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Can Obama's Jobs Plan Overcome Senate Roadblocks - and Save the Unemployed?
Tarp :: Germany | 1 day ago
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He supposedly could then just spend the money on infrastructure programs, "cash for caulkers" weatherization, aid to states and localities and small-business lending...But despite the public clamor for more jobs and continuing deep unemployment at 17...
Tags: Congressional Budget Office, job programs, House Transportation Committee, recovery act, Obama, president obama, Senate Roadblocks, small businesses, Capitol Hill, GOP, Germany, Tarp, United States public debt, Politics, Barack Obama, 111th United States Congress, Business Finance, Presidency of Barack Obama, Climate crisis, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, United States federal banking legislation, Troubled Asset Relief Program
White House party crasher Salahi quits Virginia tourism group
White House :: TN :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility The White House party crasher resigned his position on the Virginia Tourism Corporation board Monday. The resignation, which Mr. Salahi said in his letter was "due to the extraordinary misinformation resulting in the unfortunate negative and tabloid type...
Tags: The White House, Michaele Salahi, Tareq Salahi, House Homeland Security Committee, party crasher, fifth amendment, house gate, security breach, Virginia Tourism Corporation, Capitol Hill, White House, Politics, Law Crime, Barack Obama, Subpoena, United States Congress, Rights of the accused, Evidence law, Presidency of the United States, Executive privilege, Punahou School alumni, Criminal law, Luo people, Self-incrimination, United States House Committee on Homeland Security, Democratic National Committee, Virginia, Tim Kaine, Pleading the Fifth, Kaine, USA PATRIOT Act
Capitol security unaffected by White House party crashers
Washington :: DC :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility Our officers continue to remain vigilant at all times.” The security blunder has caused an outcry among lawmakers on the Hill, as they called officials from the administration and the Secret Service to testify about the incident. The Secret Service...
Tags: Secret Service, Capitol Hill, U.S. Capitol Police, Obama, White House, Bob Brady, Kimberly Schneider, capitol security, Washington, United States Capitol, Politics, Capitol police, Barack Obama, Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives, Wilson Livingood
Obama Urges Democrats To Pass Health Care Overhaul
Washington :: DC :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility They debated amendments and held votes on the sweeping health care legislation. President Obama went to Capitol Hill yesterday to give a private speech and pep talk to Democrats. Lawmakers are set to begin debating a particularly divisive issue in the...
Tags: Senate Democrats, president obama, Barack Obama, senator democrat, Mr. Obama, pep talk, insurers plan, Capitol Hill, president barack, Washington, Politics, Social Issues, Ben Nelson, Healthcare reform in the United States, Joe Lieberman, Democratic Party, Punahou School alumni, 111th United States Congress, Political positions of Barack Obama, Luo people, Olympia Snowe, Baalei teshuva, Health insurance, Health Medical Pharma, Barack Obama presidential primary campaign, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, United States National Health Care Act, Tom DeLay, Max Baucus, Mitch McConnell
Senate defeats GOP amendment
Lincoln :: AR :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Senate Republicans forced Democrats to vote in favor of cutting billions from providers of home care for older people as partisan debate flared Saturday during a rare weekend session on President Obamas health care overhaul. Obama planned to travel...
Tags: Senate Democratic, Senate Democrats, health care, Senate Vote Clears Way, Barack Obama, rare weekend, leaders harry, major leaders, Capitol Hill, president barack, Lincoln, Politics, Healthcare reform in the United States, Social Issues, Ben Nelson, Medicare, Blanche Lincoln, Political parties in the United States, Democratic Party, United States National Health Care Act, Health care reform in the United States, Health Medical Pharma, Kathleen Sebelius, Republican Party, Max Baucus, Harry Reid, Political positions of Barack Obama, Welfare state, Jim Inhofe, Environmental skepticism, Evan Bayh
Former Sen. Daschle didn't get to be Obama's health secretary, but he's at the table anyway
Minneapolis :: MN :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility Look who's at the health care negotiating table — Tom Daschle. The former Senate Democratic leader's nomination as health and human services secretary was derailed over a back taxes flap earlier this year. But that's not stopping Daschle, a close ally...
Tags: Tom Daschle, Sen. Daschle, health care, Senate Democrats, Senate Finance Committee, Barack Obama, hhs secretary, Reid Cherlin, Capitol Hill, HHS, Minneapolis, Health Medical Pharma, Kathleen Sebelius, White House Office for Health Reform, Politics, Social Issues, Max Baucus, Presidency of Barack Obama, John Thune, Harry Reid
D.C. power lunch: Where Washington's elite go to eat
Rome :: Italy | 10 days ago
Credibility While administrations come and go, and power in Congress teeters between political parties, one thing remains constant in the lives of Washington D.C.'s elite: the power lunch. Between noon and 2 p.m., brokers meet to clinch deals, with the emphasis more...
Tags: Washington D.C, Washington Post, Capitol Hill, Tommy Jacomo, Supreme Court, Italy, Rome, Tom Daschle, Barack Obama, Steakhouses, Politics, The Palm, Punahou School alumni, Rahm Emanuel, Michelle Obama
Rep. Joe Sestak trying to outrun Sen. Arlen Specter
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 19 days ago
Credibility His wavy, graying hair has been through a hectic morning, and the Pennsylvania Democrat is racing toward his third interview of the day, this time with ABC News. "Nobody under 40 carries a comb," he says. "See, watch this." Sestak, 57, looks at one of...
Tags: Joe Sestak, Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania, Capitol Hill, Navy, Seattle, Politics, Arlen Specter
House panel approves Fed audits
Washington :: DC :: USA | 21 days ago
Credibility A Congressional panel approved a bill that would put the traditionally independent U.S...Fed officials opposed the measure and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank sought to soften the blow by taking the central bank's interest rate...
Tags: House Financial Services Committee, Federal Reserve, Tim Geithner, House Democratic Caucus, Congressional Democrats, White House, house panel, Capitol Hill, wall street, Ron Paul, Washington, Central bank, Interest rate, Monetary policy, Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Transparency Act, Business Finance, Politics, Troubled Asset Relief Program, Christopher Dodd, Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, United States Secretary of the Treasury, American International Group, Council on Foreign Relations, Group of Thirty, Timothy Geithner, Bailout, economics, Subprime mortgage crisis, Bank, Government policies and the subprime mortgage crisis, Subprime mortgage crisis solutions debate, Primary dealers, House of Morgan, Morgan Stanley
US evangelicals warm to climate change science in Capitol Hill campaign| Suzanne Goldenberg
London :: United Kingdom | 22 days ago
Credibility US evangelicals warm to climate change science in Capitol Hill campaign Leading environmental scientists and evangelical Christians join forces to lobby senators in support of the climate bill Evangelical Christians at prayer. Leading evangelical Christians...
Tags: climate change, Capitol Hill, evangelicals christians, Richard Cizik, lobbying senator, Harvard Medical School, United Kingdom, London, Global warming, National Association of Evangelicals, Evangelical environmentalism, Jim Inhofe, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Politics, Year of birth missing, Environmental skepticism, Environment, Religion Belief
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