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People who believe they were injured by drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration should not be allowed to sue drug companies in state courts, the agency said yesterday in a formal policy statement.
Why would Pharma want that? Let's see--could it be because the federal courts are packed with biz-friendly Republican judges? Read More
Former United States vice-president Al Gore launched a withering attack on the White House on Monday for authorising wiretaps without court oversight, and accused President George Bush of repeatedly breaking the law. The strongly worded speech makes Gore the most prominent political figure in the US to weigh in on the wiretapping scandal. Gore, who lost the 2000 election to Bush following the intervention of the Supreme Court, also went further than other Democratic critics in accusing the president of wrongdoing. ......... "A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government," he said.
The strongly worded speech makes Gore the most prominent political figure in the US to weigh in on the wiretapping scandal. Gore, who lost the 2000 election to Bush following the intervention of the Supreme Court, also went further than other Democratic critics in accusing the president of wrongdoing. ......... "A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government," he said.
Ohio Rep. Robert Ney personally lobbied the then Secretary of State Colin Powell to relax U.S. sanctions on Iran. Who asked him to? A convicted airplane broker who had just taken the congressman and a top aide on an expense-paid trip to London, NEWSWEEK has learned...
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