Thursday, March 11, 2010

Weekly Address: Health Reform Will Benefit American Families and Businesses This Year

Weekly Address: Health Reform Will Benefit American Families and Businesses This Year

March 6, 2010 by St. Lucie Times Staff · Leave a Comment 

In his weekly address, President Barack Obama said that Congress owes the country an up-or-down vote on health reform and he described how more American families will have more control over their health care this year after health reform passes.  The proposal the President has put forward includes tax credits for small businesses to purchase [...]

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SLCTV To Air Florida Channel Programs, Legislative Session

SLCTV To Air Florida Channel Programs, Legislative Session

February 27, 2010 by St. Lucie Times Staff · Leave a Comment 

SLCTV, St. Lucie County’s government access channel, will begin airing programs from WFSU-TV/The Florida Channel, including live and tape-delay broadcasts of the 2010 Legislative Session this March.
Starting March 1, SLCTV (Comcast 21) will broadcast the following Florida Channel programs Monday through Friday:

Florida Face-to-Face at 6 a.m.
Capitol Update at 6:30 a.m.
Florida Crossroads at 7 a.m.
Capitol Update [...]

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Weekly Address: President Obama Says Washington Must Use This Opportunity to Enact Health Reform

Weekly Address: President Obama Says Washington Must Use This Opportunity to Enact Health Reform

February 27, 2010 by St. Lucie Times Staff · Leave a Comment 

In his weekly address, President Barack Obama said that the nation cannot lose the current opportunity to finally enact meaningful health care reform.  At Thursday’s meeting on reform, both sides were able to find several areas of agreement, but there were some differences.  While the President is willing and eager to move forward with members [...]

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Weekly Address: Premiums, Profits, and the Need for Health Reform

Weekly Address: Premiums, Profits, and the Need for Health Reform

February 20, 2010 by St. Lucie Times Staff · Leave a Comment 

President Barack Obama used his weekly address to call on Democratic and Republican leaders to attend next week’s health care meeting in good faith to find reforms that work for American families and small businesses.  With several health insurance companies announcing steep hikes in their rates – from 10 to over 30 percent – it [...]

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Weekly Address: President Obama Praises Restoration of Pay-As-You-Go

Weekly Address: President Obama Praises Restoration of Pay-As-You-Go

February 14, 2010 by St. Lucie Times Staff · Leave a Comment 

Hours after signing pay-as-you-go legislation into law, President Barack Obama praised this step towards restoring fiscal responsibility and called for both parties to set aside politics and do the hard work of addressing the deficit.  To this end, since the proposed Fiscal Commission was recently blocked in the Senate – by a handful of Republicans [...]

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Republicans want Oompa Loompa NOW

Republicans want Oompa Loompa NOW

February 10, 2010 by Rachel Baker · Leave a Comment 

Much like Veruca Salt in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, who has everything she could possibly want and hope to get, the Republicans want their Oompa Loompa now. Its not good enough that their core “common-sense” ideas are included in the Senate health care bill, they want to start over.  At some point, it will [...]

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Weekly Address: President Obama Calls for New Steps to Support America’s Small Businesses

Weekly Address: President Obama Calls for New Steps to Support America’s Small Businesses

February 7, 2010 by St. Lucie Times Staff · Leave a Comment 

In this week’s address, President Barack Obama said that America’s small businesses are key to rebuilding the economy on a new, stronger foundation and creating jobs. He called on Republicans and Democrats in Congress to pass – without delay – a series of proposals that will help American small businesses thrive.  These proposals include using [...]

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Governor Crist Unveils 2010-11 Budget Recommendations

Governor Crist Unveils 2010-11 Budget Recommendations

January 31, 2010 by St. Lucie Times Staff · Leave a Comment 

This week, Governor Crist outlined his recommendations for the Fiscal Year 2010-11 budget.  The measures unveiled today conclude a weeklong series of announcements highlighting the Governor’s economic, education and environmental proposals. Governor Crist’s budget recommendations emphasize his continued commitment to creating jobs and economic opportunities, developing the talent of Florida’s students and workforce, protecting Florida’s [...]

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Weekly Address: Reigning in Deficits

Weekly Address: Reigning in Deficits

January 31, 2010 by St. Lucie Times Staff · Leave a Comment 

In his weekly address, President Barack Obama promised to rein the deficit, citing three specific steps to this end.  He praised the Senate for restoring the pay-as-you-go law, which in the 1990’s contributed to the $236 billion surplus at the end of the decade.  It is no coincidence that after ending PAYGO, that surplus became [...]

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Obama: State of the Union

Obama: State of the Union

January 29, 2010 by St. Lucie Times Staff · Leave a Comment 

In his State of the Union Address, the President laid out an agenda attempting to attack one problem from every conceivable angle: the terrible squeeze felt by America’s middle class.  Fundamentally, that means prying government away from special interests and dedicating it to measures that put Americans to work and lay the foundation for a [...]

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