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by Steven R. Hurst from hosted.ap.org, 6 months ago
The filibuster - tool of obstruction in the U.S. Senate - is alternately blamed and praised for wilting President Barack Obama's ambitious agenda. Some even say it's made the nation ungovernable... More
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from hosted.ap.org, 6 months ago
Two hours into a sometimes-contentious televised health care summit, President Barack Obama and Republican lawmakers outlined a few areas where they agree... More
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by Laurie Kellman from hosted.ap.org, 7 months ago
Washington confronted a new world order Thursday as the Democrats' supermajority died, taking with it much of President Barack Obama's agenda and any certainty of his party maintaining control of Congress.... More
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by Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 8 months ago
The White House on Tuesday instructed every federal agency to publish before the end of January at least three collections of "high value" government data on the Internet that never have been previously disclosed, an ambitious order to make the administration as transparent as... More
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by Martin Crutsinger from hosted.ap.org, 23 months ago
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Sunday that the nation's credit markets remain frozen and Congress must move quickly to pass a $700 billion bailout package for financial firms. But key Democrats said the legislation needs changes to provide better protections for taxpayers and homeowners in... More
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from hosted.ap.org, 24 months ago
Democrats sought on Saturday to drum up support for compromise legislation on offshore drilling, challenging Republicans to break from Bush administration policies that neglect development of alternative energy sources... More
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by Deb Riechmann from hosted.ap.org, 24 months ago
President Bush says if Congress doesn't permit offshore drilling to increase U.S. oil supplies and possibly ease gasoline prices, lawmakers should not expect voters to support them in November... More
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by Matt Apuzzo from hosted.ap.org, 24 months ago
Broken and disgraced, lobbyist Jack Abramoff will spend four years in prison for his role in a corruption scandal that upended Washington politics and contributed to the Republicans' loss of Congress in 2006. The once powerful Washington insider... More
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by Pauline Jelinek from hosted.ap.org, 24 months ago
The Army says suicide among soldiers appears to be rising again this year, after setting a record in 2007. So far this year, there are 62 confirmed suicides among active duty soldiers and Guard and Reserve troops called to active duty. Another 31 deaths appear to be suicides... More
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from hosted.ap.org, 24 months ago
President Bush said Saturday that Americans may have cause this Labor Day weekend to start worrying less about the nation's - and their families' - economic health. "There have been some recent signs that our economy is beginning to improve." More
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by Pauline Jelinek from hosted.ap.org, 24 months ago
With violence worsening in Afghanistan and Pakistan, top U.S. military officers secretly met commanders from Islamabad on an aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean to talk about what else could be done... More
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by Matt Apuzzo from hosted.ap.org, 24 months ago
The Bush administration is raising the stakes in a court fight that could change the balance of power between the White House and Congress. Justice Department lawyers said Wednesday that they will soon ask a federal appeals court not to force the president's top advisers to comply with... More
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by Steven K. Paulson, Lara Jakes Jordan from hosted.ap.org, 24 months ago
Three men who authorities initially feared were plotting to assassinate Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention are facing only gun charges - signaling they never posed a real threat... More
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from hosted.ap.org, 24 months ago
The White House says North Korea has not fulfilled conditions necessary for its removal from the U.S. blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism... More
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by Joan Lowy from hosted.ap.org, 25 months ago
As summer vacation season kicked in, Americans got out of their cars, driving 12.2 billion fewer miles in June than the same month a year earlier. The 4.7 percent decline, which came while gas prices were peaking, was the biggest monthly driving drop in a downward trend that began in November. More
