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[Best Syndication News] The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing a $4.03 Billion budget to President Obama which is a 23 percent increase over the $3.28 billion it currently is working with in order to improve the agency. The FDA is asking for $750 million more dollars than they did the previous budget.

The budget increase would help overhaul the agency so that it will be better able to protect our food supply, our medicines and to help fine tune their stop smoking cigarettes campaigns and education programs.

The largest lump sump increase would go toward improving food safety with an extra $318.3 million going into this to establish what they call a national food safety system that would provide better inspection and response from the agency.

Scott Brown on This Week

(Best Syndication News) Republicans celebrated the victory of Senator-elect Scott Brown in the Massachusetts election, but will he really be the conservative they hoped for? Brown has said that he favored the Massachusetts health care system which forces citizens to purchase private health insurance with help from the state. He is against portions of the current health care bill in Congress, but favors the core principles.

Now Brown tells ABC News Barbara Walters on “This Week” that he is pro-choice and supports welfare programs. He describes himself as a "fiscal conservative" and a “social moderate”. According to a report in USA Today, his mother was "on welfare for a time" and Brown remembers "getting the blocks of cheese and worrying about how we're going to pay the bills."

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[Best Syndication News] President Obama will be giving the State of the Union Address tonight. His speech will focus on the economy, jobs, and steps needed to rebuild nation financially, this is according to what BBC reported.

The speech will be broadcast on television at 9 p.m. EDT. You can also watch it live on the Internet by clicking on the video below. Or you can visit http://www.whitehouse.gov/.

You can participate in a discussion on Facebook during the address and afterwards as well. You can join the debate at http://apps.facebook.com/whitehouselive/

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[Best Syndication News] The Green Retrofit Program Part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will be funding $3.6 million to make around 200 apartment units in New York City more energy Efficient.

There is a total of $250 million allocated for the Green Retrofit Program which is being run by the US Housing and Urban Development (HUD) government agency.

The New York apartment upgrades are going to be completed on Section 8 assisted property. The improvements are said to reduce the utility costs by around 25 percent. They will be installing energy efficient refrigerators, installing 10 high-efficiency boilers which will replace 32 old boilers. They will be installing rooftop solar panels. They cabinets will be replaced and the countertops will be made from recycled materials. They also will install EnergyStar ceiling fans and the CFL light bulbs and fixtures that will hold the low energy light bulbs. They also will replace windows, toilets, shower heads, and flooring.

[Best Syndication News] The doomsday clock will be reset on Thursday and you can watch it get set live on the internet. The closer the clock is to midnight the more the world is closer to nuclear war or the end of mankind so to speak. The doomsday clock is used as a visual reminder of mankind brink of reaching the end of the world as we know it, or the apocalypse.

The doomsday clock current time is five minutes before midnight. It was last changed in January of 2007 when they moved the clock forward two minute from seven minutes to five minutes before midnight. They changed the clock in 2002, and in 1998. In the history of the clock it has been changed a total of 19 times, tomorrow with make it 20 times.