.
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner fiercely battled against the suggestion he step down from his post in light of growing concerns from both the left and right over his leadership.
In a fiery exchange at Thursday's Joint Economic Committee hearing with ranking Republican Kevin Brady (Texas), who suggested that Geithner had "failed" and should reconsider his job, the Treasury secretary asserted that he and his team had made great strides bringing the economy back from "the brink."
"I agree with almost nothing of what you said," replied a heated Geithner, charging President George W. Bush's leadership was to blame for the country's financial woes.
"Again, it's just a basic fact: A year ago, this economy was falling at the rate of 6 percent a year. We were losing between half a million and three-quarters of a million jobs a month," he said, noting those numbers changed when President Barack Obama took office.
That explanation, however, hardly satisfied Brady, who shot back that the country "has lost all confidence in your ability to do the job." He also said Geithner's failure was beginning "to reflect on your president."
Sensing the exchange was about to grow more pointed, Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) informed Brady his time had expired. But Geithner still returned fire, blaming "almost a decade of public neglect," and the economic harm that it wrought on the country, on the Bush administration.
Replied Brady, "Tell all of that to the millions of Americans who no longer have jobs because of your decisions."
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Fact is they had projections on what would happen with and without the stimulus and now people look at those pessimistic projections and think "we wish". Either they couldn't read the economy or they made things worse with their fix. Neither is confidence building.
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this has to do with cap & trade; a loss here would not have been disastrous because when the real truth became known repeal could have taken place without much harm being done
unfortunately the more important battle against health care disorder is in doubt
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I'm not going to apologize for linking to a Republican Leadership blog. The MSM will never mention this until it comes time to give congresscritters cover for voting for this monstrosity of a bill.
Question: Mr. Wife opined that most Congressional bills are considerably more than a few pages long, and a monstrosity like this is actually not all that unusual. Can anyone here speak to that?
Just like the original 2,032-page, government-run health care plan from Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-NV) massive, 2,074-page bill would levy a new "abortion premium" fee on Americans in the government-run plan. Note: This is a mandatorytax fee. If you are under the government plan you will participate in abortions by funding them.
Beginning on line 7, p. 118, section 1303 under "Voluntary Choice of Coverage of Abortion Services" the Health and Human Services Secretary is given the authority to determine when abortion is allowed under the government-run health plan. Leader Reid's plan also requires that at least one insurance plan offered in the Exchange covers abortions (line 13, p. 120).
What is even more alarming is that a monthly abortion premium will be charged of all enrollees in the government-run health plan. It's right there beginning on line 11, page 122, section 1303, under "Actuarial Value of Optional Service Coverage." The premium will be paid into a U.S. Treasury account -- and these federal funds will be used to pay for the abortion services.
Section 1303(a)(2)(C) describes the process in which the Health Benefits Commissioner is to assess the monthly premiums that will be used to pay for elective abortions under the government-run health plan and for those who are given an affordability credit to purchase insurance coverage that includes abortion through the Exchange. The Commissioner must charge at a minimum $1 per enrollee per month. Personally I think this is a distraction on a bill which should, itself, be aborted. What will happen is that the Senate leadershit will 'compromise' on this to give blue-dogs and RINO's 'cover' so they can vote for this monstrosity of a plan. I also think this will be slipped back in during reconciliation. Few people (and the MSM never) watch what happens then.
Ever notice how the 'plan' does nothing to address the alleged 'problems' in healthcare they have been whining about for decades? It still won't cover everyone and it won't control costs.
If you think you are alone in this - read some of the comments at the link.
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Because this is a 'fee' and not a tax, they can say that taxpayer funds are not being used to fund abortion, and thus be able to bargain for the votes of Senators like Landrieu. (It all depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.)
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid claims that his health care bill costs about $848 billion in the first 10 years, well under President Obama's $900 billion target.
That's for 10 years of revenue-gathering, but only six years of service, according to the analysis by the Congressional Budget Office.
Adding in expenses beyond the 10-year mark drastically skews the overall cost, making the $848 billion a mere fraction of the long-term price tag of overhauling America's health care system -- and that's if no changes are made to the legislation during that time.
The additional claim touted by Senate Democrats -- that the bill will reduce the deficit by $130 billion over the first 10 years -- is also coming under fire as "fantasy."
Republicans have countered the CBO estimate with a figure of their own: $2.5 trillion, an estimate that comes out of the Senate Budget Committee minority's analysis of Reid's plan.
"This is a lousy bill that's going to cost American taxpayers like mad for the rest of our lives," Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, a fierce critic of the health care legislation, told Fox News on Thursday.
Part of the problem with the CBO estimate is that it covers a 10-year period from 2010-2019 -- however, the health care reform plan is not fully implemented until 2014. That means the federal government is raking in billions in taxes and savings for the first four years without spending on the new program. The $2.5 trillion estimate is for the 10-year window starting in 2014, after implementation of the program begins.
Under the timetable in the CBO estimate, the government spends $9 billion in the first four years, but $838 billion in the last six when the overhaul goes into full force.
The revenue significantly ramps up in the latter half of the decade to keep pace with spending, but the nearly $100 billion in deficit savings in the first four years is not necessarily in the piggy bank either.
Democrats are holding up estimates that show the second decade of health care reform yields even more deficit reduction.
President Obama said in a statement Wednesday night that the unveiling of the is a "critical milestone" and cited one estimate showing the second 10 years would yield up to $650 billion in deficit reduction.
Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, cited the same estimate, telling Fox News that Reid's bill is "going in the right direction" and yields significant savings.
"That to me is the most encouraging part of this," he said.
Budget analysts say that the early revenue cannot be fenced off, much like Social Security money is spent despite a trust fund for that purpose. The funding gets absorbed into the general federal budget, presumably to go toward reducing the deficit on a yearly basis.
However, this creates the possibility that Congress could spend that money twice, by using the up-front savings as fun money for new projects and then having to pay the bill for health care reform down the road. Holtz-Eakin called this a worst-case scenario.
"The government's incapable of segregating funds. You can't put the money in a cigar box and bury it behind the Treasury Department," said Michael Tanner, senior fellow with the libertarian Cato Institute.
Tanner pointed to two other "gimmicks" that make the price seem smaller than it is.
One deals with the so-called "doctor fix," which would be an act of Congress to ensure Medicare doctors don't face steeps cuts in federal reimbursements. This would cost at least $210 billion over 10 years, and it's a "fix" that Democrats are trying to separate from the health care reform bill.
That alone erases the $130 billion in deficit savings claimed by the CBO's latest health care estimate.
Tanner also pointed to the CLASS Act, a long-term care program in the bill that takes in billions in revenue early on but does not pay out in any significant way until the next decade.
"If you use honest accounting ... then this bill's not paid for," Tanner said. "It's smoke-and-mirrors accounting."
The Budget Committee document estimating the actual cost to be $2.5 trillion over years five through 14 of the program also showed $126 billion in deficit reduction in that period. It estimated even more down the road.
But Holtz-Eakin called that "fiction," since it relies on more than $1 trillion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid.
He said there's no way the government can sustain and increase those cuts and expect the program to work.
Rep. Bill Owens' (D-N.Y.) margin of victory over Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman has widened after additional absentee votes were counted, according to a report on Thursday.
The Watertown Daily Times is reporting that Hoffman now trails Owens by 3,105 votes with 3,072 absentee ballots left to be counted. Even if Hoffman were to win all the remaining ballots, he would still come up 33 votes short.
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Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani has decided against running for governor, but is strongly considering running for U.S. Senate instead, sources told the Daily News.
The Republican heavyweight was considered the GOP's best shot at reclaiming the governor's mansion.
The only declared candidate on the Republican side is little-known former Long Island Rep. Rick Lazio.
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The Senate confirmed Judge David Hamilton to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals 59-39 Thursday after breaking a GOP filibuster Tuesday and a five-and-a-half month delay.
Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), who represents Hamilton's home state of Indiana, casted the lone Republican vote for the judge.
"This is a nomination that should be confirmed and should have been confirmed months ago," said Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) in a statement. "David Hamilton is a fine judge and will make a good addition to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit."
Hamilton, who was President Barack Obama's first judicial nominee, came under Republican fire for several rulings he made in Indiana, from barring certain prayers in the state legislature to a ruling stating that abortion clinics should not be required to provide information on alternatives to abortion.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said Monday he sought to block Hamilton's nomination because he believed the judge was extreme and would add "footnotes to the Constitution."
Lugar, however, refuted GOP sentiment in a floor statement Monday on Hamilton's behalf, saying that the judge appreciated "the vital, and yet vitally limited, role of the federal judiciary faithfully to interpret and apply our laws, rather than seeking to impose their own policy views."
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The Wall Street Journal's intrepid and very good Amy Schatz has a piece today updating us on the progress of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s National Broadband Plan.
With all that we have thus far seen, things look quite grim from a free speech, free market perspective. The groundwork for government information totalitarianism - favored by people like Hugo Chavez-loving FCC "Diversity Czar" Mark Lloyd and Marxist "media reform"-outfit Free Press founder Robert McChesney - is being laid in the Plan being crafted by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.
In his 2006 book Prologue to a Farce, Lloyd called for the FCC to charge private broadcast companies 100% of their operating budgets for their broadcast licenses.
As we first reported, the Center for American Progress (at which Lloyd was then a Senior Fellow) and McChesney's Free Press co-authored the deeply flawed, anti-conservative and Christian talk radio "report" entitled The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio.
But their shared disdain for free speech and the free market extend way beyond just this. These "media reformers" seek to eradicate most or all private ownership of all information delivery - be it by radio, television or the internet - thereby leaving the federal government as sole purveyor.
In his 2006 book Prologue to a Farce, Lloyd called for the FCC to charge private broadcast companies 100% of their operating budgets for their broadcast licenses. He also called for heavy fines to be levied on these stations for failing to meet his vast and expansive (not to mention warped) definitions of diversity and localism. Lloyd called for all of this money to be handed to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting - in other words, government radio and television.
Any one who has ever run a business - or worked for a business, or can count to three without error - knows that these sorts of confiscatory and regulatory impediments would make it impossible for any private media company to continue to exist. They would all be forced to cede the field, leaving government - holding vast sums of the private owners' money - as the only player left standing.
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The wife of the most senior Republican in the Senate was charged Wednesday night with driving while intoxicated and hit-and-run after her vehicle struck a parked car and she continued driving.
Fairfax County Police said Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar's wife, Charlene, drove her car into the parked vehicle just after 6:15 p.m. Wednesday in their McLean, Va., neighborhood.
Police said Charlene Lugar, 76, hit the car in the 7100 block of Churchill Road and was later stopped by police near the intersection of Old Dominion and Dominion Reserve drives -- a distance of about 2 miles, according to Google Maps. The officer stopped her after seeing damage to her car and smoke coming from the hood.
She was taken to Fairfax County Jail and charged. Police said she registered a blood-alcohol content of .11.
The senator released the following statement Thursday about the incident:
"At about 6:30 p.m. last evening, November 18, Mrs. Lugar had a traffic accident in our McLean, Virginia neighborhood. A charge has been filed and a court appearance is scheduled for January. No other persons were in her car or the unattended car she hit. Thankfully, no one was injured. We are deeply sorry and embarrassed that this accident has occurred."
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We are deeply sorry and embarrassed that this accident has occurred."
The passive voice, beloved of those who do not wish to accept responsibility
President Obama brushed off criticism over his administration's inaccurate reporting on job creation Wednesday, telling Fox News the accounting is an "inexact science" and that any errors are a "side issue" when compared with the goal of turning the economy around. He said job growth is his No.1 responsibility.
The president was responding to criticism from Republicans, as well as Democratic Rep. David Obey, who drew attention to embarrassing errors on the Recovery.gov Web site that tracks stimulus funding. The site is under fire for claiming a number of jobs were created from the stimulus in congressional districts that don't exist and accepting unrealistic and inflated jobs data from various sources.
Obama said he understood the "frustration" but said his focus has to be on accelerating job growth.
"I think this is an inexact science. We're talking about a multitrillion-dollar economy that went through the worst economic crisis since 1933. The first measure of success of the economic recovery is, did we pull ourselves back from the brink? We did," Obama said. "The question now is, can we make sure we're accelerating job growth? That's my No. 1 job. Nobody's been more disappointed than I have to see how high the unemployment rate has gotten. And I spend every waking hour, when I'm talking to my economic team, about how we are going to put people back to work."
Obama spoke with Fox News' Major Garrett in Beijing, in the middle of his tour through several Asian countries. Economic issues have inevitably been on the front burner during the president's leg in China, which is the United States' biggest government lender.
In the interview, Obama spoke candidly about the precarious balancing act his administration is trying to perform. He wants to spend money to kick-start the economy, but at the same time is in danger of creating too much red ink. Obama warned Wednesday that the United States' climbing national debt could even drag the country into a "double-dip recession," though he said he's still considering additional tax incentives for businesses to reverse the rising unemployment rate.
"There may be some tax provisions that can encourage businesses to hire sooner rather than sitting on the sidelines. So we're taking a look at those," Obama said. "I think it is important, though, to recognize if we keep on adding to the debt, even in the midst of this recovery, that at some point, people could lose confidence in the U.S. economy in a way that could actually lead to a double-dip recession."
The warning was a rare admission from the president that the economy is still at risk of turning back -- consumer confidence fell unexpectedly in September and unemployment is at 10.2 percent. Such a recession repeat, following a relatively brief recovery period, could be politically devastating for Obama, let alone economically devastating for the country. The president said Wednesday that striking the right balance is one of the "trickiest" tasks facing his administration -- "to on the one hand make sure the recovery is supported and not withdraw a lot of money either with tax increases or big spending cuts."
"It's about as hard of a play as there is," Obama said.
He said any additional jobs-stimulating legislation will have to "fit into that broader framework," but he would not make a pledge that such a bill would not increase the deficit.
The president also weighed in very directly on a controversial amendment to pending health care legislation, which he's still trying to get passed before the end of the year. After the House passed its bill with a measure authored by Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., to restrict federal subsidies from going toward practically any abortion coverage, Obama signaled that he wants that watered down.
"There is a balance to be achieved that is consistent with the Hyde Amendment (which bars federal funding from covering abortion) ... I believe in the basic idea that federal dollars shouldn't pay for abortions. But I also think we shouldn't restrict women's choices, so I think there's some negotiations going on, not just on the Democratic side, but I think among people of good will on both sides, to see if we can arrive at something that meets that criteria. And I'm confident we can do that."
Asked if Stupak's amendment strikes that balance, he said: "Not yet."
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WORLD NEWS > RECORD US POVERTY, HUNGER, REAL UNEMPLOYMENT RATE:22%, [yet]"LEADERSHIP" IGNORES OBVIOUS SOLUTION???
President Obama will not announce his decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan before the Thanksgiving holiday, senior aides said Thursday.
The news came as the president greeted 1,500 troops at Osan Air Base in South Korea, just before boarding Air Force One and heading back to Washington after an eight-day trip to Asia.
Obama and his top military and diplomatic aides have been deliberating for months over how to proceed in Afghanistan, where the United States and its partners have sought for eight years to defeat the Taliban and deny al-Qaeda a safe haven from which it can plan and launch attacks.
Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, has stated that without the deployment of up to 40,000 additional troops within the next year, the mission "will likely result in failure." But some aides are arguing for a much smaller troop increase, and the U.S. ambassador in Kabul, Karl W. Eikenberry, has questioned whether the Afghan government can be a reliable partner.
Obama said in interviews Wednesday that he would reveal his decision within the next several weeks. On Thursday, aides clarified that there would be no announcement before Thanksgiving, one week away. Senior administration officials said Obama intends to meet with his national security team again before going public with his plans.
Obama did not mention the looming decision in his remarks to U.S. troops, referring to the Afghan conflict only by thanking South Korea for its efforts and expressing gratitude to the American military personnel who have served there.
But he did discuss the region in his meeting with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, whose government is sending 150 civilian aid workers to Afghanistan.
Obama arrived on the base 3:19 p.m. local time (1 a.m. Eastern Standard Time) and received a rousing welcome from 1,500 troops in camouflage uniforms, many holding cameras or pointing cellphones to snap pictures.
"You guys make a pretty good photo op," the president said.
Standing on a riser wearing a blue suit and red tie, with a cluster of troops and a large American flag behind him, Obama expressed "the gratitude of the American public" and said his meetings in four countries over eight days in Asia will help deliver a "safer, more prosperous world for all of us."
He got a huge cheer when he told them he was increasing military pay. "That's what you call an applause line," he said, before boarding his jet and taking off at 4:11 p.m.
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what a dickhead.
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OK fucktard, we asked 4 months ago for help. You have one week. Asia is not going to help you. This was your tantalizing piece over Asia. You get it yet?
You will lose all of our geopolitical power for being a jackass.
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Ohh, and Obama, you are the cartoon character. Troops are not photo op's, and this is not an election. You are not presiding, and this is not washington DC. This is war you pathetic little man.
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Just remember the 'rage' on the left when George did this on the aircraft carrier. The objection wasn't the theme of the shot, but that it wasn't their guy doing it. It's never been about principle, it's always been about power.
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" Just remember the 'rage' on the left when George did this on the aircraft carrier."
I think if might have had something to do with the fact that the old WMD-hallucinating retard was standing in front of a big banner saying "mission accomplished".
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Which was put up by the crew of the USS Lincoln for the end of their mission. A smart guy like you would know that, not that the truth ever gave pause to the left. Hey Turkey, now tell us the "truth" about that famous plastic turkey.
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Well, when you are in germinate campaign mode because you can't make a decision and all your efforts have met with the FAIL train... you take what photo ops you can.
What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform? MONEY!!
Here's a case study.
On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for "certain states recovering from a major disaster."
The section spends two pages defining which "states" would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that "during the preceding 7 fiscal years" have been declared a "major disaster area."
I am told the section applies to exactly one state: Louisiana, the home of moderate Democrat Mary Landrieu, who has been playing hard to get on the health care bill. I'm not too sure I would call Landrieu moderate.
In other words, the bill spends two pages describing what could be written with a single world: Louisiana. (This may also help explain why the bill is long.)
Senator Harry Reid, who drafted the bill, cannot pass it without the support of Louisiana's Mary Landrieu.
How much does it cost? According to the Congressional Budget Office: $100 million. Mere Peanuts! Read the actual section at the link and see if you can figure it out.
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If I were the Pub running against her next year I'd hang this one around her neck no matter which way she votes.
I think I would title my TV ad, 'Thirty pieces of silver'. That should work in the parishes ...
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"We've already established what you are. Now we're just negotiating the price"
*rimshot*
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Thursday said he would make another attempt to halt the trials of so-called Sept. 11 "mastermind" Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other co-conspirators.
Two weeks ago the Senate turned aside an amendment Graham proposed that would have cut funding for the civilian trials. The upper chamber tabled the measure in a 54-45 vote. The former military prosecutor said that he would introduce a bill in the Senate sometime this week.
He was indeed JAG, as one of my many favourite Rantburgers suggested yesterday. Well done!
"I'm going to try to get another vote on my bill," Graham told conservative talk radio host and lawyer Jay Sekulow on Thursday.
Last week, Graham had said that he would stay silent on the Sept. 11 terror trials until after he met with President Barack Obama. The president returns from his trip to Asia on Thursday.
Graham has argued that the Sept. 11 co-conspirators deserve a fair trial before a military tribunal, but has said a civilian trial would pose intelligence and military risk to the United States. Graham and his Senate ally John McCain (R-Ariz.) support closing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay but say military tribunals should handle the cases because they would not have to expose sensitive intelligence during a trial.
"I don't mind having enemy prisoners in American military jails in the states," he said. "[But] you're rewarding the terrorists for killing civilians [by having a civilian trial]."
Most Democrats opposed Graham's effort two weeks ago, arguing that it would prevent the Obama administration from seeking justice for the terrorists. Attorney General Eric Holder has said that sensitive intelligence would not have to be revealed at trial and vowed that federal prosecutors would secure a conviction.
Suuuure.
The five Democrats to vote against the tabling two weeks ago were Sens. Jim Webb (Va.), Maria Cantwell (Wash.), Mark Pryor (Ark.), Blanche Lincoln (Ark.) and Joe Lieberman (Conn.), an Independent who caucuses with the Democrats.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A 24-year-old Columbus woman was indicted today for allegedly falsifying applications for absentee ballots for the casino issue that passed Nov. 3.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner fiercely battled against the suggestion he step down from his post in light of growing concerns from both the left and right over his leadership.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid claims that his health care bill costs about $848 billion in the first 10 years, well under President Obama's $900 billion target. 
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani has decided against running for governor, but is strongly considering running for U.S. Senate instead, sources told the Daily News. 
The Senate confirmed Judge David Hamilton to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals 59-39 Thursday after breaking a GOP filibuster Tuesday and a five-and-a-half month delay. 
President Obama brushed off criticism over his administration's inaccurate reporting on job creation Wednesday, telling Fox News the accounting is an "inexact science" and that any errors are a "side issue" when compared with the goal of turning the economy around. He said job growth is his No.1 responsibility. 
President Obama will not announce his decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan before the Thanksgiving holiday, senior aides said Thursday. 
What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform?
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Thursday said he would make another attempt to halt the trials of so-called Sept. 11 "mastermind" Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other co-conspirators. 
