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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/14/2009

With No Bush Veto Threat, Six Republicans Switch From 'No' to 'Yes' on SCHIP

— tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com — The House just passed a $33 billion reauthorization and expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program,... a.k.a. SCHIP, the legislation that Democrats tried in vain to expand last year only to meet with two vetoes from George Bush. But ... (more) With No Bush Veto Threat, Six Republicans Switch From ...

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politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 1/13/2009

Obama issues veto threat, senators say

— politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com — Obama met with Senate Democrats on the Hill Tuesday (Getty Images) (CNN) — President-elect Barack Obama tried... to convince Senate Democrats to get behind his plan for the second half of the $700 billion bailout, warning he would veto a threatened ... (more) Obama issues veto threat, senators say

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Six days to the presidency, Obama issues first veto threat, senator says
Top of the Ticket — ... on HuffingtonPost, the Connecticut sort-of member of the Democratic congressional caucus emerged from today's closed lunch to say that the almost-president had issued his first solid veto threat. ...

Uh oh: Obama Treasury nominee had “undocumented” housekeeper; Update: Whose taxes?
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... . Exit question: With Congress already sufficiently terrified by the economy to cut The One a stimulus check for $775 billion plus another $350 billion from the second half of TARP ( forcibly , if need be), what are the odds that they’re going to reject his handpicked economic guru — especially given the potential headache of immigration politics becoming involved? No wonder Obama’s ...

Second tranche guaranteed. Obama issues veto threat.
Daily Kos — ... that either house would be able to override a veto, meaning the money's practically in the pipeline as we speak. Now here's the kicker: How do we know Obama threatened a veto? Well sure, CNN has it: Obama made clear that he doesn't want to issue a veto as one of his first actions in office, but he insisted that he has no choice, senators said. But hey, who are these "senators?" I'll give you one guess. Wait. No I won't: President-elect Barack Obama made his first veto threat Tuesday ...

Tuesday's Mini-Report
Political Animal — ... : "Citigroup has agreed to merge its Smith Barney brokerage unit into Morgan Stanley's brokerage operations, the first step in ultimately shedding Smith Barney and a move away from the financial supermarket model that Citigroup has followed for the past decade." * The first veto threat : "President-elect Barack Obama made his first veto threat Tuesday in a closed-door meeting with Senate Democrats. Obama told his former colleagues that if Congress passes a resolution blocking release of the second half of the financial bailout funds he will veto it, said Sen. Joseph Lieberman ...

COLUMN: That Old Saying In Tennessee
Open Left - Front Page — ... that one of his first presidential priorities would "turn(ing) the page on policies that have put the greed and irresponsibility of Wall Street before the hard work and sacrifice of folks on Main Street," Obama decided to make his very first exercise of presidential power a veto threat aimed at keeping taxpayer money flowing to the same Wall Street firms that ...

Obama's First Veto?
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — ... Obama hasn't waved his veto pen around much yet. Before taking office, he vowed to veto any bill that would prevent him from releasing the second half of the bailout funds. But otherwise he's been circumspect about deploying the 'v' word, even on his top policy priorities. He hasn't, for instance, indicated that he'd refuse to sign a health care bill that ...

White House Threatens to Veto Defense Bill
Political Punch — ... provision that President Obama said could invoke a veto -- an alternative engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. “It is regrettable that the administration needs to issue a veto threat for funding intended to meet a real national security requirement that has been consistently confirmed by our uniformed military leaders,” F-22 proponent Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., said Thursday. This is not Mr. Obama's first veto threat. In January, before he even had been sworn in as president, he told Democrats on Capitol Hill that he would veto any bill blocking the release of the ...