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TenthDems July Newsletter
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• Maureen Wener Selected to Serve as New Executive Director of Tenth Congressional District Democrats
• Mr. Kirk Goes to China
• Mark Kirk Is Crafty
• Congress Watch: A Town Hall Meeting Orchestrated by Frank Luntz
• President Obama's Cairo University Speech Aimed at Engaging the Muslim World
• The Case Against Oil
• If It's Summer, There Must Be Interns
• Representative Hamos Warns of Pending Crisis in Care for People with Disabilities, Students, and the Elderly in Illinois
• TDU Presents U.S. Supreme Court: Transitions and Challenges
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Latest News
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DURBIN ANNOUNCES $37 MILLION IN RECOVERY ACT FUNDING
Wednesday July 1st 2009
[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) today announced that 36 community health centers in Illinois will receive $ 37,435,380 in grant funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The Capital Improvement Grants (CIP) grants, allocated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), will support the construction, repair and renovation of health centers nationwide as well as allow health centers to purchase new health information technology systems and adopt electronic health records. With these new funds, health centers will be to address immediate and pressing facility and equipment needs and create some much needed health center and construction-related jobs.
“Last year, over 1.1 million people in Illinois were treated at community health centers which administer health care to low-income families, many without health insurance,” said Durbin. “Today’s funding will support this critically important work and lead to economic growth in many underserved communities as health centers serve as a key source of local employment and economic activity.”
The CIP grants are part of $851 million in nationwide funding that was released today by HHS for more than 1,500 health centers. It is expected that with these new funds, health centers will be able to increase access to health care for millions of Americans and address immediate and pressing health center facility and equipment needs. More than 18 million Americans rely on health centers to keep them healthy, even if they can’t afford to pay for their care.
This is the third set of health center grants provided though the Recovery Act. On March 2, $155 million in funding was announced to establish 126 new health centers nationwide – four in Illinois. On March 27, $338 million in funding was announced to expand service and hours of operation at 1,126 health centers nationwide – 36 in Illinois.
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Events
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Northbrook Peace and Justice Committee in 4th of July Parade
Saturday July 4th 2009 , 02:15pm
Northbrook 4th of July Parade
Assemble at Western and Cherry
Northbrook
Contact: Lee Goodman
Ntglhg@aol.com
847-559-9525
You are invited to march with the Northbrook Peace and Justice Committee in the Northbrook 4th of July Parade. Each year we have gotten an increasingly enthusiastic reception. Let's make an impression and energize our neighbors.DATE: Saturday, July 4, 2009 TIME: Groups assemble 2:15 p.m., step off 2:30 p.m. LOCATION: Northbrook 4th of July Parade, Assemble at Western and Cherry, Northbrook Contact Lee Goodman at 847-559-9524 or e-mail him for more details.
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Tenth Dems University
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U.S. Supreme Court: Transitions and Challenges
Course Number: ISS 206
Date: Thursday July 9th 2009, 07:00pm
Location: Highland Park Public Library, 494 Laurel Avenue, Highland Park
Instructor: Gary Feinerman, partner in the Appellate Practice Group of Sidley Austin
With the impending confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor, the U.S. Supreme Court is at the forefront of public discussion. And with the potential of more vacancies to fill in the years ahead, we are at a critical juncture in our nation’s history.
Gary Feinerman will talk about what’s at stake, where the Court has been, and where it might possibly go in the future in this Tenth Dems University class on the “U.S. Supreme Court: Transitions and Challenges.”
Mr. Feinerman is a partner in the Appellate Practice Group of Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago. Prior to joining Sidley, he served for four years as Solicitor General, in the Office of the Illinois Attorney General, where he supervised an appellate department of forty attorneys and handled a variety of matters for the State in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Seventh Circuit, and the Supreme Court of Illinois. A graduate of Stanford Law School, Mr. Feinerman served as a law clerk to Justice Anthony Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Joel Flaum of the Seventh Court, and worked on judicial nominations in the mid-1990s at the U.S. Department of Justice and Office of the Counsel to the President.
Tenth Dems University courses are free, and open to all. Admission may be limited due to the size of the room, so priority is given to those who register in advance.
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