Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Obama urges major new stimulus, jobs spending (AP)
• McChrystal backs Afghan plan to skeptical Congress (AP)
• Dems agree to drop gov't-run insurance option (AP)
• Obama proposes tax incentive to hire workers (AP)
• Obama unveils jobs plan, no price tag (Politico)
• US: $3B to end royalty dispute with Indian tribes (AP)
• Sensitive air security doc posted in error on Net (AP)
• Gate-crashers to take the Fifth if subpoenaed (AP)
• EPA unveils new policies on water at schools (AP)
• Congress readies huge year-end spending bill (AP)
• Sen. Brown wins Mass. Senate Republican primary (AP)
• Vote-Tally Time in Massachusetts (CQPolitics.com)
• Reid: Abortion should not scuttle health care bill (AP)
• US Senate defeats anti-abortion measure in health care bill (AFP)
• Publisher of Obama's 'Audacity of Hope' steps down (AP)
• Obama’s War Plan Wins Praise as Doubts Grow on Domestic Policy (Bloomberg)
• Company losing security contract for Kabul embassy (AP)
• Poll: Obama, Democrats end the year politically weaker (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Prison population growth slows in 2008 (AP)
• White House to release new gov't data collections (AP)

Obama urges major new stimulus, jobs spending (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2009 05:30 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama called for a major new burst of federal spending Tuesday, perhaps $150 billion or more, aiming to jolt the wobbly economy into a stronger recovery and reduce painfully persistent double-digit unemployment.

McChrystal backs Afghan plan to skeptical Congress (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2009 05:31 PM PST AP - Questioned by skeptical lawmakers, the U.S. general running the war in Afghanistan said Tuesday he did not get as many troops as he wanted and must work under a schedule he did not recommend, but he insisted the Obama administration's revamped strategy is the best way to win.

Dems agree to drop gov't-run insurance option (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2009 05:19 PM PST AP - Democratic senators say they have a tentative deal to drop a government-run insurance option from health care legislation. No further details were immediately available.

Obama proposes tax incentive to hire workers (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed a tax incentive for small businesses that add workers, even as Congress struggles to figure out how such an idea would work.

Obama unveils jobs plan, no price tag (Politico) Posted: 08 Dec 2009 09:14 AM PST Politico - President Barack Obama laid out a slate of job-creating ideas in a speech at the Brookings Institution Tuesday – a sort of “stimulus lite” — but carefully avoided saying how much the new plans would cost.

US: $3B to end royalty dispute with Indian tribes (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2009 04:55 PM PST AP - The Obama administration on Tuesday proposed spending more than $3 billion to settle claims dating back more than a century that American Indian tribes were swindled out of royalties for oil, gas, grazing and other leases.

Sensitive air security doc posted in error on Net (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2009 05:23 PM PST AP - The federal government improperly posted an internal guide to its airport passenger screening procedures on the Internet in a way that could offer insight into how to sidestep security.

Gate-crashers to take the Fifth if subpoenaed (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2009 05:13 PM PST AP - The White House gate-crashers plan to invoke their Fifth Amendment rights and refuse to testify if they are subpoenaed to appear on Capitol Hill about the security breach.

EPA unveils new policies on water at schools (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2009 03:27 PM PST AP - The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a new national strategy to enforce safe drinking water laws in small, rural communities on Tuesday and pledged to redouble efforts to protect children from toxic water in schools.

Congress readies huge year-end spending bill (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2009 01:51 PM PST AP - Amtrak passengers could carry handguns in their checked baggage as part of catch-all spending legislation being finalized by Congress.

Sen. Brown wins Mass. Senate Republican primary (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2009 05:28 PM PST AP - State Sen. Scott Brown has won the Republican nomination in the race to succeed the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.

Vote-Tally Time in Massachusetts (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 08 Dec 2009 05:03 PM PST CQPolitics.com - The last votes have been cast in the primary of the Massachusetts Senate special election, which, given the state's strongly Democratic tilt, will likely determine its next senator.

Reid: Abortion should not scuttle health care bill (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2009 04:38 PM PST AP - Sen. Harry Reid's move to scuttle a fellow Democrat's effort to toughen abortion restrictions in the health care bill was the plain pragmatism of a majority leader who knows where the votes are — and faces a tough re-election next year.

US Senate defeats anti-abortion measure in health care bill (AFP) Posted: 08 Dec 2009 03:38 PM PST AFP - The US Senate on Tuesday rejected an anti-abortion amendment to a health care reform bill, splitting the Democrats and complicating the chances of getting a 60-vote majority to pass the measure.

Publisher of Obama's 'Audacity of Hope' steps down (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2009 03:31 PM PST AP - The publisher of President Barack Obama's book "The Audacity of Hope" has stepped down.

Obama’s War Plan Wins Praise as Doubts Grow on Domestic Policy (Bloomberg) Posted: 08 Dec 2009 03:00 PM PST Bloomberg - Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama was elected on a promise to fix the problems at home. Americans praise him instead for escalating the war in Afghanistan and disapprove of his handling of the economy and health care.

Company losing security contract for Kabul embassy (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2009 02:31 PM PST AP - The State Department is cutting ties with the security contractor protecting the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan following an investigation of allegations that guards engaged in lewd behavior and sexual misconduct at their living quarters.

Poll: Obama, Democrats end the year politically weaker (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 08 Dec 2009 02:28 PM PST McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party end the year far weaker than they started it, according to a McClatchy-Ipsos poll released Tuesday.

Prison population growth slows in 2008 (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2009 01:57 PM PST AP - The U.S. prison population edged up slightly last year, though the number of total inmates dropped in 20 states, including New York, Georgia and Michigan.

White House to release new gov't data collections (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2009 03:49 PM PST AP - 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 President Barack Obama had promised it would be.

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