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The National Parks: America's Best Idea is a six-episode series directed by Ken Burns and written and co-produced by Dayton Duncan. Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature's most spectacular locales – from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska - The National Parks: America's Best Idea is nonetheless a story of people: people from every conceivable background – rich and poor; famous and unknown; soldiers and scientists; natives and newcomers; idealists, artists and entrepreneurs; people who were willing to devote themselves to saving some precious portion of the land they loved, and in doing so reminded their fellow citizens of the full meaning of democracy.PBS
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The budget reconciliation process allows any legislation that has an impact on the deficit to come to a final vote after a maximum of 20 hours of debate. That means that the minority party cannot filibuster beyond those 20 hours, and that the legislation would need a simple majority of 51 votes to pass (not the 60 that it takes to break a filibuster). This is provided for in federal law approved by Congress and signed by President Richard Nixon. It has been used 21 times, by both Democratic and Republican Congress’, since its establishment in 1974. Clearly, there is nothing “nuclear” about using this process.Simply put, this method does not somehow bypass voting or any laws, it simply puts a time limit on the filibuster. It then immediately brings forth the Constitutional vote by majority to pass a bill. Where it takes 60 votes to end a filibuster, the Constitution says that a simple majority (51 votes currently) is needed to pass the bill. The "Nuclear Option" is actually completely separate. It would permanently change the rules of the Senate to allow the 51 vote pass, thereby completely eliminating the filibuster, for certain types of legislation. OpenCongress: Budget Reconciliation is NOT the Nuclear Option
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Half of all respondents (49%) indicated that their foreclosure was caused in part by a medical problem, including illness or injuries (32%), unmanageable medical bills (23%), lost work due to a medical problem (27%), or caring for sick family members (14%). We also examined objective indicia of medical disruptions in the previous two years, including those respondents paying more than $2,000 of medical bills out of pocket (37%), those losing two or more weeks of work because of injury or illness (30%), those currently disabled and unable to work (8%), and those who used their home equity to pay medical bills (13%). Altogether, seven in ten respondents (69%) reported at least one of these factors.Get Sick, Get Out: The Medical Causes of Home Mortgage Foreclosures
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