European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 o stars and stripes monday March 26 nn7 Bush accuses democrats of grandstanding president says prosecutors investigation War spending Bill Are to create spectacles by Deb Riechmann the associated press Washington president Bush accused the democratic led Congress of wasting taxpayers time picking fights with the White House instead of resolving Dis Putes Over Money for us troops and the firings of the us attorneys in his weekly radio address saturday Bush called on democratic leaders in con Gress to move beyond political discord and take bipartisan action on both issues that have driven a wedge Between the Bush administration and Capitol Hill he urged them to accept his offer to allow lawmakers to interview his advisers about the dismissal of eight Federal prosecutors not under oath and provide documents detailing communications they had about the firings with outside parties democrats armed with subpoenas for Bush top political adviser Karl Rove and other top aides Are pressing the White House to allow the advisers to answer questions under oath about the firing of eight Federal prosecutors Bush says the democrats Are simply playing politics trying to create a Media spectacle members of Congress now face a Choice whether they will waste time and provoke an unnecessary confrontation or whether they will join us in working to do the Peoples Busi Ness Bush said we have Many important issues before us so we need to put parti san politics aside and come together to enact important legis lation for the Ameri can people the president also accused democrats of partisanship in the House vote on Friday for a War spending Bill that requires com Bat operations to cease before september 2008 democrats said it was time to heed the mandate of their election sweep last no vember which gave them control of con Gress passage marked their most Brazen Challenge yet to Bush on a War that has killed More than 3200 troops and lost favor with the american Public Bush democrats contend they Are acting in response to the will of american voters the associated press Washington the democrats plan to bring us troops Home from Iraq next year responds to voters demand for change new Hampshire rep Paul Hodes said saturday Hodes and other House democrats on Friday pushed through a rebuke of presi Dent Bush and the War in Iraq Bush prom ised a veto of the spending Bill which de mands combat operations end before sep tember 2008 and perhaps earlier with our vote this week were helping our troops protecting our veterans and fighting to end the waste fraud and abuse said Hodes delivering the democrats weekly radio address after four years of a failed policy democrats Are in sisting on a new direction in Iraq and a real plan that holds the iraqi people account Able for their own country Hodes elected in november was part of the democratic takeover of both Chambers of Congress he has opposed the War and any efforts to escalate it last november people in new Hamp House Bill requirements Iress immediately and would have 1 180 Days or Pec 28 oct 1 All the with whether t of d Becon plated Shire and across the country voted for change they voted for a new Congress that would Stop acting As a rubber stamp for this president and begin confronting the problems and challenges facing our nation Hodes said on saturday he emphasized the iraqis must meet the benchmarks Bush proposed in january the Senate is expected to take up Legisla Tion As Early As monday overdose raises questions about psychiatric drugs for kids family photo via Alerie this 2006 school photo provided by her maternal grandmother shows Rebecca Ritey 4 who died in december in Hull mass of an overdose of prescribed drugs her parents have been charged with murder by Denise Lavoie the associated press Hull mass in the final months of Rebecca Riley life a school nurse said the Little girl was so weak she was like a floppy doll the preschool principal had to help Rebecca off the bus because the 4yearold was shaking so badly and a pharmacist complained that Rebeccas Mother kept com ing up with excuses for Why her daughter needed More and More medication none of their concerns was enough to save Rebecca Rebecca who had been diag nosed with attention deficit hyper activity and bipolar disorder or what used to be called manic de pression died dec 13 of an overdose of prescribed drugs and her parents have been arrested on murder charges accused of intentionally Over medicating their daughter to keep her quiet and out of their hair hat some level i would Hope that youd also be teaching kids ways to control their behaviour f f or Jon Mcclellan medical director child study and treatment Center Lakewood Wash interviews and a review of court documents by the associated press make it Clear that Many of those who were supposed to protect Rebecca teachers so Cial workers other professionals suspected something was wrong but never went quite far enough but the tragic Case is More than a Story about one child it raises troubling larger questions about the state of child psychiatry namely can children As Young As Rebecca be accurately diagnosed with mental illnesses Are rambunctious youngsters being medicated for their parents convenience and should children so Young be prescribed powerful psychotropic drugs meant for adults dispensing drugs to children diagnosed with mood or behaviour problems is the easiest thing to do but its not always the Best thing to do said or Jon Mcclel Lan medical director of the child study and treatment Center in Lakewood Wash at some level i would Hope that youd also be teaching kids ways to control their behaviour according to the medical exam Iner Rebecca died of a Combina Tion of clo Nidine a blood pres sure medication Rebecca had been prescribed for add Depa Kote an anti seizure and mood Sta Bilzing drug prescribed for the Little girls bipolar disorder a cough suppressant and an Antihistamine the amount of clo Nidine alone in Rebeccas system was enough to be fatal the medical examiner said the two bran name prescription drugs Are approved by the food and drug administration for use in adults Only though Doc tors can legally prescribe Mem to youngsters and do so frequently Rebeccas parents Michael and Carolyn Ruey say they were Only following doctors orders Rebecca they told police had been diagnosed when she was just and Rebeccas Psychia trist prescribed the same potent drugs that had been prescribed for her older brother and sister when she diagnosed them with the same illnesses several years earlier but Rebeccas teachers the school nurse and her therapist All told police they never saw behaviour in Rebecca that fit her diag noses such As aggression Sharp mood swings or hyperactivity mothers Day is May 13th Send a message for free at Stripe com Stasig stripes win accept mothers Day messages at Stripe com from March 30 to 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