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Obama urged to use spill fines to restore Gulf
Obama urged to seek spill penalties to pay for Gulf coast restoration, help states after spill President Barack Obama’s point person on the Gulf coast’s restoration will recommend paying for it with some of the billions of dollars in civil penalties that could be collected from companies responsible for the…
Obama: GOP’s pledge to Americans ‘an echo of a disastrous decade’
President Barack Obama says Republicans’ plan to slash taxes and cut spending if the GOP retakes the House in November is no more than “an echo of a disastrous decade we can’t afford to relive.” Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday to skewer House Republicans over the…
Obama: Liberal critics should stop griping and ‘wake up’
President Barack Obama had some friendly advice on Monday for liberal Democrats who say he has not achieved everything on their wish lists — quit complaining. Making a whirlwind fund-raising tour of Philadelphia to rally support for his embattled Democrats before U.S. congressional elections in November, Obama offered a hint…
Gay candidates for Congress draw interest, hope
Candidates in RI, Calif., bolster advocate hopes of boosting ranks of gays in Congress Laure Rondeau, an 82-year-old Catholic, supports Providence Mayor David Cicilline for Congress because he wants to get the troops out of Afghanistan and says Washington is losing sight of what’s happening to regular people. The sexual…
No recession here: Election spending sets records
More contests, more at stake, looser rules send election spending into the stratosphere Turns out politics, for all its focus on the gloomy economy, is a recession-proof industry. This year’s volatile election is bursting with money, setting fundraising and spending records in a high-stakes struggle for control of Congress amid…
Clemens heads to DC, this time for court
Reputation on the line, Clemens heads to Washington for the first of his many days in court On this trip to Washington, Roger Clemens will be in a courtroom, not in Congress. His defiant stance is expected to remain the same, even if his statement is much shorter. Something along…
Obama: Republican campaign slogan is ‘No we can’t’
President Barack Obama derided his Republican adversaries on a visit to the US heartland Monday, saying their slogan for the upcoming mid-term elections was “No, we can’t.” “You remember when I was running? We had a little slogan, ‘Yes, we can.’ These guys’ slogan is ‘No, we can’t,’” he said…
Federal appeals court in NY rules against ACORN
Federal appeals court in NY tosses decision barring Congress from withholding funds for ACORN A federal appeals court in New York City has thrown out a decision that barred Congress from withholding funds from the activist group ACORN. The ruling Friday reverses a decision by a district court. That judge…
Kucinich: 92,000 reasons to end the wars, pick one
US lawmakers opposed to the Afghan war, emboldened by a huge leak of military files on the conflict, pushed Tuesday for pulling US forces from Pakistan in a blunt challenge to President Barack Obama. The House of Representatives was expected to vote on both an emergency spending bill to pay…
Sen. Kyl: $678-billion tax break for rich should not be offset
Sen. Jon Kyl, Republican of Arizona, believes that any extension to unemployment benefits “ought to be paid for.” But when it comes to the $678-billion cost of extending the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy, the senator says no offsetting is necessary. In an interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace…
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