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Today's Politics News:
Obama readies road map for new bailout spending
Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:48 pm PST
AP - President Barack Obama on Saturday promised to lower mortgage costs, offer job-creating loans for small businesses, get credit flowing and rein in free-spending executives as he readies a new road map for spending billions from the second installment of the financial rescue plan. Full Story
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GOP governors press Congress to pass stimulus bill
Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:52 pm PST
AP - Most Republican governors have broken with their GOP colleagues in Congress and are pushing for passage of President Barack Obama's economic aid plan that would send billions to states for education, public works and health care. Full Story
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Official: GOP senator tops list for commerce post
Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:54 pm PST
AP - President Barack Obama appeared Saturday to be leaning toward appointing a third Republican to his Cabinet, a move that would place the fiscally conservative Sen. Judd Gregg at the head of the Commerce Department even though a liberal Democrat was initially tapped for the post. Full Story
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Smith: Saturday Reading: Optics
Sat, 31 Jan 2009 05:12 pm PST
Politico - Blog: Michael Turk finds TurboTax making good use of webads. Among (of the many) reason the optics of the Daschle tax situation are so much Full Story
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Obama rocks the Alfalfa Club
Sat, 31 Jan 2009 08:57 pm PST
Politico - How big is Barack Obama right now? Full Story
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Despite layoffs, federal work force is growing
Sat, 31 Jan 2009 08:10 am PST
AP - Companies are cutting jobs by the tens of thousands. State and local governments are penny-pinching, too. So what about Uncle Sam? Tough times for him as well? Full Story
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Obama praises Iraqis on provincial elections
Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:44 pm PST
AP - President Barack Obama congratulated Iraqis on Saturday's provincial elections and urged the winners to work for their people. Full Story
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US Senate braces for stimulus package debate
Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:22 pm PST
AFP - The US Senate starts debating President Barack Obama's massive economic stimulus package Monday, with opponents vowing to stand firm against the 819-billion-dollar plan that passed in the House of Representatives with no Republican backing. Full Story
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Birds cause emergency landings, aborted takeoffs
Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:40 am PST
AP - Commercial airline crews reported more than two dozen emergency landings, aborted takeoffs or other hair-raising incidents due to collisions with birds in the past two years, according to a confidential database managed by NASA. Full Story
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Obama signs pay equity law
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:56 am PST
Reuters - President Barack Obama signed his first bill into law on Thursday, handing his labor and women's rights backers a victory by reversing a 2007 Supreme Court decision that made it harder to sue for pay discrimination. Full Story
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Annan urges international support for Zimbabwe
Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:16 am PST
Reuters - Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged world leaders on Saturday to help rebuild Zimbabwe's economy after the opposition agreed to join a government with Robert Mugabe. Full Story
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