<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.congoo.com/css/rss.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>US-social-policy News - Congoo</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=49&amp;catid=301</link><description>News Feed for - US-social-policy</description><item><title>Police: Ky. census worker killed himself</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96417079&amp;Channel_ID=49&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T03:14:00</pubDate><description>Sparkman's naked body was found hanging in a cemetery in Clay County on Sept. 12. The word "fed" had been written on his chest in magic marker. (UPI) -A U.S. census worker found dead in Kentucky tried </description><source>Cool 92.5</source></item><item><title>FEATURE-"Cancer of fraud" permeates U.S. healthcare system</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96430981&amp;Channel_ID=49&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T01:11:00</pubDate><description>* Fraud problem getting progressively worse, FBI says * Big return on investment seen in fighting the crime * Industry accused of 'terrible job' in crime control MIAMI, Nov 25 (Reuters) - It's a crime </description><source>Reuters</source></item><item><title>Limbaugh: Government Raises Black Children</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96430380&amp;Channel_ID=49&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T01:11:00</pubDate><description>Black men stepping up to the plate to provide for their families, nationally syndicated radio show host said they would rather let the government do it. Limbaugh said he was citing a article which reports </description><source>Bet.com</source></item><item><title>CORRECTION: Scarborough Research Partners With MMA to Give Brands and Marketers </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96424608&amp;Channel_ID=49&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T06:49:00</pubDate><description>NEW YORK, Nov. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), a global organization leading the way in promoting the development and sustainability of mobile marketing, today announced Scarborough </description><source>Business Review Albany</source></item><item><title>Queen's speech debate: Climate change</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96386289&amp;Channel_ID=49&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T22:56:00</pubDate><description>change, the government has warned. Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband said people in the rain-lashed county were battling with the 'worst flooding in memory'. He added: 'Flooding of this </description><source>BBC</source></item><item><title>Pan American Bank (Los Angeles) Launches Social Media Presence</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96399924&amp;Channel_ID=49&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T14:52:00</pubDate><description>BusinessWire - Pan American Bank (Los Angeles) today announced that it has entered the world of social media and Web 2.0 through the launch of a blog, Facebook page and Twitter account. Pan American Bank's </description><source>Forbes.com</source></item><item><title>Drug firms raise prices ahead of reform</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96291428&amp;Channel_ID=49&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T08:15:00</pubDate><description>Even as drug makers promise to support Washingtonâ??s health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nationâ??s drug costs after the legislation takes effect, the industry has been raising </description><source>MSNBC</source></item><item><title>New U.S. civil rights chief pulled back into transgender staffer fight in Montgomery</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96309548&amp;Channel_ID=49&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T13:31:00</pubDate><description>Dana Beyer, a doctor and top Trachtenberg aide, says claims she threatened or tried to intimidate opponents of a 2007 transgender rights law are baseless. Beyer helped craft the transgender law and is </description><source>Washington Post</source></item><item><title>Dems open to altering health care bill</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96180426&amp;Channel_ID=49&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T13:02:00</pubDate><description>Senate reform moves ahead STORY HIGHLIGHTS Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois: I'm open to changing bill's public insurance option Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire: 'This is going to be a compromise' Senate </description><source>CNN</source></item><item><title>New baseline of opinion on health care</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96277123&amp;Channel_ID=49&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T06:06:00</pubDate><description>CULPEPER, Va. ? On the day President Clinton went on national television in 1993 to prescribe his remedy for the nation's ailing health care system, emergency room director Michael Bost was too busy treating </description><source>USA Today</source></item><item><title>24 HOURS IN THE ER: Health care challenges highlighted</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96187613&amp;Channel_ID=49&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T06:06:00</pubDate><description>CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.  7:30 a.m. Monday PHOTOS: Cross-section of patients and staff reveals complexity IN THEIR OWN WORDS: ER chief O'Connor: 'We treat anyone and everyone' Dr. Robert O'Connor had taken </description><source>USA Today</source></item><item><title>VIDEO: Dispatches from the front lines of health care</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96154574&amp;Channel_ID=49&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T06:06:00</pubDate><description>USA TODAY chronicles 24 hours at the University of Virginia Medical Center emergency room and the health issues that confront the ER doctors, nurses and patients. These four videos, 'Quality of Care,' </description><source>USA Today</source></item><item><title>DJ SURVEY: October US Census Soy Crush Seen At 163.7M Bushels</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96422500&amp;Channel_ID=49&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T23:48:00</pubDate><description>The U.S. Census Bureau is expected to estimate the October soybean crush at 163.7 million bushels, up from the prior month, as the availability of new crop soybean supplies allowed crushing volume to </description><source>Individual.com</source></item><item><title>Special Performance Held Of Nilaja Sun's NO CHILD, Benefits Playhouse Education </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96410757&amp;Channel_ID=49&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T16:12:00</pubDate><description>La Jolla Playhouse is pleased to present a one-night only presentation of No Child..., written and performed by Nilaja Sun, on Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 7:00 pm in the Mandell Weiss Theatre.</description><source>Broadway World</source></item><item><title>Opinion: China Forced Abortions; U.S. Work In Africa; Foreign Aid; Uganda Legislation</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96253322&amp;Channel_ID=49&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T16:28:00</pubDate><description>Detroit           News Opinion Examines Forced Abortions In China                     "One of the few incontrovertible assertions one can reasonably make is that no one supports forced abortion," syndicated </description><source>Medical News Today</source></item><item><title>Healthcare debate heads for Dec. clash with Copenhagen climate conference</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96407581&amp;Channel_ID=49&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T15:49:00</pubDate><description>Healthcare reform and climate change will conflict directly next month when lawmakers from around the world gather in Denmark for the United Nations climate change conference and the Senate debates a </description><source>The Hill</source></item><item><title>Historic Health Care Bill Clears Senate Hurdle</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96064582&amp;Channel_ID=49&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T15:52:00</pubDate><description>A bruising debate on health care awaits the Senate after Thanksgiving now that the historic legislation has cleared a key hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat </description><source>Ahip Hi-Wire</source></item><item><title>ME:                Michaud tells of talk with Obama on Medicare</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96399817&amp;Channel_ID=49&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T14:51:00</pubDate><description>Penobscot Community Health Care President Rev. Robert Carlson (center) and Congressman Mike Michaud talk with Hampden resident Gerald Levesque as he waits with his daughter Annabelle, 6 months, in the </description><source>Stateline</source></item><item><title>VA:                Kaine doesn't say no to possibility of a tax increase</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96245503&amp;Channel_ID=49&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T14:54:00</pubDate><description>Facing a projected budget gap of as much as $3.5 billion, there is no doubt that the two-year spending plan being prepared by Gov. Timothy M. Kaine will include cuts.</description><source>Stateline</source></item><item><title>'Bipartisan' Purple Dogs Go Rogue with 'Task Force' on Social Security, Medicare</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96383801&amp;Channel_ID=49&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T09:20:00</pubDate><description>Last week, the Senate Budget Committee held a hearing on the proposal by its chair Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., and top GOP member, Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., to create the Bipartisan Task Force for Responsible </description><source>NCM Online</source></item><item><title>RetireSafe urges America's seniors to protest the massive cuts to Medicare</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96380640&amp;Channel_ID=49&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T08:40:00</pubDate><description>Says cutting Medicare to finance "reform" is a moral outrage While the Senate Democrats moved forward to begin the debate on their health care "reform" bill this weekend, RetireSafe, a 400,000 supporter </description><source>News-Medical.Net</source></item><item><title>Drilling faces tough sell in Senate in 2010</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96241074&amp;Channel_ID=49&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T03:52:00</pubDate><description>TALLAHASSEE â?? The push for the Florida Legislature to approve near-shore Gulf Coast drilling in its 2010 session is like oil exploration itself â?? surveys and projections, expert opinions, test wells </description><source>Panama City News Herald</source></item><item><title>Key US senators seek changes on health bill</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96254049&amp;Channel_ID=49&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T00:59:00</pubDate><description>WASHINGTON: Key Democratic allies in the US health care battle have warned that a Senate bill required major changes if it was to earn their support and give President Barack Obama a crucial victory on </description><source>Kuwait Times</source></item><item><title>PhRMA-Funded Ads Tout Health Care Reform</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96282795&amp;Channel_ID=49&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T07:14:00</pubDate><description>By Matthew MurrayRoll Call Staff Nov. 23, 2009, 12 a.m. A well-heeled health care coalition backed by the pharmaceutical industry will continue an advertising blitz over the weekend, targeting Senators </description><source>Roll Call Online</source></item><item><title>In the first Senate test for President Barack Obama's top domestic priority, Democrats </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96195191&amp;Channel_ID=49&amp;Category_ID=301</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T07:11:00</pubDate><description>Republican George Voinovich did not vote. Democrats needed 60 votes to approve the motion in the 100-member Senate and had no margin for error -- they control exactly 60 votes. The Democratic victory </description><source>1290 WBZT</source></item></channel></rss>