By Sydney Lupkin and Linzie Janis
The Maine nurse (click here) who fought quarantine rules after returning from treating Ebola patients in West Africa has cast her ballot.
Kaci Hickox didn't go to the polls. She instead opted to vote via absentee ballot on Monday, her lawyer told ABC News.
Hickox's boyfriend, Ted Wilbur, told ABC News today, "We voted yesterday in absentia, and you can guess who we voted for. We encourage all the good people of Maine to join us in returning decency to Blaine house."...
President Obama states the best way to defeat Ebola is at it's source. Then let's get on with it. The new Congress isn't necessary to achieve this goal. Let's see today is Wednesday, will Congress be on recess again by Friday?
President Obama is going to have to enlist the American people in order to get things done.
November 5, 2014
By Jim Kuhnhenn and Andrew Taylor
President Barack Obama (click here) on Wednesday asked Congress for $6.2 billion in emergency funds to confront Ebola at its source in West Africa and to secure the United States against any possible spread.
President Obama states the best way to defeat Ebola is at it's source. Then let's get on with it. The new Congress isn't necessary to achieve this goal. Let's see today is Wednesday, will Congress be on recess again by Friday?
President Obama is going to have to enlist the American people in order to get things done.
November 5, 2014
President Barack Obama (click here) on Wednesday asked Congress for $6.2 billion in emergency funds to confront Ebola at its source in West Africa and to secure the United States against any possible spread.
Administration officials say $2 billion of the total would be apportioned to the United States Agency for International Development and $2.4 billion would go to the Department of Health and Human Services. More than $1.5 billion would be for a contingency fund to deal with any unanticipated developments like a flare-up in West Africa or a need to vaccinate U.S. health care workers.
The Ebola money is the first request from Obama in the aftermath of an election that ushered in a Republican-controlled Congress, which is being seen as a repudiation of the president. The Ebola crisis has received bipartisan attention amid concerns over the potential of the disease to spread into the United States.
