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Behind The Scenes White House VIDEO: History And Significance Of The Cabinet

Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics

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The White House blog has released a rare behind-the-scenes video showing how a White House cabinet meeting comes together. (Hint: there are a lot of ...

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Obama Summons Senate Democrats To White House

AP | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will meet with Senate Democrats at the White House Tuesday to press for action at a make-or-break moment for...

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"Christmas At The White House": Bo Obama Gives Oprah A "High Five" (VIDEO)

Posted 12.14.2009 | Style

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Cuteness alert! When Oprah arrives at the White House for her Christmas at the White House special, First Lady Michelle Obama leads her on a tour aro...

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Rahm Emanuel Lights National Menorah At White House (PHOTOS)

AP/ The Huffington Post | Posted 12.13.2009 | Style

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WASHINGTON -- White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel lit the National Menorah in celebration of Hanukkah. The Sunday ceremony marked the 30th annive...

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TARP For Small Businesses: White House Looks To Bring Wall Street Rescue To Main Street

Washington Post | David Cho | Posted 12.10.2009 | Business

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The Obama administration is developing a major initiative to tackle the economic and political problem of unemployment by getting federal bailout fund...

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Salahi Watch Fake: Patek Philippe Watch Handed Over To Pay Debt Is Fake, Jeweler Says

AP | By BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- A couple that crashed a White House party turned over a watch to pay a landscaping debt, but a jeweler is saying it's a fake luxury time...

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Only in America: Ambassador Sichan Siv - From the Killing Fields to the White House

Jim Luce | Posted 12.12.2009 | World

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I first met Ambassador Sichan Siv in 2004. He spoke on surviving Pol Pot's Killing Fields in Cambodia - and coming to America. He ended up working in the White House and then the United Nations.

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Making Job Creation a Priority

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics

If you commissioned an ad firm to come up with a two word description of the economy that would provoke great feelings of anger and resentment, they'd have a tough time coming up with something better than "jobless recovery."

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Memo to AFL-CIO's Trumka

Jeff Ballinger | Posted 12.10.2009 | World

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Now that you've submitted a five-point plan to the Jobs Summit (the "official" position of the labor movement), it is time to plan a return-trip to the White House for a less formal session with President Obama.

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White House Holiday Visitors "Eat Like Crazy"

AP | NANCY BENAC | Posted 12.10.2009 | Style

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WASHINGTON — Christmas at the White House isn't for sissies. Take quantities that might work in a private home – guests, cookies, parties...

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Hiding Help in Financial Reform

Harry Moroz | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics

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As a result of good, old-fashioned political pressure, the financial reform bill that the House will vote on on Friday has become a dark horse for job creation and housing assistance.

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Poll: Majority of Americans Hope Decade Turns Out to Be Dream Sequence

Andy Borowitz | Posted 12.09.2009 | Comedy

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The professor who supervised the survey said that the proliferation of hoaxes, such as Balloon Boy and the Salahis, may have contributed to the sense that the decade was just a bad dream.

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Ed Schultz Takes On Jonathan Alter Over Health Bill, Public Option (VIDEO)

Posted 12.08.2009 | Media

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The Ed Show's Ed Schultz took on President Obama Tuesday for not showing support for the public option. Schultz pointed to an email sent out by Organi...

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WH Releases Open Government Directive: Transparency (Plus) Engagement (Equals) More Democracy

Peter M. Shane | Posted 12.08.2009 | Media

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If transparency is truly to promote accountability, then the public needs journalists to help discover, gather, compare, contextualize, and share the new information becoming available.

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91 White House Breaches: Salahis Crashing Far From A First, Says Secret Service Report

Posted 12.08.2009 | Politics

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Though there has been plenty of attention on Tareq and Michaele Salahi showing up to the White House State Dinner without being invited, a report from...

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Did The White House Crashers Follow The Rules Of Wedding Crashers?

Av Sinensky | Posted 12.08.2009 | Entertainment

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While others are questioning whether the Sahalis committed any federal crimes, I'm more concerned with a different code: the rules of Wedding Crashers.

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Robert Gibbs vs. April Ryan: The Groan Heard 'Round the Briefing Room

Bryan Monroe | Posted 12.07.2009 | Media

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Ryan was trying to get at whether the high-profile White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers was working the event for the state dinner or there as an invited guest, or both.

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White House Jobs Summit: Digging Out of Unemployment Cycles

Meizhu Lui | Posted 12.07.2009 | Politics

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We can get the economy to work and work for all of us, by putting the American people to work. We're shovel ready!

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US Applauds Iraq Plans For Parliamentary Elections

AP | Posted 12.07.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — The White House is applauding Iraqi lawmakers' vote Sunday to hold parliament elections early next year, a step that the U.S. hopes...

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Veterans Advocates Worried About Care For Troops Wounded In Afghan Surge

McClatchy | David Goldstein | Posted 12.07.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON -- As the Obama administration ramps up the war in Afghanistan, veterans advocates say the government must develop a better plan to handle ...

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Secret Service Counts 91 Breaches Since Carter Administration

washingtonpost.com | Spencer S. Hsu | Posted 12.07.2009 | Politics

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Long before a pair of gate-crashers penetrated a White House state dinner, the Secret Service had detailed for its internal use a lengthy list of secu...

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Nelson Ready To Bust Pharma Deal: 'They Need 60 Votes, Don't They?'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.06.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat, said on Sunday that if leadership doesn't work with him on his amendment that would break the White House deal w...

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Pharma Deal To Be Tested On Senate Floor

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.05.2009 | Politics

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has promised to allow a vote on re-importing prescription drugs from Canada as an amendment to the health c...

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Without an Inclusive Job Policy, There Will Be No Recovery

Victor Corral | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics

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If we want to ensure a real and sustainable economic recovery, we must pass inclusive, comprehensive immigration reform that legalizes immigrants in the US.

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Obama's Afghan War Strategy Roll-Out: Behind-The-Scenes Pictures

Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

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Most of President Obama's day on Tuesday was devoted to rolling out his Afghanistan war policy -- first to members of Congress and world leaders, late...

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