2010年4月22日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Elections


Democrats set showdown vote on Wall Street bill (AP)

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange durng President Obama's speech, Thursday, April 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - Declaring themselves short of patience, Democrats set an initial showdown vote for next Monday on legislation to clamp new regulations on the financial industry while Republicans insisted on more bargaining. President Barack Obama admonished Wall Street leaders "to join us instead of fighting us" to prevent a future national financial collapse.


Dem leader makes immigration bill bigger priority (AP)

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 04:00 PM PDT

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pauses during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 22, 2010.(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, trailing in polls in heavily Hispanic Nevada, wants to pursue legislation to provide legal status for many unlawful immigrants before the Senate tackles a climate change and energy bill and as Democrats defend their congressional majorities ahead of the November congressional elections.


Obama slams Wall Street ways while asking support (AP)

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 03:15 PM PDT

President Barack Obama delivers remarks in New York's Cooper Union College,  Thursday, April 22, 2010.  Without change on Wall Street, he says, America is doomed to repeat the past.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - President Barack Obama rebuked Wall Street for risky practices Thursday even as he sought its leaders' help for "updated, commonsense" banking regulations to head off any new financial crisis.


Army disinvites Graham to Pentagon Prayer Day (AP)

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 04:52 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, May 24, 2009 file photo, Franklin Graham prepares to give the invocation before the NASCAR Coca-Cola 600 auto race at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C. A watchdog group objected Tuesday, April 20, 2010 to Graham's invitation to speak at the Pentagon in May, saying his past description of Islam as 'evil' offended Muslims who work for the Department of Defense and the appearance should be canceled. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, file)AP - Evangelist Franklin Graham's invitation to speak at a Pentagon prayer service has been rescinded because his comments about Islam were inappropriate, the Army said Thursday.


US lawmakers urge Russia not to halt adoptions (AP)

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 03:20 PM PDT

AP - A group of U.S. lawmakers is calling on Russian President Dmitry Medvedev not to suspend adoptions between Russia and the United States.

Obama picks a new messenger for health care law (AP)

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 02:12 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama, facing a public dubious about his health care law and Democrats worried about its fallout on fall elections, tapped a veteran political operative Thursday to guide efforts to explain the law's benefits.

Both parties vie to be biggest bank bailout foes (AP)

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 01:10 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks about financial reform at the Great Hall at Cooper Union in New York Thursday, April 22, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - If there's any election-year support in the Senate for future bailouts of the big banks on Wall Street, it isn't immediately apparent.


IMF chief terms Greek debt crisis serious (AP)

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 04:42 PM PDT

AP - The head of the International Monetary Fund said Thursday that the debt crisis in Greece is serious and there would be no "silver bullet" to resolve the issue in an easy manner.

Ariz. lawmakers: Candidates must prove citizenship (AP)

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 05:05 PM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 picture, Arizona Rep. Chad Campbell, D-Phoenix, left, and  Warde Nichols,  R-Gilbert, confer during a special session at the Capitol in Phoenix. Arizona lawmakers who still aren't convinced President Barack Obama was born in the U.S. are pushing a bill through the Legislature that would require the president to show his birth certificate to get on the state's 2012 ballot. 'We're becoming a national joke,' Campbell, a Phoenix Democrat who opposes the measure, said Thursday, April 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP - Arizona lawmakers expressing doubt over whether President Barack Obama was born in the United States are pushing a bill through the Legislature that would require the president to show his birth certificate to get on the state's 2012 ballot.


Obama pledges federal help on Gulf disaster (AP)

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 04:28 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama is ordering federal agencies to devote every resource necessary to help with the situation in the Gulf of Mexico where an oil platform exploded and sank.

Obama scolds Wall St for resisting reform (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 03:11 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama scolded Wall Street on Thursday for its "furious efforts" to fight tighter regulation, saying the United States was doomed to another financial crisis if reforms were not implemented

5 Chinese Muslims at Gitmo seek a better deal (AP)

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 02:49 PM PDT

AP - The Obama administration on Thursday sought to block further court review in the case of five Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo Bay who want to be sent to the United States or another country where they would like to live.

Wall Street gives much to lawmakers in reform debate (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 02:46 PM PDT

Reuters - Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress may want to look tough on financial reform in front of voters but that has not stopped them from filling their re-election war chests with plenty of Wall Street cash.

Government charges ex-protector of whistle-blowers (AP)

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 02:35 PM PDT

AP - Federal investigators charged the nation's former top protector of whistle-blowers Thursday with criminal contempt of Congress.

Troubled bank a potential stain in Ill. race (AP)

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 02:33 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 11, 2010 file photo, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias talks to members of the media in Chicago. With the collapse of his family's bank almost certain, Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias and Democrats have been calculating how it could affect his campaign for President Barack Obama's old Senate seat. Giannoulias was a senior loan officer at the bank for four years before he ran for treasurer, and questionable loans made to convicted felons during his tenure have dogged him in his run for the Senate. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - The bank owned by Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias' family could fail in just days, forcing him to overcome a notable business stumble as he tries to keep President Barack Obama's old Senate seat in Democratic hands.


Nearly 4M people could pay without health coverage (AP)

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 04:04 PM PDT

President Barack Obama walks down the stairs from Air Force One upon his arrival from New York at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Thursday April 22, 2010..(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - Nearly 4 million Americans — the vast majority of them middle class — will have to pay a penalty if they don't get insurance when President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law kicks in, according to congressional estimates released Thursday.


Sigourney Weaver urges action to protect oceans (AP)

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 02:15 PM PDT

Actress Sigourney Weaver is interviewed by Associated Press on issues concerning climate change on Thursday, April 22, 2010, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)AP - Proponents of climate change legislation usually invoke the need to reduce global warming, but actress Sigourney Weaver is coming to the defense of something that's often out of sight — oceans.


Senate panel adopts Democratic budget plan (AP)

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 01:52 PM PDT

AP - A Democratic-dominated Senate panel Thursday approved an election-year budget plan that cuts just a few billion dollars from President Obama's budget for next year and puts off hard decisions on rapidly growing benefit programs.

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