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Thursday, Jun 11 2009Senate Leaders Reac adidas campus 80s h Agreement on Process for Considering stanley de War Supplemental Spending Bill, Medicaid ProvisionSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid D-Nev. and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell R-Ky. on Wednesday reached an agreement on a process for Senate consideration of the war supplemental appropriations bill HR 2642 , including a provision to delay for one year seven new Medicaid regulations proposed by the Bush administration, the AP/Detroit News reports Taylor, AP/Detroit News, 5/22 . As part of the agreement on the legislation, the Senate will vote on a domestic spending amendment drafted by Senate Appropriations Committee Democrats that includes the Medicaid provision. In the event that the amendment does not receive 60 votes -- the threshold on which Senate leaders agreed -- they will remove the measure, and therefore the Medicaid provision, from the bill. The amendment likely will not receive 60 votes, according to CQ Today.After the vote on the amendment, the Senate will consider other measures related to war spending and policy conditions for t stanley quencher uk hose funds. The Senate likely will send a final version of the bill to the House on Thursday or Friday. The House likely will consider the version of the legislation sent by the Senate during the first week of June, according to a senior House aide. Senate leaders hope that agreement -- which likely will anger House Democrats and Senate appropriators, who have wrestled over the package of add-ons an
Longer Looks: Interesting Reads You Might Have MissedEach week, KFF Health News finds longer stories for you to enjoy. This week s selections include stories on marijuana, octopus hydro flask water bottle , nutrition, aging, hepatitis C, and more. The New York Times:Federal Law Requires A Choice: Marijuana Or A Gun 聽For Vera Cooper, the time had come to buy a gun. In her mid-70s at the time and widowed several years earlier, she was already feeling vulnerable, living by herself. Then came the tipping point: Th hydrojug traveler e plumbi stanley uk ng business that Ms. Cooper owns in the Florida Panhandle had to fire a worker, and he stormed out of the office, threatening vengeance. At a nearby gun store, she settled on a .22 caliber pistol that felt good in my hand. Then came the problem. A question on the firearms transaction form she was required to complete asked whether she was an unlawful user of marijuana or any other drug categorized by the federal government as a controlled substance. Kovaleski, 11/29 The Washington Post:If An Octopus Is So Smart, Should You Eat It 聽A growing scientific understanding of the cognition of octopuses and other cephalopods is now calling into question the idea of eating these problem-solving sea creatures 鈥?as well as our notion of what exactly makes an animal intelligent in the first place. Grandoni, 11/29 CNN:One Identical Twin Went Vegan While The Other Didnt. See What Happened聽Healthy twins who ate a vegan diet for eight weeks had lower bad low-density lipoprotein, or LDL, cho Chse Longer Looks: Interesting Reads You Might Have Missed
Thursday, Jun 11 2009Senate Leaders Reac adidas campus 80s h Agreement on Process for Considering stanley de War Supplemental Spending Bill, Medicaid ProvisionSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid D-Nev. and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell R-Ky. on Wednesday reached an agreement on a process for Senate consideration of the war supplemental appropriations bill HR 2642 , including a provision to delay for one year seven new Medicaid regulations proposed by the Bush administration, the AP/Detroit News reports Taylor, AP/Detroit News, 5/22 . As part of the agreement on the legislation, the Senate will vote on a domestic spending amendment drafted by Senate Appropriations Committee Democrats that includes the Medicaid provision. In the event that the amendment does not receive 60 votes -- the threshold on which Senate leaders agreed -- they will remove the measure, and therefore the Medicaid provision, from the bill. The amendment likely will not receive 60 votes, according to CQ Today.After the vote on the amendment, the Senate will consider other measures related to war spending and policy conditions for t stanley quencher uk hose funds. The Senate likely will send a final version of the bill to the House on Thursday or Friday. The House likely will consider the version of the legislation sent by the Senate during the first week of June, according to a senior House aide. Senate leaders hope that agreement -- which likely will anger House Democrats and Senate appropriators, who have wrestled over the package of add-ons an