| Dems look to health vote without abortion foes
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:09:15 GMT |
 AP - House Democratic leaders Thursday abandoned a long struggle to strike a compromise on abortion in their ranks, gambling that they can secure the support for President Barack Obama's sweeping health care legislation with showdown votes looming as early as next week.
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| Reid's wife, daughter injured in highway accident
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:23:21 GMT |
 AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife was hospitalized with a broken back and neck Thursday after a tractor-trailer truck slammed into the back of the minivan in which she and their daughter were riding on an interstate highway in suburban Virginia, officials said.
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| Report: Obama to tap Yellen to be Fed vice chair
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:36:24 GMT |
 AP - President Barack Obama is planning to nominate Janet Yellen, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, to take over as vice chairman of central bank in Washington, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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| Dodd to offer his own financial regulation bill
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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:50:37 GMT |
 AP - With one eye on the calendar and the other on elusive bipartisanship, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd plans to offer his own version of a sweeping overhaul of financial regulations without Republican support.
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| Freshmen: Massa right about money
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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:50:00 GMT |
| Politico - At least one part of former Rep. Eric Massa’s hourlong, train-wreck interview with cable-television host Glenn Beck rang true to his fellow House freshmen Tuesday: the grim description of the intense and time-consuming fundraising pressures that dominate the lives of junior members. |
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| Obama pushes trade initiative as jobs helper
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:52:05 GMT |
 AP - President Barack Obama sought Thursday to put some detail behind his lofty drive to double U.S. exports over the next five years, calling the effort imperative to putting people back to work. But doubts remain about how many net jobs his trade agenda will create — and how he will get it done.
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| US criticizes China's domestic, economic policies
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:06:40 GMT |
 AP - The Obama administration accused China on Thursday of abusing its citizens' rights and maintaining currency policies that cost millions of U.S. jobs, a double-barrel attack that comes amid a growing willingness to confront and even antagonize the Asian power.
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| Gov't may seek more authority on vehicle safety
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:45:47 GMT |
 AP - Government vehicle safety regulators may seek greater authority to investigate defects in cars and trucks and are weighing a range of new safety requirements in response to Toyota's recall of more than 8 million vehicles over brake and acceleration problems.
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| Obama says he's committed to immigration overhaul
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:09:37 GMT |
 AP - President Barack Obama on Thursday assured immigration advocates frustrated by the wait for a promised overhaul of U.S. immigration laws that he remains committed to fixing a system he has said is broken. What remains unclear is whether Congress will send him a bill this year.
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| Senate seeks to boost regional airline safety
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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:31:44 GMT |
| AP - The Senate is pushing to strengthen pilot training and hiring requirements in an effort to improve the safety of regional airlines, a problem exposed by an air crash last year that killed 50 people. |
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