Published: May 18, 2010
Connecticut Democrat misstated military record
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Richard Blumenthal, the early favorite to win retiring fellow Democrat Christopher Dodd’s Senate seat from Connecticut, never served in the military in Vietnam despite his public comments indicating he had done so, the New York Times reported on Monday.
If these revelations harm Blumenthal’s campaign, they could help Republicans pick up a Senate seat [...]
Published: May 18, 2010
Primary Day: Whose clout is at stake?
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Tuesday’s primary elections in Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Arkansas won’t just be a test of the national political environment. They’ll also offer a clearer look at who’s shaping up to be a powerful force in 2010 and who’s already struggling to stay relevant in the long midterm cycle. The national party committees, congressional leaders and the [...]
Published: April 26, 2010
Lieberman encouraged energy bill will be on track
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WASHINGTON – A day after bipartisan support for an energy and climate change bill appeared to crumble, a Senate sponsor said Sunday he was optimistic the coalition would regroup and lawmakers would consider the measure this year.
Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, said in an interview with The Associated Press that he was encouraged after [...]
Published: April 26, 2010
Obama: W.Va. miners died in pursuit of better life
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BECKLEY, W.Va. – They lived and they died pursuing the American Dream, working in dangerous conditions underground to help keep the lights on across the country, a somber President Barack Obama said Sunday in a eulogy to the workers who died in the worst mine accident in a generation.
The president told the families of the [...]
Published: April 11, 2010
Obama takes non-nuclear pledge to world leaders
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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s pledge to one day rid the world of nuclear weapons runs up against global realities this week when representatives from 47 countries try to craft an agreement on keeping nuclear weapons out of terrorist hands.
Sweeping or even bold new strategies were unlikely to emerge from the two-day gathering that begins [...]
Published: April 11, 2010
Obama: Al-Qaida would use nuke if it could
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WASHINGTON – If al-Qaida acquired nuclear weapons it “would have no compunction at using them,” President Barack Obama said Sunday on the eve of a summit aimed at finding ways to secure the world’s nuclear stockpile.
“The single biggest threat to U.S. security, both short-term, medium-term and long-term, would be the possibility of a terrorist organization [...]
Published: April 11, 2010
GOP senators push for `mainstream' court nominee
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WASHINGTON – GOP senators who will help shape the review of President Barack Obama’s next nominee to the Supreme Court said Sunday he must pick someone with “mainstream” judicial views to avoid a potential filibuster.
Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, wouldn’t rule out using that tactic to “protect [...]
Published: February 27, 2010
White House social secretary Rogers resigning
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WASHINGTON – White House social secretary Desiree Rogers is stepping down three months after an uninvited couple crashed the Obama administration’s first state dinner and she was heavily criticized for her role in allowing the embarrassing episode to happen.
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama issued a statement Friday thanking their longtime friend from [...]
Published: February 27, 2010
Health care odds long, but Democrats push ahead
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WASHINGTON – Democrats pushed hard to revive President Barack Obama’s stalled health care overhaul on Friday — and pointed to glimmers of hope — but the long odds facing them seemed little changed after Obama’s extraordinary summit with both parties’ leaders.
At the White House, press secretary Robert Gibbs said Obama would unveil a “way forward” [...]
Published: February 27, 2010
Rangel refuses to step aside after ethics slap
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WASHINGTON – Rep. Charles Rangel said Friday he won’t step down as chairman of the powerful House tax-writing committee after being admonished by an ethics panel for accepting corporate-sponsored trips to the Caribbean. The public rebuke of one of the Democrats’ most outspoken leaders posed more woes for a party that had vowed to end [...]
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