1 1- (AP) The Pentagon (The Defense Department) is in the early stages of drafting a wartime request for up to $100 billion more for Iraq and Afghanistan, lawmakers say, a figure that would push spending related to the wars toward a staggering half-trillion dollars. 2- Reps. Bill Young, R-Fla., the chairman of the House appropriations defense panel, and John Murtha, D-Pa., the senior Democrat on that subcommittee, say the military has informally told them it wants $80 billion to $100 billion in a war-spending package that the White House is expected to send Congress next year. 3- That would be in addition to $50 billion Congress is about to give the Pentagon before lawmakers adjourn for the year for operations in Iraq for the beginning of Military commanders expect that pot to last through May. 4- Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Congress has approved more than $300 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan, including military operations, reconstruction, embassy security and foreign aid, as well as other costs related to the war on terrorism, according to the Congressional Research Service, which writes reports for Congress. 5- Asked about the upcoming spending package, Young offered the $80 billion to $100 billion range. "That's what I'm told," he said. Murtha mentioned the $100 billion figure last week to reporters, saying "Twenty years it's going to take to settle this thing. The American people are not going to put up with it, can't afford it." War Costs Poised To Reach $500B WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2005

2 U.S. SPENDING IN IRAQ Spent & Approved War-Spending - About $900 billion of US taxpayers' funds spent or approved for spending through Sept U.S Monthly Spending in Iraq - $7.3 billion as of Oct 2009 U.S Monthly Spending in Iraq - $12 billion U.S. Spending per Second - $5,000 in 2008 (per Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on May 5, 2008) Cost of deploying one U.S. soldier for one year in Iraq - $390,000 (Congressional Research Service)Congressional Research Service Lost & Unaccounted for in Iraq - $9 billion of US taxpayers' money and $549.7 milion in spare parts shipped in 2004 to US contractors. Also, per ABC News, 190,000 guns, including 110,000 AK-47 rifles.per ABC News Missing - $1 billion in tractor trailers, tank recovery vehicles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and other equipment and services provided to the Iraqi security forces. (Per CBS News on Dec 6, 2007.)CBS News on Dec 6, 2007 Mismanaged & Wasted in Iraq - $10 billion, per Feb 2007 Congressional hearings Halliburton Overcharges Classified by the Pentagon as Unreasonable and Unsupported - $1.4 billion Amount paid to KBR, a former Halliburton division, to supply U.S. military in Iraq with food, fuel, housing and other items - $20 billion Portion of the $20 billion paid to KBR that Pentagon auditors deem "questionable or supportable" - $3.2 billion Number of major U.S. bases in Iraq - 75 (The Nation/New York Times)The Nation/New York Times

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10 One opinion on the the effect of the minimum wage: All credible research has come to the same conclusion: raising the minimum wage hurts the poor. It takes away jobs, keeps people on welfare, and encourages high-school students to drop out. Policy makers should be clear on the consequence of higher minimum wages.

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13 Issues for workers and our trade unions-defending victimized workers and trade unionists, fighting for better pay and conditions, health & safety, rank-and-file organizing, and more.

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15 "Free Suu, Free Burma, Boycott PepsiCo!" Protest at Pizza Hut (Market Mall), George and William Streets, Wednesday March 8, 1995, International Women's Day, at 4:30 p.m. The illegal SLORC regime in Burma is holding Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest, despite the landslide election victory for her party, the National League for Democracy, in PepsiCo actively promotes business with SLORC. Call for Suu Kyi's release, and boycott PepsiCo firms Pizza Hut, KFC, Taco Bell, and Hostess Frito Lay. Organized by the Burma-Tibet Group, OPIRG-

16 The case of Rumsfeld v. Padilla involves the detention without charge in a military prison of Jose Padilla, an American citizen suspected of having plotted with al Qaeda members to commit sabotage in the United States. It asks whether the President has the unilateral power to detain (lock up) indefinitely (without end), without charge, an American citizen seized in a civilian setting in the United States. Padilla raises important questions about the balance between national security and individual liberty and is arguably the most important case of its kind in more than fifty years. ( January 2006) Jose Padilla

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23 The Federal laws prohibiting job discrimination are: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; the Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA), which protects men and women who perform substantially equal work in the same establishment from sex-based wage discrimination; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), which protects individuals who are 40 years of age or older; Title I and Title V of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), which prohibit employment discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities in the private sector, and in state and local governments;Equal Pay Act of 1963Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967Title I and Title V of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

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