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The First 100 Hours: Oil Company Subsidies

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

The House resumes its “First 100 Hours” agenda after the Martin Luther King holiday and still to come is a rollback of subsidies to the major oil companies. We debate that bill and continue to follow the drama of the new Democratic Congress and the Bush Administration.

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The First 100 Hours: Oil Company Subsidies

Myron Ebell director of energy and global warming policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute
and
Dr. Karen Wayland, Legislative Director, director of energy and global warming policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council
- on the Democrats' new energy package

Accessing Aid

Dr. Josh Ruxin, director of the Columbia Access Project
- on his public health initiative in Rwanda

Millenium Promise
Orphans of Rwanda

Is Iraq like Vietnam?

Elizabeth Holtzman, former Congresswoman and author, The Impeachment of George W. Bush (Nations Book 2006)
and
Stanley Karnow, award-winning journalist and author, Vietnam: A History (Viking, 1983)
-compare the Iraq War with the Vietnam War

Heavy Traffic

Taina Bien-Amie, executive director for Equality Now
and
Errol Louis, columnist for the New York Daily News
- discusses the problem of human trafficking here in New York

Errol Louis' column on human trafficking in the Daily News