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Coroner: Valium, Alcohol Killed Painter Kinkade The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office said Tuesday that artist Thomas Kinkade died from an Kinkade accidental overdose of alcohol and prescription tranquilizers. (AP) WASHINGTON
Study: Passengers Raise Teen-Driver Death Risks
A study released Tuesday quantifies for the first time in a decade how teenagers’ risk of a fatal crash multiplies when they have other teens in the car. It increases by almost half when a 16- or 17-yearold driver has one teenage passenger; it doubles with two teen passengers; and it quadruples with three or more young passengers. (THE WASHINGTON POST)
Lugar’s Senate Seat Sen. Dick Lugar, R-Ind., will almost certainly lose his bid for a seventh term Tuesday at the hands of state Treasurer Richard Mourdock. The results were not available at Express’ deadline. Find coverage at washingtonpost.com.
Obama: Congress Has ‘To Do’ List President proposes economic initiatives to spur job creation Albany, N.Y. President Obama said Tuesday that only Congress can take the “bold action” needed to spur job creation, as he unfurled an election year “to do” list for lawmakers. Obama’s action plan for Congress centers on a series of economic initiatives he has already been pushing for months, including eliminating tax incentives for companies that ship jobs overseas and promoting new tax credits for small businesses and for companies to develop clean energy. None of the items on the president’s wish list has previously gained any traction in Congress, and there was little indication that they would in the six months between now and Election Day. Speaking at a college science complex in Albany, N.Y., Obama said Congress should not use the election as reason to block his proposals. Republicans said they had a
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“The truth is, the only way we can accelerate the job creation that takes place on a scale that is needed is bold action from Congress.”
Looking Ahead
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TUESDAY ON HOW CONGRESS NEEDS TO TAKE ACTION ON A SERIES OF INITIATIVES AIMED AT HELPING THE ECONOMY.
Student Loan Plan Fails in the Senate Senate Republicans derailed a Democratic bill on Tuesday that would keep interest rates on federal college loans from doubling July 1 in an electionyear battle aimed at the hearts — and votes — of millions of students and their parents. Republicans said they favor preventing the interest rate increase but blocked the Senate from debating the $6 billion measure because they oppose how Democrats would pay for it: boosting Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes. GOP senators want a vote on their own version paid for by eliminating a preventive health fund created by President Obama’s 2010 health care overhaul. That financing idea has no chance of passing the Democratic-run Senate. (AP)
President Obama’s “to do” list for Congress also includes legislation creating a Veterans Job Corps to help service members returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan find work as police officers and firefighters. And to address the housing crisis, Obama pressed anew for a measure designed to help homeowners refinance their homes at lower interest rates. (AP)
lengthy list of their own in the form of bills that have cleared the GOPled House but remained bogged down by Senate Democrats. “We’ve passed nearly 30 jobs bills to increase American competitiveness, expand domestic energy production and rein in the red tape that is burdening small businesses. Democrats are blocking every one of them,” said Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. KEN THOMAS (AP)
Still in the Running: Don’t tell Ron Paul the Republican primary is over. He’s too busy mucking up Mitt Romney’s efforts to accumulate enough convention delegates to officially claim the GOP presidential nomination. Paul’s supporters won control of state GOP conventions in Maine and Nevada last weekend, stripping Romney of delegates in Maine. Next up: Republican state conventions in Minnesota, Missouri, Louisiana and Iowa. (AP) enroll now.
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