2009年2月28日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Elections

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius tapped to lead HHS (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2009 06:09 PM PST

In this Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008  file photo, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., greet one another during a rally at Butler County Community College in El Dorado, Kan.  A White House source says Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is President Barack Obama's choice for secretary of health and human services.  (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, file)AP - Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is President Barack Obama's choice for secretary of health and human services, a White House source said Saturday.


Obama challenges lobbyists to legislative duel (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2009 12:39 PM PST

US President Barack Obama speaks at Goettge Memorial Field House in Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base, North Carolina, February 27. Obama has owed to fight for his budget proposals that include investments in clean energy and healthcare as he faces a tough battle moving the measures through Congress.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)AP - President Barack Obama challenged the nation's vested interests to a legislative duel Saturday, saying he will fight to change health care, energy and education in dramatic ways that will upset the status quo.


Obama's budget: huge ambitions, huge obstacles (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2009 11:48 AM PST

President Barack Obama speaks about his fiscal 2010 federal budget, in this Thursday Feb. 26, 2009 file photo taken in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington. President Obama challenged the nation's vested interests to a legislative duel Saturday, saying he will fight to change health care, energy and education in dramatic ways that will upset the status quo. He said his ambitious budget plan, unveiled Thursday, will help millions of Americans, but only if Congress overcomes resistance from deep-pocket lobbies. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Breathtaking in its scope and ambition, President Barack Obama's agenda for the economy, health care and energy now goes to a Congress unaccustomed to resolving knotty issues and buffeted by powerful interests that oppose parts of his plan.


Obama's balancing act on Iraq withdrawal strategy (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2009 12:58 PM PST

President Barack Obama shakes hands with National Security Adviser James Jones after he spoke about combat troop levels in Iraq as he addresses military personnel at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., Friday, Feb. 27, 2009. At rear are Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen, and Lt. Gen. Dennis Hejilik, Commanding General, Second Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune.  (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama leaned heavily toward field commanders' preferences in setting a time frame for an Iraq pullout, as he weighed the fervent desires of anti-war supporters who propelled him into office and the equally strong worries of war generals.


Sebelius to fill HHS (Politico)

Posted: 28 Feb 2009 03:03 PM PST

Politico - President Barack Obama asked Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius on Saturday to serve as his secretary of Health and Human Services and she accepted, a senior administration official said.

Amid Obama's change, there's also more of the same (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2009 05:38 AM PST

AP - For all the sweeping changes that President Barack Obama has delivered, there also has been an ample helping of more-of-the-same.

Mideast peace, Russian ties next up for Clinton (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2009 11:06 AM PST

In this Feb. 5, 2009 file photo, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton listens during her joint news conference with French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner at the State Department in Washington. On her second overseas voyage as America's top diplomat, Clinton also will attend meetings in Brussels, Belgium, with NATO allies and European Union officials; hold talks in Geneva with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on arms control and Afghanistan; and meet senior Turkish leaders in Ankara. Clinton will depart Washington on Sunday March 1, 2009, one week after returning from a whirlwind tour of Asian capitals. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is using her second overseas trip to assess Mideast peace prospects, reconnect with European allies and remind her Russian counterpart that U.S. efforts to rebuild relations with Moscow have their limits.


Consensus emerges in Congress for Obama Iraq plan (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2009 06:20 AM PST

From left, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., applaud during President Barack Obama address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Congress has agreed to a timetable for troop withdrawals in Iraq after years of bitterly debating whether to set one.


After bitter split, unions try to heal deep wounds (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2009 07:12 AM PST

AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney, left, shakes hands with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. after listening to President Barack Obama deliver remarks to open the Fiscal Responsibility Summit, Monday, Feb. 23, 2009, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. is at center.  (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)AP - Union leaders are talking about reuniting under a single, more powerful federation, nearly four years after a nasty breakup split organized labor.


Obama picks Sebelius as health secretary (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Feb 2009 05:10 PM PST

Reuters - President Barack Obama has decided to nominate Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to head the Department of Health and Human Services and will formally announce the decision at a White House ceremony on Monday, a U.S. official said on Saturday.

US still backs August date for Afghanistan election (AFP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2009 04:07 PM PST

Afghan President Hamid Karzai addresses media representatives in Kabul on February 10, 2009. The United States Saturday said it supports the AFP - The United States Saturday said it supports the "underlying principles" in Afghan President Hamid Karzai's call for elections by April, but believes an August date would best ensure a safe and just poll.


Buffett sees a gloomy 2009 (Politico)

Posted: 28 Feb 2009 03:17 PM PST

Politico - Warren Buffett, the world’s richest man, has been quietly advising President Barack Obama for years.

Obama's call of college for all: Could it be done? (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2009 10:44 AM PST

In this Feb. 7, 2006 file photo, Gaston Caperton, president of the College Board, a not-for-profit membership association founded in 1900 that consists of 5,000 of the nation's leading schools, colleges, and universities, discusses the Advanced Placement (AP) program during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington.  (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, file)AP - In his address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, President Barack Obama called for every American to pursue some form of education beyond high school.


Americans relieved as Obama pledges Iraq winddown (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Feb 2009 09:21 AM PST

Reuters - Bring 'em home. Or send them to Afghanistan, where things are getting worse.

US to boycott UN racism conference (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2009 06:37 AM PST

AP - The Obama administration said Friday that the United States will boycott an upcoming U.N. conference on racism unless its final document is changed to drop all references to Israel and the defamation of religion.

Gov't asks Supreme Court to dismiss Al-Marri case (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2009 06:36 AM PST

AP - Suspected al-Qaida sleeper agent Ali Al-Marri is now facing criminal charges, but the Obama administration is refusing to rule out the future use of indefinite detention for terrorism suspects picked up in the United States.

Some cases where Obama's policies are like Bush's (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2009 05:40 AM PST

AP - Some cases in which actions by the Obama administration have tracked policies of former President George W. Bush:

Iraq welcomes Obama plan but still needs US help (AFP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2009 04:44 AM PST

Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, seen here in January 2009, welcomed the pullout of US combat troops outlined by President Barack Obama but stressed that Washington still has a AFP - Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi on Saturday welcomed the pullout of US combat troops outlined by President Barack Obama but stressed that Washington still has a "great responsibility" to help Iraq.


Sunday talk show tip sheet (Politico)

Posted: 28 Feb 2009 04:16 AM PST

Politico - Top members of President Barack Obama’s national security team headline this Sunday’s talk shows as they try to sell the president's plan to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq within 18 months.

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