By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
January 23, 2010
WASHINGTON — President Obama took aim at the Supreme Court on Saturday, saying the justices had “handed a huge victory to the special interests and their lobbyists” with last week’s 5-to-4 decision to lift restrictions on campaign spending by corporations and unions.
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Scott Brown’s win is a major political upset
Republican Scott Brown has won the race for the US Senate seat in the state of Massachusetts left vacant by Edward Kennedy’s death.
Democrat Martha Coakley conceded she had lost the election after partial results gave Mr Brown a healthy lead.
Her defeat is a huge blow to President Barack Obama, whose healthcare reform programme [...]
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The U.S. House narrowly passed a sweeping climate change bill that’s a top item on President Obama’s agenda. The measure would put gradually stricter caps on the total national output of heat-trapping gases, based on a system of permits that can be bought and sold.
Republicans broadly oppose that cap and trade program, [...]
The Senate denied Obama the money to shut down the prison, in part because Democrats didn’t want to be seen as soft on terrorism.
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Wednesday’s 90-to-6 vote in the Senate to block the closure of the Guantánamo detention facility followed a weeks-long Republican blitz, which argued that closing the military prison would [...]
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009
The Senate last night stripped Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) of his seniority on committees, a week after the 29-year veteran of the chamber quit the Republican Party to join the Democrats. In announcing his move across the aisle last week, Specter asserted that Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) had assured him [...]
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Tactic May Break Obama’s Bipartisan Pledge, GOP Says
Sen. Judd Gregg called the administration’s push for a budget shortcut the opposite of bipartisanship. (Susan Walsh – AP)
Senior members of the Obama administration are pressing lawmakers to use a shortcut to drive the president’s signature initiatives on health care and energy through Congress without Republican votes, a move that many lawmakers say [...]
Some of the president’s fellow top Democrats also are upset with certain provisions — including ones dealing with farm subsidies, tax deductions and industrial emissions — setting up hurdles within his own party that Obama must overcome. “Everyone is starting to wake up to the fact that the all-Democratic controlled Washington doesn’t mean pure liberalism. It means more centrist, more [...]
