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Quinn: Probe of Blago hires still alive
Cook :: NE :: USA | 1 day ago
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Despite no charges yet filed, a federal probe into alleged hiring fraud under impeached ex-Gov. Blagojevich remains active, Gov. Quinn's office confirmed Monday. The disclosure came after Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dan Hynes attacked Quinn for...
Tags: Blagojevich, Cook, Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, Politics, Video game censorship, United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Rod Blagojevich controversies, Barack Obama, Roland Burris, Labor, Pat Quinn, Patrick Fitzgerald, Lisa Madigan, Law Crime
WH gatecrashers went without confirmed invitation
Washington :: DC :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility AP Photo/NBC Universal) In this image made from video provided Tuesday, Dec. NBC Universal, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, right, are interviewed by the "Today" show's host Matt Lauer. The couple that got into the White House state dinner for the visiting...
Tags: prime minister, White House, Washington, Rockefeller Center, State dinner, Barack Obama, Roland Burris, NBC, Voicemail, Cookie Jar Group, Congressional Black Caucus, Catering, NBC Universal, Human Interest
Letter From Washington: The Ballistics of the Health Care Shootout
New York City :: NY :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility The Ballistics of the Health Care Shootout Published: November 29, 2009 “Victory has a thousand fathers,” John F...Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, soon will rediscover this wisdom. If the Nevada Democrat gets a health care bill through the Senate...
Tags: Senate Democratic, Senate Democrats, U.S. Senate, Mr. Reid, public option, majority leader, Mr. Obama, New York City, Politics, Barack Obama, Roland Burris, Blanche Lincoln, Social Issues, Ben Nelson, Olympia Snowe, Jay Rockefeller, Harry Reid, Democratic Party
Thompson Is Said to Mull a Run Against Gillibrand
Albany :: NY :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility Thompson Jr. , weighing his options in the wake of a surprisingly close loss in the mayoral race, is seriously considering challenging Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand in next year’s primary elections, according to people who have spoken to Mr. Thompson...
Tags: Mr. Thompson, Ms. Gillibrand, United States Senate, senator gillibrand, State Senate, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Albany, Kirsten Gillibrand, Politics, David Paterson, Roland Burris, George Pataki, Bill Thompson, Alan Hevesi, Michael Bloomberg, United States Senate special election in New York
Ill. Democrats: Keeping Obama Senate seat not easy
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility Originally published Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 3:50 PM Ill. Democrats: Keeping Obama Senate seat not easy The White House and Illinois Democrats said Tuesday that their bid to hold on to President Barack Obama's old Senate seat won't be easy and...
Tags: Rod Blagojevich, Barack Obama, Senate, senate seat, Illinois Democrats, del Valle, old senate, president barack, Lisa Madigan, Chicago Urban League, Chicago, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Politics, Roland Burris, Video game censorship, United States Department of Justice, Illinois State Senators
Burris joins four other senators on Iraq trip
Baghdad :: Iraq | 10 days ago
Credibility Sen. Roland Burris, an Illinois Democrat, left Saturday for a trip to Iraq to examine security and political developments in the region, an aide said today. He is to return before Thanksgiving. Burris, 72, sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Tags: Sen. Roland Burris, Iraq, Baghdad, Rod Blagojevich, Barack Obama, Roland Burris, Burris, Raymond T. Odierno, Politics, War Conflict, Jeff Merkley, Tom Udall, Udall family, Ron Wyden
Zuma delays visit to Zimbabwe over deadlock
Harare :: Zimbabwe | 10 days ago
Credibility South African President Jacob Zuma has postponed his visit to assess Zimbabwe’s troubled power sharing agreement after the feuding parties missed a deadline to kick start negotiations but his advisors have expressed impatience over delays to conclude...
Tags: Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe African National Union ￢ﾀﾓ Patriotic Front, Zimbabwean political negotiations, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean presidential election, Morgan Tsvangirai, Arthur Mutambara, Politics, Joe Biden, Roland Burris, Political positions of Barack Obama, Foreign policy of the Barack Obama administration, Human Interest, Presidency of Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Punahou School alumni, Politics of Zimbabwe, WOZA, Social Issues, Movement for Democratic Change, Second round of voting in the 2008 Zimbabwean presidential election, War Conflict
Ex-State Dept official pleads guilty to spying for Cuba
Havana :: Cuba | 12 days ago
Credibility State Department official and his wife pleaded guilty on Friday to charges that they spied for almost three decades for the Communist-led Cuban government. Walter Kendall Myers had "top secret" clearance and, with the help of his wife Gwendolyn, gave...
Tags: Cuban, pleading guilty, Retired State Department, Walter Kendall Myers, Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, Gwendolyn Myers, department worker, spy case, cuba spy, wife accused, Cuba, Havana, Roland Burris, Rod Blagojevich, Kendall Myers, Law Crime, Politics, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Cuba ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, Fidel Castro, Metadata, Monopoly, United States copyright law, Copyright, Data management, Library and information science, Entertainment Culture, Year of birth missing, Central Intelligence Agency, Intelligence Directorate, Israel ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations
Burris reproved by Senate ethics panel
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 12 days ago
Credibility Burris (D-Ill.) has been admonished by the Senate ethics committee for his public comments about his controversial appointment to the seat previously held by President Obama. In a three-page "public letter of qualified admonition" issued Friday , the...
Tags: Sen. Roland Burris, Senate Ethics Committee, Obama Senate, Senate Select Committee, Mr. Burris, Rod Blagojevich, senator ethics, senator seat, ethics panel, Barack Obama, Chicago, Dick Durbin, Burris, Perjury, Rod Blagojevich corruption charges, Barbara Flynn Currie, Roland Burris, Law Crime, Politics, United States Senate elections in Illinois, Jim Durkin, Governor of Illinois, Tom Cross, Rod Blagojevich controversies
Congress: read the Constitution
London :: United Kingdom | 17 days ago
Credibility Senate, where he opened his mouth and removed all doubt. When a reporter asked him to identify the specific Constitutional language that authorized the federal government to mandate individual health insurance, he stumbled a bit, and then said it is...
Tags: Congress, Roland Burris, United Kingdom, London, United States Bill of Rights, Enumerated powers, United States Constitution, James Madison, Politics
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