Deficits
It took just minutes last week for the U.S. Senate’s newest member, Sen. Carte Goodwin of West Virginia, to cast a decisive vote. Given Goodwin’s experience with Gov. Joe Manchin, we feel certain he had mixed feelings about the action. Goodwin was appointed by Manchin to fill the Senate vacancy created by the death of the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd. On Tuesday, Goodwin was sworn in to office for the beginning of a short term; he has said he has no plan to run for election to the Senate seat. That means he probably will spend less than four months in the Senate. Moments after Goodwin took his seat, he cast what amounted to the deciding vote on legislation to extend unemployment compensation benefits to about 2.5 million Americans. The measure will cost billions of dollars. Goodwin provided the 60th vote Democrat leaders needed to overcome objections to the measure by Republican senators.
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For many years liberals insisted the United States had to have strict pollution policies in order to set a good example for the rest of the world. Our country was the world’s largest consumer of energy, after all.
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Liberals out to destroy the U.S. coal industry — and with it, the economies of West Virginia and Ohio — believe they have found a secret weapon against a reasonable bill sponsored by U.S. Sens. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and George Voinovich, R-Ohi.
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The state of Arizona is not the only government entity in hot water for attempting to take action against illegal immigrants. Now, the city of Fremont, Neb., is being sued, too.
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If West Virginians thought Gov. Joe Manchin’s decision to run in the special election to fill Sen. Robert’s C. Byrd’s vacant seat would keep others from the race, they were mistake.
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DOWN: To approximately 50 Wood County Schools employees who, according to Beverly Blough, director of food services for the school, have made no effort to pay the $1,200 lunch bill they owe.
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