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White House Stresses Satisfaction With Progress Of Consumer Protection Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

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White House officials on Wednesday insisted that they are satisfied with congressional action on regulatory reform legislation and disputed a Huffingt...

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White House Hints At Veto Threat Of "Weak" Consumer Protection Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

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The White House on Tuesday suggested that President Obama would consider vetoing regulatory reform legislation if it did not include strong enough pro...

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Power Politics: Bloomberg Unchecked

Jarrett Murphy | Posted 09.25.2009 | New York

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This record makes it hard to believe that Bloomberg would sit on the sidelines and let the City Council lead the way on term limits, probably the most significant decision of his term.

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Friday Talking Points [92] -- The End Of Silly Season

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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Sadly, Obama's speech to school children has become mired in manufactured controversy from the right, with typical sky-is-falling rhetoric about the evil, evil man who occupies the Oval Office.

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Friday Talking Points [89] -- Fighting Crazy

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.14.2009 | Media

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The media is not completely responsible for the state of the debate over healthcare reform. The Democrats have done such a poor job of presenting their case that they really bear the lion's share of blame.

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Congress, the F-22 and the Monkey on Our Back

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics

Anybody who has lived with an addict knows about denial. So it goes with Congress and defense spending. Case in point this week is the F-22, a gold-plated Cold War barnacle.

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Family Guys

Jerry Zezima | Posted 02.28.2009 | Living

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As for the kitchen, you might want to find out what's in your cabinets after you fill your Cabinet. Wives get miffed when their husbands don't know where things are.

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McCain: I'll Veto Earmarks, But I Won't Vote Against Them

HuffingtonPost.com | Jed Lewison | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics

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Just two days after again promising the nation that he would veto every single spending bill with earmarks to cross his desk, John McCain said on Sund...

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House OKs rescue for homeowners, Freddie, Fannie

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 07.31.2008 | Business

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WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at helping 400,000 strapped homeowners avoid foreclosure and prevent...

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Friday Talking Points [39] -- Republican Elitism Edition

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics

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For only the fourth (or fifth, depending on how you count) time in his presidency, George W. Bush had a veto overridden by both houses of Congress thi...

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Bush Would Veto Climate Security Act

Reuters | Deborah Zabarenko | Posted 06.10.2008 | Green

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even before debate began on Monday on the first comprehensive climate change bill to reach the U.S. Senate floor, the White Hou...

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The Torturous Logic of The New York Times

Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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With President Bush's veto this weekend of a bill to outlaw the CIA's use of waterboarding, torture now becomes officially codified U.S. policy. But you'd never know it from the reading the Times.

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White House Opposes Mine Safety Bill

Associated Press | Jesse Holland | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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The White House on Tuesday threatened to veto a mine safety bill, saying the new regulations proposed by Democrats would interfere with legislation Pr...

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Republican Obstructionism Breaks Congressional Record

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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As this year's congressional session closes out, obstructionism by the Republican minority reached a fever pitch and effectively stymied much of the D...

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Congress Hands Bush First Veto Override

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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President Bush suffered the first veto override of his seven-year-old presidency Thursday as the Senate enacted a $23 billion water resources bill de...

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Congressional Negotiators Near Veto-Proof Kids' Health Bill

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Congressional negotiators said Tuesday they were nearing agreement on a revised children's health bill that they believed would withstand President Bu...

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Surprise! Dems Blindside Republicans With New Vote On Children's Health Care

Washington Post | Jonathan Weisman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Just one week after failing to override President Bush's veto, House Democrats will put a new version of their $35 billion expansion of the State Chil...

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