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Obama Wants To See 'Common Sense' From Congress

Reuters | Posted 05.04.2012

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ARLINGTON, Va., May 4 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Friday he would urge Congress next week to implement "common sense ...

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Welcome to the U.S. Egress

Arnie Reisman | Posted 05.08.2012

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Arnie Reisman

Today's Congress does not work and it is time to throw them all out.

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Obama Memos Reveal Key Difficulties

The New Yorker | Ryan Lizza | Posted 01.23.2012

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On a frigid January evening in 2009, a week before his Inauguration, Barack Obama had dinner at the home of George Will, the Washington Post columnist...

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Obama Pushes Senate Democrats To Use Their Leverage

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 02.12.2012

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in the Senate are using a critical year-end spending bill as political leverage to try t...

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Sam Stein

White House Staff Shakeup Designed To Improve Relations On The Hill

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.09.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The elevation of senior adviser Pete Rouse into a chief-of-staff like role inside the Obama administration was driven, in large part, by...

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Obama Goes Before Congress To Lay Out Jobs Plan

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 11.08.2011

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WASHINGTON — Attacking a deepening jobs crisis, President Barack Obama challenged a reluctant Congress Thursday night to urgently pass a larger-...

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White House: Obama Presses Congress On Quick Jobs Action

AP | Posted 11.04.2011

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NEWARK, N.J. -- The White House says President Barack Obama hopes that when Congress returns this coming week from its summer break, lawmakers will sh...

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Obama To Speak To Members Of Congress On Libya

Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday afternoon will hold a conference call with leaders of Congress to update them on the situati...

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Sam Stein

Obama's Libya Policy Makes Strange Bedfellows Of Congressional Critics

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- As the United States expands its military imprint on the international intervention into Libyan airspace, members of Congress have begun...

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Dan Froomkin

So Much For The Prime Minister Routine, It's Time To Act Like The President

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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If President Obama wants to pursue a progressive agenda in the next two years, there are plenty of ways he can do that even without any help from Capi...

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Obama Fortifies Administration In Anticipation Of Increasingly Hostile Congress

Los Angeles Times | Peter Nicholas & Christi Parsons | Posted 05.25.2011

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As President Obama remakes his senior staff, he is also shaping a new approach for the second half of his term: to advance his agenda through executiv...

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Ryan Grim

Obama To Congress: Extend COBRA Subsidies

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama pressed Congress to extend COBRA subsidies on Tuesday, as the Senate considers a House measure that drops the health insurance assista...

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Obama Planning Get-Tough Approach To Congress On Financial Reform

Politico | MIKE ALLEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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An emboldened President Barack Obama will take a stronger hand with Congress in coming weeks, planning to push lawmakers to pass new regulations for W...

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Western Swing Voters Questioning Decision To Vote For Obama

AP | KRISTEN WYATT | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONGMONT, Colo. — Westward, uh-oh. For Democrats, the newly minted crossover voters who helped elect Barack Obama president in 2008 are display...

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Obama More Popular Than Congress, According To Ap-GfK Poll

AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Americans have come to detest Congress ever more deeply as it nears the end of a nasty fight over health care. But more than half s...

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54 Members Of Congress Urge Obama To Work To End Gaza Siege

Haaretz | Natasha Mozgovaya | Posted 05.25.2011

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Fifty-four members of the U.S. Congress have signed a letter asking President Barack Obama to put pressure on Israel to ease the blockade on the Gaza ...

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CQ: Obama's Win Streak On Capitol Hill Unprecedented

NPR | Don Gonyea | Posted 05.25.2011

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In his first year in office, President Obama did better even than legendary arm-twister Lyndon Johnson in winning congressional votes on issues where ...

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Congressman Waxman: What Americans Need to Know About Health Care

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kathleen Wells, J.D.

Last week, Rep. Waxman paneled a discussion at UCLA on climate change. Later, he was gracious enough to sit down with me for an interview.

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Obama Needs to Show Less Paucity of Audacity

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.25.2011

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Miles Mogulescu

So far the only people Obama seems willing to make mad are the activist base of the Democratic party who helped him defeat Hillary Clinton and John McCain.

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Obama Faces First National Security Failure as Sotomayor and Health Care Hang in the Balance

Kimberly Krautter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kimberly Krautter

Last week's sustained cyber-attacks on some of our country's most sensitive government networks exposed how a country that lives by the technology can also perish by the technology.

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Sam Stein

Obama Plugs Staff Into Hill Health Care Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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One of the key measures the Obama White House has employed in crafting a comprehensive health care reform package is to ensure that the avenues of com...

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Sam Stein

Bobby Jindal Response Panned By Pundits, Republicans And Democrats Alike

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gov. Bobby Jindal's task tonight, to rebut President Obama's first address to a joint session of Congress, was a thankless one. But it still constitut...

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Sam Stein

McCain Confronts Obama On Marine One (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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At the closing session of the president's fiscal responsibility summit on Monday, high-ranking members of Congress were asked to put on their reportor...

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Obama Strategy: Keep Lawmakers Close

wsj.com | JONATHAN WEISMAN and NAFTALI BENDAVID | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Barack Obama's scheduled signing Tuesday of a $787 billion economic stimulus law culminates three rapid-fire legislative weeks when a new pr...

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Sam Stein

Bobby Jindal Giving Rebuttal To Obama's First Address To Congress

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who some conservatives adamantly believe will become president one day, is slated to give the Republican response to Bara...

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