TaxPayersFor CommonSense: "State by State Breakdown of Earmarks"
taxpayer.net 3/20/2009 — March 13, 2009 Update: Version 5 is now available. (Download it here) This version includes member state and party, and also allows for a partisan tabulation of who got how many earmarks. We did not try to parse an earmark among parties; we only ...

State Of The Union: Obama To Address Congress In February
huffingtonpost.com 1/23/2009 — President Barack Obama will give a State of the Union style address to Congress sometime in February, spokesman Robert Gibbs said during Friday's press briefing. "I think it is likely that he will speak to Congress, a joint session in Congress, ...

Obama State of the Union Address (Video, Transcript)
military.rightpundits.com 2/24/2009 — Watch the so-called Obama State of the Union Address on Tuesday, February 24th 2009 on a live video stream feed with live-blogging commentary that will be simulcast on both Blue Star Chronicles and Right Pundits. Read the transcript when available. Although the Obama speech to Congress’ ...

State of the Union
swampland.blogs.time.com 2/24/2009 — As he heads into his big budget speech tonight--the rookie equivalent of a State of the Union Address--Barack Obama gets high marks from the public in both the New York Times and the Washington Post polls. The Republican attempt to play politics as ...

State of the Union Address 1979
jimmycarterlibrary.org 4/17/2009 — Jimmy Carter State of the Union Address 1979 January 25, 1979 Tonight I want to examine in a broad sense the state of our American Union--how we are building a new foundation for a peaceful and a prosperous world. Our children who will be born this ...

Just 9% of Non-Union Workers Want to Join Union
rasmussenreports.com 3/16/2009 — Union members tend to believe that most workers want to join a labor union. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 47% of union members hold that view while only 18% disagree. But those who don’t belong to a union hold a ...

Preview of Obama's Speech Tonight
politicalwire.com 9/9/2009 — The White House released a partial transcript of President Obama's remarks tonight before a joint session of Congress: I am not the first President to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last.  It has now been nearly a century ...

Union employees go on strike … against the union
hotair.com 3/19/2009 — In the Someone Left The Irony On Department, the SEIU has a new problem besides Democratic defectors on Card Check. A planned layoff has a union local filing a complaint with the NRLB over unfair labor practices and accuses the employer of bypassing ...

The Presidential Address
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 2/25/2009 — Tonight we'll be using this space for your comments on the president's address and the response from Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, I've been asked to make some comments along the way--in the comments section itself--and give the discussion some ...

Robert Schlesinger: State of the Union Trivia
huffingtonpost.com 2/24/2009 — I had forgotten, but other new presidents have given don't-call-it-a-State-of-the-Union addresses -- Reagan, Clinton and both Bushes gave early-term speeches to Congress that were explicitly billed not as States of the Union. Of course the States of the Union speech was not always ...

Amanpour: World has questions for Obama — CNN Political Ticker 2/24/2009
Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has welcomed President Obama's new policies. Will the favor be returned? (CNN) — Will President Obama just talk about the state of this troubled Union whose economic crisis he has inherited, or will he ...

Three guests in first lady box revealed — CNN Political Ticker 2/24/2009
(CNN) — The White House announced Monday three of what may be at least two dozen guests in the first lady's box at President Barack Obama's address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night. The guests include an eighth-grader who wrote a ...

Obama address: Not a 'State of the Union' — CNN Political Ticker 2/24/2009
(CNN) – This year, the term “State of the Union” refers only to the new CNN program anchored by John King, not to President Obama’s first address to a joint session of Congress. Americans may have gotten used to hearing the recognizable phrase over ...

Obama address: 'Annual message' evolved from British ritual — CNN Political Ticker 2/24/2009
The president's annual message to Congress evolved from the British tradition of the monarch addressing Parliament. (CNN) – The concept of State of the Union addresses and annual presidential messages to Congress has its roots in the British ...

Obama address: When the Constitution calls — CNN Political Ticker 2/24/2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) – President Obama’s speech Tuesday to a joint session of Congress will fulfill his constitutional duty to brief lawmakers on the “state of the union.” According to Article II, Section 3, of the U.S. Constitution, "He [the ...