Medical diagnostic company Alere Inc. has increased the size of a previously announced debt offering to $400 million from $350 million. The Waltham, Mass., company said late Thursday it entered an agreement with the initial purchasers of the 8-year senior subordinated notes on Sept. 15. The notes have a coupon…
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Medical diagnostics company Alere increases debt offering to $400 million
CQPolitics.com – Rank-and-file House Democrats used a Caucus meeting Thursday to complain to leaders that liberal groups aren’t doing enough to help them this election cycle and that conservative third-party groups are vastly outgunning them.
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House Democrats Want More Air Cover From Liberal Groups
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TV personalities Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are taking their faux political feud to Washington and plan to hold opposing political rallies on the National Mall just before the November elections. Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” interrupted his regular fake newscast Thursday night to…
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Colbert, Stewart plan rallies on National Mall
CQPolitics.com – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, during a wide-ranging interview Thursday on the upcoming elections, said his party must embrace candidates across the ideological spectrum if it hopes to retake control of Congress and block President Barack Obama’s agenda.
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Shares of Arena Pharmaceuticals plunged in morning trading Friday, after a Food and Drug Administration panel rejected its weight loss pill lorcaserin. THE SPARK: On Thursday, An FDA panel of experts voted 9-5 against recommending the drug for approval, saying some unresolved safety questions outweighed its…
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AP – Tea party favorite Christine O’Donnell fended off jabs from her Democratic Senate rival about her experience Thursday, meeting him at a candidate forum absent the acrimony that overshadowed her upset primary win over a former governor.
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AFP – A US senator said Thursday that Congress should work to ensure continued funding for human embryonic stem cell research, amid a court battle that saw a judge halt federal money for such work.
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Key senator calls for moves to ensure stem cell research
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President Barack Obama waded into Connecticut’s hard-fought Senate race on Thursday, hitting the campaign trail to raise money for state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal in his bid against Republican Linda McMahon.
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Reuters – Senators on Thursday approved Elizabeth Hagen as the top food-safety official at the U.S. Agriculture Department, a post that was vacant for months, and Catherine Woteki to oversee USDA’s research arm.
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Senate confirms Hagen as USDA food safety chief
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Sen. John McCain escalated a confrontation Thursday over the Democratic leader’s move to give some illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship, with the nation’s military budget hanging in the balance.