2009年2月2日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Elections

AP Investigation: Banks sought foreign workers (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 09:47 PM CST

In this Sept. 26, 2007, file photo Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, talks to reporters in his Capitol Hill office in Washington. U.S. banks that are collecting billions of dollars in taxpayer loans to stay afloat sought government permission to import thousands of foreign workers for high-paying jobs in the United States, an Associated Press investigation has found. The job losses anger lawmakers like Sen. Charles Grassley, who is pushing legislation to make employers recruit American workers first, along with other reforms to the visa program. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, File)AP - Major U.S. banks sought government permission to bring thousands of foreign workers into the country for high-paying jobs even as the system was melting down last year and Americans were getting laid off, according to an Associated Press review of visa applications.

GOP leaders doubt stimulus bill will pass Senate (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 08:54 PM CST

In this photo provided by CBS, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., appears on CBS's 'Face the Nation' in Washington, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/CBS Face the Nation, Karin Cooper)AP - Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday the massive stimulus bill backed by President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats could go down to defeat if it's not stripped of unnecessary spending and focused more on housing issues and tax cut.

Obama says Iraq's peaceful elections aid pullout (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 09:42 PM CST

In this Jan. 5, 2009 file photo, then-President-elect Barack Obama, flanked by then-Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner, left, and then-Council of Economic Advisers Chair-designate Christina Romer, meets with members of his economic team at his transition office in Washington. A report released earlier this month by Christina Romer, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and Jared Bernstein, an economic policy adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, predicted that more than 90 percent of the 3 million to 4 million jobs Obama's proposed stimulus proposes to save or create would be in the private sector. But the report also estimated that 244,000 government jobs - some at the federal level, but more at the state and local level - would be created or saved. That was based on a $600 billion stimulus package; the one being debated in Congress is more than $800 billion. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)AP - President Barack Obama said Sunday that the peaceful elections in Iraq are "good news" for U.S. troops and their families, and he agreed with the suggestion that a substantial number of those troops could be home within a year.

Daschle earned $220,000 from health care industry (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 06:21 PM CST

US President Barack Obama's pick for secretary of health and human services, Tom Daschle, seen here on January 8, 2009, paid over 100,000 dollars in back taxes in January after failing to report services from a wealthy friend, US media reported Friday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)AP - Tom Daschle collected nearly a quarter of a million dollars in fees in the last two years speaking to leaders of the industry President Barack Obama wants him to reform as the administration's health secretary.

Before the game, the president (Politico)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 07:07 PM CST

Politico - President Barack Obama gave his strongest signal yet on Sunday that congressional Republicans may win more of their arguments against some of the spending proposals in the economic stimulus bill.

Senator: Appointment wouldn't affect Senate makeup (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 10:11 PM CST

In this Sept. 28, 2008 file photo, Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., responds to questions from reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Gregg of New Hampshire said Friday that he's being considered by President Barack Obama for a Cabinet appointment as head of the Commerce Department. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)AP - President Barack Obama is expected to pick a Republican senator, Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, as his commerce secretary soon. But officials expect the state's Democratic governor, John Lynch, to fill Gregg's Senate seat with another Republican.

Mrs. Obama's new roles as first lady, mom-in-chief (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 09:32 AM CST

In this Jan. 21, 2009, file photo President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama dance at the Eastern Inaugural Ball in Washington. Michelle Obama's predecessors have carved out enough different roles as first lady to free her to fashion the job in a way that suits her, but the first Lady will likely continue as one of President Barack Obama's closest advisers. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)AP - Michelle Obama's predecessors have carved out enough different roles as first lady that she is now free to fashion the job in a way that suits her. The first lady will take her time defining her new role, but already she's dropping clues.

WHO GETS WHAT: Billions for health care insurance (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 01:20 PM CST

In this Jan. 27, 2009, file photo job seekers queue up for a job fair in Chicago. In an altogether pricey lifeline it will get vastly cheaper for most people to keep health insurance after losing a job if the government's stimulus plan becomes law: $40 billion to subsidize health insurance for the unemployed and more than twice that to support Medicaid. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - It will get vastly cheaper for most people to keep health insurance after losing a job if the government's stimulus plan becomes law. Some nickel and dime cuts in health coverage for the poor will be reversed, too. Geek jobs in medicine will grow.

New Ill. governor plans Washington lobbying trip (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 07:13 AM CST

Illinois Governor. Pat Quinn is reflected in a desk top as he begins a meeting with the state's constitutional officers, Secretary of State Jesse White, Attorney General, Lisa Madigan, Comptroller Daniel Hynes, and Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias Friday, Jan. 30, 2009, in Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn says he'll travel to Washington during his first full week in office to lobby for federal money.

Obama calls meeting with top Democrats on stimulus (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 11:04 PM CST

President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden attend a Middle Class Working Families Task Force event in the East Room of the White House, January 30, 2009. (Larry Downing/Reuters)Reuters - Facing opposition from Republican lawmakers to parts of his economic recovery plan, President Barack Obama called Democratic Congressional leaders to a meeting on Monday to drive home his message of urgency.

Obama sees 'more responsibility' for Iraqis (AFP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 10:07 PM CST

Iraqi soldiers secure the streets the day before the provincial council elections in the western city of Ramadi,100 kms from Baghdad on January 30, 2009. President Barack Obama said Sunday that the United States is in a position to place more responsibility in the hands of the Iraqis following provincial elections and a reduction in violence there.(AFP/Azhar Shallal)AFP - President Barack Obama said that the United States is in a position to place more responsibility in the hands of the Iraqis following provincial elections and a reduction in violence there.

White House expects digital TV delay until June (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 08:35 PM CST

Exhibitors look over Samsung televisions in the Las Vegas Convention Center during set up for 2007 International CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas, Nevada in this file photo from January 6, 2007. (Steve Marcus/Reuters)Reuters - The Obama administration said on Friday it expects the U.S. House to approve legislation that would delay until June the planned nationwide transition to digital television.

Audio issues interrupt NBC's Obama interview (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 08:33 PM CST

Reuters - NBC's exclusive interview with President Barack Obama on Super Bowl Sunday was interrupted by technical difficulties.

Newman may be Gregg successor (Politico)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 08:17 PM CST

Politico - Bonnie Newman, a moderate Republican who endorsed New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch, a Democrat, in 2004, has emerged as the leading contender to replace Judd Gregg should the three-term GOP senator be appointed Commerce secretary, according to a well-connected New Hampshire source.

What Hollywood wants from Obama (Politico)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 06:01 PM CST

Politico - They acted as surrogates, stumped on the campaign trail and held lavish fundraisers at their homes. They donated heaps of cash, led voting drives and made insanely viral Web videos. And last month, they descended on Washington to celebrate with their publicists, their Prada and — finally — their president.

Obama says most U.S. troops in Iraq home within a year (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 05:01 PM CST

U.S. Marines of Mobile Assault Company, 1st Battalion that provide security to a U.S. State Department election observers team secure a polling station in Sinjar, 390 km (240 miles) northwest of of Baghdad January 31, 2009. Iraqis held their most peaceful election since the fall of Saddam Hussein on Saturday, and voting for provincial councils ended without a single major attack reported anywhere in the country. Picture taken January 31, 2009. (Erik de Castro/Reuters)Reuters - President Barack Obama told Americans on Sunday a substantial number of the 140,000 U.S. troops in Iraq would be home within a year, saying Iraqis were now ready to take more responsibility for their own security.

NRSC poaches top RNC staffers (Politico)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 02:53 PM CST

Politico - Newly-minted Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele hardly had the chance to measure the drapes in his new offices this weekend before learning that two top RNC staffers were bolting for the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

Senate won't change if Gregg leaves: McConnell (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 12:57 PM CST

Reuters - Democrats would not increase their margin of control in the Senate if New Hampshire Republican Sen. Judd Gregg leaves to serve as commerce secretary, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Sunday.

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