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Yahoo! News: Elections


Senate rejects Social Security bonus payment (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2010 05:02 PM PST

Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., center, follows Sen. David Vitter, R-La., as they head to the Senate floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - The Senate on Wednesday rejected a proposal by President Barack Obama to give people on Social Security a $250 bonus check.


NY Dem Massa to quit after 1 term, cites health (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2010 04:56 PM PST

FILE - This Tuesday Oct. 14, 2008 picture shows Eric Massa, Democratic candidate for New York's 29th Congressional District in Rochester, N.Y. On Wednesday, March 3, 2010, Rep. Eric Massa, a freshman Democrat from New York, said that he will not seek a second term after a recurrence of cancer late last year, dismissing blog reports that he had harassed a staffer.  He was elected in 2008. (AP Photo/David Duprey)AP - Rep. Eric Massa, a freshman Democrat from New York, said Wednesday that he will not seek a second term after a recurrence of cancer late last year, dismissing a report that he had been accused of harassing a staffer.


Facing ethics probes, Rangel drops tax leadership (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2010 04:56 PM PST

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.,  takes part in a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - Buffeted by ethics inquiries, veteran New York Rep. Charles B. Rangel stepped down Wednesday as chairman of the House's powerful tax-writing committee, delivering a fresh political jolt to a Democratic Party already facing angry voters.


Volatile new top tax writer has his own baggage (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2010 03:55 PM PST

FILE - In this March 4, 2003, file photo, Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., speaks during a Capitol Hill news conference in Washington. Stark will serve as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee after Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., temporarily stepped aside Wednesday, March 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Terry Ashe, file)AP - Rep. Pete Stark is the California Democrat captured on YouTube in a steamy argument about body fluids, politics and lying. He challenged one colleague to a fist fight and called others an assortment of names through the years.


Govt slow to force safer designs for window blinds (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2010 04:23 PM PST

This December 2006 photo provided by Kelly Horvath shows her son Josiah. In February 2007 Horvath found her 16-month-old son dead in his crib with a Roman shade cord wrapped around his neck. The Consumer Product Safety Commission said about 500 children have strangled on the cords of blinds and shades since the early 1980s, an average of about one child each month. The death figures make blinds and shades some of the deadliest products subject to recalls announced by the safety agency in the last 15 years.  (AP Photo/Family Photo)AP - Shopping for her nursery, Kelly Horvath bought a new window shade because its label advertised its child safety features. She later found her 16-month-old son dead in his crib, the shade's cord wrapped around his neck, another young victim of what U.S. government records show are some of the deadliest recalled consumer products.


Obama takes charge, demands vote on health care (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2010 04:56 PM PST

President Barack Obama pauses while speaking about health care reform, Wednesday, March 3, 2010, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - The end game at hand, President Barack Obama took command Wednesday of one final attempt by Democrats to enact bitterly contested health care legislation, calling for an "up or down vote" within weeks under rules denying Republicans the ability to kill the bill with mere talk.


Administration pushes for Wall Street regulations (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2010 03:27 PM PST

Parliament security : Indonesian anti-riot police jump over barbed wire as they secure the area as students rally outside the parliament building in Jakarta while lawmakers begin to hear findings from a parliamentary inquiry committee over a controversial government bank bailout. (AFP/Bay Ismoyo)AP - The Obama administration waded into negotiations over Wall Street regulations Wednesday, calling for limits on the size of financial institutions and insisting that consumer protections remain a central objective of legislative attempts to rein in the industry.


Brazil rebuffs US, says it will go own way on Iran (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2010 04:56 PM PST

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, and Brazil's Lower House President Michel Temer, right, accompanied by Brazil's President of the Senate Jose Sarney, shake hands as they pose for pictures in Brasilia, Wednesday, March 3, 2010. Hillary Clinton is on a two-day official visit to Brazil. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)AP - Brazil rebuffed a U.S. appeal for new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, vowing during a visit from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton not to "bow down" to gathering international pressure.


Drivers complain that Toyota's fixes didn't work (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2010 04:56 PM PST

Stewart Stogel of Mt. Vernon, N.Y. speaks about the problems with his 2009 Toyota Camry while sitting in a parking lot in New Rochelle, N.Y. Wednesday, March 3, 2010. Stogel was preparing to take his Camry back to a Toyota dealership today after, he states, previous repairs to fix an acceleration problem have not solved the issue with his car. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)AP - At least 15 Toyota drivers have complained to U.S. safety officials that their cars sped up by themselves even after being fixed under recalls for sticky gas pedals or floor mat problems, according to an Associated Press analysis.


Obama moves to rein in 'too-big-to-fail' banks (AFP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2010 04:24 PM PST

US President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. Obama's administration moved to rein in America's largest banks Wednesday, sending Congress new rules blocking mega-mergers and barring investments seen as too risky.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)AFP - President Barack Obama's administration moved to rein in America's largest banks Wednesday, sending Congress new rules blocking mega-mergers and barring investments seen as too risky.


Senate rejects bonus Social Security payments (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2010 03:50 PM PST

AP - The Senate has rejected President Barack Obama's proposal to give a $250 bonus payment to people on Social Security.

First lady tours Miss. schools to tout health (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2010 03:31 PM PST

First lady Michelle Obama, right, applauds the students of Brinkley Middle School in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, March 3, 2010, before speaking about her healthy schools campaign, 'Let's Move!'. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - First lady Michelle Obama visited Jackson on Wednesday and watched children play on swings and a jungle gym at a school whose programs have been lauded for fighting obesity by keeping kids active.


Election weakens Texas ed board conservatives (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2010 03:21 PM PST

AP - The Texas state education board's influential Christian conservative bloc was weakened Wednesday after one of its most prominent members lost his seat to a moderate Republican. Another reliably conservative seat was headed to a runoff.

Here's how 'reconciliation' works in Congress (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 03 Mar 2010 03:10 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats plan to pass major health care legislation using a controversial procedural device called "reconciliation."

Leaders on gay ban study vow objectivity (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2010 02:53 PM PST

From left, Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill. and Sen. Kristin Gillibrand, D-N.Y., takes part in a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 3, 2010, on the introduction of a bill to repeal the military's ban on gays. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - The leaders of a new Pentagon study promised Congress on Wednesday an honest assessment on whether allowing gays to serve openly might cause troops to lose their edge in battle.


Obama to mark `America's Most Wanted' anniversary (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2010 02:22 PM PST

AP - President Barack Obama is going to help TV's "America's Most Wanted" mark the milestone broadcast of its 1,000th episode.

Healthcare reform: Obama nudges Congress toward reconciliation (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 03 Mar 2010 02:07 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - President Obama called on Congress Wednesday to finish healthcare reform with an “up-or-down vote” in the next few weeks.

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