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Keyword: Alfonse D'Amato
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On March 1, federal unemployment benefits for over a million Americans expired, despite numerous attempts by Congress to extend them.
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Al D'Amato
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3/11/10
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Readers, we finally have some clarification on the prosecutions of detainees housed at Guantanamo Bay. As it turns out, as many as nine lawyers who work at the Department of Justice specialize in terrorism and related issues and have represented or advocated on behalf of Guantanamo prisoners. Now these very same lawyers, who were appointed to the Justice Department by President Obama, are in charge of deciding whether the Guantanamo prisoners should be freed.
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Al D'Amato
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3/10/10
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Evan Bayh sent shock waves through Washington last week when he announced that he would not run for a third term as Democratic senator from Indiana, citing “brain-dead partisanship” in Congress.
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2/25/10
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For years, the common wisdom has been that American industry is in an irreversible decline. As the reasoning went, our shrinking industrial base would be somehow magically replaced by “service industries” like insurance, finance, consumer retail and a big real estate boom.
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Al D'Amato
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2/18/10
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Jets head coach Rex Ryan, the Big Apple’s newest favorite son, gave a bunch of rowdy Dolphins fans the finger after they heckled him in a Miami bar. The Jets fined Ryan $50,000.
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Al D'Amato
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2/11/10
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Peter Schmitt, presiding officer of the Nassau County Legislature, got off on the wrong foot this year when he announced a 47 percent pay increase for himself and similar raises for the two other top members of the Legislature.
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Al D'Amato
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2/4/10
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Last week, the biggest loser wasn’t Massachusetts Senate candidate Martha Coakley or the Democratic Party or President Obama. The biggest losers were New York schoolchildren, who were sold out by the state Legislature in favor of the tremendously powerful teachers unions.
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1/29/10
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I imagined the liberal lion, Senator Ted Kennedy, rolling over in his grave at the thought that his old Senate seat could actually go to a Republican.
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Al D'Amato
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1/21/10
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On New Year’s Day, I proudly watched the swearing-in of Nassau County’s next leader. Many cheered loudly for Ed Mangano, a candidate who stood for change and overcame great odds to become our new county executive.
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Al D'Amato
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1/14/10
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Like many of you, I had a Christmas Day that wasn’t completely filled with merry joy and ho-ho-ho. I got flipping mad when I learned of the botched terror attempt on Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit.
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Al D'Amato
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1/7/10
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