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Republicans Plan To Skip Obama's Jobs Speech

Posted 11.08.2011

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President Barack Obama will address both chambers of Congress Thursday to unveil his plan to create jobs, but not everyone plans to attend. Despite...

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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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Sam Stein

White House Denies Report It's Considering Regulation Moratorium

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.07.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The White House is denying a report that President Obama is considering calling for a moratorium on regulations affecting the economy, s...

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President Obama's Jobs Dilemma

Jagadeesh Gokhale | Posted 11.07.2011

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The President's list of proposals will be long and, according to media reports, will cost about $300 billion. But for an economy debilitated by policy uncertainty, this is exactly the wrong thing to do.

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Great Orations Vs. Great Obfuscations

Jim Sleeper | Posted 11.04.2011

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I often enjoy and benefit from Maureen Dowd's columns, but today she's fallen off her wagon of arch and noble punditry into the smallish world-view, or Beltanschauung, of the Washington Beltway's sophisticated chattering classes.

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President Obama's Speech and the Unemployed: Why Now?

Robert E. Prasch | Posted 11.04.2011

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We are experiencing a jobless recovery and neither the administration nor Congress has demonstrated a sustained interest in unemployment. To grasp the full severity, we should closely examine an important statistic -- the unemployment rate.

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Time Set For Obama's Jobs Speech

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 11.01.2011

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WASHINGTON — The tiff over the timing of President Barack Obama's jobs speech to Congress offers little hope that Republicans and the White Hous...

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Jason Linkins

Reflections On The Great Scheduling War Of 2011

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.01.2011

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In the end, what did we learn from the Great Logistical Kerfuffle of 2011? Well, we've been reminded that everyone in politics and the media is as thin-skinned and as petty as they ever were.

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Sam Stein

White House Gives In: Obama To Address Congress Thursday Night

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.31.2011

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WASHINGTON -- After a vacuous back-and-forth over whether or not the president would be invited to address a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, S...

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Sam Stein

UPDATE: Boehner Asks Obama To Delay Major Jobs Speech

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.31.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Upping the stakes of his push for a major jobs plan, President Barack Obama asked House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Majorit...

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