President Obama says the nation cannot afford to "posture and bicker" while people are losing their jobs by the millions in a failing economy.
Sec. Clinton grants her first interview, talks about need for envoys
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Will ARod get Capitol Hill treatment?
by Frank James
Now that Alex Rodriguez, the biggest demigod in Major League Baseball's pantheon, has admitted to ESPN that he used performance-enhancing drugs between 2001 and 2003, will we see another congressional hearing into the use of steroids in baseball?
Last February, Roger Clemens' appearance on Capitol Hill led to an overcapacity crowd at a House hearing during which the former star pitcher and his one-time trainer Brian McNamee contradicted each over whether McNamee ever injected Clemons with with banned substances, with his former trainer saying yes and the pitcher insisting no.
And while Clemens' star status brought huge attention to the hearing, ARod, with all the celebrity gossip value of his relationship with Madonna, would bring a whole other level of star power if he's called to Capitol Hill to testify.
Last year is was the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee under then chairman Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) which summoned Clemens to the Hill in the wake of the Mitchell Report on the use of steroids in the major leagues. Waxman has moved on to chair the House Commerce and Energy Committee but he could yet call another hearing since with its expansive jurisdiction has an easy claim to overseeing the national past time and Waxman could announce a new hearing as a one-year follow-up to the earlier session.
An ARod hearing could even more useful in terms of sending a message than Clemens' in that Rodriguez is actually owning up to his use of steroids while Clemens never did.
Since Rodriguez is apologizing and chalking up his use of the substances to foolishness, among other things, that's a message Congress might want to give a bigger stage in order to drive home the idea to young athletes steroid-use is not only stupid but potentially dangerous.
Fence Supplants 'Friendship' At U.S.-Mexico Border
Friendship Park was one of the few places on the U.S.-Mexico border where people from the two countries could meet and talk across the frontier. Now, it's a construction site, the future home of a new fence. U.S. officials say the park's crowds were used to cover illegal activity.
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