What Time Is The Health Care Vote

The questions that’s been bugging most people in the us, What Time is the Health Care Vote? When will the Results of the Health Care Vote launch? I have no idea and I think no-one can really knows precisely when the results will be launched, we will just settle for the next best thing. We’ve got been scouring the net for information regarding today’s Health Care Vote and we can do a little compilation. This might shed some light as to the outcome of today’s Health Care Vote.

Below are the unofficial results of the Health Care Vote. These were compiled using news articles from other news sites.

Votes announced earlier today, the votes may not come from votes that will actually be counted but it’s nice to see how they view the Health Care Reform Bill. (unverified)

Rep. Dennis Cardoza still remains UNDECIDED
Rep. Joe Donnelly switches from his “Yes” vote to NO
Rep. Dennis Kucinich from No to “YES”
Rep. Eliot Engel says YES
Rep. Mike Shuler is UNDECIDED
Rep. Charlie Wilson also UNDECIDED
Rep. Betty Sutton undecided but leaning on a YES
John Tanner – NO
Bart Gordon -NO
Brian Baird – NO
Vice President Biden an obvious YES
Rep. Luis Gutierrez says “YES”
Rep. Mark Schauer still “YES”
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, Conform he still in “Yes” positions.

Arms Supplier To Afghan Rebels, Charlie Wilson Dies

Former U.S. Congressman Charles Wilson, whose political career was made famous with the movie “Charlie Wilson’s War,” died Wednesday at the age of 76.
Officials at a Texas hospital says Wilson suffered a heart attack.
The Democratic Representative was known for his push to support Afghanistan in fighting off the Soviet invasion in the 1980’s.
Wilson served 12 terms, from 1972 to 1996, representing Texas’ Second Congressional District and was nicknamed “Good Time Charlie” for his partying ways.

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Arms Supplier To Afghan Rebels, Charlie Wilson Dies was first posted on February 12, 2010 at 2:23 pm.

“United Commercial Bank”

“United Commercial Bank”: Toppled by loan losses and misstated financial reports, San Francisco’s United Commercial Bank was shut down by regulators Friday night and immediately sold to Pasadena’s East West Bancorp, creating by far the largest U.S. bank focused on the Chinese American market.

“United Commercial Bank”:Toppled by loan losses and misstated financial reports, San Francisco’s United Commercial Bank was shut down by regulators Friday night and immediately sold to Pasadena’s East West Bancorp, creating by far the largest U.S. bank focused on the Chinese American market.

The combination also will be the largest bank based in Southern California, surpassing City National Bancorp.

East West agreed to assume all of United Commercial’s deposits, so no depositors will lose money, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said. The bank’s 63 U.S. branches, including 17 in Southern California, will reopen Saturday as branches of East West Bank.

United Commercial, a unit of UCBH Holdings Inc., was the fourth-largest bank to fail this year. That position was formerly occupied by California National Bank of Los Angeles, which failed last week and was acquired by U.S. Bancorp of Minneapolis.

Regulators also seized on Friday one bank each in Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota and Missouri, bringing to 120 the number of failures this year.

United Commercial’s collapse may cause a greater-than-usual stir because a year ago the federal government invested $299 million in bailout funds in the bank in exchange for preferred stock, which was made worthless by the failure.

In addition, the FDIC said the collapse would cost the federal deposit insurance fund an estimated $1.4 billion.

East West raised $500 million in new capital to support the takeover, most of it from mutual funds and other existing shareholders, said Dominic Ng, chairman of the Pasadena-based lender.

The privately placed stock sales will enable East West to proceed slowly as it integrates the two banks, then have plenty of capital later next year to consider additional expansion by adding branches or making more acquisitions.

The takeover will greatly expand the reach of East West, which has concentrated on Southern California and the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to 69 California offices, East West has full-service branches in Houston and Hong Kong.

United Commercial not only has dozens of branches in California but also has locations in key Chinese American areas, including New York, Boston, Seattle, Atlanta and Houston.

What’s more, because of its 2007 acquisition of a Shanghai bank, United Commercial also has a banking license in China — a “rare and hard-to-come-by” asset that makes it easier to operate and expand in that country, , said RBC Capital Markets analyst Joe Morford. It has full-service offices in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Shantou, China.

United Commercial, East West and Cathay General Bancorp of Los Angeles have vied for years to become the largest of the banks focused on the Chinese American market.

East West, which had $12.5 billion in assets at last report, agreed to acquire $10.2 billion of United Commercial’s $11.2 billion in assets. That would put the combined bank, at almost $23 billion in assets, ahead of L.A.-based City National as the largest bank based in Southern California. At last report, City National had $18.4 billion in assets.

The FDIC agreed to absorb most of the expected losses on about $7.7 billion of the United Commercial assets acquired by East West.

Like its Chinese American rivals, United Commercial was burned by commercial lending losses, especially loans to developers and home builders during the housing boom. But it also was tainted by a financial scandal that resulted in a shake-up of its top management.

more details:http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-bank-failure7-2009nov07,0,2745693.story

Toni Braxton And Trey Songz Kiss,Toni Braxton

Toni Braxton And Trey Songz Kiss,Toni Braxton: The night opened with a memorable performance by Toni Braxton featuring Trey Songz singing “Yesterday” that was sealed with a kiss .

Toni Braxton And Trey Songz Kiss,Toni Braxton:

The night opened with a memorable performance by Toni Braxton featuring Trey Songz singing “Yesterday” that was sealed with a kiss.
Toni Braxton and Trey Songz performed during the taping of the 2009 Soul Train Awards in Atlanta, Georgia, November 3, 2009. While doing so, they took. … Dang consider me a hater, I would have loved to kiss Trey so I aint mad at Toni, HELL I’ll kiss Toni too.
Academy Award-nominated actors Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard, the night opened with Toni Braxton featuring Trey Songz singing “Yesterday” that was sealed with a kiss.

Then Howard and Henson welcomed the audience with a rendition of Peaches and Herb’s “Reunited.” Other performances were given by Keri Hilson, Robin Thicke, Ryan Leslie, Raheem DeVaughn featuring Ludacris, Chrisette Michele, Mario featuring Sean Garrett, and many more.

A Motown Records musical tribute featured a medley of Motown hits performed by Henson as a Supreme, Boyz II Men, Chico DeBarge, Johnny Gill, Estelle, Vita, Mike Phillips and Melanie Fiona.

Charlie Wilson and Chaka Khan, recipients of the evening’s Icon Award, were both honored in musical tributes.

Keith Sweat, Ginuwine, Raheem DeVaughn, Kandi Burress and Brian McKnight paid homage to Charlie Wilson and The Gap Band with renditions of their hits, including “Outstanding” and “Yearning for Your Love.” Following the tribute, Wilson, himself, graced the stage to perform two songs: “Burn Rubber” with K-Ci & Jo-Jo and Bootsy Collins and “There Goes My Baby.”

Erykah Badu, Melle Mel, Ledisi, Fantasia, and Angie Stone paid homage to Chaka Khan with such hits as “Through the Fire” and “Tell Me Something Good.”

The evening also included skits, dance sequences and throwbacks to the infamous Soul Train scramble board and Soul Train line. Monica, Tamia, Deborah Cox, Kelly Price were among the presenters.

All we can say is whaaat? Essence.com is reporting that Grammy Award winner Toni Braxton and her husband, Keri Lewis, formerly of Mint Condition, have separated after eight years of marriage. The couple has two sons.

We have no idea what prompted the split, but we do know that Ms. Braxton, 43, had tongues waggin’ over the, er, “tonguing” that she and singer Trey Songz, 25, gave each other on stage in front the whole world including her husband at the recent Soul Train Awards. (See photo below.)
Seriously, inquiring minds definitely wanna know what that was all about.

So if either Braxton or Songz all of a sudden start sportin’ bruises and broken bones and stuff, we’ll at least have a good guess as to why.