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Sep 20, 2011

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Obama's deficit proposal marks a move away from compromise
Los Angeles Times
"If Republicans want to go in a different direction from where the American people are, that is to their own political detriment," said Bill Burton, a former White House aide and cofounder of the super-PAC Priorities USA Action. ...
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Geithner: I did not ignore Obama order
USA Today (blog)
By David Jackson, USA TODAY Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner -- and otherWhite House officials -- are challenging a new book that slams President Obama's economic team. Geithner in particular is accused of slow-walking a presidential order on the ...
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Geithner says Europe will draw on US crisis lessons
Reuters
US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner speaks at the White House, after US President Barack Obama spoke about cutting the US deficit in the Rose Garden of the White House, in Washington September 19, 2011. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy ...
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Rep. Flake talks about Martin Scorsese, U.S. debt
USA Today
She was White House editor for USA TODAY during the 2008 presidential election and covered the GOP's grip on Congress in the mid-1990s for The Dallas Morning News. She has also been a journalist at nearly every national political convention since 1992....
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Just how important is Ohio in 2012? Very!
CNN (blog)
(CNN) - If you need more evidence of just how important Ohio is to the White House, Vice President Joe Biden heads there Tuesday, the fourth visit by Biden and President Barack Obama to the crucial battleground state since Labor Day. ...
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Rick Perry: 'I'm Not Particularly Worried About This Barrage'
Huffington Post
He went on to draw a contrast between himself and rival Republican contenders vying for the White House and also discussed the prospect he could emerge his party's nominee to run against President Barack Obama in 2012. Meanwhile, rival GOP candidates ...
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Obama plan would end Saturday mail delivery
USA Today
Republican Darrell Issa has refused to consider revamping the prepayment or returning retirement fund money, which the White House plan and several Democratic lawmakers' bills would do. Issa, chairman of the House of Representatives Oversight Committee ...
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Obama's debt-cutting plan would raise taxes on rich
CTV.ca
President Barack Obama gestures while speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. (AP / Evan Vucci) US President Barack Obama gestures while speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, ...
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Advocates gather in Fort Worth for first National Poverty Summit
Fort Worth Star Telegram
The two-day summit included a "call to action" by Melody Barnes, White House domestic policy coordinator. The conference is intended to launch a national conversation about poverty and identify new and more effective ways to reduce it. ...
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Issue Of The Week I Fall 2011-2012: Whatever Happened To The National ...
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From the White House to organizations to schools, people have gone underground with voicing their concerns about the gap that still exists for People of Color in the United States. White American liberals who once marched alongside African Americans ...
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Commentary: Closer connection to Springsteen than just being 'Born in the USA'
San Jose Mercury News
And we can even get 10 percent off when we have breakfast at the International House of Pancakes. Well, at least that's something to look forward to this week as the page of my personal calendar turns from 61 to 62. Yeah, I guess you know where I'll be ...
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Asian Metals Market Update
Gold Seek
The program would allow the country to start reducing its debt level by 2017, the White House said. Under the White House plan, the national debt would fall to 73% of gross domestic product in 2012. If Congress took no action to cut spending, ...
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McFaul nominated to Russian ambassadorship
The Stanford Daily
President Barack Obama nominated political science professor Michael McFaul to the Russian ambassadorship, according to a White House press release. McFaul, a fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, ...
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Obama Courts Wealthy New York Donors After Pitching Tax Boost
Bloomberg
Evercore was one of the firms advising AT&T Inc. on its $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile USA, which the US Justice Department is challenging on antitrust grounds in a suit filed Aug. 31. Earlier today, Obama spoke in the White House Rose Garden and ...
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Of Politics And Posturing (The Note)
ABC News (blog)
ABC's Jake Tapper notes that the White House is trying to pad the proposal's total deficit reduction figure by including savings from winding down the costs of the wars and $1 trillion in deficit reduction already agreed to from the debt ceiling deal. ...
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Your Government, on Twitter
Law.com
Cue @whitehouse. While most executive office tweets contain information you know if you have a smartphone or a pulse (examples below), recently the administration has been hosting "Office Hours" -- real-time afternoon chats with Twitter followers. ...
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The 'Yes We Can' 2012 Tchotchke Mart
RenewAmerica
The only items missing are limited edition six-packs of White House-brewed Honey Ale, flower arrangements made with dried kale leaves from the first lady's organic garden, and valuable keepsakes such as JLo's lipstick-stained hors d'oeuvre napkin left ...
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Liberal mainstream media should try actual reporting for a change
Washington Examiner
But when it comes to political reporting - especially if honestly following those facts to their natural conclusion will have a negative impact on the Democrat Party or the Obama White House - they seem shamefully compromised. ...
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Gov. Daniels: Room for 'candid' GOP candidate
USA Today (blog)
Daniels, considered one of the Republican Party's leading minds on fiscal issues, talked to The Times ahead of the release of his book, Keeping the Republic: Saving America by Trusting Americans. The book by the former White House budget chief comes ...
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USA Today (blog)
Notes from my Slow Food $5 Challenge dinner
Washington Post (blog)
(Joe Yonan/The Washington Post) I started at the FreshFarm Market by the White House on Thursday, hoping I'd find a decent price on bell peppers so I could stuff them with a combination that could include a pound or even less of meat. ...
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'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal Takes Effect Today
Patch.com
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza The military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, which for almost 18 years has prohibited gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military, ended today. The policy was repealed by Congress in December, ...
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DOWNTOWN: Troy Davis' family pleads for clemency
WXIA-TV
The Davis case came up in Monday afternoon's White House Daily Briefing, when White HousePress Secretary Jay Carney answered a questions regarding the president's position on the death penalty in general and the Davis case in particular. ...
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The almanac
UPI.com
In 2008, the White House formally announced a vast bailout plan for US financial institutions including full authority for the Treasury Department to buy up to $700 billion in so-called toxic mortgage-related assets to restore confidence among ...
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The 9/11 Delusion: Israel's False Flag, Jingoism And Inhumanity
The People's Voice
The day before 9/11, Rabbi Zakheim 'disappeared' $2.3 trillion, in one of the most scandalous events to ever hit the White House. Before the end of his tenure, another trillion would vanish. The missing trillions would end up in the pockets of the ...
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The People's Voice
Report: AT&T trying to sell assets to save T-Mobile deal
ITworld.com
It's hard to believe the White House would want to appear anti-business in an election year by having the DoJ block AT&T's acquisition of T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom, so I don't believe an outright rejection of the deal is a possibility, ...
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Verizon Salutes Latino Leaders During Hispanic Heritage Awards at the Kennedy ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The Hispanic Heritage Awards were created by the White House 25 years ago, and we will salute the past honorees as we pay tribute to this year's recipients. We are grateful to all our sponsors, who understand the important role Latinos play in moving ...
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Bishops, spouses hold prayer service at the Colombia-Ecuador border
Episcopal News Service
Besides the more than 116000 refugees, an estimated 250000 more Colombians – people who have been denied legal status or who haven't applied for protection – live in Ecuador, according to a report by Refugee Council USA. Colombians holding a "Tarjeta ...
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Obama's Proposals May Pull Out America from Crisis: GBA
International Reporter
Mr. JP Jain said, “The plan is to be presented by Mr. Obama to lay out at the White House on Monday and shall receive hot response. He sought comments from Mr. Sahu. Mr. Sahu while endorsing the opinion of Helene Cooper, NYT, that if the deal is not ...
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International Reporter
NASA plan brings hope to space community
Your Houston News
“Congress is working closely with the White House, the Office of Management and Budget, and NASA Headquarters to ensure stability for human space exploration. Definition of the Space Launch System provides a critical element of the exploration ...
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Jacobs, Naegle, Walden Join 2nd Annual 'Women of Hollywood' Lineup
Broadcasting & Cable
In April 2011, B&C's "Keynotes & Cocktails: Women of New York" premiered, featuring speakers Rachael Ray, Glenn Close, ZenithOptimedia USA's Peggy Green, Mediavest USA's Pam Zucker, Rainbow's Arlene Manos and broadcasters Erin Andrews, Maria Bartiromo ...
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The Daily Docket: Dodgers Seeks Court OK to Sell Television Rights
Wall Street Journal (blog)
White House officials received assurances from solar-panel maker Solyndra LLC as recently as May 2011 that its finances were strong, WSJ reports, with the company dismissing concerns raised in media reports that problems were brewing. ...
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Brooklyn Book Festival Brings Thousands To Downtown
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
“He wanted to turn his back on Saratoga and Livonia avenues in Brownsville, on the sour smells coming from the basement, on his father silently leaving every day to work cutting up furs, on his mother walking through the house and cursing Hitler, ...
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America Makes Millionaires of Ungrateful British Actors
Big Hollywood
Ahhh yes, Here we have Bourgeois Bolsheviks, Caviar Communists, and Socialite Socialists coming over from the UK to take advantage of the USA tax code. And to add insult to injury, these idiots trash talk about the political types that at least *try* ...
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Speak up: How can federal websites improve?
FCW.com
The White House in June called a halt to issuing new .gov domains and established a .gov Reform Task Force. Agencies must reduce or redirect 25 percent of federal executive branch .gov domains, and reduce or redirect 50 percent of .gov domains by July ...
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Obama's spending cuts would spread the pain
Tucson Citizen
White House budget director Jacob Lew defended the depth of the $580billion in cuts. “There is a lot of pain, and it's spread broadly,” he said. That may be the key to getting spending cuts passed, said Steve Ellis, vice president of the watchdog group ...
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Rahm Emanuel can't recall Solyndra deal — RT
By RT
“We know what's right. It's time to do what's right.” With those words, President Obama ended a 20-minute-long speech from the White House this morning in which he outlined how the US will afford the $4 trillion needed for his American Jobs Act . ... following Solyndra's talk of bankruptcy. Bloomberg News reported earlier this month that Solyndra rep Damien Levera confirmed that the company had borrowed all but $8 million of the $535 million offered by the Department of Energy. +5...
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Council on Women and Girls | The White House
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WhiteHouse.gov is the official web site for the White House and President Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States ...
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9/15/11: White House Press Briefing
59 min
White House Press Briefings are conducted most weekdays from the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room in the West Wing.
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Open for Questions: The American Jobs Act
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The Obama Administration: White House Ignored Red ...
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Solyndra, a solar energy company championed by President Obama, received more than $500 million in government funding, then ...
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Welcome to JoiningForces.gov | The White House
3 min
President Obama, Vice President Biden, First Lady Obama and Dr. Biden launch Joining Forces, a national initiative to support and ...
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ABC News Reports On White House Pushing Risky Loan
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ABC News Reports On White House Pushing Risky Loan
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The Obama Administration: Obama Receives a Trifecta ...
8 min
A Hardball panel talks about the various roadblocks President Barack Obama's facing within his presidency and 2012 campaign.
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China: friend or foe to US?
7 min
The White House agreed to supply advanced J-16 jets to Taiwan based on the ground that the country's fleet is worn out. But in ...
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