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September 21, 2008 - September 27, 2008 Archives
5:06 PM Fri, Sep 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter  Email
NEW YORK (AP) -- After a two-day cliffhanger over whether their first debate would take place, John McCain and Barack Obama take aim at the ultimate record: most-watched presidential debate ever. The standard was set in 1980, when 80.6 million......
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1:24 PM Fri, Sep 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
AP file photo The first televised presidential debate in U.S. history took place in 1960, between Sen. John F. Kennedy, at the lectern, and Vice President Richard Nixon, at right. Between them is moderator Howard K. Smith. The big......
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11:45 AM Fri, Sep 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Rhode Island College in Providence will host a public forum on tonight's presidential debate between Republican nominee Sen. John McCain and Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama. Sen. McCain had called for a postponement of the debate until Congress could agree......
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10:43 AM Fri, Sep 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
By John Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jack Reed has stepped out of the negotiations over the proposed package to rescue the financial system and plans to fly to Mississippi later today for the presidential debate between Democratic......
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7:26 PM Thu, Sep 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
EAST GREENWICH -- If you're waiting for Sen. Joseph Biden at the Alpine Country Club in Cranston, he may be a little late. His red, white and blue-colored chartered plane touched town at Northstar Aviation at T.F. Green Airport in......
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6:53 PM Thu, Sep 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON -- Rep. James R. Langevin said that today's White House signing of legislation to improved the lot of the disabled was "one of the most exciting things I've been part of since I've been in Washington.'' The Rhode Island......
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6:43 PM Thu, Sep 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
Governor Carcieri is scheduled to be a guest tomorrow on Bloomberg Television's "In Focus" program to talk about Rhode Island's renewable energy program and the announcement that Deepwater Wind will develop a large off-shore wind farm. The governor's office said......
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1:56 PM Thu, Sep 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
By John Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Congressional banking and budget leaders presented a united front minutes ago behind a bipartisan compromise that they will later present to the administration, confident that it will soon lead to a $700-billion......
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7:21 AM Thu, Sep 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON -- Rep. James R. Langevin will go to the White House this morning as President Bush signs into law the latest amendments to the Americans with Disabilities Act (S- 3406). ``It's a historic day,'' the Rhode Island Democrat......
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12:38 PM Wed, Sep 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Despite overwhelming shows of support in both houses of Congress yesterday, there remains much uncertainty about the fate of the campaign for better medical treatment of mental illness. From House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader......
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10:35 AM Wed, Sep 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
WASHINGTON - To identify barriers to end-of-life decision-making, and raise awareness about the need for solutions, U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse will chair a hearing today before the Senate Special Committee on Aging to hear from medical and legal experts about......
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8:50 AM Wed, Sep 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Congress may be preoccupied with an epic financial crisis while it fights to close up shop for the remainder of the election year, but that doesn't mean that the flow of routine business gets shut off. Tomorrow morning, for example,......
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7:10 PM Tue, Sep 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Updated / 7:10 p.m. WASHINGTON -- The House of Representatives passed Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy's mental-health parity legislation on a 376-to-47 vote tonight. The Rhode Island Democrat's bill now awaits Senate action that may not be easy to secure this......
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6:15 PM Tue, Sep 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
Governor Carcieri is slated to do a phone interview on Lou Dobbs' radio program tomorrow in the 2:15 to 2:30 p.m. range, according to the governor's schedule. Amy Kempe, spokeswoman for the governor, said by e-mail that immigration will be......
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10:37 AM Tue, Sep 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
AP photo U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., right, accompanied by fellow Senate banking committee member, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., asks a question of a witness on Capitol Hill in Washington today during the committee's hearing on the credit market......
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9:44 AM Tue, Sep 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
As part of the giant Wall Street bailout that Congress is negotiating this week with the Bush administration, Sen. Jack Reed is working on a mechanism that could make financial companies reimburse taxpayers for settling their bad debts. Reed, a......
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9:22 AM Tue, Sep 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
PAWTUCKET - The Sept. 17 debate between Democrat Mayor James E. Doyle and his opponent, independent City Councilor Donald R. Grebien, will be rebroadcast this afternoon at 2 p.m. on Cox Channel 13. During the debate, Doyle, who is seeking......
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7:44 AM Tue, Sep 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
``A new financial meltdown'' may loom beyond the current crisis, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse said yesterday, calling for federal action against ``abusive credit card practices.'' In a letter to colleagues who are leading the efforts to write bailout legislation for......
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5:53 PM Mon, Sep 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
It was hard to tell where exactly the glitches began on Primary Day. First a ballot memory pack got locked in a Providence school and a second one temporarily disappeared. Then the computers in Woonsocket reportedly forgot to count two......
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1:54 PM Mon, Sep 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Seventy percent of registered voters in Rhode Island think the state has gone off in the wrong direction, according to a survey conducted by Brown University. The survey results, which are based on a random sample of 652 voters in......
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