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already nearly come to blows over oil fields in this disputed region. In 2008, a 24-hour standoff developed between their respective security forces over a section of an oil field in Kirkuk, an ethnically-mixed area the Kurds want to annex.Baghad warns it could punish Exxon Mobil and that the company's existing contracts could be in jeopardy. But so far it has taken no punitive measures.Many analysts doubt that it will, considering Baghdad's profound need for foreign investment.Outside the Kurdish zone, Exxon Mobil and Shell are already developing one of Iraq's biggest oil fields, the 8.6 billion-barrel West Qurna Stage 1 field in southern Basra province. Exxon Mobil is also expected to lead a multibillion dollar project in Basra, a Shiite stronghold, that will help make available the water needed for oil development.Baghdad's oil policy is not a "long-term sustainable program that would attract foreign capital into Iraq," said Fadel Gheit, chief economist with
be a lightning rod. Schoen said.Obama has an incentive to make the appointments. A board shutdown would infuriate labor unions since a friendly NLRB will help them expand union power."I guess he could squeeze that in, but I think it is a bad idea. I think recess appointments, for the most part, are done to bypass the Senate, the advice and consent that is required under the Constitution," said Sen. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga.Gingrey is one of several lawmakers who say not only do they want to avoid the recess appointments, they want the NLRB to disappear altogether.The NLRB had tried to prevent Boeing from opening a plant in South Carolina, a right-to-work state, saying to do so would be to bypass union rules on its plant in Washington state. The complaint was dropped after Boeing extended its contract with labor groups in Washington to 2016 and agreed its 737 Max airplane would be built on the West Coast.Gingrey said that action is way beyond the scope of the NLRB
ith some funding: The $1-per-person insurance fee goes into effect in 2012. But the Treasury Department says it's not likely to be collected for another year, though insurers would still owe the money. The fee doubles to $2 per covered person in its second year and thereafter rises with inflation. The IRS is expected to issue guidance to insurers within the next six months."The more concerning thing is not the institute itself, but how the findings will be used in other areas," said Kathryn Nix, a policy analyst for the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank. "Will they be used to make coverage determinations?"The institute's director, Dr. Joe Selby, said patients and doctors will make the decisions, not his organization."We are not a policy-making body; our role is to make the evidence available," said Selby, a primary care physician and medical researcher,But insurance industry representatives say they expect to use the research and work with employers to
se hopeful explains why he could win the Iowa Caucuses
strong supporter of traditional marriage," Schlafly said in a long statement to reporters.Bachmann is trying to follow in Santorum's footsteps, hitting all 99 counties in one week, an ambitious goal. Starting in Council Bluffs on the state's western edge on Tuesday, Bachmann will hit gas stations and diners. By nightfall, she was slated to have visited another 10 counties.Out on the trail Tuesday, Perry againargued that a vote for him is a vote for a Washington outsider. Taking a dig at Paul, he said voters don't have to pick a candidate who would allow Iran to wipe Israel off the earth."You don't have to stand for that," he said. "I have all the respect in the world for the frontrunners," he added, asking if voters replace a Democratic insider with a Republican insider, will Washington change.With the three conservative candidates making their late play to win over Iowa's base voters, they are joined by Romney and Gingrich on bus tours around the state while
ing a third term in a March vote. But his authority was dented by the Dec. 4 election, in which his party lost 25 percent of its seats and barely retained its majority despite widespread allegations of vote-rigging in its favor.The vote fraud outraged many Russians, and the protests triggered have been the largest Moscow and other Russian cities have seen in 20 years.Asked Wednesday about his refusal to take part in campaign debates, Putin said they make no sense since the opposition leaders are "not burdened with real work" and "always demand the impossible.""This would not be a conversation of equals," he was quoted by the ITAR-Tass news agency as saying. Putin promised to arrange to get "younger brothers" from the government to take part in the televised debates.
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