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Obama calls again for an "up-or-down vote" on health care
President Obama on Saturday repeated his call for Congress to give an "up-or-down vote" on his plan to revamp the nation's health-care system, saying that doing so would yield immediate benefits for the uninsured and small businesses, while prohibiting the most unpopular actions of health insurance companies.
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| March 6, 2010; 6:00 AM ET |
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Haiti's leader coming to White House next week
Haitian President Rene Préval, whose country is still reeling from the January earthquake that devastated it, is scheduled to meet with President Obama at the White House on Wednesday.
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| March 5, 2010; 7:01 PM ET |
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Mitt Romney criticizes Obama for focusing on health care, instead of jobs
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney had some sharp words Friday for President Obama's economic and foreign policies, criticizing him for spending the past year on health-care reform instead of focusing narrowly on job creation.
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| March 5, 2010; 4:03 PM ET |
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Kickin' it with Michelle Obama (Video)
The first lady attended a soccer clinic in Washington on Friday that was designed to help promote healthy activities among the nation's young people.
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| March 5, 2010; 2:38 PM ET |
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No plans for House to vote on Armenian genocide resolution, aide says
There is no current plan for the House to vote on a resolution branding as genocide the World War I-era massacre of Armenians by Turkish forces, a Democratic leadership aide said Friday.
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| March 5, 2010; 2:19 PM ET |
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Reid: 'Only 36,000 people lost their jobs today'
"Today is a big day in America. Only 36,000 people lost their jobs today... which is really, really good," Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said in discussing the latest jobs report.
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| March 5, 2010; 1:01 PM ET |
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Jay-Z and Beyonce at the White House: the pictures
RapRadar.com has the pictures of him and other stars, including Beyonce, Mama Tina and Trey Songz, in a White House meeting room.
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| March 5, 2010; 10:59 AM ET |
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What's the deadline for health reform?
"If you don't set a deadline in this town, nothing happens," President Obama said last July, and John Dickerson later noted that Obama "has a professor's fondness for deadlines and a writer's lack of respect for them." So it makes sense that the White House appeared to set a deadline for completion of health care Thursday and then revise it the same day.
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| March 5, 2010; 8:00 AM ET |
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A Blue Dog 'no' on health care sounds a little more like a 'yes'
House Democratic leaders struggling to build a 217-vote majority to pass health care appear to be making progress with one Democrat who opposed the original House version: Rep. Bart Gordon (Tenn.).
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| March 4, 2010; 6:11 PM ET |
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New Bo Obama gallery posted by White House
After weeks of more serious offerings, White House has released a gallery of new photos of First Dog Bo -- check them all out here.
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| March 4, 2010; 5:55 PM ET |
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Nathan Deal postponing resignation to vote against health-care reform
Rep. Nathan Deal (R-Ga.), resigning from Congress to run for governor, announced Thursday that he would stay in the House to vote against the health care bill.
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| March 4, 2010; 4:39 PM ET |
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Pelosi suggests that abortion opponents won't derail health bill
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) downplayed Thursday the possibility that conservative Democrats would threaten passage of a final health-care bill over the abortion issue, telling reporters that at least some of the lawmakers may be open to persuasion.
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| March 4, 2010; 4:33 PM ET |
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Pelosi: Health-care reform will pass (Video)
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says passing health-care reform will not lead to federal funding of abortion but will mean more health care options for Americans. She vows a bill will pass.
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| March 4, 2010; 1:59 PM ET |
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Md. Democrats trumpet omission from GOP target list
Maryland Democrats are crowing that the state was not on a list of races the Republican National Committee is targeting in 2010.
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| March 4, 2010; 1:46 PM ET |
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Obama signs Travel Promotion Act
President Obama Thursday enacted legislation to promote international travel to the United States by establishing a national tourism board that would coordinate advertising and other efforts to encourage foreigners to visit the United States.
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| March 4, 2010; 1:10 PM ET |
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House approves $15B jobs measure; Senate moves forward
After resolving a Democrat rebellion in one chamber and a retiring Kentuckian's stall tactics in the other, both the House and Senate are pressing forward again with bills designed to boost job creation.
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| March 4, 2010; 12:45 PM ET |
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Obama intensifies courtship of House Dems on health care
President Obama upped the pressure on House Democrats to pass health-care legislation Thursday, announcing a March 18 goal date to complete the bill and adding time on his schedule to court -- and address concerns of -- some of the chamber's most liberal members, as well as an array of moderates whose votes could prove critical.
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| March 4, 2010; 12:12 PM ET |
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Levin to take reins of Ways and Means
Rep. Sander Levin (D-Mich.), a pro-union, anti-free-trade liberal who is a close ally of the auto industry, has been selected as interim chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.
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| March 4, 2010; 10:23 AM ET |
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Obama finally delivers a health roadmap
It may have taken over a year, but President Obama finally told Congress and the public Wednesday what he wants in a health care bill, when he wants it and how he thinks it should pass.
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| March 4, 2010; 8:00 AM ET |
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Senate rejects bonus Social Security payments
The Senate rejected on Wednesday a proposal to give a $250 bonus payment to people on Social Security.
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| March 3, 2010; 8:25 PM ET |
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House Democrats stymied on successor to Rangel
After hours of meetings Wednesday afternoon, House Democrats could not settle on a successor to Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.
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| March 3, 2010; 7:08 PM ET |
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Democrats slam 'fear'-based Republican fundraising strategy
Democrats sharply criticized a Republican National Committee fundraising presentation that depicted President Obama as the Joker and cast House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) as Cruella De Vil and Scooby-Doo.
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| March 3, 2010; 6:01 PM ET |
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Deja vu: Obama and the doctors in white
If the more than year-long push for comprehensive health-care reform is starting to feel like a ground hog day experience, its not just because of the consistent messaging and many, many presidential addresses on the topic. Some of the backdrops are a study in repetition. Case in point: the men and women in white coats who stand with the president for reform, as they did again today during the president's remarks.
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| March 3, 2010; 5:00 PM ET |
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GOP wants voters to get a look at recommendations to cut deficit
House Republican leader John Boehner called Wednesday for President Obama's new bipartisan deficit-reduction commission to issue its recommendations by Oct. 1 so potentially painful decisions about raising taxes and cutting spending can be vetted by the voters.
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| March 3, 2010; 3:43 PM ET |
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Obama: Time to act on health care (Video)
President Obama urged Congress Wednesday to vote "up or down" on sweeping health care legislation in the next few weeks, endorsing a plan that denies Senate Republicans the right to kill the bill by stalling with a filibuster.
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| March 3, 2010; 3:42 PM ET |
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Rep. Stark in line to succeed Rangel as committee chair
The man in line to succeed Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee is a 78-year-old Californian with his own recent ethics battles, a representative who has a history of calling his Republican colleagues "wimps" and "whores", and who has missed more than 250 roll-call votes while battling an illness he has not publicly disclosed.
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| March 3, 2010; 2:34 PM ET |
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SNL stars unite behind Consumer Financial Protection Agency
The nearly-six minute "Presidential Reunion" skit, released Wednesday, features "Saturday Night Live" star Fred Armisen as Barack Obama and SNL alumna Maya Rudolph as Michelle Obama. The stars are visited in a dream sequence by a slew of comedic heavy-weights acting the part of former presidents: Will Ferrell (George W. Bush), Jim Carrey (Ronald Reagan), Dana Carvey (George H. W. Bush), Darrell Hammond (Bill Clinton), Chevy Chase (Gerald Ford) and Dan Aykroyd (Jimmy Carter).
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| March 3, 2010; 11:50 AM ET |
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Lawmaker pushes to cut congressional pay
On Monday, Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (Ariz.) introduced the Taking Responsibility for Congressional Pay Act, which would cut the pay of all House members and senators by 5 percent in 2011.
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| March 3, 2010; 11:27 AM ET |
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Sarah Palin sits down with Jay Leno on 'The Tonight Show' (Video)
Sarah Palin appeared on the "Tonight Show with Jay Leno" Tuesday night, where they discussed her new career in media and her opinionated nature.
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| March 3, 2010; 8:16 AM ET |
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Bunning, Rangel bring spotlight to Capitol
The Capitol was a hotbed of activity Tuesday, as the next steps on health-care reform were upstaged by a retiring 79-year-old in the Senate and a 78-year-old in the House whose career in the chamber may also be nearing its climax.
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| March 3, 2010; 8:00 AM ET |
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Ron Paul easily fends off primary challenges
By Ben Pershing It looks like Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) -- the grassroots hero former...
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| March 3, 2010; 7:44 AM ET |
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Senate approves extension of jobless benefits after Bunning ends blockade
Senate leaders reached an agreement with Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) Tuesday to end his blockade of a bill extending unemployment benefits, highway funding and other federal programs.
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| March 2, 2010; 6:57 PM ET |
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Rangel: I'm staying as Ways and Means chairman
Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) sounded defiant Tuesday night in the face of renewed calls for him to give up his chairmanship of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. He emerged from a meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) to tell reporters that he's staying as chairman. "You bet your life," he said.
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| March 2, 2010; 6:43 PM ET |
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Newer House Dems under pressure on Rangel
House Democrats elected in 2006 and 2008 are under more pressure than many of their colleagues to side with Republicans as the GOP seeks to strip Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) of his chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee.
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| March 2, 2010; 3:52 PM ET |
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Jerry Brown announces he will run for Calif. governor's seat
Former California governor Jerry Brown on Tuesday announced that he will run as a Democrat for governor of California in 2010.
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| March 2, 2010; 2:48 PM ET |
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Defiant Jim Bunning again waves off questions about blocking jobs bill (Video)
After angrily brushing aside questions from ABC reporters Monday, Kentucky Sen. Jim Bunning (R) again waved off questions about his decision to "single-handedly block... the Senate from extending unemployment benefits, highway funds and other programs" when confronted by CNN's Dana Bash and camera crew.
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| March 2, 2010; 1:02 PM ET |
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Health-care fight centers on message
In one corner, we have "government takeover" and "arcane parliamentary procedure." In the other corner, "skyrocketing insurance costs" and "simple up-or-down vote." With the substance of the health-care bill and the process for moving it largely determined, the battle over reform now turns largely on message.
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| March 2, 2010; 8:00 AM ET |
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Obama to announce details of 'cash for caulkers' program during visit to Savannah
President Obama is expected to unveil details of a planned home retrofitting program Tuesday that will offer government rebates for homeowners who install new windows, doors, insulation and other materials to make their homes more energy efficient.
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| March 2, 2010; 6:00 AM ET |
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Ford decides not to run for N.Y. Senate seat, source says
Former congressman Harold Ford has decided against challenging incumbent Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), a source close to Ford said Monday.
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| March 1, 2010; 7:57 PM ET |
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Reid, Baucus unveil new $150B jobs bill
Even as a short-term package of aid to the unemployed remains stalled in the Senate, Democratic leaders unveiled the latest piece of their jobs agenda Monday -- $150 billion worth of extensions to expiring federal programs and tax breaks.
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| March 1, 2010; 6:07 PM ET |
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Today in photos
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| March 1, 2010; 5:19 PM ET |
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Ron Paul faces primary challenge, but little threat
Rep. Ron Paul (Texas), the man whose insurgent 2008 presidential campaign helped unleash a wave of anti-Washington sentiment, now faces a GOP primary challenge of his own -- from candidates who claim he's gone Washington.
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| March 1, 2010; 3:48 PM ET |
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Angry Jim Bunning blows off ABC News (Video)
Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) is suddenly in the media spotlight, as his block on a jobs bill means roughly 2,000 Transportation Department employees were forced to be furloughed without pay Monday. He doesn't seem to happy about the extra attention. When ABC News tried to get him to comment on the block, he ignored them, yelling, "Excuse me! This is a senators-only elevator!" and "I've got to go to the floor!"
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| March 1, 2010; 3:37 PM ET |
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Tea Party groups staying out of McCain/Hayworth primary
Former Rep. J.D. Hayworth has aligned himself with the Tea Party movement in his primary challenge to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). But he won't have the backing of the state's Tea Party groups.
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| March 1, 2010; 2:08 PM ET |
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Blanche Lincoln under fire
If it's not enough that Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) now has a primary opponent in the form of Arkansas' Lt. Gov. Bill Halter, she's also facing a new political campaign against her over whether the Environmental Protection Agency should be able to regulate greenhouse gases on its own.
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| March 1, 2010; 12:22 PM ET |
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Former Senate parliamentarian: Biden could play big role in reconciliation process
Former Senate parliamentarian Robert Dove discussed the history of reconciliation on MSNBC Monday morning. "Reconciliation has been used a lot, and I would never use the term illegitimate with regard to reconciliation," he said of the maneuver, which was created in 1974.
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| March 1, 2010; 11:31 AM ET |
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Democrats have a health-care plan, but do they have the votes?
For the last several months, Democrats have been arguing amongst themselves over not just the substance of health-care reform but also the process. For better or worse, the latter argument is over.
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| March 1, 2010; 8:00 AM ET |
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Obama bets beers on U.S.-Canada hockey final
Cases of beer at stake as President and Canadian Prime Minister go for the gold.
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| February 28, 2010; 4:10 PM ET |
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Despite differences, Pelosi sees 'positive result' from reform
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she is confident that once priorities are hashed out and the Senate has acted on health care reform, the House will move forward with a "very positive result" in final passage.
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| February 28, 2010; 12:41 PM ET |
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Pelosi: Democrats will keep majority in House
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) insisted Sunday that the Democratic Party will retain a majority in the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterm elections. She said past swings in power during midterms have been the result of unpreparedness, and the Democrats are aware of challenges and are ready to contest every race.
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| February 28, 2010; 11:51 AM ET |
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