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AP - House GOP leaders are pushing rank-and-file Republicans to break their addiction to pet projects by going cold turkey and giving up the long-cherished practice of directing federal dollars to their home districts.
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AP - They flew planes during World War II but weren't considered real military pilots. No flags were draped over their coffins when they died on duty. And when their service ended, they had to pay their own bus fare home.
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AP - Democrats claimed momentum Wednesday in their drive to enact the sweeping health care legislation sought by President Barack Obama, citing near agreement on crucial issues despite persistent Republican efforts to knock them off stride.
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Reuters - President Barack Obama declared on Wednesday the "time for talk is over" and urged the U.S. Congress to vote on healthcare as his health secretary directly challenged insurers to forgo profits to make coverage more affordable.
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Jon Seda is one of the lead actors in HBO's World War II miniseries "The Pacific." (David James/HBO via Associated Press.) Updated 8:43 p.m. by Scott Wilson In what has to be one of the real perks of the job, President Obama and Michelle Obama will have Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and a few others over to the White House on Thursday evening for an advance screening of "The Pacific." HBO's lavish World War II miniseries begins Sunday night for the rest of us. The group will gather around 5 p.m. in the White House Movie Theater for the first installment of what is estimated to be the most expensive miniseries ever made - topping HBO's "Band of Brothers," which focused on the war's European theater. Among the invited guests is national security adviser James L. Jones, the retired four-star general who once served as Supreme Allied Commander, Europe. HBO
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Politico - President Barack Obama is pushing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to go further than Obama has previously disclosed to strip the final health care reform bill of the narrow deals aimed at appeasing specific senators.
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AP - The Federal Reserve, still dusting itself off from a fight that threatened to trim its powers, could emerge from a congressional overhaul of banking rules as the top cop over the nation's largest financial institutions.
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AP - The House Democratic campaign chief said Wednesday the ethics committee has ended an investigation of former Rep. Eric Massa, but the freshman's alleged harassment of his staff members — with possible sexual overtones — could spell continuing trouble for the party.
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AP - President Barack Obama on Wednesday renewed America's commitment to the recovery and reconstruction of earthquake-devastated Haiti, telling visiting President Rene Preval he knows the crisis has not passed.
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AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Saudi leaders Wednesday that the U.S. effort for diplomatic engagement with Iran had come to naught and he asked for the influential kingdom's help to win wide backing for biting economic penalties against Tehran.
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By Lori Montgomery and Shailagh Murray The projected cost of President Obama's plan to overhaul the federal student loan program has exploded over the past year, making it almost impossible to include the popular measure in the same deficit-reduction package that would be the vehicle for the final pieces of Obama's health care initiative, Democratic sources said on Wednesday. In the weak economy, demand for student loans has risen dramatically, driving up the cost of Obama's proposal to expand Pell Grants and provide them to all who qualify, Congressional budget analysts, meanwhile, have told Democratic lawmakers that they are likely to see far less savings from Obama's proposal to diminish the role of private lenders in the guaranteed student loan program because one in five colleges has already abandoned the program in anticipation of the changes. As a result, rather than saving $50 billion over the next decade, Obama's student
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Reuters - Democrats in the House of Representatives moved on Wednesday to limit the ability of lawmakers to tuck pet projects into spending bills amid mounting election-year ethics concerns.
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AP - The Senate voted Wednesday to extend key pieces of last year's economic stimulus measure, including help for the jobless and money to help financially strapped states pay for health care for the poor.
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AFP - The House of Representatives on Wednesday roundly defeated a resolution demanding President Barack Obama withdraw all US forces from Afghanistan, in a key election-year test for his war strategy.
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by Perry Bacon Jr. The House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly rejected a symbolic resolution calling for the removal of troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year. The resolution, sponsored by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and a group of mainly liberal members who argue the war cannot be won, was defeated 356 to 65, with only five Republicans and 60 Democrats backing it. Democratic leaders took up the measure knowing it would not pass, but wanted to give frustrated liberals a chance to register their opposition to the Afghanistan policies of President Obama, who last December announced an increase of 30,000 troops to fight the Taliban and stabilize the government in Afghanistan.
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Reuters - The House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly rejected a measure calling for President Barack Obama to pull U.S. forces from Afghanistan, in an election-year test of his decision to escalate the war.
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AP - The House on Wednesday soundly rejected an effort by anti-war lawmakers to force a withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year.
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AP - The Senate voted Wednesday to extend key pieces of last year's economic stimulus measure, including help for the jobless and money to help financially strapped states pay for health care for the poor.
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AP - President Barack Obama denounced waste, inefficiency and downright fraud in the government's health care system on Wednesday as he sought to rally public support for his revamped overhaul plan. "Improper payments cost taxpayers almost $100 billion last year alone," Obama said at a rally in this St. Louis suburb.
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AP - They flew planes during World War II but weren't considered "real" military pilots. No flags were draped over their coffins when they died on duty. And when their service ended, they had to pay their own bus fare home.
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AP - Actress Reese Witherspoon says her "Legally Blonde" character Elle Woods has been ousted as the most stylish woman to come to the nation's capital by first lady Michelle Obama.
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Reuters - New laws enacted by Myanmar's military government make a mockery of democracy and ensure that elections due later this year will be a farce, the United States said on Wednesday.
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During a House debate over the war in Afghanistan Wednesday afternoon, Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) ripped into the media for not covering the event the way they've covered the sexual past of a certain former congressman. "There's one, two press people in this gallery," Kennedy yelled. "We're talking about Eric Massa 24/7 on the TV. We're talking about war and peace; 3 billion dollars; 1,000 lives and no press! No press!" "You want to know why the American public is fit?" Kennedy added while gesturing behind the podium. "They're fit because they're not seeing their Congress do the work that they're sent to do. It's because the press, the press of the United States, is not covering the most significant issue of national importance and that's the laying of lives down in the nation for the service of our country. It's despicable, the national press corps right now." Kennedy is
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March 10th, 2010 TIME.com Top Politics Stories
The traditional occasion for Republicans and Democrats to work together is when they have left office
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With its younger ranks swelling, the annual Conservative Political Action Conference opens its arms -- and its bar tabs
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President Obama's critics only have it half right. His presidency is in crisis. But it isn't too late to turn things around
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One way to end the gridlock on Capitol Hill is to call the Republican Party's bluff on blocking legislation by filibuster
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President Barack Obama will propose giving federal authorities the power to limit rate hikes by health insurance companies -- part of a new health care overhaul plan he will unveil Monday in a last-ditch bid to salvage his signature issue
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March 10th, 2010 TIME.com Top Politics Stories
In theory, it's a way to bring government back to the people. In practice, it doesn't quite work out that way
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The Democrats may still be able to pass health care reform. But if the GOP prevails, it will hand Obama a stunning defeat that could set the tone for the 2010 midterm elections
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As Harry Reid showed with the scaled-down, $15 billion jobs bill, if Democrats take smaller bites, legislation goes down easier
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March 10th, 2010 TIME.com Top Politics Stories
Not even counting two wars, the U.S. continues to spend more and more on the military. Why?
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Wednesday that record-low interest rates are still needed to ensure that the economic recovery will last
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The issue of abortion has been off the radar lately, but it has the potential to throw a monkey wrench into any possible health care bill
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Sarah Palin, a master of cultural outrage and personal offense, meets her match -- an animated character on Family Guy with Down syndrome
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Working with the White House and President Obama but still at odds with Democrats, Senator Joe Lieberman tries to overcome the past
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Congress and the President have powers to fix what ails government, Congress has oversight and investigative authority, and inspectors general root out waste and abuse. Too bad these tools often suffer from partisanship, indifference and incompetence
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President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies are pleading their case for health care overhaul in an extraordinary summit with Republicans, broadcast live to a divided public on daytime TV
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Rep. Charles Rangel, the most powerful tax-writing lawmaker in Congress and a 40-year veteran of Capitol Hill, acknowledged Thursday that an ethics panel has accused him of accepting Caribbean trips from a corporation in violation of House rules
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By the end of the bipartisan gathering, it was clear that the two parties have fundamentally different views of how to go about fixing the nation's health care system
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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
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If Republicans can take advantage of the prevailing political winds to reassert control at the state level this year, that could in turn provide an opening for the GOP to win back the White House in 2012
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