On April 14, 2008 there were several bills that were introduced in the House and Senate that would remove and cellular telephone or similar communication equipment from the enumerations of listed property.  The issue is whether the Internal Revenue Service’s can treat the use of cell phones and other devices paid for by employers as income to employees, as well as record keeping and data retention requirements imposed upon employers and employees.  This would be a good thing because for one it is their company that wants them to have the phone, so there for the company should have to pay for it. 

Obama was elected democratic president of the United States on November 4, 2008.  He was running against republican candidate John McCain.  This made history in the United States because he was the first African American to become President.  People truly disagree with him becoming president because they are afraid that something will happen to the country.  They are afraid for their lives, but if they would just give him a chance and let him try to prove himself then they could really be opening the world to some new opportunities. 

The FDA is overlooking drug companies for making false, unsubstantiated, and misleading claims in their advertising, often of dangerous side effects.  The companies are required to submit their advertisement to the FDA, while the agency does not review them before they are released to the public.  A Government Accountability Office reported that the FDA reviews only a small portion of the advertisements it acquires.  The FDA is asking congress to charge drug companies fees in order to fund FDA review of advertisements before they go public as part of reviewing the Prescription Drug User Fee Act.  FDA hopes if congress approves, it will raise more than 6 million dollars annually through “user fees” to review advertisements.  So I don’t really know why the FDA would want to be asking for money.  How hard is it really to review over advertisements?  I don’t agree that they only look over part of them and not all of it.  If the drug has some deathly side affects then people should know about it, even if it unlikely to happen. 

Obama claimed Hilary Clinton as his Secretary of State for this election for the next four years.  She and he could make some good opportunities for the United States.   But what everyone is curious about is the fact that Hilary ran against Obama in the democratic election so how will they react when they have some really serious decisions to make. 

The salmonella poisoning was a major death rate for the Unites States.  People got it from certain kind of tomatoes.  Restaurants were limited to the amount of tomatoes because they wanted to test them and see for sure what ones had the poisoning.  The symptoms that are common, fever, nausea, dehydration, diarrhea, abdominal pain or cramping and headache.  The poisoning lasts usually 4 to 7 days.  A way to get rid of it is to drink fluids with mainly electrolytes.  This was a horrible situation that happened and I think it was taken care of but I used caution when I ordered my food and made sure there was not any tomatoes on mine.