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House Republicans rally around payroll tax plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans in the House of Representatives began to fall into line on Thursday behind a bill to extend an expiring payroll tax break after their leaders sweetened the measure with a provision that President Barack Obama has threatened to veto. The move to link the popular tax…
Obama rejects Republican ‘appeasement’ claims
WASHINGTON — With the icy riposte “ask Osama bin Laden,” President Barack Obama on Thursday rebutted Republican claims he is blind to the threat from radical “thugs” and guilty of appeasing US enemies. Obama’s use of lethal force as US commander-in-chief against Al-Qaeda and other groups has partly insulated him…
Obama backs restrictions on morning-after pill
President Barack Obama on Thursday said he supported Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ decision to keep the restrictions that prevent teens from being able to buy emergency contraception without a prescription. U.S. Food and Drug Administration chief Margaret Hamburg had told reporters that she backed lifting the age…
WATCH LIVE: Obama speaks about Congress blocking consumer panel nomination
President Barack Obama speaks about the Senate blocking Richard Cordray as his nomination to the Consumer Protection Bureau. Watch this live video from CNN, broadcast Nov. 25, 2011. …
Parody ad: ‘God does not believe in Rick Perry’
Reacting to Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s latest advertisement, which assails what the presidential candidate calls President Barack Obama’s “war on religion,” liberal satirist Andy Cobb published his own take, which concludes that “God does not believe in Rick Perry.” “Perhaps this is a good time to remember that gay and…
Elizabeth Warren leads in Massachusetts Senate race
BOSTON (Reuters) – Democrat Elizabeth Warren, a prominent consumer activist and former official in President Barack Obama’s administration, leads Republican Senator Scott Brown in her bid for a Senate seat from Massachusetts, a new poll shows. Warren, who is also a Harvard Law School professor, had 49 percent support for…
U.S. denies delaying global climate deal
DURBAN, South Africa (Reuters) – The United States denied on Thursday it was trying to delay a new global climate deal until 2020, saying it supported an EU proposal that aims to chart a path to a more ambitious pact to fight climate change. Delegates from almost 200 countries have…
Republicans urge covert ops against Iran, Syria
Republican US presidential candidates have redoubled their public calls for “covert” operations against Iran and Syria, including sabotage, assassination and aid to opposition forces. Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, who has led the calls for secret war, told a gathering of party activists on Wednesday he would use “covert capability”…
Economic adviser slams GOP for stalling consumer agency
Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council and assistant to the President for Economic Policy, told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Wednesday that Republicans were endangering Americans by resisting the confirmation of Richard Cordray. President Barack Obama nominated Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), but Republicans have…
Obama rejects bid to tie pipeline to tax row
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama Wednesday warned he would reject any bid by Republicans to make his plans for a payroll tax cut conditional on his prompt backing for a contentious US-Canada oil pipeline. As he met Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who supports the Keystone XL project, Obama staked…
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