2010年1月11日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Elections


Labor leaders press Obama on health tax (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 05:11 PM PST

AP - Labor leaders irate over a proposed tax on high-value health insurance plans met with President Barack Obama on Monday to express their frustration over his support for the levy. Some labor officials have warned Democrats of political fallout for backing the tax.

Reid says he won't dwell on race-based controversy (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 05:12 PM PST

FILE- In this Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009 file photo, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid speaks  on Capitol Hill in Washington. Reid apologized to President Barack Obama and a handful of black political leaders after a new book reported that he was favorably impressed by Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign and, in a private conversation, described the Illinois senator as a 'light-skinned' African-American 'with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.' (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, file)AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sought to slam the book shut Monday on a controversy stemming from remarks about President Barack Obama's race and dialect, and a string of forgiving statements from prominent blacks made clear his leadership post is not in immediate jeopardy.


Will overhaul put the brakes on health care costs? (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 03:47 PM PST

UPDATES with official numbers; charts compare current cost projections for health care with no change and the Senate health overhaul bill per capitaAP - Short of rationing, lawmakers have pulled nearly every available cost-control lever in the sweeping health care overhaul President Barack Obama and Democratic congressional leaders are pushing to finish.


Worries over Hasan's competence didn't slow career (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 02:29 PM PST

FILE - The 2007 file photo provided by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences shows Nidal Malik Hasan when he entered the program for his Disaster and Military Psychiatry Fellowship. A Defense Department review of the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, has found the doctors overseeing Hasan's medical training repeatedly voiced concerns over his strident views on Islam and his inappropriate behavior, yet continued to give him positive performance evaluations that kept him moving through the ranks. Hasan, 39, stands charged with the premiditated murder of 13 people and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder, Hasan, 39, is accused of killing 13 people on Nov. 5, 2009, at Fort Hood, the worst killing spree on a U.S. military base. (AP Photo/Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, File)AP - In late December 2004, one of the officers overseeing Army Maj. Nidal Hasan's medical training praised him in an official evaluation as a qualified and caring doctor who would be an asset in any post.


Reid apologizes again (Politico)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 11:42 AM PST

Politico - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Monday admitted that he “could have used a better choice of words” in discussing Barack Obama’s skin color, and he used his first public comments since the controversy emerged over the weekend to promote his record on civil rights.

STIMULUS WATCH: Unemployment unchanged by projects (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 01:11 PM PST

A $19.2 million widening project along SR-373 in Lewisburg, Tenn., is seen on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010. Ten months into President Barack Obama's first economic stimulus plan, a surge in spending on roads and bridges has had no effect on local unemployment and only barely helped the beleaguered construction industry, an Associated Press analysis has found. (AP Photo/Josh Anderson)AP - A federal spending surge of more than $20 billion for roads and bridges in President Barack Obama's first stimulus has had no effect on local unemployment rates, raising questions about his argument for billions more to address an "urgent need to accelerate job growth."


AP source: Obama weighing new levy on banks (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 05:12 PM PST

President Barack Obama finishes his statement to reporters about green jobs and manufacturing, Friday, Jan. 8, 2010, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama is weighing a levy on financial institutions to help recover shortfalls in a $700 billion bank bailout fund and to help balance a budget that is looking increasingly grim amid an ongoing economic crisis.


Clinton: Iran sanctions should target elite (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 02:47 PM PST

AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday the Obama administration has concluded that the best way to pressure Iran to come clean on its nuclear ambitions is to impose sanctions aimed at the country's ruling elite.

APNewsBreak: Increase in suicide rate of vets (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 02:07 PM PST

AP - The suicide rate among 18- to 29-year-old men who've left the military has gone up significantly, the government said Monday.

Reid not 'going to dwell' on Obama comments (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 12:07 PM PST

AP - Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid says that since he's apologized for his comments, he now wants to move past criticism about his characterization in 2008 of then-candidate Barack Obama as a "light-skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect."

Obama meets union leaders over healthcare concerns (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 04:51 PM PST

Reuters - The leader of the biggest U.S. labor federation warned President Barack Obama on Monday that failure to act quickly on unemployment would be "suicidal" and would put the Democrats' control of Congress at risk.

Obama rebukes senator's critics in race controversy (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 04:21 PM PST

Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday rebuked critics of Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who has faced calls from Republicans to step down over racial comments he made about Obama.

White House mulls bank fee in budget (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 04:04 PM PST

President Barack Obama pauses while delivering remarks on the economy and creating jobs, in the East Room of the White House in Washington January 8, 2010. REUTERS/Jason ReedReuters - President Barack Obama is considering including a fee on financial services companies in his upcoming budget to help recover some of the taxpayer money used to bail out banks during the financial crisis, a senior administration official said on Monday.


Is 'Game Change' a Game-Changer? (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST

CQPolitics.com - Much has been made lately of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) comments about Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign. But "Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime," is packed with similar revelations from the campaign trail and beyond.

ND GOP Gov Hoeven begins run for US Senate (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 03:51 PM PST

AP - North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven began his run for the U.S. Senate on Monday with a call for lower taxes, less debt and federal tax incentives to prod business growth and energy production.

Political spycraft seen in Nixon papers (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 03:08 PM PST

In this Nov. 19, 1969 file photo, U.S. President Richard Nixon, right, welcomes Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington when the two leaders were holding talks concerning the return of Okinawa to Japanese control. Japan's new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has ordered a panel of ministry officials and academics to investigate secret agreements, including ones signed by Nixon and Sato in 1969, long hidden in Foreign Ministry files that allowed nuclear-armed U.S. warships to enter Japanese ports, violating a hallowed principle of postwar Japan. Yet their very existence was officially denied. (AP Photo/File)AP - In newly released papers from his presidency, Richard Nixon directs a purge of Kennedy-era modern art — "these little uglies" — orders hostile journalists to be frozen out and fusses over White House guest lists to make sure political opponents don't make it in.


Obama: Reid's comment was not `mean-spirited' (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 03:07 PM PST

AP - President Barack Obama says Harry Reid was trying to praise him when the Senate majority leader made a controversial reference to Obama's race and dialect, and that the Nevada lawmaker simply used "inartful language."

Game over: The Clintons stand alone (Politico)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 03:05 PM PST

Politico - A new book is out with a highly critical but unsourced portrait of Hillary Clinton. This familiar occurrence — it’s happened too many times to count over the years — has usually been greeted with an equally familiar response: A fast and furious counterattack from the Clinton inner circle.

US welcomes Josipovic's Croatia presidency win (AFP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 02:57 PM PST

Main opposition Social Democrat presidential candidate Ivo Josipovic celebrates his victory after the second run of presidential elections in Croatia. Josipovic pledged Monday to make the country a AFP - The United States on Monday welcomed Social Democrat Ivo Josipovic's victory in the Croatian presidential election, underscoring the importance of negotiations for Croatia to gain EU membership.


Company agrees to take down Obama billboard in NYC (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 02:40 PM PST

Morning commuters in New York walk past a Weatherproof Garment Company advertisement depicting U.S. President Barack Obama standing along the Great Wall of China January 6, 2010. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidReuters - Weatherproof Garment Co said on Monday it will take down a Times Square billboard of U.S. President Barack Obama wearing one of its coats, agreeing to a White House request even though the company said it had legal grounds for using his image in its advertisement.


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