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They postpone one week voting of Sotomayor The Judicial Committee of the Senate postponed until the 28 of July its voting on the candidacy of judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, at the request of the republicans.
The republicans, as he authorizes the regulation to them, asked for the postponement to have more time to study the answers of Sotomayor during their hearing of confirmation the past week and to additional questions, as well as the file of the judge.
They look for to investigate expenses of governor of Carolina of the South
Some legislators of Carolina of the South say that the expenses of trip of governor Mark Sanford will have to be examined close by, as soon as an analysis of The Associated Press showed that reserved expensive flights, although the laws say that the state employees must pay less possible by their trips. Sanford, who assured that it will remain in his position, said that he and their Argentine friend became loving during an official trip to South America in the 2008 whose first scale was in Brazil. Official registries show that Sanford received to state $8,687 by the flight of the airline Delta to him with a section in executive class, whereas other $2,000 less than state employees spent each by tickets in tourist class for the flight.
Support to health reform falls
The citizen endorsement to the project of reform of health of president Barack Obama, fell below 50%, according to it reveals a survey of the Washington Post newspaper and the ABC News television transmitter. According to the sounding, 49% of the interviewed people endorsed the proposal of the agent chief executive, eight percentage points less than in last April. While, in that lapse the rejection custom-made grew from the 29 to 44%, adds. The Washington Post emphasizes that the health reform is one of the main subjects in the internal agenda of Obama, but finds an iron opposition in the Congress, in spite of being controlled by the democrats. The past week the Committee of Health of the Senate approved a project of law like part of the reform to the sector. Sanctioned by 13 votes against 10, the proposal anticipates to extend the medical cover in the country, that counts with 47 million people without her. The panel is one of the five commissions of the Congress that must present/display their initiatives to reform the health of the country.
Fixed reward by heads of the poster of the Gulf
The authorities of the northeast of Florida announced that they have seven stopped by the murder of a well-known millionaire pair to adopt disabled children. Melanie and Byrd Billings were assassinated to shots in their residence near Pensacola the 9 of July at night. The bailiff of the county Escambia, David Morgan, said to him to his daughter Ashley Markham in a press conference that the investigators have found the people responsible for the murder of their parents. Morgan indicated that the investigators continue looking for another person more in the case at least. Public prosecutor Bill Eddins said that the main moving body was the robbery. He indicated that one of the robbed objects was a strong box, although did not give details of which others.
They warn with suspending aid to Honduras
The Secretary of State of the United States, Hillary Clinton, noticed the temporary president of Honduras, Micheletti Robert, with suspending the aid that offers Washington to its country if the mediation that carries out the president of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias, fails. “There would be a significant impact in terms of aid and possible long term consequences for the relations between the United States and Honduras”, stressed the spokesman of the department of the State, Phillip Crowley. On the other hand the dismissed president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, considered that in its country “the civil war already began”, said that he is determined to return to Honduras and predicted that its “entrance in Tegucigalpa is going to be tremendous”. “I am initiating my return already. I am going it to do as of Wednesday by anyone of the border points that Honduras with Guatemala, El Salvador or Nicaragua has”, added Zelaya. |
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