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Obama delays Asia trip to deal with health care
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:31:44 GMT
AP - President Barack Obama has delayed his first international trip of the year, a three-country visit to Asia, to focus attention on the final push to salvage health care legislation after a year of contentious debate.
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Senators question $1 million pay for charity's CEO
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:39:13 GMT
AP - A group of Republican senators is questioning high salaries and expensive travel bills for executives at the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, raising issues that could jeopardize millions in federal funding for the national charity.
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Democrats pare differences over health overhaul
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:20:40 GMT
AP - President Barack Obama is postponing his long-scheduled Asian trip for a few days to make a final push for passage of historic legislation reinventing the health care system.
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Need for results drives Obama's domestic juggle
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:04:28 GMT
AP - President Barack Obama's intense juggling of domestic issues reflects all the realities he faces: a vast agenda, a smaller window for results this year and a need to keep promises to constituencies that will have a huge say in the fall congressional elections.
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Freshmen: Massa right about money
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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:50:00 GMT
Politico - At least one part of former Rep. Eric Massa’s hourlong, train-wreck interview with cable-television host Glenn Beck rang true to his fellow House freshmen Tuesday: the grim description of the intense and time-consuming fundraising pressures that dominate the lives of junior members.
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AP Source: Obama wants Yellen as Fed vice chair
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:19:25 GMT
AP - President Barack Obama intends to nominate Janet Yellen, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, to take over as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, a person familiar with the selection said Friday.
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Reid's wife hospitalized after traffic accident
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:20:25 GMT
AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife remained hospitalized Friday with serious injuries suffered when a tractor-trailer rear-ended the minivan she and their daughter were riding in on a suburban Virginia interstate, officials said.
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Lawmakers probe lax enforcement of animal rules
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:43:39 GMT
AP - The knives at the slaughterhouse weren't properly sanitized, a government investigator said, and employees at the meatpacking plant didn't know how to test the carcasses of days-old veal calves for a dangerous pathogen. Food safety conditions were so poor at the Vermont processing facility that it should close before someone got sick, officials warned.
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Utah House GOP leader says he paid off woman
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:02:03 GMT
AP - Utah's House majority leader said late Thursday he paid a woman $150,000 to keep silent about going nude "hot-tubbing" with her when she was minor a quarter century ago.
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