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submitted by agabriel 23 months ago, from reuters.com
The measure, approved by a vote of 62 to 36, now heads to the House of Representatives, where many Democrats have pushed for more aggressive job-creation measures in the face of the worst U.S. economic downturn since the 1930s. Democrats say job creation is their top priority this year as they... More
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by Steven R. Hurst from hosted.ap.org, 23 months ago
The filibuster - tool of obstruction in the U.S. Senate - is alternately blamed and praised for wilting President Barack Obama's ambitious agenda. Some even say it's made the nation ungovernable... More
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submitted by eooties 29 months ago, from latimes.com
A day after President Obama went to Capitol Hill to renew his call for a sweeping healthcare overhaul, Democrats on Thursday rallied behind him, giving important momentum to the push for legislation this year. Especially important for the White House was the reaction of several conservative... More
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submitted by bafficio 31 months ago, from news.bbc.co.uk
President Obama's key domestic policy objective is to reform the US system of health care. And the next few weeks will be crucial in determining whether he can deliver the fundamental reform that has eluded his predecessors. More
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submitted by trippie48 33 months ago, from nytimes.com
Members of Congress have been told in confidential briefings that Pakistan is rapidly adding to its nuclear arsenal even while racked by insurgency, raising questions on Capitol Hill about whether billions of dollars in proposed military aid might be diverted to Pakistan’s nuclear program. More
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submitted by riverdrops 33 months ago, from latimes.com
Senior Democrats have reached broad agreement on a plan to prevent Republicans from blocking President Obama's sweeping healthcare proposals, congressional officials said Friday. The plan, which would use special provisions of the budget process to prevent a Senate filibuster, threatens to sow... More
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submitted by rodeox 34 months ago, from cnn.com
The Senate passed a $3.53 trillion version of the federal budget for fiscal year 2010 late Thursday night in a party-line vote, ending several weeks of acrimonious partisan debate. The package was approved on a 55-43 vote. GOP Sens. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, and Olympia Snowe and Susan... More
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submitted by bafficio 34 months ago, from bloomberg.com
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will ask Congress to bring large hedge funds, private- equity firms and derivatives markets under federal supervision for the first time as part of a revamp of U.S. financial rules. The Treasury chief will present his proposed framework at a House Financial... More
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submitted by grandie4 35 months ago, from washingtonpost.com
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday that the federal government may have to spend even more money to shore up the nation's ailing economy, on top of the more than $1.6 trillion so far approved by Congress. More
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submitted by rodeox 35 months ago, from sfgate.com
Amid a cratering stock market, huge job losses and continuing ad hoc bank interventions, President Obama is risking his presidency on the most ambitious remake of the federal government since Ronald Reagan, raising jitters among moderate Democrats and presenting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with the.. More
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submitted by rodeox 35 months ago, from finance.yahoo.com
To a nation reeling from recession and facing long-festering problems, President Barack Obama has a simple reminder: "We are not quitters." Whatever the problems, the new president promised in the first prime-time speech of his term, "We will rebuild, we will recover and the United States of... More
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submitted by bafficio 36 months ago, from sfgate.com
Less than one month after President Obama took office, Congress passed his flagship proposal Friday night, an unprecedented collection of tax cuts and new spending that Democrats say offers the country its best hope to fight the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. More
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submitted by riverdrops 36 months ago, from nytimes.com
This could be the year that Washington gets a voting member of Congress. “There is finally a light at the end of what has been a really long tunnel,” said the city’s nonvoting delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton. On Wednesday, a Senate committee approved a bill to give the city a voting member of... More
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submitted by eooties 36 months ago, from latimes.com
With the Senate's approval Tuesday of a massive, $838-billion economic stimulus package, congressional negotiators launched into a high-risk race to come up with a compromise bill that could be delivered to the White House by the end of the week. It will be anything but easy. There are significant.. More
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submitted by trippie48 36 months ago, from abcnews.go.com
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said the government should look into creating a "truth commission" to investigate the Bush administration's Department of Justice. More
