Posts Tagged ‘control’

GOP vows to reverse Obama birth control policy (AP)

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., center, accompanied by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, and Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H. gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, to criticize President Barack Obama for insisting that employers must provide health insurance that includes birth control for women.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP – Republicans vowed Wednesday to reverse President Barack Obama’s new policy on birth control, lambasting the requirement that religious schools and hospitals provide employees with free contraceptives as an “unambiguous attack on religious freedom in our country.”


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Boehner: Congress to overturn birth control policy (AP)

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks on job creation to employees of Thyssenkrupp Bilstein of America, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012, in Hamilton, Ohio. The company has been in Hamilton since 1995 and manufactures automobile shock absorbers. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)AP – House Speaker John Boehner accused the Obama administration Wednesday of an “unambiguous attack on religious freedom,” promising that Congress will reverse a new policy requiring religious schools and hospitals to provide employees with free birth control if the president doesn’t.


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Abortion, birth control grab political spotlight (AP)

Karen Handel speaks during an interview in Atlanta Tuesday,  Feb. 7, 2012. Handel announced earlier her resignation as vice president for public policy for Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity.  (AP Photo/John Bazemore)AP – A political firestorm over abortion and birth control spread suddenly to multiple fronts on Tuesday. A high-ranking official resigned from the Komen breast-cancer charity after its backtracking treaty with Planned Parenthood, and Republican presidential candidates blistered the Obama administration for a recent ruling on Catholic hospitals and contraception.


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Bloomberg: More federal spending on gun control

Mayor Bloomberg slammed Congress Sunday for not providing federal funding to keep guns out of the wrong hands. Touting a new anti-illegal gun Super Bowl ad, the mayor said city and states don’t get enough money to perform proper background checks on gun applicants.

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Rent control

A Manhattan judge has struck a blow for sanity against those who will say and do anything to oppose charter schools.

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Euthanasia to control shelter population unpopular (AP)

This undated photo courtesy of Best Friends Animal Society shows a cat named Cala Lilly at the Best Friends Animal Society in Kenab Utah. Best Friends Animal Society operates the country's largest no-kill sanctuary for abandoned and abused animals.  (AP Photo/Best Friends Animal Society, Molly Wald)AP – Seven in 10 pet owners say they believe animal shelters should be allowed to euthanize animals only when they are too sick to be treated or too aggressive to be adopted.


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Absentee slumlord in the Bronx forced to cede control  of  Fordham building in big victory for tenants 

Tenants in a battle with their perpetually absent landlord claimed victory on Wednesday when a judge ruled that a housing advocate take over the slum.

“We feel good,” said 4619 Park Ave. resident Jose Benitez with a smile across his face.

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