[Al Jazeera] US Representative Anthony Weiner has told his friends that he plans to give up his seat amid growing pressure to leave Congress for his inappropriate relationships with women on the internet, The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... has reported.
Weiner reportedly reached the decision to resign after speaking with his wife, Huma Abedin, an aide to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another James Baker ... who returned from an overseas trip on Tuesday.
He is scheduled to announce his supposed resignation later on Thursday in Brooklyn, New York, the Times said citing two people who have apparently been made aware of Weiner's plans.
The New York congressman said he would seek treatment and was granted a "short leave" of absence from the House.
Weiner, who represents New York, was a leading liberal voice in the US House of Representatives, and had been expected to run for mayor of New York City in 2013.
His scandal began more than two weeks ago when Weiner denied tweeting a photo of a man's bulging boxer briefs to a 21-year-old female student in Washington state, insisting his account had been hacked.
He admitted to his online affairs a week after the controversy broke but refused to resign.
'A frivolous thing'
Weiner said his affairs were conducted over several years on Twitter, Facebook, email and by phone with women he met online, primarily on Facebook.
He said he sent the women explicit pictures of himself but broke no law, mostly used his home computer and never used his congressional mobile device.
He characterised his relationships with the women as "a frivolous thing" and admitted that the affairs were conducted both before and since he was married.
Calling his actions "very dumb" and "destructive," he stressed he did not have sex with any of the women.
After the scandal broke, House Democratic Leader Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace... called for an ethics probe "to determine whether any official resources were used or any other violation of House rules occurred".
On Thursday Pelosi refused to answer any questions regarding Weiner's rumoured resignation, saying that she will only release a statement after his announcement later in the day.
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Weiner reportedly reached the decision to resign after speaking with his wife
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armyguy - I'm not sure about that. Weiner started his 7th term last year, so he has in 13 years. Not even in Mass. do you get a full pension w/ only 13 years in.
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I'm not exaactly right, either - this article discusses Weiner's options; sickening that he could siphon off $1 million+ if he plays his cards right...
And I am not sure that all the i's are dotted, etc.
Paranoid me, sorry.
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A beaten Weiner shrinks from the public eye behind poll, wife. After he told his staff to make like a prick and head out it was remarked, if it were to ever see, though it would take the performance of an Oscar, Mayor Weiner.
When asked if he had any regrets, other than being caught red handed, he felt the dipstick everyone always thought him, and wagged his cue stick at the gym photo claiming he was up all night at work, scratching his head, pondering how to deal with America using his own special purpose.
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Sen. Sherrod Brown D-OH sent a letter to the company granted an exclusive right by the FDA to market a generic drug in use for 2600 years, to rethink its decision to hike the price from as little as four cents per pill to $5 per pill. He also wrote the acting director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), asking him to investigate the ramifications of URL Pharma's massive price increase of the drug named colchicine and now marketed as Colcrys®.
Wikipedia: Although colchicine has been used for centuries on patients who by & large survived taking it, it had never undergone rigorous testing with randomized control trials (RCT) to back up the indications doctors had been using to administer it. In 2006 the FDA started renting the public domain in a process called the Unapproved Drugs Initiative. URL Pharma paid for pharmokinetic testing and an RCT with 185 patients. The FDA granted the rent seeker several years of exclusive rights to market colchicine.
Milking this for all it was worth, URL sued competitors to take their cheaper versions of colchicine off the market and raised the per-dose price of Colcrys® to $5.00. The consequences of this got virtually no attention from the MSM. The bill for the drug (just the part paid by state Medicaid funds) went from $1 million to $50 million per year.
Editors of the New England Journal of Medicine said that the rewards of this legislation are not calibrated to the quality or value of information produced. There is no evidence of meaningful improvement to public health. It would have been much cheaper for the FDA or NIH to pay for trials themselves on widely available drugs such as colchicine. Benefits of this accrue only to URL Pharma. The burden falls primarily on self-paying patients, health insurers and taxpayers.
URL Pharma posted a detailed rebuttal of the NEJM editorial. In Sept. 2010, the FDA ordered a halt to marketing of unapproved single-ingredient oral colchicine.
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