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Sam Stein

Obama States Strong Support For House Health Care Reform, Public Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

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With the House of Representatives set to vote on health care reform during a session on Saturday, the White House announced its support for the legisl...

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One Year Later: Celebrities Who Have Visited The Obama White House (PHOTOS)

Posted 11.04.2009 | Entertainment

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The White House released its visitor log on Friday in an act of "transparency like you've never seen before." The list of 431 names only includes thos...

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At the White House, Clean Tech Gets a Push

Mike Signer | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Obama White House, Obama Green Tech Speech, Clean Energy, Retrofitted-Buildings, Green Energy, Carol Browner, Steven Chu, Barack Obama, Green News
Mike Signer

W.H. Climate Change Policy Director Carol Browner said, "I've been in and out of D.C. for twenty years, and there's sort of that tipping point that happens, where everyone who talks starts saying not 'if' but 'when.'"

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White House Pink Ribbon Installed For Breast Cancer Awareness

Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 10.27.2009 | Impact

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Nearly 200,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year, and the White House is showing its support for National Breast Cancer Awareness Mont...

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The Trigger is a Lie

Cenk Uygur | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Obama White House, Trigger, Hillary Clinton, Public Option, Malcolm Fleschner, Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

There's a million ways to rig the Medicare system so that nothing ever gets triggered. In fact, that's the whole point of the trigger. Anyone who advocates otherwise is a liar.

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Sam Stein and Ryan Grim

Leaderless: Senate Pushes For Public Option Without Obama's Support

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein and Ryan Grim | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics

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President Barack Obama is actively discouraging Senate Democrats in their effort to include a public insurance option with a state opt-out clause as p...

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Sam Stein

Message To Leadership: Rockefeller Re-States His Opposition To Triggers

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

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One of the Senate's foremost champions of the public insurance option re-asserted on Friday his opposition to a compromise approach that would establi...

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Right-Wing Demands Obama Fire Kevin Jennings for Helping Gay Teens Not Kill Themselves

Julie Farby | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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Julie Farby

Kevin Jennings, Educator And Homosexual Everyone knows, much like the thought of women working, the idea of homosexuals being anything other than a ...

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White House Calls Out Fox And Glenn Beck On Olympics

Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics

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In a new post on the official White House blog, Online Programs Director Jesse Lee calls out Fox News for perpetuating lies about President Obama's pu...

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The Normalizing of the Presidency

David D. Burstein | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

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David D. Burstein

Barack Obama might be one of the most normal presidents we have had in years. His connectedness to the real world is one of the things that made him appealing as a candidate.

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Sam Stein

Paterson: "I Don't Know" If White House Told Me To Drop Campaign (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

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New York Governor David Paterson said on Sunday that he didn't know whether or not the White House told him not to run for re-election, before ultimat...

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Sam Stein

White House Denies Pushing Trigger Option, Dem Groups Concur

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics

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The White House, along with several progressive groups and high-ranking Democrats, is pushing back against reports that the administration is advancin...

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Sam Stein

Cheney Accuses Obama Of Launching "Intensely Partisan" Torture Investigation

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

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Dick Cheney left little on the table during a taped interview Fox News Sunday, accusing the Obama White House pursuing an "intensely partisan" investi...

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No-Drama Obama's Rules to Live by

Julie Farby | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

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Julie Farby

Turns out even an unflappable man-God like Obama is human after all: he even has a list of pet peeves (gasp!).

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Sam Stein

Lieberman: Using Reconciliation For Health Care A "Real Mistake"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics

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Senator Joseph Lieberman, (I-Conn.) said on Sunday that he thinks it would be a "real mistake" if Democrats used the parliamentary maneuver known as r...

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Sam Stein

Snowe Says No Public Option, White House Says "That's Democracy"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

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The Senate Finance Committee will not include a public option in its health care bill, one of the key Republican negotiators said on Friday -- to whi...

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Insurers' Stocks Rise As Public Option Prospects Fade

Market Watch | Robert Schroeder | Posted 09.17.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Odds are growing longer for the public health-insurance option that the White House has pushed as part of an overhaul of t...

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Rahm Emanuel "Most Influential White House Chief Of Staff In A Generation"?

nytimes.com | PETER BAKER and JEFF ZELENY | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics

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Seven months after moving into his office in the West Wing, Mr. Emanuel is emerging as perhaps the most influential White House chief of staff in a ge...

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What Can Be Done Now on DADT

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

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Aubrey Sarvis

Discrimination in our armed forces carries a potent symbolism: It tells an entire class of people that the country is not interested in their service.

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Use the Precautionary Principle

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 08.03.2009 | Green

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Andrew Kimbrell

At the White House, the precautionary principle should be used: lead contaminated soil should be removed and replaced with organic compost. That would be the safe and truly organic way.

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Obama's Agenda: Hope, Change and Lobby-Centricity

Stuart Whatley | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

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Stuart Whatley

Obama's self-imposed rule against lobbyists in his administration, and the method whereby he is now implementing his progressive agenda, hews toward a rather perverse irony, if not hypocrisy.

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Sam Stein

White House Acknowledges Officials Were Likely Invited To WaPo Salons

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

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The White House acknowledged on Thursday that some members of the administration may have been invited to high-priced "salons" sponsored by the Washin...

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The Obama Organic Family Garden: Swimming in Sludge?

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green

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Andrew Kimbrell

The Obamas may be the newest sludge victims. Michelle's hopes of having a truly organic garden and healthy vegetables for her own children and other children who visit the White House have been dashed.

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Obama's WH Luau Has Deeper Meaning to Hawaiians

Mike Smith | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

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Mike Smith

Honolulu - for Hawaiians, the "White House Luau on the Lawn" this week shows a deep respect for Congress. Luau's are reserved for great family occasio...

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White House Drafts Executive Order To Allow Indefinite Detention Of Terror Suspects

ProPublica | Dafna Linzer and Peter Finn | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

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The Obama administration, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close Guantanamo, has drafted an executive order that would reasser...

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