Obama Health Proposal Would Prohibit Some Insurance Rate Increases, Says Democrat Schakowsky

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) says during a hearing on Wednesday that President Barack Obama's health reform proposal has measures in place that would help prevent insurance companies from randomy raising their customers' rates. (0:26)
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Blair Lists Terrorists Believed To Be Working With al-Qaeda

Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair lists terrorists that are believed to be affiliated with Al-Qaida during an Annual Threat Assessment hearing on Wednesday. (:47)
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Credit card debt and bankruptcy correlation

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

At a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on "Consumer Debt: Are Credit Cards Bankrupting Americans?" Adam Levitin from Georgetown University Law Center said, “There is nothing particularly surprising about high credit card debt correlating with bankruptcy. People who are in bankruptcy have debt. What is important to note is that debt, dollar for dollar, credit card debt has a much higher correlation with bankruptcy than any other type of debt.”

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Licensed Professionals Who Commit Fraud Should Be Made Example Of

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

This was a statement made by Neil Barofsky, Special Inspector General for the Troubled Assets Relief Program, at a Senate Judiciary hearing, in response to a question posed by Senator Edward Kaufman (D-Del).
February 11, 2009.
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Deputy Attorney General nominee talks torture

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

Senator Ron Wyden (D-Or), asks Deputy Attorney General nominee David Ogden his opinion on torture at his hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today. February 5, 2009.
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Deputy Attorney General nominee asked about death penalty

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

Senator Russ Feinfold (D-Wi), asks Deputy Attorney General nominee David Ogden about his stance on the federal death penalty at his hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee today. February 5, 2009.
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Senator John F. Kerry speaks at Climate Change Hearing

Sen. John Kerry speaks at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Climate change and says that, "We need a transformation in public policy thinking to embrace the reality of what science is telling us." We need to come to terms with the implications of the climate problems that we face because the consequences will be catastrophic if we don't.(0:47)

by Suzia van Swol and Candyce Torres, University of New Mexico-Talk Radio News Service
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