cqpolitics.com - 2/24/2009
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CQ TODAY PRINT EDITION – CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS Feb. 23, 2009 – 8:18 p.m. Presidents’ First Speeches to Congress Focus on Parts of the State of the Union By Bennett Roth, CQ Staff Lawmakers will arrive early in hopes of grabbing center-aisle seats, and a Cabinet member will be left behind for ...
news.yahoo.com - 2/20/2009
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BRUSSELS The European Union has turned into an
undemocratic and elitist project comparable to the Communist dictatorships...
of eastern Europe that forbade alternative thinking, Czech President Vaclav Klaus told the European Parliament on Thursday. ...
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Czech president compares EU to Soviet Union
blogs.dailymail.com - 2/26/2009
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Clinton 67 million, Bush 66 million, Obama 52
million. So, our nation is in crisis, eh? Worst...
recession since the Big One, Elizabeth — eh?
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State of the presidents
foreignpolicy.com - 3/1/2009
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foreignpolicy.com —
or the Western world, 1929 marked the start
of the Great Depression. For the Soviet Union, it...
was a year that Joseph Stalin called the Great Break the ending of a short spell of semiprivate economic policy and the beginning of the deadly period of ...
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Reversal of Fortune
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Obama Speaks to the Nation
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
... first appearance in the House chamber as president almost certainly would be focused on the economy. That's because his recent predecessors used their first addresses to Congress for exactly the same purpose: to lay out their agendas for the economy and the domestic issues that are tied to it, and to try to go over the heads of the assembled lawmakers to build public support for that agenda."
Michael Scherer points out five things to watch for in Obama's speech. CQ Politics explains the differences between tonight's speech and the traditional State of the ...
Talk, talk, talk
The Reaction —
... President Barack Obama will talk to a joint session of Congress tonight. In the process he will be talking to his cabinet, the diplomatic corps, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Supreme Court and to the nation, as well. It will not be a formal State of the Union address, according to CQ Politics. And it has not been but a few hours since the President interacted with Congress. Yesterday was the financial responsibility ...
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