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Why is the Securities and Exchange Commission asking companies to show how they're alleviating global warming? U.S. Reps. Joe Barton, R-Texas, and Greg Walden, R-Ore., ask the SEC chairman to explain how a global warming action plan improves safety and security for investors.

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The ‘C’ in SCHIP Is for Children, Except When It’s Not

October 10, 2007

According to the states’ budget projections, 13 will spend more than 44 percent of their SCHIP funds in 2008 on people who are neither children nor pregnant women.

Michigan tops the list with 71.6 percent of its SCHIP money earmarked for adults who have no kids. In New Mexico, 52.3 percent of the state’s SCHIP dollars will be spent on childless adults.

Source: Department of Health and Human Services/CMS Data
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U.S. Representative Joe Barton

U.S. Representative Joe L. Barton
Joe Barton was first elected to congress by the people of Texas' Sixth Congressional District in 1984. In 2004, he was selected by his House colleagues to be the chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce...
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