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Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:55:47 +0100

This timely and insightful book puts Barack Obama’s current quest for universal health insurance in historical context and gives new meaning to the audacity of hope. Universal health care has bedeviled, eluded or defeated every president for the last 75 years. Franklin Roosevelt left it out of Social Security because he was afraid it would be too complicated and attract fierce resistance. Harry Truman fought like hell for it but ultimately lost. Dwight Eisenhower reshaped the public debate over it. John Kennedy was passionate about it. Lyndon Johnson scored the first and last major victory on the road toward achieving it. Richard Nixon devised the essential elements of all future designs for it. Jimmy Carter tried in vain to re-engineer it. The first George Bush toyed with it. Bill Clinton lost it and then never mentioned it again. George W. expanded it significantly, but only for retirees. David Blumenthal, a professor at Jordan basketball shoes melo 1.5
Harvard Medical School and an adviser to Barack Obama, and James A. Morone, a professor of political science at Brown University, skillfully show how the ideal of universal care has revolved around two poles. In the 1930s, liberals imagined a universal right to health care tied to compulsory insurance, like Social Security. Johnson based Medicare on this idea, and it survives today as the “single-payer model” of universal health care, or “Medicare for all.” The alternative proposal, starting with Eisenhower, was to create a market for health care based on private insurers and employers; he locked in the tax break for employee health benefits. Nixon came up with notions of prepaid, competing H.M.O.’s and urged a requirement that employers cover their employees. Everything since has been a variation on one or both of these competing visions. The plan now emerging from the White House and the Democratic Congress combines an aspect of the first (the public health care option) with several of the second (competing plans and an employer requirement to “pay or play”). Devising a plan is easy compared with theNike air jordan melo 1.5
politics of getting it enacted. Mere mention of national health insurance has always prompted a vigorous response from theair jordan XXIII
ever-vigilant American Medical Association; in the 1930s, the editor of its journal equated national health care with “socialism, communism, inciting to revolution.” Bill Clinton’s plan was buried under an avalanche of hostility that included the now legendary ad featuring the couple Harry and Louise voicing their fears that the Clinton plan would substitute government for individual choice — “they choose, we lose.” So, Blumenthal and Morone say, a new president must move quickly, before opponents have time to stoke public fears. After his 1964 landslide, Johnson warned his staff to push Medicare immediately because “every day while I’m in office, I’m going to lose votes. I’m going to alienate somebody. We’ve got to get this legislation fast.” George W. Bush started planning what became the Medicare drug benefit months before he was elected. Clinton, by contrast, suffered from delay. Right after his election, national health insurance looked so likely that even some Republicans began lining up behind various plans. A year later, it was dead. In the interim, battles over Clinton’s budget and Nafta drained his political capital, gave his opponents ample time to rouse public concerns about government-sponsored health care and soured key allies like organized labor and the AARP. Congress can be just as much of an obstacle: the lesson that one will probably take away from “Theair jordan melo 1.5
Heart of Power” is that a president must set broad health reform goals and allow legislators to fill in the details, but be ready to knock heads together to forge a consensus. “I’m not trying to go into the details,” Johnson repeatedly said of his Medicare bill, yet he flattered, cajoled, intimidated and bluffed recalcitrant members until they agreed. “The only way to deal with Congress is continuously, incessantly and without interruption,” he quipped. Carter, on the other hand, pored endlessly over his incipient health care plan, scribbling opinions in the margins about every detail, and dealt with Congress at arm’s length. And Clinton delivered a plan so vast and complex that even a Democratic Congress chose simply to ignore it. Republicans, meanwhile, decided that a defeat of Clinton’s health care bill would be seen as a repudiation of the new administration and might give them a shot at retaking the House and Senate. Blumenthal and Morone’s most provocative finding is that presidents who have been most successful in moving the country toward universal health coverage have disregarded or overruled their economic advisers. Plans to expand coverage have consistently drawn cautions or condemnations from economic teams in every administration, from Harry Truman’s down to George W. Bush’s. An exasperated Lyndon Johnson groused to Ted Kennedy that “the fools had to go to projecting” Medicare costs “down the road five or six years.” Such long-term projections meant political headaches. “The first thing, Senator Dick Russell comes running in, says, ‘My God, you’ve got a one billion dollar [estimate] for next year on health. Therefore I’m against any of it now.” Johnson rejected his advisers’ estimates and intentionally lowballed the cost. “I’ll spend the goddamn money.” An honest economic forecast would most likely have sunk Medicare. It’s not so much that presidential economic advisers have been wrong — in fact, Medicare is well on its way to bankrupting the Nike air jordan 2.5
nation — but that they are typically in the business of thinking small and trying to minimize risk, while the herculean task of expanding health coverage entails great vision and large risk. Economic advice is important, but it’s only one source of wisdom. Yet since Johnson, presidents have found it increasingly difficult to keep their economists at bay, mainly as a result of the growth of Washington’s economic policy infrastructure. Cost estimates and projections emanating from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget and the Congressional Budget Office, both created during the Nixon administration, have bound presidents within webs of technical arguments, arcane rules and budget limits. To date, Democratic presidents have felt more constrained by this apparatus than Republicans, perhaps because they have felt more of a need to prove their cost-cutting chops. The book was written before President Obama began his push for universal health care, but he seems to have anticipated many of its lessons. He’s moved as quickly on the issue as this terrible economy has let him, and he has outlined his goals but left most details to Congress. Nor has he been too rattled by naysaying economists (although the cost estimates of the Congressional Budget Office set him back). The question remains whether, in the months ahead, he can knock Congressional heads together to clinch a meaningful deal, and overcome those who inevitably feed public fears about a “government takeover” of health care and of budget-busting future expenditures. “The Heart of Power” suggests that the odds are not in his favor. But even if Obama fails, theJordan basketball shoes 2.5
authors offer one large consolation. There is an art to losing, too — in a way that can tee up the issue for future presidents. Truman lost but nonetheless redefined the terms of debate, setting the stage for Medicare (which is why Johnson honored Truman when he signed it into law). Compare him with Clinton, who walked away from the wreckage of his health care plan and rarely mentioned the subject again. According to the authors, this allowed opponents to gain control over the spin and history, so that the Democrats’ signature cause slipped out of political sight for a decade. This fine book also contains a subplot with a supporting actor who, although he never became president, is repeatedly heard from offstage — goading, pushing, threatening and pulling presidents of both parties toward universal coverage. Ted Kennedy first introduced his ambitious national health insurance proposal 40 years ago, and he never stopped promoting the cause. A deal he reached with President Nixon was the closest this country has ever come to universal care. Even before Kennedy’s death last month, his illness had tragically sidelined him just when his powerful voice was most needed. Yet when and if America ever achieves universal coverage, it will be due in no small measure to the tenacity and perseverance of this one remarkable man. Robert B. Reich, a former secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author, most recently, of “Supercapitalism.”

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After the Clunker Party, an Auto Sales Hangover

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:43:35 +0100

After the Clunker Party, an Auto Sales Hangover Cash for clunkers did its job in August, pushing car sales to levels not seen since last year. But the boom from the U.S. government's program has already worn off for automakers. Car companies said on Sept. 1 that their August sales soared to monogram minilinan annualized selling rate of about 14 million, thanks to the government's clunkers program, which gave $3,500 to $4,500 to consumers trading in an old gas guzzler for something more efficient. The accelerated sales rate was a boon for carmakers, especially Ford (F), Toyota (TM), Honda (HMC), and Hyundai. But the industry appears to be giving those gains back as the annualized rate has fallen to 8 million vehicles since Aug. 25, when the program stopped. "August was the best month of the year, but it's possible that it could be followed by the worst month this year," says Jeremy Anwyl, chief executive officer of Edmunds.com. The clunkers program was especially helpful to Hyundai, whose sales soared 47% for the month, according to Autodata. Ford saw its sales increase 17%, Toyota was up 10.5%, Honda 10%, Mazda 12%, and Kia posted a dramatic 60% rise. General Motors and Chrysler both saw sales declines. But GM's 20% decline was partly due to a rough comparison with August 2008; that year- earlier month marked GM's 100th anniversary and Air Jordanthe company offered employee pricing and a truck-blowout sale, noted Mark LaNeve, GM's vice-president for North American sales. Overall, GM considered August 2009 a success; it had just exited bankruptcy court a month earlier and yet managed to hold its market share at 19.4% while cutting incentives by $500 a vehicle, to $3,200 per car, LaNeve said. Rebates May Have Cannibalized Fall Sales But like other carmakers, GM saw sales trail off after the clunkers program ended. And it appears that the rebates sucked some sales out of September as well. Michael DiGiovanni, GM's executive director of global market and industry analysis, says that he thinks about 200,000 of the 700,000 cars sold under the clunkers program were pulled ahead from future months. Thanks to the clunkers rebates, Ford was able to drop its incentive spending in August by $451 per car, and the total that the company spent per vehicle on Peter I Cigarettesincentives dropped below $3,000 for the first time in at least two years. That's about $1,800 less than its incentive spending a year earlier. Ford executives say their cars are fetching better prices, which should bode well for third-quarter earnings. Two of Ford's offerings—the Focus and the Escape—were among the top-selling vehicles under the clunkers program. Sales of the Focus rose 56%, while those of the Escape crossover climbed 49%. Ford economists estimated that without the clunkers program the industry would have seen a 10.5 million annualized selling rate in August. That's historically very weak, but better than the first half, when cars sold at an annualized pace of around 10 million. That indicates the economy may be starting to come back, albeit slowly. Chrysler sales were off 15%, at least in part because the company had no inventory. Chrysler announced that it would match the government's clunker cash with deals of its own. But that cleared out passenger cars that qualified for the government program and left the company with little to sell as the program wore on. Many carmakers are now in the Peter I cigarettessame bind, Anwyl says, if not to the degree that Chrysler is. He says that with inventories so low, dealers won't want to negotiate as much on price. Automakers have also cut back on rebates, pushing car prices up until inventories are replenished in the next four to six weeks. Prices are up $500 to $1,000 a car, which will slow sales and add to the hangover from the clunker program. Looking ahead, sales should slowly rebound, with analysts predicting that they will hit an annualized rate of 10.5 million in the fourth quarter and pick up slowly but steadily next year.

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Health care advocates pressure Iowa Sen. Grassley

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:07:50 +0100

A new television ad campaign seeks to ratchet up pressure on Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley among his constituents to accept sweeping reforms to the nation's health care system, but even his political opponents concede there's little that can be done to scare the veteran Republican lawmaker. Grassley, who is among three Democrats andnike yeezy three Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee negotiating a health care system overhaul, has been in office since 1956 and seems set to cruise to a sixth term next year. Democracy for America, a group founded by former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, began running ads in Iowa on Monday that target Grassley, specifically. The ads, which are set to run through next week, argue that "when 76 percent of Americans want something done in Washington, Senators like Chuck Grassley in Iowa better listen if they want to get re-elected in 2010." Group spokeswoman Mary Rickles said the 76 percent figure is based on a poll conducted in June by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal. The state chapter of the AARP, Iowa's largest seniors organization with about 400,000 members, is also lobbying Grassley to accept sweeping health care reform. But its director, Bruce Koeppl, concedes there's little that can be done to pressure the 75-year-old senator. "You know as well as I do that you don't force Senator Grassley to do something he doesn't want to do," Koeppl said. If Grassley is worried, he's not showing it. After more than 50 years in the state Legislature, U.S. House and now the Senate, Grassley has become an institution in Iowa. He has already amassed $3.8 million to use while running for a sixth term in 2010, and his potential Democratic opponents are not widely known. "There's nobody on either side whoAIR MAX LTD2 WOMEN could seriously challenge him. He's been such a landmark figure in Iowa politics for so long," Drake University political science professor Dennis Goldford said. Grassley said Monday he remains hopeful a limited health care reform measure can be negotiated, but that a small bipartisan group of senators working on the issue agrees a government-run public option won't be part of the package. Democrats have said that while they hold out hope for a compromise, an overhaul measure will be presented this year with or without bipartisan support. Grassley told The Associated Press he pays little attention to interest group pressure, and that his views on the health care issue hardened after he hosted a series of town hall-style meetings on the issue throughout the state. "It's not hard for me to conclude from my own town meetings that there's strong opposition to a public plan," Grassley said. "Opposition was much stronger than what I anticipated," he said. Rickles dismissed theNike Men Dunk High efforts of Grassley and other Republican lawmakers to seek a bipartisan plan, saying they have no intention to accept any substantive reform. "That's not bipartisanship, that's choosing insurance companies over the American people," Rickles said. "We're just trying to make a point because Grassley is the key negotiator. There's bipartisan support for a public option." But Grassley insists he's not just going through the motions. "Why would anybody sit in a room for four hours a day to just play a game? I've got more important things to do with my time," he said. Goldford said Grassley is likely being cautious because his biggest — and maybe only — political worry is a challenge from the right wing of his own party. "These folks at the town hall meetings have madeair yeezy shoes health care radioactive," said Goldford. "His greatest concern is from Republicans."

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Gmail Outage Appears to Be Fixed

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:39:29 +0100

Many users of Google's free e-mail service were stranded Tuesday afternoon when they logged on to find the service no longer working. According to research firm ComScore, the Gmail service, launched in 2004, has nearly 146 million users worldwide -- so when Google admits that an issue with the service is affecting "a majority of users," that's a not-insignificant portion of Web users. Charles Barkley By Tuesday evening, the search engine company appeared to have fixed the problem as users of communications services like Twitter reported that they were able to access their e-mail again. Google's own site, however, reported that the e-mail service was still undergoing a "disruption." On Google's blog, engineering director David Besbris observed his colleagues at the search engine company were having difficulties with the service Tuesday. "We know many of you are having trouble accessing Gmail right now," he wrote. "We are too, and we definitely feel your pain." Besbris did not identify the problem, which he characterized as "minor." Nike Women Air Force 1 Low Mid High For Gmail users, it was a bumpy couple of days. On a Web page where Google tracks the status of its services, the company said that "some users" were having difficulty logging on Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning. On Tuesday afternoon, the company posted another update, this time saying that "a majority of users" were experiencing problems with the service. The company alternately described the problem as an "outage" and a "disruption" -- that latter term was the one Google used later on in the afternoon when many users reported being able to log on again. Air Jordan 19 A news item about the outage posted to The Washington Post's Web site drew complaints from around the world. Some complained that the service's glitch would have a negative impact on their workday. On Twitter, naturally, the outage was a major topic of conversation. "It's like worse than a power outage," wrote one user of both services.

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Nasdaq, Bovespa Plan Talks

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:44:42 +0100

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Biologist finds rare garter snakes in California

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:16:23 +0100

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Court: Confession won't stop Mumbai terror trial

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:17:04 +0100

Court: Confession won't stop Mumbai terror trial NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Despite a confession by the sole surviving suspect in the Mumbai terror attacks and his lawyer's offer to withdraw from the case, an Indian court said Thursday that it will continue with the trialMohammed Ajmal Kasab, 21, stunned the court Tuesday when he admitted his role in the air shoxattacks on India's financial capital, which began on November 26 and continued for four days and three nights. Prosecutors said Kasab's guilty plea was an attempt to deflect attention from his alleged handlers in Pakistan. Kasab is a Pakistani national. Special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said he needed to examine more witnesses to shed light on why foreign nationals, among others, were targeted in the November siege. On Thursday, the judge of the special court trying Kasab said it will take up his confession at a later date. For now, prosecutors will proceed with the 2-week-old trial and continue to hear from the rest the 150 witnesses they have lined up. "He has changed his stance repeatedly. So I have requested the air maxcourt that he is operating on an ulterior motive and that the trial should continue," Nikam told reporters. Nikam also downplayed an offer by Kasab's lawyer, Abbas Kazmi, to withdraw from the case. "When we struck down his defense arguments, it is only then that he said, 'I have lost the confidence of my client,'" Nikam told reporters. "Kasab was asked, 'Do you have confidence in your lawyer?' He said, 'I have full confidence.'" On Wednesday, Kasab told the court he was ready to face execution. Prosecutors said they will hold off on recommending a sentencenike air force 1 because Kasab has not disclosed more. Kasab is one of 10 Pakistani nationals who killed more than 160 people, including many foreigners, as they laid siege on buildings such as the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower and Oberoi-Trident hotels, Mumbai's historic Victoria Terminus train station and the Jewish cultural center, Chabad House. The other nine were killed. Authorities said Kasab was trained by Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, nike air forcea militant group that was banned in Pakistan in 2002 after an attack on India's parliament. The group denied responsibility.

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10 Reasons Why Apollo 11 Moon Landing Was Awesome

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:43:41 +0100

10 Reasons Why Apollo 11 Moon Landing Was Awesome Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Forty years ago mission commander Neil A. Armstrong and lunar module pilot Edwin Eugene ‘Buzz’ Aldrin, Jr. walked on the moon while command module pilot Michael Collins orbited above. Today however, marks the 40th anniversary of the day people really reacted to what just happened. As with all major events in time, there is always a day of reflection. I’d like jordan shoesto honor that day of reflection with my top 10 thoughts about the Apollo 11 moon landing. It was a comeback victory in the space race against the Soviets I’d even say, we made the Soviets look like chumps. We won the space race by putting a man on the moon. Sure, the Soviets were there first, having bounced their Luna 2 spacecraft off the moon 10 years earlier, but we left our footprints there. 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UPDATE 2-U.S. June budget gap $94.32 bln, record for June

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:54:31 +0100

UPDATE 2-U.S. June budget gap $94.32 bln, record for June WASHINGTON, July 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. government rang up a $94.32 billion budget deficit in June, a record for the month, as the price tag for efforts to prop up the economy, banks and automakers mounted while revenues weakened. The Treasury Department said on Monday that June marked theair jordan shoes ninth straight month in which the government had run a deficit. In June 2008, the budget enjoyed a $33.55 billion surplus. Through the first nine months of fiscal 2009, the government has racked up a $1.086 trillion deficit. That compares with a shortfall of only $285.85 billion in the comparable year-ago period, underscoring the sharp deterioration in the U.S. fiscal picture. "The Federal deficit is now at a post-World War II high and is likely to continue to rise in the near term as deficits rise and the economy remains weak," said John Silvia, chief economistMichael Jackson Memorial for Wells Fargo Securities. "These deficits will influence the allocation of global savings for the foreseeable future. No doubt where this train is going," Silvia said. The record budget deficit for June was not an all time high. that was February when it was $194 billion, a department official said. The recession and related government rescue efforts have put theMichael Jackson Memorial budget on track for its longest-ever stretch of consecutive monthly deficits. The current record is 11 straight months, which has been reached three times. Some Wall Street economists see the deficit heading higher, some suggesting a $1.5 trillion deficit for fiscal 2009 as the ranks of the jobless grow and hiring remains stubbornly weak as the economy struggles to emerge from recession. The U.S. economy has been in its longest and deepest recession since at least World War II. Last week an influential panel of economists says the recession will likely end in the third quarter of 2009. June is a month that traditionally enjoys a surplus not a deficit.air yeezy shoes The last time there was a deficit for June came in 1991 when as now, the country was in a recession and banks failures mounted. The difference now is that the U.S. government put forth $700 billion in rescue funds under the moniker the Troubled Asset Relief Program and a $787 billion stimulus package that was designed in part to help put people back to work. "One of the ways we're going to make progress on getting this deficit in order is to get this economy moving," said Robert Gibbs, White House spokesman in reaction to the monthly budget statement. He said the foundation for long-term growth is to create jobs and stabilize the U.S. financial system. In May, the White House forecast the deficit for the whole ofnike yeezy fiscal 2009 at $1.84 trillion compared with $459 billion deficit for fiscal 2008. In June, receipts totaled $215.36 billion, down from $259.91 billion in June 2008, the 14th straight month in which monthly receipts have been lower than the previous same month for a year ago, a department official said. Outlays totaled $309.68 billion, a record for June and compared with $226.37 billion in June 2008. Outlays included $5.4 billion in purchases of mortgage-backedair jordan shoes securities from major U.S. mortgage finance sources Fannie Mae (FNM.N) and Freddie Mac (FRE.N),which the Treasury has undertaken to help reduce mortgage rates. (Reporting by Nancy Waitz)

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NY Democrats win back control of state senate

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:41:52 +0100

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Democrats on Thursday said they regained control of the state Senate after the second of two party members who had defected to the Republicans Winston cigarettesrejoined the Democrats, ending a nearly five-week impasse that had frozen all legislation. Democrats, who had won control of the Senate for the first time in 40 years in November only to see the GOP oust them from the leadership on June 8, vowed to reform the upper chamber. Senator Pedro Espada, of the Bronx, rejoined the Democrats on Thursday, breaking a 31-31 split between the two parties in the Senate. He becomes majority leader and the state's firstNike Women Dunk Low Mid & High Hispanic to hold the post. The GOP had named Espada as Senate president, which put him third in line to succeed the governor. Democratic Senator Malcolm Smith, at a broadcast Albany news conference, said he was now the Senate president. The Senate gridlock, which was set off on June 8 when Espada and fellow Democrat Hiram Monserrate crossed over to the Republican side, has imperiled billions of dollars of federal stimulus funds, forced cities to stop collecting routine taxes, and left unresolved hot-button issues, including gay marriage. Monserrate returned to the Democratic fold within a week of hisNike air jordan 2009 shoes original move, creating the 31-31 stalemate. Democratic Governor David Paterson, who had sued the senators to force them to attend daily sessions and blocked their pay, on Wednesday named Richard Ravitch as lieutenant governor. The appointment would give Ravitch the power to preside over the Senate and succeed Paterson if he could not carry out his role. The lieutenant governor position has been vacant since Paterson replaced Eliot Spitzer last year after Spitzer resigned. Paterson smiled and declined comment when asked if the appointment of Ravitch, a 76-year-old political adviser and a former chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, had forced the Senate Democrats into finally settling on new leaders. The top Senate Republican, Dean Skelos, said the Democrats will soonNike air jordan 2009 lose their newfound cohesion. "Within six months, I predict that there is going to be so much discord in the Democratic conference that they will be looking to us for help," Skelos told reporters. Espada said he was sorry for the tumult but not sorry for the reforms that will now result. He said the fight was never about what titles he would hold. Skelos, the Senate majority leader for the past six months, told reporters that Espada had left the Republican conference because the Democrats "promised him that he would be majority leader." By conferencing with the Republicans, Espada said he was able to bring home to them how severely minority communities were deprived under the GOP's long reign. "We're so divided by where we live, where we go to church," he said. "Now they understand that for 40 years they really misused their opportunitiesJordan 2009 shoes for power." Smith and other Democrats likened their difficulties to family squabbles. "We continue to have our differences of opinion but we still come together," Smith said, citing accomplishments in the six months or so that Democrats ran the senate, including historic reforms of Rockefeller-era drug laws and shutting a multibillion-dollar deficit. "Has the road been a little bumpy with a few twists and turns, no question about it," he added. New York's state government has long been derided as one of the nation's most dysfunctional by political analysts and historians. The Democratic senators promised to improve how it Texas 5 Cigarettesworks by more equally dividing staffers and funding between the two parties, and empowering all members, perhaps by only requiring 32 to agree to a vote on a bill or resolution. Paterson estimated that senate gridlock cost the state thousands of jobs and $125 million to $150 million by halting routine tax collections and debt offerings, Republicans have sued to block the lieutenant governor's appointment, which say they is illegal, a view shared by Democratic Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. (Additional reporting by Elizabeth Flood Morrow in Albany; Editing by Leslie Adler)

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