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WASHINGTON - A comparison of the health care bills before Congress. The Democratic-controlled House passed its legislation on a 220-215 vote Saturday night. Republican opposition was nearly unanimous. In the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is finalizing legislation merging the work of two committees and making other changes. The Senate Democrats' bill has not yet been made public, so some ...

Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Tex.), the head of the Republicans campaign committee, caused a stir at last night's Rules Committee meeting when he suggested that treating female-related health conditions was comparable to insurance-company imposed restrictions on smokers. "Why should a woman pay more than a man?" asked New Jersey Democrat Frank Pallone, according to the Courthouse News Service. "Well, we're all different," ...

WASHINGTON - The Senate on Tuesday passed a $124.3 billion agriculture spending bill that pays to add millions of people to the food stamp rolls as rising numbers of the jobless are forced into the program. Money for the federal school lunch program is going up 12 percent as well, while a popular program that gives additional food aid for poor ...

Does the White House feel like a frat house?   The Obama White House has been battling a boys’ club image. The suspicion flared in recent weeks — and not for the first time — after President Obama was criticized by women’s advocates and liberal bloggers for hosting a high-level basketball game with no female players.

Brian Stelter, who covers the television industry for the New York Times, reports that immediately after the Heene family’s experimental balloon lifted into the air, possibly carrying a six-year-old child, his father Richard Heene called Channel 9, KUSA, the NBC affiliate in Denver, to enlist its help in finding his son. The 6-year boy, Falcon Heene, was just found alive, according ...

Anyone who’s worked in an office can tell you that assistants are the rulers of the office - their titles may not make it official, but we all sees what happens when an assistant leaves for a day and the whole place goes to hell because no one else can figure out how to use the telephone. But what happens when ...

We created the Health Care Reform Debate IQ quiz to test how much you know about the current debate about health care reform. Here's the answers! h4. Don't cheat! If you haven't taken the Health Care Reform Debate IQ quiz yet, go take it first! See answers on the next page... [page] 1) To be eligible for Medicare, you have to ...

Editor's note: As administrative professionals, we have to be skilled at many things, including the art of conversation, knowledge of international politics, as well as meeting planning, scheduling, and filing. An admin might be tested on her knowledge of international politics on a phone call with a client, and since technology is such a huge aspect of the administrative profession, we ...

The term conflicts connotes a situation of greivances within an industiral settings; where the views of people become incompatible. It can be (a) Intra personal, (b) inter personal (c) inter - gorup. The Questons to ask are: Can conflicts resolve itself? Is conflict in an org. a sign of poor mgt? Are they brouhgt about by confrontation or unsatisfaction? Hence, the ...

In my last blog I referred to this new phenomenon of shoe-throwing. I noted that there will be more such cases when people would be giving shape to their pent-up disillusionment with politics in general and politicians in particular. And behold there is one more such incident. This time, the target was none other the Prime Minister himself. I will like ...

When you Google your name, what's the first thing that pops up? Is it something you'd rather people not see? Or is your name so common your mere existence is lost in cyberspace? While you can't completely erase those results, you can now better control your Internet identity - as long as you're willing to share your private information with Google. ...

The Obama administration said Wednesday that a Democratic House proposal to tackle climate change would create jobs and be an investment in clean energy technology, rejecting criticism from some Republicans that the increase in energy costs will undermine the economy. Top environmental advisers to President Obama broadly endorsed the draft bill, which would cap greenhouse gases and reduce the nation's reliance ...

As long as there has been a Big Cheese, there have been assistants to the Big Cheese. Top executives need support to do their jobs effectively, and their assistants are considered an indispensable part of a well run office.

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The advice in this post goes for pretty much everyone but as you’ll see below, assistants have to worry about fraud and ethical lapses within their company and be aware of the potential that they unknowingly could be an accomplice to such actions. This article is about Bernie Madoff’s assistant, Annette Bongiorno down in FL. A reporter tracked her down and ...

Time management is a very important factor to consider in every facet of life. It's hard to come across someone who manages their time successfully who are not organized. The time that we waste unproductively moves us further away from achieving success. To make the most use of time, one needs to do 2 things: prioritize and plan.

Effective Presentation Techniques Anxious about giving a presentation next week? Learn some important techniques to make an effective presentation... Presentations are an integral part of today's world. From a high school student to a business executive, everyone has to give one. Presentations can be given for business, educational or entertainment purposes. However, this does not mean that you can bore ...

Bosses are witnessing a lot of bizarre behavior in Officeland these days. The lumpy and rumpled are showing up all spiffy and dry-cleaned. Mouthy iconoclasts are newly docile. Clock-watching slackers are suddenly the last to leave. People, it seems, are performing transplants on themselves--like the senior vice-president at a pharmaceutical company known as a terrible flirt who says she recently forced ...

WASHINGTON - Unemployment zoomed to 8.5 percent last month, the highest in a quarter-century, as employers axed 663,000 more workers and pushed the nation's jobless ranks past 13 million. The hard times were only expected to get harder - a painful 10 percent jobless rate before long. The current rate would be even higher - 15.6 percent - if it included ...

Reorganizations are common in a recession, and often precede or follow layoffs. To survive, you'll need to adapt, while also assessing the future of your job.