Nearly united House backs new water projects bill

WASHINGTON (AP) — After weeks of intense partisan fights, the House is showing it can come together on major legislation after all.

Voting on its first big bill since the end of a 16-day partial government shutdown, House Republicans and Democrats acted in near unison, voting 417-3 to pass an $8.2 billion bill that sketches out plans for dams, harbors, river navigation and other water projects for the coming decade.

In doing so, the House brushed aside criticism from outside conservative groups, many of which backed the shutdown and opposed the water bill.

Members of both parties said the vote showed the House could knuckle down and work together on important legislation even after a bitter fight over the shutdown a potential federal default. Lawmakers praised the legislation as a potential job creator and said it would allow vital infrastructure upgrades in waterways across the country to move forward.

"It's a testament to the greatness of our system of government, despite what's happened the last several weeks, that we can still work together on something like this," said Rep. Nick Rahall of West Virginia, the senior Democratic on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, which wrote the bill.

Added House Speaker John Boehner, "It's another example of the People's House focusing on ways to strengthen our economy."

To pass the bill, many conservative Republicans had to ignore FreedomWorks, Taxpayers for Common Sense, Heritage Action for America and seven other outside groups that wrote lawmakers in opposition to the bill, saying it didn't do enough to cut spending or block unneeded projects. Both FreedomWorks and Heritage Action had whipped up support for the government shutdown

Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa. said he was able to persuade some of the House's most conservative members to vote for the bill by making a constitutional argument.

"I'm a constitutional conservative," said Shuster, the chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the bill's sponsor along with Rahall. "I believe this is one of the few roles the federal government has, in the infrastructure of this country ... this is a federal responsibility."

Supporters also emphasized the bill's potential as an economic engine, though Shuster's committee could not provide an estimate on how many jobs its passage could create. Backers also assuaged conservatives by stressing the bill was free of earmarks, or projects for lawmakers' home districts, and by making changes that included accelerating the pace of required environmental reviews that have slowed some projects for years.

Another selling point was that it would shelve at least $12 billion in old, inactive projects.

The pitch worked.

Some of the most conservative members of the House not only voted for the measure, but spoke on its behalf. They included Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who last week opposed a deal to end the government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling.

"Transportation is one of the few things Congress should actually spend money on," said Massie, who was elected in the tea party wave of 2010.

Business groups, led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers, had pressured lawmakers to vote for the bill and highlighted its potential to create jobs. The chamber distributed state-by-state fact sheets and made the measure a "key vote" when it determines which lawmakers to support in next year's election.

The bill touches virtually every aspect of U.S. waterways. The legislation will allow work to advance on 23 shipping channel, flood management and other water projects that the Corps of Engineers has already studied, although actual money for the work will have to be provided in future legislation.

Among other projects, the bill gives the go-ahead to a more than $800 million flood protection project in Fargo, N.D., and Moorhead, Minn.; a $461 million on expansion of the Savannah, Ga., port; and up to $43 million for the San Clemente, Calif., shoreline. The measure increases the share of federal dollars for the Olmsted Lock and Dam project on the border between Illinois and Kentucky.

Some Democrats, the White House and environmental groups objected to the speedier environmental reviews included in the bill, saying they would weaken environmental protections.

But Democrats and the Obama administration said they would support the bill anyway and would hope for changes to the language when House and Senate bargainers try to put a compromise version together later. The Senate passed its version of the water bill in May with a broad, bipartisan vote but the bills need to be reconciled before one can be sent to President Barack Obama.

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RUMOR Has It Beyoncé MAY Release A New Album In December

"We’ve got one or two records ...”

Posted by: Trent on October 24, 2013|

SO … a Columbia Records CEO sat down to chat with Billboard magazine about the forthcoming December release of Céline Dion‘s new album and he kinda/sorta may have hinted significantly that Beyoncé, too, might be releasing her new album in December as well. The CEO never mentions Bey by name but he does promise that Columbia is working on releasing a big album from a major artist on their roster (the Billboard interviewer tries to pin him down to mentioning Bey‘s name). The only big artist on the roster who has been teasing the release of a new album sooner rather than later is Beyoncé. HMMM. Click below to read exactly what he said and let the speculation commence.

In a recent interview with Billboard, CEO/chairman of Columbia Rob Stringer, obviously, dodged questions about what specific albums he might have in the chamber for Q4. But it doesn’t take a crack sleuth to figure out that he’s probably referring to Beyoncé‘s long-in-the-works fifth studio album. While talking about Celine Dion‘s new album, also set for December release, Stringer added, “And we’ve got one or two records, which will be coming out that we’re working on.” Billboard notes that he said this “cryptically.” “I feel good about those records, too — we’ve got records lined up that hopefully will make the beginning of December.” Billboard asks, ”Wait, more than one? I can think of one right now that has been likely for a long time now.” Stringer responds, “I would never be quoted as saying anything to do with that [laughs].” Talking about the pressures of Q4 releases, he goes on to say that there’s a lot of fall competition including Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, One Direction and Eminem. “And then it’s almost like, ‘who’s got the biggest hit songs going into Christmas?’” The lid has been kept tight on Bey’s new album, as only snippets of info has come out, with Diplo once stating that she scrapped a song he was working on with her, and Ne-Yo saying that “Beyonce’s the kind of artist where you’re not gonna see it till it’s right. And her fans — they love her so they’ll be patient.”

While I’m hopeful for a new album in December, I’m not quite sure I can let myself believe it just yet. The teasing by this CEO is interesting but it really doesn’t amount to much. Bey will be ending her current Mrs. Carter Show World Tour in December and then … she’ll release a new album? It’s possible but … I dunno. Stay tuned. We should know something more concrete sometime soon. I say, hold off on the celebrating until we get more evidence (or better yet, official confirmation) of a new Beyoncé album this year. That said, if Bey does drop a new album in December would you die or what?

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Tori Spelling Confesses: I’m Broke!

While she’s always tried to keep up with her Hollywood peers, Tori Spelling seems to be coming up short when it comes to finances.

The 40-year-old actress/author told People that she and husband Dean McDermott didn’t have enough money for him to get a $1000 vasectomy procedure.

Spelling explained, "We're in the entertainment business, and things change year to year. We don't have a series on the air right now, so we have to be more restrictive of what we can spend, just like anyone who doesn't currently have a steady job."

Tori also notes in her new book “Spelling It Like It Is,” "It's no mystery why I have money problems. I grew up rich beyond anyone's dreams. Even when I try to embrace a simpler lifestyle, I can't seem to let go of my expensive tastes. And then there's my little shopping problem ... I can't afford to live like this anymore. Our circumstances have changed. They say admitting the problem is the first step."

"I haven't bought a purse in three years, and it's fine. I look back at that girl who shopped at Gucci in my 20s, and I can't even relate. I can't believe I thought it was important."

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NJ governor ends gay marriage fight as couples wed

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gov. Chris Christie dropped his fight against gay marriage in New Jersey on Monday, framing the decision in a pragmatic way: No point in fighting a losing battle.

Just hours after gay couples began exchanging vows with the blessing of New Jersey's Supreme Court, Christie announced he was withdrawing his appeal to the high court.

New Jersey is the 14th state to legalize gay marriage.

As the Republican governor seeks re-election two weeks from now and ponders a run for president in 2016, Christie's decision holds both risks and benefits for him.

It delighted gay rights activists and could enhance Christie's appeal to independents and moderates of both parties. But it angered members of the GOP's conservative wing, which already distrusts Christie and wields outsized influence in some state primaries.

Bob McAlister, a veteran Republican strategist in South Carolina, said Christie's latest move "is absolutely going to hurt him."

"Abandoning foundational principles that go beyond politics is not the way to get positive attention in South Carolina," he said.

Brian Brown, president of the conservative National Organization for Marriage, said he was "extremely disappointed" with Christie's decision, which he portrayed as "effectively throwing in the towel on marriage."

Last year, the New Jersey Legislature passed a bill to legalize gay marriage, but Christie vetoed it. The issue ended up before Christie again after a trial-level judge ruled last month that the state must allow same-sex couples to wed.

Christie appealed that ruling to the state Supreme Court. The court agreed to take up the case but unanimously refused on Friday to delay the start of gay weddings in the meantime, saying the state had little chance of prevailing in its appeal. Same-sex couples began exchanging vows Monday just after midnight.

Advisers to the governor said that in dropping the appeal, Christie had stayed true to his principles.

"Although the governor strongly disagrees with the court substituting its judgment for the constitutional process of the elected branches or a vote of the people, the court has now spoken clearly as to their view of the New Jersey Constitution and, therefore, same-sex marriage is the law," Christie spokesman Michael Drewniak said in a statement.

"The governor will do his constitutional duty and ensure his administration enforces the law as dictated by the New Jersey Supreme Court."

Although New Jersey is a Democratic-leaning state, polls show Christie holds a commanding lead against Democratic state Sen. Barbara Buono ahead of the Nov. 5 election.

The governor has positioned himself as a straight-talking pragmatist who can win support across the political spectrum.

Even as he has opposed gay marriage, Christie has preached tolerance. He nominated an openly gay judge to the Supreme Court and signed legislation last summer barring therapists from trying to turn gay youngsters straight.

During a debate last week, Christie said if one of his children came out as gay, he would "grab them and hug them and tell them that I love them."

Many conservatives distrusted Christie at least as far back as a year ago, just before Election Day, when he praised President Barack Obama in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.

When conservatives gathered in Washington recently for the Family Research Council's annual Value Voters summit, the ballroom heard from such potential presidential candidates as Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida, Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. Christie was not invited.

But many establishment Republicans contend that social issues ultimately will take a back seat to economic ones as gay marriage becomes more widely accepted in America.

"Opposing the freedom to marry is a loser for our party and serves to drive away a growing number of voters who have turned the page," said David Kochel, a top adviser to Republican Mitt Romney in Iowa during the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns.

Some Republicans said Christie's decision won't hurt him much if he decides to seek the White House, especially in a crowded primary field populated with several conservatives who could end up splitting the vote.

Conservatives "were never going to be his voters anyway," said John Ullyot, a Republican strategist and former Senate aide.

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Thomas reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Angela Delli Santi in Trenton, Thomas Beaumont in Des Moines, Bill Barrow in Atlanta and Charles Babington in Washington contributed to this report.

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'Boxers & Saints' & Compassion: Questions For Gene Luen Yang

Gene Luen Yang broke out in 2006 with American Born Chinese, the first graphic novel nominated for a National Book Award. It weaves three stories — about a Chinese-American boy, a terrible stereotype named Chin-Kee and the mythical Monkey King — into a complex tapestry of identity and assimilation.

Yang returns to the theme of identity and sense of self in his latest book, another National Book Award candidate. Boxers & Saints is a diptych following a Chinese boy and girl as their lives are upended by the Boxer Rebellion. Little Bao joins the Boxers — a violent, mystically-inspired fighting society dedicated to wiping out foreign influences in China at the turn of the 20th century. Vibiana, on the other side of the divide, sheds her Chinese name and her constrained home life to join a Christian missionary group after her family rejects her. Both must wrestle with questions of faith and identity: What does it mean to be Chinese? To be Christian? Can you be both?

In an email interview, Yang says his Catholic upbringing inspired his interest in the Boxer Rebellion. "In 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized 120 saints of China, 87 of whom were ethnically Chinese. My home church was incredibly excited, because this was the first time the Roman Catholic Church acknowledged Chinese citizens in this way," he says. "When I looked into the lives of the newly canonized, I learned that many of them were martyred during the Boxer Rebellion. And when I looked to the world outside my Chinese American Catholic community, I realized that the canonizations were controversial. Shortly after the Vatican's announcement, the Chinese government issued a statement of protest. From their point of view, the Catholic Church was honoring traitors to Chinese culture."

This is a work deeply concerned with compassion — it draws parallels between Jesus and Guan Yin, and on a more personal level almost everyone in it is complex and hard to dislike. Little Bao, for example, is really a fanatic, but you give him depth and a believable inner struggle.

Early on in my research, I was struck by the parallels between the Boxer Rebellion and current events. The Boxers have a lot in common with many of today's extremist movements in the Middle East. Little Bao would probably be labeled a terrorist if he were real and alive today. I tried to make him understandable, but not justified. The Boxers were defending a culture under attack. Yet — within my story, at least — their view of their own culture was incomplete. There is this strand of compassion that runs through every world culture. It's embodied by Guan Yin within Eastern stories, and Christ within Western ones.

This book is also concerned with identity and sense of self – which is a recurring theme in your work, and this time you're addressing the role religion plays in identity.

Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me. My experiences growing up in both a Chinese American household and the Catholic Church define much of who I am. A college writing professor once told me to write my life. Cliched advice, but still really helpful. I've tried to write from my own understanding of identity in all my comics, whether it's about superheroes or historical conflicts or monkey gods.

Gene Yang's 2006 debut, American Born Chinese, was a National Book Award Finalist.

First Second

Gene Yang's 2006 debut, American Born Chinese, was a National Book Award Finalist.

First Second

Boxers & Saints is a wrenching read — having finished it, I feel like the only reason it's in the YA category is that it features teen characters. How did you approach the story when you were writing it? Who's it for?

My main goal with all my comics is to tell a story compelling enough to get the reader from the first page to the last. I don't think about age demographics all that much during my process. The age demographics get figured out later. That said, I think my graphic novels fit pretty well in the YA category. Author Marsha Qualey says that an equation lies at the heart of all YA: Power + Belonging = Identity. That describes my stories, including Boxers & Saints. My characters long for power and belonging because they're figuring out their place in the world, their identities.

You've chosen to publish this as two separate volumes, even though the stories are intertwined.

I outlined both books together, but then I wrote and drew Boxers first, then Saints. I did them as two separate books because I wanted each to stand on their own, to have a satisfying beginning, middle, and end. Each would represent a complete, cohesive worldview. I had expected First Second Books to put out one book and then the other in two separate seasons. It was my editor Mark Siegel who suggested the simultaneous release. That guy is super-smart.

What do you want readers to take away from Boxers & Saints?

I hope readers are inspired to look into the actual historical event. The Boxer Rebellion doesn't get all that much attention on this side of the Pacific, but it still resonates in modern China. The Boxer Rebellion, and all the events of China's Century of Humiliation, still weighs heavily on their foreign policy. As China grows economically, as China and America's relationship evolves, events like the Boxer Rebellion will gain importance in Western history classes.

I also hope the books encourage readers to look at both sides of every conflict. The Internet age has brought about a blossoming of exaggerated righteous indignation. I've certainly been guilty of it. Maybe some of that will dissipate if we learn to look at both sides with compassion.

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Despite billions in aid, Afghans can't find work

In this Sunday, Oct. 20, 2013 photo, Afghan Khwaja Tamim, a house painter who has been coming to Koti Sangi square in Kabul, Afghanistan, for the last six years, waits just after dawn to be picked for work. After 12 years and billions of dollars in international development money, roughly 12 million people or eight of every 10 working age Afghans, are unskilled laborers. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

In this Sunday, Oct. 20, 2013 photo, Afghan Khwaja Tamim, a house painter who has been coming to Koti Sangi square in Kabul, Afghanistan, for the last six years, waits just after dawn to be picked for work. After 12 years and billions of dollars in international development money, roughly 12 million people or eight of every 10 working age Afghans, are unskilled laborers. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

In this Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013 photo, Afghan day laborers gather before dawn hoping to be picked for work at an intersection in Kabul, Afghanistan. The jobs are often backbreaking, always temporary and most likely will earn them a few dollars for a day’s work. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

In this Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013 photo, Afghan day laborers gather with their bicycles before dawn hoping to be picked for work at an intersection in Kabul, Afghanistan. The International Labor Organization (ILO) complains that the creating of permanent jobs was not part of reconstruction projects for Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

In this Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013 photo, an Afghan day laborer waits in the early morning cold for possible work in Kabul, Afghanistan. Hundreds compete daily for a handful of jobs that earn only a few dollars a day. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

In this Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013 photo, Afghans look for daily work at a crowded intersection in Kabul, Afghanistan. Most day laborers work only two days a week, earning only a few dollars each day. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Hundreds of men, some on crutches, all wearing tattered clothing, gather shortly before dawn at major intersections throughout Kabul and other Afghan cities. Displaying primitive tools such as a level or a trowel, they seek labor that is often backbreaking, always temporary and will earn just a few dollars for a day's work.

Employers circle the intersections, eyeing the crowds. Usually they are looking for one or two workers for minor construction tasks. Before they even stop, dozens of men swarm their vehicle, fighting with each other to get one of perhaps five or six jobs available that morning.

Despite billions of dollars from abroad to develop this impoverished country since the U.S.-led invasion toppled the Taliban regime in 2001, roughly 12 million people, or eight out of every 10 working-age Afghan are unskilled day laborers, according to an International Labor Organization report. Most land only temporary jobs.

In rural areas, work is also temporary — but it's also seasonal and often illegal, the report said. Some of the biggest employers, opium-producing poppy farmers, provide tens of thousands of short-term jobs.

But almost everywhere, the pay is meager. Afghans with jobs, whether part-time or full-time, earn on average $410 per year — or about $1 per day, according to the World Bank.

Mir Afghan, a day laborer standing on line one recent morning at a Kabul intersection, says he hasn't worked in 13 days and is $1,260 in debt. He said neighbors occasionally help him out and local stores give him food on credit. One neighbor recently loaned him $9 to buy medicine for one of his six children.

At Mir Afghan's home in a congested neighborhood on the edge of Kabul, his wife, Sabar Gul, started crying when asked about the family's meals. Cradling her coughing and feverish infant son in her arms, she said she has enough food to cook only one meal each day and they rarely can afford to eat meat.

The International Labor Organization report, released last year, offered several grim statistics: nearly half of Afghans don't have enough to eat; 18 percent of children under 15 years old are working; and 82 percent of Afghans are illiterate.

Most businesses are not registered and thus do not pay taxes. That means the government, riddled with corrupt officials, is heavily dependent on international aid as well as on the black market — most often linked to the country's flourishing drug trade.

Ten years ago the International Labor Organization warned that long-term stability and prosperity would elude Afghanistan if employment, the kind that guarantees a regular income, wasn't made a key component of projects to reconstruct this war-ravaged country.

But aid organizations were reluctant to get involved in job creation, the private sector remained stagnant despite significant investment in telecommunications, and many wealthy Afghans chose to put their money in other countries.

Nowadays, the report said, most Afghans cannot find permanent work, and even temporary work is drying up as international aid money dwindles ahead of the 2014 deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO combat troops from Afghanistan.

"There is a serious looming problem with unemployment in Afghanistan," said Graeme Smith, senior Afghanistan analyst for the Brussels-based International Crisis Group.

"Ordinary workers have depended heavily on construction, trucking and other sectors that saw boom times because of the presence of foreign troops and aid projects — and there's likely a coming bust, as soldiers withdraw and development budgets shrink," he said. "This could badly affect stability and security."

A day laborer works two, maybe three days a week, said Maroof Qaderi, president of the National Union of Afghanistan Workers, Employees. They are often heavily indebted to banks, family and friends.

A 2011 report by the International Crisis Group said $57 billion in international aid had been dispersed in Afghanistan since 2001. But while the figure seems huge, if divided among the country's 34.4 million people, it would come up to roughly $1,657 per person over 10 years, or about $166 per each Afghan per year. The ICG said the $57 billion represents only a "fraction of what has been spent on the war effort."

To pay his bills, Mir Afghan has taken his oldest son, Mohammad, out of school and put him to work making carpets and doing odd jobs.

But Mohammed, a lean 19-year-old, says he keeps up his studies at night. "I don't want my life to be the shovel. I want to finish high school, and go to a government college to study economics," he said.

For the past several mornings, several university students have mingled among the scores of men, including Mir Afghan, looking for work at the intersection in Koti Sangi, a district in the heart of the Afghan capital.

Waheedullah, 22, says his family has only enough money to pay for his attending classes part-time, and he's worried he won't be able to finish his studies. He gets up at 4:30 a.m. to bicycle to Koti Sangi, where he hopes to find a couple of days of work.

Waheedullah, who uses just one name, blamed the weak economy on rampant corruption, saying Afghan officials and their foreign partners have siphoned off most of the money that's come to Afghanistan.

"Foreigners came here to make jobs for themselves, but nothing has changed for the lives of Afghans," he said. "I think Afghanistan is going in a very bad direction. No one is doing anything about the problems of the poor people."

Khwaja Tamim, a house painter who said he's come to Koti Sangi every morning for the last six years, says jobs are dwindling as people expect the worst after the final withdrawal next year of U.S. and NATO combat forces.

"People are scared," he said, noting "the suicide attackers, the jobless, the criminal gangs and always the rumors between Afghans."

On Monday a car bomb exploded at Koti Sangi, killing the driver and creating a stampede as workers ran for safety. Police were unsure whether militants or criminal gangs were behind the bombing.

"From one second to the next you don't know what can happen, whether a bomb goes off right here and our lives are finished," Tamim said one day earlier in an interview at Koti Sangi.

"I have experience of the civil war," he said, referring to the period when rival mujahedeen groups who forced the Russians out of Afghanistan turned their guns on each other, killing as many as 50,000 civilians before the Taliban took power in 1996.

"I think the future will be worse than the civil war."

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Kathy Gannon is AP special regional correspondent for Afghanistan and Pakistan and can be followed at www.twitter.com/kathygannon

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UFC announces plan for 35 events in 2014; UFC on FOX 10, UFC 170 locations

The UFC's 2014 schedule is rounding into shape.

Appearing on FOX Sports live Wednesday night, UFC president Dana White indicated the company will run at least 35 events next year.

The company also formally announced the dates and location for two events early in the year: UFC on FOX 10 will be held at Chicago's United Center on Saturday, Jan. 25, marking the third straight year the company will hold their January UFC on FOX event in the venue. Then on Saturday, Feb. 22, UFC 170 will be contested at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.

No bouts were announced for the cards.

The UFC also broke down the plan for live event airings: There will be 14 cards on FOX Sports 1; 13 on pay-per-view, and four apiece on the FOX network and FOX Sports 2.

"We're looking to go to Mexico, go back to Chicago, Vegas, we're going everywhere like we always do," White said.

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