2009年1月7日星期三

Yahoo! News: Elections

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Elections

Democratic opposition to seating Burris cracks (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 02:56 AM CST

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(R), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi(L) addressing reporters on Capitol Hill on January 5, 2009 in Washington, DC. The new US Congress was convening Tuesday at the dawn of an era of dominance for Barack Obama's Democrats in Washington with lawmakers consumed by the worst economic crisis in generations.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)AP - Senate Democrats are looking for ways to defuse the standoff that has denied Roland Burris the vacated Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama of Illinois, but maybe not much longer.


New Congress opens pledging to rescue economy (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2009 08:29 PM CST

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., center, holds a bible as he stands with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, during the mock swearing-in ceremony for  Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I.,  right, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - The Capitol rang loud with vows to fix the crisis-ridden economy Tuesday as Congress opened for business at the dawn of a new Democratic era. "We need action and we need action now," said Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Republicans agreed, and pledged cooperation in Congress as well as with President-elect Barack Obama — to a point.


End to Minn. Senate race pushed even further out (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 04:15 AM CST

Republican Norm Coleman along with his wife Laurie and several supporters announces he is suing to challenge the results of the U.S. Senate recount during a press conference Tuesday Jan. 6, 2009 at the State Office Building in St. Paul, Minn.  Coleman lost the recount to Democratic  candidate Al Franken by 225 votes. (AP Photo/Dawn VIllella)AP - Minnesota's grueling U.S. Senate race, already dragging on two months past Election Day, has now moved even further from the voters — and into the hands of lawyers.


Burris' best bet could be federal court (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 02:58 AM CST

Illinois U.S. Senate appointee Roland Burris leaves the U.S. Capitol, seen rear, in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009, after he was turned away when he appeared to take his seat. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - If Senate Democrats stick to their refusal to seat Roland Burris as a senator from Illinois, his best bet could be getting a federal judge to force open the Senate's doors.


Obama boosts DCCC with extra funds (Politico)

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 03:36 AM CST

Politico - Winning doesn’t come cheap.

Ex-Fla. Gov. Jeb Bush won't run for Senate in 2010 (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2009 05:44 PM CST

US President George W. Bush (L) looks on as his brother Florida Governor Jeb Bush speaks in 2006. Former president George H.W. Bush, father of the outgoing US commander-in-chief, on Sunday touted another son Jeb for a future presidential bid.(AFP/File/Jim Watson)AP - Former Gov. Jeb Bush announced Tuesday that he won't run for the U.S. Senate in 2010 to replace the retiring Mel Martinez, saying that it was not the right time to return to elected office.


Businessman linked to Richardson donated to Obama (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2009 07:13 PM CST

In this Dec. 3, 2008 file photo, President-elect Barack Obama stands with Commerce Secretary designate, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, at a news conference in Chicago. Richardson on Sunday, Jan. 4, 2009, announced that he was withdrawing his nomination to be President-elect Obama's commerce secretary amid a grand jury investigation into how some of his political donors won a lucrative state contract. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - A prominent businessman caught up in a grand jury probe whose political donations ended any role for New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson in the Obama administration also was a generous contributor in support of the president-elect.


CNN: Gupta approached about surgeon general post (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2009 08:31 PM CST

In this Monday, Oct. 8, 2007 file photo, Dr. Sanjay Gupta attends a screening of the environmental documentary 'Planet in Peril,' in New York.  President-elect Barack Obama has approached CNN's chief medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta, to be the country's next surgeon general, the cable news network said Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff)AP - President-elect Barack Obama has approached CNN's chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, about becoming the country's next surgeon general, the cable network said Tuesday.


Ex-eBay CEO largely unknown amid Calif. gov.'s bid (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2009 08:22 PM CST

In this Sept. 3, 2008 file photo, Meg Whitman, former president and CEO of eBay, speaks at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. Whitman plans to run for governor of California, a person with knowledge of her political aspirations said Monday, Jan. 5, 2009.  (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, file)AP - Former eBay executive Meg Whitman brings intrigue and a big bank account to California's beleaguered Republican Party.


Obama bans earmarks from big economic package (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2009 12:18 PM CST

AP - President-elect Barack Obama says he will bar pork-barrel projects from the massive economic stimulus bill he wants Congress to pass.

It's the economic rollout, stupid (Politico)

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 03:45 AM CST

Politico - Barack Obama’s elaborate rollout of his economic recovery plan could provide an impressive early victory for his incoming administration.

44 Buzz: Commerce guessing game (Politico)

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 03:35 AM CST

Politico - Commerce Guessing Game

Support for Panetta trickles in (Politico)

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 03:32 AM CST

Politico - After a rocky start, Barack Obama’s choice to lead the CIA gained critical support in Congress on Tuesday, with at least five members of the Senate Intelligence Committee backing Leon Panetta.

Former Australian leader has Blair House reserved (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 03:09 AM CST

The Blair House, the government guest house across the street from the White House, is seen in Washington Monday, Dec. 29, 2008. President-elect Barack Obama and his family will stay in The Hay-Adams Hotel, when they move to Washington early, and will later relocate to the Blair House before the inauguration. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - It's a D.C. property so exclusive that even the president-elect couldn't reserve it. So who's staying at Blair House, the White House's guest quarters across Pennsylvania Avenue?


Stimulus aside, Obama vows future budget restraint (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 03:02 AM CST

President-elect Barack Obama speaks to reporters after a meeting with his top economic advisers at his transition office in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - To a public wary of government spending, President-elect Barack Obama is offering a salve with his massive economic stimulus package: the promise of long-term fiscal discipline.


Mugabe appoints acting ministers: Herald (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 02:56 AM CST

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has appointed eight acting ministers days after firing a number of ministers from his ZANU-PF party who lost in the March 2008 elections, state media said on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Desmond Kwande)AFP - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has appointed eight acting ministers days after firing a number of ministers from his ZANU-PF party who lost in the March 2008 elections, state media said on Wednesday.


Obama said to pick a spy chief with little intelligence experience (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 02:00 AM CST

The Christian Science Monitor - Leon Panetta, reported to be President-elect Obama's pick to head the Central Intelligence Agency, has little hands-on intelligence experience – a reality that may make it hard for him to win the trust of operatives inside an agency known to be unwelcoming to outsiders.

Dem says Bennet has 'the goods' to win in 2010 (Rocky Mountain News)

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 01:05 AM CST

Rocky Mountain News - Sen. Ken Salazar's would-be replacement, Denver Public Schools chief Michael Bennet, might be a political rookie heading into a hard-fought 2010 election, but "he's got the goods" to win, according to the man who oversees the national U.S. Senate battleground for Democrats.

Networks devoted more time to election: report (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jan 2009 11:42 PM CST

A supporter of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama (D-IL) watches as he is declared the winner of the 2008 presidential election in Times Square in New York November 5, 2008. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)Reuters - The presidential election and worsening economy pushed the war in Iraq mostly out of the headlines, especially among the Big Three evening newscasts.


Obama pledges new intel chiefs will break with past practices (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2009 11:16 PM CST

File picture shows ex-White House aide Leon Panetta, selected by President-elect Barack Obama as CIA director. Obama pledged Tuesday to make a break with the CIA's controversial war-on-terror practices in naming new intelligence chiefs, but said they would not look backwards.(AFP/File/Mike Theiler)AFP - US president-elect Barack Obama pledged Tuesday to make a break with the CIA's controversial war-on-terror practices in naming new intelligence chiefs, but said they would not look backwards.


0 条评论:

发表评论

订阅 博文评论 [Atom]

<< 主页

bnzv