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By John Amick and T. Rees Shapiro A day after the Senate voted to take up the health care reform bill, President Obama's top domestic priority dominated the discussion on Sunday morning talk shows. ABC: THIS WEEK - Nelson pushes opt-in public option On ABC's "This Week," Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) ...
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By Scott Wilson President Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday to draw a line between his recent trip to the economic engines of Asia and job creation at home, calling it a "task I will continue to focus on relentlessly in the weeks and months ahead." Obama's message, which ...
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By Sarah Lovenheim State dinners, banquets paid for by the government and hosted by a head of state, are held to foster relationships following serious conversations concerning foreign affairs. Many U.S. presidents have held state dinners in the State Dining Room at the White House, a room that ...
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By Garance Franke-Ruta President Obama's job approval rating has dropped below 50 percent for the first time since he assumed office, according to Gallup's tracking poll. The poll averages results over three days. When Obama took office, the poll measured his approval rating at 68 percent for ...
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By Garance Franke-Ruta The Democratic Party raised $11.5 million in October, a record month for a non-presidential election year in the post-McCain-Feingold era, according to a party source. That leaves the Democratic National Committee with $12.3 million in cash on hand and $4.4 million in ...
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By Paul Kane Sen. Roland W. Burris (D-Ill.) has been admonished by the Senate ethics committee for his public comments about his appointment last December to the body. In a three-page "public letter of qualified admonition" issued Friday, the committee formally reprimanded Burris for statements ...
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By Ben Pershing Cancel those weekend plans: You've now got a date Saturday night with health-care reform. The Senate measure faces a key procedural vote Saturday evening, and Harry Reid is still working to assemble the requisite 60 votes. Politico says Reid and fellow Democrats "projected ...
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By Alec MacGillis In a sign of the gathering momentum for additional economic stimulus, a top White House economic adviser on Thursday expressed openness to the possibility of additional aid to local governments to prevent layoffs or even to the creation of a new public jobs program to spur ...
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By Dan Balz AUSTIN -- On the day that Sarah Palin kicked off her book tour to enthusiastic crowds, the two newest Republican governors sought to explain why the former Alaska governor had not campaigned on their behalf this fall. Palin is a potentially potent force among some conservative ...
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By Ben Pershing Two weeks after the House passed its health-care bill and exactly a month after the Senate Finance Committee reported out its version of the measure, the Senate's compromise plan is finally ready for its closeup. Harry Reid "presented an $848 billion health-care overhaul package ...
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Your Browser DoesNot Support IFrames. On the final leg of his Asian tour, President Obama announced fresh steps to encourage North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons and laid out a possible new punishment against Iran for defying efforts to end its own nuclear weapons program. (Video by the ...
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By Dan Balz AUSTIN -- Are Republicans trailing the Democrats in their ability to exploit new technology to communicate with voters -- or overtaking them? That issue flared briefly during the opening day of the Republican Governors Association annual conference here Wednesday. Former Ohio ...
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By Michael Alison Chandler First lady Michelle Obama visited Hollin Meadows Elementary School in Alexandria on Wednesday to tour the school's outdoor classrooms and promote the importance of nutrition and physical education to learning. "Anyone who has kids knows they need recess and exercise to ...
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By Dan Balz "All the anxiety's on the other side," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said with a smile earlier this week, as the Senate prepared for a historic floor debate over health care. "The hand-wringing, the agonizing, the how-do-I-explain this-to-my-constituents is on the other ...
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Our political trivia question of the day (visit www.washingtonpost.com/politicaltrivia for more): A new Washington Post-ABC News poll surveyed America's views on Sarah Palin. How many self-described independents surveyed said they "would definitely" (as opposed to "would consider" or "would ...
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Your Browser DoesNot Support IFrames. Attorney General Eric Holder told critics Wednesday not to cower at the prospect of a New York trial for professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. (Video by the Associated Press.) For more on this story, see "Holder: 'We need not cower' ahead of ...
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By Andrew Higgins BEIJING -- President Obama trekked to the Great Wall on Wednesday and ran the gantlet that torments all U.S. presidents when they visit China: what does the world's most powerful man say about one of mankind's most awe-inspiring monuments? "It's majestic," declared Obama, ...
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President Obama sat down for an interview with CNN while in Beijing on Wednesday morning. Here's what he had to say about selected topics: ON HIS HALF-BROTHER, WHO LIVES IN CHINA Well, you know, I don't know him well. I met him for the first time a couple of years ago. He stopped by with his ...
