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White House Privately Pushing Data Showing Bush Tax Cut Extension Politically Popular

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Hoping to build support for the tax-cut deal that the president reached with Congressional Republicans, the White House has begun pressi...

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Obama Bypassing Senate To Fill Medicare Post

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama intends to use the congressional recess to bypass the Senate and appoint Dr. Donald Berwick, an expert on pa...

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Obama Versus The Senate

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama used his first formal State of the Union address to repeatedly scold the upper chamber of Congress. Six times, he called attention to ...

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Obama To Be Central Player In Melding Health Care Bills

The Plum Line | Posted 05.25.2011

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That's the message senior Senate Democrats are sending to the White House in this Roll Call piece (sub only), which details the ways Obama and White H...

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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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Dem Aide: Obama Team Pushed To Seat Burris

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The apparent decision to seat Roland Burris came after aides to President-elect Barack Obama contacted senior Senate Democrats and suggested that they...

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Reid Gives Burris A Pass On Race-Card Playing (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Roland Burris path to getting some new resume details to engrave on his graveside monolith got a little less obstructed today. President-elect Barack ...

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All 50 Dem Senators Call On Blagojevich To Step Down

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Update 12/11 - 3:59PM ET: Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean issued a statement calling for Blagojevich's resignation: The arrest of an...

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Hill Dems Annoyed, Feel Ignored By Obama

Politico | Posted 05.25.2011

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After a brief bout of Obamamania, some Capitol Hill Democrats have begun to complain privately that Barack Obama's presidential campaign is insular, u...

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Dems Not Backing Obama? Rahm Will Deal With It

HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the man who guided (and pressured and arm-twisted) Democrats to historic congressional gains in 2006, what is Rep. Rahm Emanuel doing now about par...

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Obama And Clinton Embellish Their Roles

Washington Post | Shailagh Murray and Jonathan Weisman | Posted 05.25.2011

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After weeks of arduous negotiations, on April 6, 2006, a bipartisan group of senators burst out of the "President's Room," just off the Senate chamber...

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