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Connecticut Senator discusses opposition to employers requesting social passwords

Environment

In recent days, media attention has been focused on companies that are asking prospective employees to provide login information for Facebook and Twitter accounts. Now a U.S. senator is promising action if it’s not determined to be illegal.

Cain suspends campaign, hints at endorsement; could it be good news for Obama?

Global Politics

Democrats pushing Republicans to extend payroll tax cuts

Global Politics

Sen. Richard Blumenthal Calls for Investigation of Legality of Asking Job Applicants for Facebook Passwords

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Presenting Mister Schumer

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New Green D’Amato

There’s probably no tighter, nor more acrimonious race for public office this year than the contest between New York’s three term Republican Senator Alphonse D’Amato and his Democratic challenger, Representative Charles Schumer. Everything counts in this duel to the finish, including the environmental records of the combatants. Mr Schumer gets higher marks from environmental activists […]

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Sen. Schumer on jobs and health care reform

Business, Economics and Jobs

It seems the American people are playing the ?wait-and-see? game on whether health care reform passes before the year’s end or not. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) talks to us about the prospects for jobs in a slow economy.

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How health care’s public option might pass

Global Politics

In the Senate Finance Committee today, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) are introducing an amendment to add the hotly-contested public option to the Finance Committee’s health care bill. We talk about the ramifications.

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