2009年12月5日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Elections

Baucus: Girlfriend merited U.S. attorney nomination (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 05:12 PM PST

Senator Max Baucus, D-Mont, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, leaves the Seante floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009. Senate Democrats on Saturday defeated a GOP attempt to eliminate $40 billion in cuts to home health care services in the health overhaul bill. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus defended recommending his girlfriend for appointment as Montana's U.S. attorney, saying Saturday his one-time staff member and the former state prosecutor is "highly qualified" but eventually withdrew her nomination.

Medicare cuts focus of Senate health care debate (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 06:17 PM PST

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks during news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, listens. Republicans forced Democrats Saturday to defend cutting $40 billion from agencies that care for seniors in their homes as partisan debate raged in a rare weekend session on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - Senate Republicans forced Democrats to vote in favor of cutting billions from providers of home care for older people as partisan debate flared Saturday during a rare weekend session on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

At war, honored for peace: Obama's tricky moment (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:28 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 9, 2009, file photo, President Barack Obama makes remarks about him being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. He's the Nobel Peace Prize winner who just ordered 30,000 more troops to war. He's the laureate who says he doesn't deserve the award. He's not quite 11 months on the job and already in the company of Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)AP - He's the Nobel Peace Prize winner who just ordered 30,000 more troops to war. He's the laureate who says he doesn't deserve the award. He's not quite 11 months on the job and already in the company of Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama.

Baucus: 'No sense' in ethics inquiry (Politico)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:41 PM PST

Politico - Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) on Saturday dismissed calls for the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate his recommendation that the White House consider his girlfriend for a top federal prosecutor's position in Montana.

CAPITAL CULTURE: When folks swarmed People's House (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:32 PM PST

FILE - In this April 15, 1922, file photo from the Library of Congress' National Photo Company collection, a line forms around the West Wing of the White House as members of the public line up for a public receiving day at the White House in Washington. The folks who sneaked into the president's state dinner are part of a long tradition of people showing up as they please at the People's House. It's just that the tradition vanished ages ago. (AP Photo/Library of Congress' National Photo Company collection, File)AP - The folks who sneaked into the president's state dinner are part of a long tradition of people showing up as they please at the People's House. It's just that the tradition vanished ages ago.

FACT CHECK: Unprovable claims stoke health debate (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:41 PM PST

Sen. Blanche Lambert Lincoln, D-Ark., center, accompanied by Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., left, and Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., speaks during a health care news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Dec. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - When Republican Sen. Tom Coburn warned seniors, "you're going to die sooner" if Democrats pass health care legislation, it stood out as an memorable, unprovable moment in an opening-week debate over President Barack Obama's top domestic initiative.

Gates: No good intel on Osama bin Laden in years (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 04:48 PM PST

AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the United States has not had good intelligence on the whereabouts of terrorist Osama bin Laden in years.

Lawmakers get little reaction to Obama's war plan (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:45 PM PST

FILE - In this May 9, 2007 file photo, Rep. Phil Hare, D-Ill., listens to testimony during a House Committee on Veteran's Affairs hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Barack Obama's plan to send more U.S. troops into Afghanistan is being met with a relative shrug by the public. The president's new policy has not ignited switchboards and e-mail inboxes on Capitol Hill in the way other issues have. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, File)AP - The switchboards and e-mail inboxes of members of Congress are not seeing much of a surge from President Barack Obama's plan to send more U.S. troops into Afghanistan.

New jobs plan may be more of old one (Politico)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 04:10 PM PST

Politico - To hear the talk at the White House jobs summit, President Barack Obama has dozens of job-creating ideas to pick from when he sketches out his plan in a speech Tuesday.

In revitalized Allentown, many still seeking work (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:34 PM PST

President Obama greets the audience after speaking at Lehigh Carbon Community College in Allentown, Pa., Friday, Dec. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - President Barack Obama talked about his ideas for job creation in a city whose very name conjures Rust Belt images of shuttered factories, high unemployment and persistent hopelessness.

Election board certifies Atlanta mayor vote (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 01:18 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2009 file photo, Atlanta Mayoral candidate Kasim Reed, left, celebrates with Lisa Borders, Atlanta city council president, center, during his runoff Election Night Party in Atlanta. When the final votes are counted, it's likely the black political machine that integrated Atlanta's City Hall — and kept it that way for four decades — will have pulled through one more time to deliver a fifth consecutive black mayor. Barely. (AP Photo/Gregory Smith, File)AP - A Georgia elections board has certified the vote making former state Sen. Kasim Reed Atlanta's mayor-elect.

Dems defeat GOP on restoring $40B in Medicare cuts (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 12:30 PM PST

AP - Senate Democrats have defeated a GOP attempt to eliminate $40 billion in cuts to home health care services in the health overhaul bill.

Obama to rally Democratic troops on health care (AFP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 12:09 PM PST

US President Barack Obama delivers a speech at Lehigh Carbon Community College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on December 4. Obama heads to Congress Sunday to encourage his fellow Democrats to overcome their divisions and pass sweeping health care reform legislation.(AFP/File/Nicholas Kamm)AFP - President Barack Obama heads to Congress Sunday to encourage his fellow Democrats to overcome their divisions and pass sweeping health care reform legislation.

Obama administration seeks to kill Gitmo lawsuit (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 11:52 AM PST

AP - A 2008 Supreme Court ruling giving Guantanamo Bay prisoners the right to challenge their indefinite detention does not apply in the case of two detainees who committed suicide, the Obama administration says in newly filed court papers.

'Not a step is heard ... The President sleeps' (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 10:51 AM PST

FILE - An undated Mathew Brady photo of James A. Garfield, 20th president of the United States. On July 2, 1881, Garfield was shot by a mentally disturbed applicant for a diplomatic post, Charles J. Guiteau, while entering a railroad station in Washington. He died on September 19, 1881. (AP Photo/Mathew Brady)AP - The residence floor of the White House was heavy with sleep and "quiet as death." Through open windows the listener could hear the splash of a fountain, a distant barking dog.

Obama plans to talk health care with Dem senators (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 09:16 AM PST

AP - President Barack Obama plans to go to Capitol Hill on Sunday to rally Democratic senators at a crucial time in the health care debate.

Dems weigh new public option deal (Politico)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 09:15 AM PST

Politico - President Barack Obama will meet Sunday with Senate Democrats on Capitol Hill, as a group of moderate and liberal senators weighed a new public option compromise in hopes of striking a deal by early in the week.

Right-wing talkers go for the gold (Politico)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 03:42 AM PST

Politico - For years a certain strain of conservative thought has held that there was one sure hedge against economic depression, civil disorder and liberal rule – gold. Now that belief has led to a kind of harmonic convergence between ideology and commerce.

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