politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 1/13/2009
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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 disapproval resolution, according to senators who met with him.
Obama on Monday asked President Bush to [...]
huffingtonpost.com - 1/13/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
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 ...
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Obama Issues First Veto Threat
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/14/2009
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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 ...
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With No Bush Veto Threat, Six Republicans Switch From ...
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Second tranche guaranteed. Obama issues veto threat.
Daily Kos —
... The second $350 billion tranche (don't you love that word?) is on its way, now practically guaranteed by President-elect Obama's threat to veto any Congressional resolution of disapproval. The original bailout legislation provided for such a resolution as the only method by which Congress could block the disbursement of the second round of funding, and although such resolutions are moving in both houses and likely to get a vote in at least one, no observers I've seen have predicted that either house would be able to override a veto, meaning the money's practically in the ...
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Obama team defends Geithner —
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(CNN) — President-elect Barack Obama's transition office defended Treasury Secretary-designee Tim Geithner Monday amid reports he failed to pay the correct amount of taxes for a period of ...
Congress set to vote on children's health bill —
Reuters: Politics 1/13/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Moving quickly to try to give President-elect Barack Obama an early victory on an important healthcare issue, the U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on Wednesday to expand a children's health program and increase ...
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