2009年7月14日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Elections


Sotomayor pushes back hard on racial bias charges (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 04:28 PM PDT

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 14, 2009, before the Senate Judiciary Committee.   (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Sonia Sotomayor pushed back vigorously Tuesday against Republican charges that she would bring bias and a liberal agenda to her seat as the first Hispanic woman on the Supreme Court, insisting repeatedly she would be impartial as GOP senators tried to undercut her with her own words from past speeches.


Senator blocked by bias claims now raises them (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 03:28 PM PDT

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, questions Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 14, 2009, during her confirmation hearing before the committee.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Sen. Jeff Sessions, the Republican equating Sonia Sotomayor's supposed empathy with racial bias, was blocked from the federal bench himself two decades ago for making insensitive remarks about the Ku Klux Klan and the NAACP.


Temperament of nominee called into question (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 04:45 PM PDT

Sen. Lindsay Graham, D-S.C., quotes Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's oft-criticized remark about her Hispanic heritage affecting judicial decisions, as she testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 14, 2009, before the Senate Judiciary Committee. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Sonia Sotomayor kept her cool Tuesday, even when she was being portrayed at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing as just the opposite — a hotheaded judge who is sometimes mean to lawyers who appear before her.


Ex-defense contractor CEO enters fraud guilty plea (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 03:16 PM PDT

AP - The former chief executive of a defense contractor with ties to Rep. John Murtha pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to a kickback scheme and defrauding the Air Force, and promised to cooperate in an ongoing criminal investigation.

Sotomayor contradicts Obama (Politico)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 08:34 AM PDT

Politico - Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday broke with the man who nominated her – President Barack Obama — saying she took issue with Obama's statement in a 2007 speech that a judge's “heart” would dictate the outcome in a small number of cases. 

AP sources: House lays groundwork for CIA probe (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 04:28 PM PDT

FILE - This is a 1971 close up of the seal of  the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. A secret intelligence program canceled by CIA Director Leon Panetta in June was meant to find and then capture or kill al-Qaida leaders at close range rather than target them with air strikes that risked civilian casualties, government officials with knowledge of the operation said Monda, July 13, 2009.  (AP Photo)AP - The House Intelligence Committee has asked the CIA to provide documents about the now-canceled program to kill al-Qaida leaders, congressional officials said Tuesday. The agency spent at least $1 million on the eight-year program before it was terminated last month, one congressional official said. Intelligence officials say the operation never progressed beyond a planning stage.


Sotomayor on Sotomayor: Revises, extends her words (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 04:00 PM PDT

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 14, 2009, before the Senate Judiciary Committee.   (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - It's a good thing Sonia Sotomayor speaks Sotomayoran.


Exchanges from the Sotomayor confirmation hearing (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 12:30 PM PDT

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 14, 2009, before the Senate Judiciary Committee.   (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - A look at some exchanges in Tuesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor:


House health plan to boost taxes on rich (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 04:28 PM PDT

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., left, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., right, Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., back right, join other Democratic leaders in a news conference, announcing the introduction of health care legislation on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, July 14, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - House Democrats on Tuesday rolled out a far-reaching $1.5 trillion plan that for the first time would make health care a right and a responsibility for all Americans, with medical providers, employers and the wealthiest picking up most of the tab.


Obama on burden of fixing economy: 'Give it to me' (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 03:01 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks at Macomb Community College, Tuesday, July 14, 2009, in Warren, Mich. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - Conceding unemployment will get worse before it shrinks, President Barack Obama on Tuesday unveiled a $12 billion plan to help community colleges prepare millions of people for a new generation of jobs. Challenging critics, he said he welcomed the task of turning around the economy.


Senator won't resign, will seek re-election (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 04:40 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 4, 2008 file photo Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev. speaks at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.  (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, FILE)AP - Republican Sen. John Ensign says he has no plans to resign despite his affair with a staffer's wife and his parents' $96,000 payout to the woman's family, and intends to seek re-election in 2012.


Ensign's mistress may decide his future (Politico)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 04:38 PM PDT

Politico - Cindy Hampton once held the keys to John Ensign's heart.

Mays: So proud when Obama elected that he cried (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 03:50 PM PDT

AP - Baseball legend Willie Mays says he was so proud the night Barack Obama was elected president that he "cried for most of the night.".

McCain backs Obama on F-22 cuts, but advocates vow fight (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 03:49 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Arizona Sen. John McCain, in an uncommon alliance with the Obama administration, is squaring off against fellow Republican and Senate Armed Services Committee colleague Saxby Chambliss of Georgia in a fight against adding $1.75 billion in funding to expand the F-22 Raptor jet fighter production line.

Achievement gap still splits white, black students (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 03:34 PM PDT

AP - Despite unprecedented efforts to improve minority achievement in the past decade, the gap between black and white students remains frustratingly wide, according to an Education Department report released Tuesday.

Democrat favored to win vacant US House seat (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 02:54 PM PDT

AP - Democrat Judy Chu was favored to claim a vacant U.S. House seat Tuesday after a campaign that tested racial lines in a Los Angeles-area district.

White House turns up heat on Arizona senator (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 04:41 PM PDT

Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, July 13, 2009, during the committee's confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - The Obama administration is firing back at Sen. Jon Kyl for calling for an end to economic stimulus spending, and it's aiming where it hurts the most — at home in Arizona.


Officials to probe color-coded terror alert system (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 04:29 PM PDT

In this March 12, 2002 file photo, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge unveils a color-coded terrorism warning system in Washington. The Homeland Security Department says it will review the multicolored terror alert system that was created after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.   (AP Photo/Joe Marquette)AP - The Homeland Security Department will review and possibly replace the often-ridiculed multicolored terror alert system created after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Since it was created in 2002, the system has been confusing and became the butt of jokes by late-night television comics.


Obama hopes for new phase after Afghan elections (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 02:04 PM PDT

AP - Raising expectations for scaling back military operations in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama said Tuesday he hopes U.S. involvement can "transition to a different phase" after this summer's Afghan elections.

Obama nominates new Peace Corps director (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 01:22 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama says he will nominate a career international development specialist to be director of the Peace Corps.

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