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Column: Obama's plan to avoid lame duckery
For the last two months, President Barack Obama has been mired in Washington’s inside game, caught up in backroom congressional politics as he tried unsuccessfully to pass a bill on gun control and nudge Republican senators toward compromise on...Tags: Interior Policy, U.S. Senate, Budgets and Budgeting, Republican Party, State of the Union Address
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GOP senator gloats after hole in one during round with Obama
WASHINGTON – A round of golf with the president of the United States is a rare treat, to be sure. So hitting a hole in one while in a foursome with the commander in chief quickly became the stuff of legend on Capitol Hill after word that Sen....
Tags: Washington, DC, Elections, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Saxby Chambliss, Republican Party
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Obama golfs with GOP senators
WASHINGTON -- On the first green, President Obama put his arm around Sen. Bob Corker, the Tennessee Republican. He shared his golf cart with Sen. Saxby Chambliss, Republican from Georgia. Obama hasn’t had much luck schmoozing GOP lawmakers in...
Tags: Interior Policy, U.S. Senate, Marco Rubio, Golf, Republican Party
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Obama nominates Rep. Mel Watt to head Housing Finance Agency
WASHINGTON — President Obama nominated Democratic Rep. Mel Watt to be the top regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, moving to replace a career bureaucrat who has been sharply criticized by liberals for not doing more to help troubled homeowners....
Tags: Washington, DC, Finance, Kamala D. Harris, Parties and Movements, Republican Party
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Obama to nominate Democratic Rep. Mel Watt to head housing agency
WASHINGTON -- President Obama will nominate Democratic Rep. Mel Watt to head the federal housing agency that oversees taxpayer-owned Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a White House official said Wednesday. Watt, an 11-term congressman from North Carolina,...
Tags: Finance, Washington, DC, Kamala D. Harris, U.S. Senate, Politics
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Ranking Democrat, Republican press Obama administration on Syria
WASHINGTON – The ranking Democratic and Republican members of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee both urged the Obama administration Thursday to exert more pressure on behalf of the rebels in the Syrian civil war. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-...
Tags: Washington, DC, U.S. Senate, Bob Menendez, G8, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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John Boehner on ‘This Week’; Paul Ryan on ‘Face the Nation’
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelHouse Speaker John Boehner speaks at a Thursday press briefing on Capitol Hill. Photo credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED: The Sunday morning guest list: House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, talks to Martha Raddatz on ABC's “... -
Twelve steaks and an arugula salad: Obama takes the GOP to dinner
President Barack Obama had a dinner date last week with a dozen of his worst enemies, thus proving that the governmental stalemate in Washington, D.C., is driving him to unusual acts of political creativity -- or desperation. The president personally...
Tags: Washington, DC, Entertainment Events, Ron Johnson, Dan Coats, CNN (tv network)
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Efforts to avoid gov't shutdown move to Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Efforts to stave off a late March government shutdown shifted to the Senate after House Republicans swiftly passed legislation to keep federal agencies running, while also easing some of the effects of $85 billion in budget cuts....
Tags: Washington, DC, U.S. Senate, Dan Coats, Joe Biden, Politics
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At new phase in budget fight, Obama reaches out to GOP lawmakers
WASHINGTON -- President Obama appears to be trying to thaw chilly relations with lawmakers as he pushed through the latest budget battle while moving on to other parts of his second-term agenda. Obama will head to Capitol Hill next week to visit...
Tags: Interior Policy, U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell, Ron Johnson, Dan Coats
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Bernanke warns Congress that budget cuts pose danger [Updated]
This post has been updated, as indicated below.WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke warned Tuesday that the upcoming budget cuts under the so-called sequestration would create a "significant" burden on an economy that is growing only moderately. In his semi-annual economic report...Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Washington, DC, Employment, Government Debt, Career and Workplace
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Senate approves Kerry as secretary of state
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - John Kerry's nomination as President Barack Obama's new secretary of state sailed through the Senate on Tuesday, as his fellow senators voted overwhelmingly to confirm him to replace Hillary Clinton as the country's top diplomat....Tags: Washington, DC, Central Intelligence Agency, Unrest, Conflicts and War, John O. Brennan, Chuck Hagel
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