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Dole gathers health care suggestions at bipartisan forum |
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The overriding issue in discussions about health care reform isn’t so much whether anything should be done, but where to start.
And so the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Leadership Project on Health Care is taking a look at all issues surrounding health care to get an idea why the U.S. system is breaking down.
“Whether it’s President McCain or President Obama, the time for health care is next year,” said former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole, a member of the bipartisan center. “I really believe the American people are ready.”Dole was in Lawrence on Monday afternoon to mediate a health-care reform forum. But the discussion was limited to just three areas: preventive wellness, accessing quality care and rural health care.
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McGovern, Dole honored by World Food Prize |
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Gannett News Service, Heather Wines
Washington, D.C. — George McGovern and Robert Dole were named winners of this year’s World Food Prize today for crossing party lines to create a program to alleviate hunger and promote education among some of the world’s poorest children.
Now known as the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program, it has provided food to 22 million children in 41 countries, boosting school attendance by an estimated 14 percent.McGovern and Dole, both former presidential nominees and rivals in the Senate, have been working together since the 1970s when they set aside their deep political differences to expand domestic feeding programs, including school lunches, food stamps and aid to poor mothers.
 McGovern, now 85 and a former Democratic senator from South Dakota, came up with the idea of the international feeding program while later serving as the U.S. representative to United Nations food programs. He sold it to then-President Clinton in 2000, the final year of his presidency.
McGovern tapped Dole, a former Republican majority leader in the Senate from Kansas, to win GOP support for the program. Republicans controlled both houses of Congress at the time.
Kenneth Quinn, president of the World Food Prize Foundation, said the program has led to “dramatically increased international support” for school feeding operations globally.
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Injured vet accepts Dole honor |
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Life’s struggles can turn into the most meaningful life lessons.U.S. Army Sgt. Matt Lammers, 26, had been one of his dad’s “best teachers,” said Gary Lammers, a high school principal in Olathe.Matt Lammers served two tours in Iraq as an infantryman, one in 2004 and one in 2007.
He was injured both times, but on his second tour he lost his left arm and both legs
from an explosive. He earned a Purple Heart for his service and on Friday he earned a special honor from
former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole.Lammers, who has been undergoing physical therapy and adjusting to life with
prosthetics, was chosen by Dole to accept the first-ever Bob Dole Humanitarian Award for serving people with disabilities.
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 Former Senator Bob Dole and former Cabinet Secretary Donna Shalala are recognized and applauded in the First Lady's box Monday evening, Jan. 28, 2008 at the U.S. Capitol, during the State of the Union Address by President George W. Bush. Dole and Shalala were selected by President Bush to co-chair the President's Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors.
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 President Bush, makes a statement to reporters during his visit to the Washington Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington, Monday, Aug. 13, 2007. From left are former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala,co-chairs of the President's Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors, the president, and outgoing Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson.
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Former Sen. Bob Dole makes $500,000 gift for Dole Institute endowment
Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics website
"Heartfelt and inspiring, One Soldier's Story is the
World War II chronicle that America has been waiting
for."
-- Amazon.com review
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“In
the 20th century it fell to millions of
citizen-soldiers — and millions more
on the home front, men and women—to
preserve democratic freedoms at a time
when murderous dictators threatened their
very existence Their service deserves
commemoration here, because they wrote an
imperishable chapter in the liberation of
mankind.”
-- Senator Bob Dole, on World War
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McGovern, Dole honored by World Food Prize
Washington, D.C. — George McGovern and Robert Dole were named winners of this year’s World Food Prize today for crossing party lines to create a program to alleviate hunger and promote education among some of the world’s poorest children."You'll Never Walk Alone: The Public and Private Life of Bob Dole" - Dole Archive Exhibit opens April 4, Hansen Museum, Logan, KS, "Dole Country"
LAWRENCE — The Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas will unveil a special exhibit titled “You’ll Never Walk Alone: The Public and Private Life of Bob Dole” on Friday, April 4, at the Dane G. Hansen Museum, 110 W. Main St. in Logan. Lawence Journal World: "Farm Future"
Two former senators have proposed a new direction for federal farm programs. Senator Bob Dole receives Former Members of Congress Distinguished Service Award
Washington, DC: Senator Bob Dole received the Distinguished Service Award from the United States Association of Former Members of Congress on the Floor of the U.S. House of Representatives Senator Dole receives separate awards for support of Hospice, Disabilities and Nutrition
Washington, DC: Former Senator Bob Dole received three separate awards this past week for his work on behalf of hospice, people with disabilities, and nutrition and hunger issues.
Selected items on key topics:
 World War II Memorial Dedication Speech 4/29/2004
Benefits of Vocational Rehab
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