Sherburne Abbot is Associate Director for Environment, Science and Technology Policy at the While House.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

Now the White House says there will be no additional drilling while the spill in the Gulf of Mexico is investigated.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

While in school, Benny got a job as a violin player with the Barrison Theater, the local vaudeville house.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

So we have a Washington reset that is essentially the status quo squared: Democrats in the White House and firmly in control of the Senate, while Republicans hold the House of Representatives.

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Senior members of that committee, led by its next chairman, Howard "Buck" McKeon, have decried the fact that - while the House does not have the Senate's unique role in treaty-making - they are being denied the information and time to perform due-diligence associated with a responsibility they do have, namely for implementation of any ratified accord.

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When one officer saw Mr. Smith pushing the male hostage to the ground, the officer backed out of the house while the other remained inside, Lt.

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