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Blog Entries for Wednesday, September 14
Message To Obama
It was a bad night for Democrats and a winning one for Republicans, as the GOP easily won two U.S. House special elections, including an upset victory in New York City that delivered the seat of ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY). "New Yorkers have delivered a strong warning to the Democrats ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, September 13
Another Health Ruling
The individual mandate portion of the Obama health law, which would require Americans to purchase a minimum level of health insurance starting in 2014, suffered another legal defeat Tuesday as a federal judge in Pennsylvania struck down the plan - and added another new voice to the legal battle. "The ...
Texas Sized Bullseye
It wasn't hard to tell who was the target in Monday night's Republican debate as the GOP hopefuls took aim at Texas Gov. Rick Perry, attacking him on a variety of issues in a CNN-Tea Party debate that turned raucous at times in Tampa, Florida. This was the most action-packed ...
Blog Entries for Monday, September 12
Jobs Act Analysis
The White House today sent the Congress a 155 page jobs bill, as President Obama again called for fast action by lawmakers on the "American Jobs Act." Instead of printing out the legislative language, here is the analysis as provided by the White House = Section-by-Section Analysis and Explanation of ...
Obama Tax Plans
The White House on Monday offered up a series of familiar tax increase plans to pay for President Obama's $447 billion jobs package, ideas that almost seem certain to be rejected by Republicans in the Congress. The largest chunk of revenue would be raised with something that the Obama Administration ...
Next GOP Debate
After dominating last week's Republican Presidential debate, GOP frontrunners Rick Perry and Mitt Romney - along with six other White House hopefuls - will square off tonight in Tampa, Florida, home to next year's Republican National Convention. The first encounter between Perry and Romney last week at the Reagan Library ...
Pass This Jobs Bill
Last Thursday night in his address to a Joint Session of Congress, President Obama repeatedly called on Congress to "pass this jobs bill," but as we reported, there was no bill - only bullet points. Tonight, the White House will evidently send Congress the exact legislative language for that jobs ...
Blog Entries for Friday, September 9
9-11 Terror Warning
Officials are urging workers in Washington, D.C. to go about their business today, even with warnings about a possible terror attack timed to the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Here is an email sent by a top Congressional security official to staffers on Capitol Hill about the ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, September 8
Jobs Plan Fact Sheet
The White House released the following fact sheet to go along with President Obama's speech to the Congress on jobs and economic growth: = THE AMERICAN JOBS ACT 1. Tax Cuts to Help America’s Small Businesses Hire and Grow Cutting the payroll tax in half for 98 percent of ...
Obama Speech to Congress
This is the transcript of President Obama's prepared remarks to a Joint Session of the Congress as distributed to reporters by the White House. = September 8, 2011 Remarks of President Barack Obama in an Address to a Joint Session of Congress Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, and ...
Obama Speech Excerpts
In advance of his speech to a Joint Session of Congress, the White House released some excerpts of President Obama's address. In these remarks, the President calls for immediate action by the Congress on his jobs plan. = EMBARGOED: Excerpts of the President’s Speech on the American Jobs Act The ...
Health Reform Ruling
In a different type of ruling from two other appeals courts, a three judge panel on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals threw out two lawsuits against the Obama health reform law, further muddying the legal waters on this political battle. Instead of a direct ruling on the merits of ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, September 7
The GOP Debate
It didn't take long for the Republican Presidential debate to focus on the two leaders in the polls, as Gov. Rick Perry of Texas sparred repeatedly with former frontrunner Mitt Romney, while other candidates tried to shine in the first of three GOP forums over the next two weeks. After ...
Obama Speech to Congress
As President Obama goes before a Joint Session of Congress Thursday night to present his plans for job creation and economic growth, the White House hinted that a detailed legislative proposal would be sent to lawmakers, not just a broad set of ideas. "Tonite the President will unveil "The American ...
Stimulus Questions
As President Obama readies his new jobs and economic growth plan for the Congress, an internal watchdog at the Energy Department has issued a report raising questions about the effectiveness of one piece of the stimulus law passed in 2009. In a review of Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants, ...
Countdown to 9-11
As the clock ticks down to next Sunday, September 11, and the 10th anniversary of the Nine Eleven attacks, it's hard not to think back to those days and the events leading up to that attack. Here in Washington, D.C., there have been a parade of events in recent days, ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, September 6
Jimmy Hoffa Kabuki
The White House on Tuesday tried to sidestep any controversy from remarks made at a Labor Day rally attended by President Obama, where Teamsters Union leader Jimmy Hoffa blasted critics of the Obama Administration as "sons of bitches." "Mr. Hoffa speaks for himself," said White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, ...
GOP to Obama on Jobs
House Republican leaders are urging President Obama to find areas of common ground with the GOP on ways to spur new job growth, as Speaker John Boehner sent a letter to the White House two days before Mr. Obama addresses a Joint Session of Congress. Here is the text of ...
Obama Jobs Speech
It has been five weeks since the Congress left town in the aftermath of the deal on legislation to raise the nation's debt limit, and as lawmakers return today, the Political Pot is expected to quickly boil over how best to spur economic growth. The big moment comes on Thursday, ...
Blog Entries for Monday, September 5
Obama Labor Day Speech
In a visit to Detroit, President Obama gave a bit of a preview of what he will deliver to Congress later this week on the subject of jobs and economic growth, as he took several jabs at Republicans in Congress on how best to spur new economic development. Here is ...
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