2010年7月19日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Elections

60 votes in place, Dems ready to extend jobs money (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 03:53 PM PDT

President Barack Obama with from right, to left, Leslie Macko, from Charlottesville Va., Jim Chukalas, Fredon Township, NJ., and Denise Gibson, Brooklyn, NY., as he delivers remarks on the extending unemployment insurance, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 19, 2010.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - With a new face and a 60th vote for breaking a Republican filibuster, Senate Democrats are preparing to restore jobless checks for 2.5 million people whose benefits ran out during a congressional standoff over deficit spending. President Barack Obama says, "It's time to do what's right."

Pushing his agenda, Obama makes policies personal (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 02:18 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 4, 2010, file photo President Barack Obama meet with area residents at Camardelle's, a live bait and boiled seafood restaurant in Grand Isle, La., and talked about the BP Gulf Coast oil spill. From education to health care to even the spill, the 48-year-old Obama often makes his policy personal. About the disastrous oil spill he spoke of birds covered in oil and turtles dying from the perspective of someone 'who grew up in Hawaii, where the ocean is sacred.' (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - To show how well he understands life's daily struggles, President Barack Obama likes to tell the tale of a regular guy who has been out of work, coped with college loans, endured a fatherless childhood and longs at times to just escape.

Abortion foes win a round in health overhaul (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 02:13 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 24, 2010 file photo, Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper , D-Pa., arrives at the West Wing of the White House in Washington. Opponents of legalized abortion have won the first test of how President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law will be applied to the divisive issue. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - Abortion foes have won a round in the first test of how President Barack Obama's health care law will be applied to the politically charged issue.

Dirty diapers, huckster, political ads go negative (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 12:46 PM PDT

FILE- This undated handout photo released by Rick Scott for Governor campaign shows an undated photo of Rick Scott. Scott, a for-profit hospital executive who has never held public office, is putting in some of his own money to win the GOP nomination. Scott and his main GOP opponent Bill McCollum are using ads to attack each other as sinister, foolish, incompetent, amoral or almost criminal. (AP Photo/Rick Scott for Governor, File)AP - The dirt — specifically dirty diapers — is flying in Florida's race for governor.

Palin sparks Twitter fight on mosque (Politico)

Posted: 18 Jul 2010 06:00 PM PDT

Former Alaska Governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin speaks during the National Rifle Association's 139th annual meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina May 14, 2010. REUTERS/Chris KeanePolitico - Sarah Palin, who waded into a New York political fight by endorsing Ann Marie Buerkle in NY-25, is drifting into a decidedly higher-charged battle: The fray over a planned mosque near Ground Zero.

Clinton urges review of decision to release Libyan (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 03:53 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2009 file photo, Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi holds his prisoner release papers as he walks up stairs to board an airplane at Glasgow International Airport, Glasgow, Scotland bound for Tripoli. (AP Photo/Danny Lawson/File)AP - The Obama administration has asked the governments of Scotland and Britain to review the decision last summer to release the Libyan convicted in the Lockerbie airliner bombing.

Clinton in Afghanistan to refine war aims (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 11:41 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari at the Presidential Palace in Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, July 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul J. Richards, Pool)AP - Struggling to overcome growing concern about the course of the war in Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday she detected a subtle but favorable shift in public opinion in key ally Pakistan as she pressed Afghan leaders on reform and security improvements.

Post documents growth of intelligence since 9/11 (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 08:51 AM PDT

AP - Since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, top-secret intelligence gathering by the government has grown so unwieldy and expensive that no one really knows what it cost and how many people are involved, The Washington Post reported Monday.

Clinton tries to win over skeptical Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 04:01 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari at the Presidential Palace in Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, July 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul J. Richards, Pool)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought Monday to convince skeptical Pakistanis that American interest in their country extends beyond the fight against Islamist militants by announcing a raft of new aid projects worth $500 million.

Independents crucial to Dems' election prospects (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 12:12 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 16, 2010 file photo, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, chairman of the National Senatorial Campaign Committee, is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. In any other year, Sestak, a son of the pivotally important Philadelphia suburbs who is running for the Senate — would be favored to win the swing-voting region and, thus, the swing-voting state. But, with independent voters shifting away from the Democratic Party and President Barack Obama here and everywhere, the congressman has got his work cut out for him — even in his own backyard. Some 1.2 million more Pennsylvanians call themselves Democrats than Republicans following an Obama-led registration push in 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - Democrat Joe Sestak — a son of the Philadelphia suburbs — needs the independent voters in his backyard as he campaigns for a Senate seat in a swing state that may tilt Republican this year.

Obama to return home for Giannoulias fundraiser (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 03:43 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama is coming home next month to fundraise for Democrat Alexi Giannoulias (jeh-NOO'-lee-ehs), after the Illinois state treasurer brought in significantly less money than his Republican opponent in the race for Obama's old Senate seat.

3rd pleads guilty in Obama student loan case (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 03:22 PM PDT

AP - A third former employee of a U.S Department of Education contractor has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing President Barack Obama's student loan records.

Obama launches policy to protect oceans (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 02:50 PM PDT

AP - The Obama administration on Monday announced a new national policy for strengthening the way the U.S. manages its oceans and coasts, and the Great Lakes.

Obama: Republicans playing politics with jobless (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 01:57 PM PDT

People wait in line to enter the City University of New York (CUNY) Big Apple job fair in New York, April 23, 2010. REUTERS/Shannon StapletonReuters - President Barack Obama accused his Republican opponents on Monday of playing election-year politics by refusing to join with Democrats in approving an extension of U.S. jobless benefits.

Obama to GOP: Restore unemployment benefits now (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 02:13 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks about unemployment insurance and the economy in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama took aim at Republican lawmakers Monday, accusing them of holding the public hostage to Washington politics by blocking extended unemployment benefits for millions of out of work Americans.

W.Va. gov tries to salvage bill on US Senate vote (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 12:28 PM PDT

US Sen. Robert Byrd pictured on May 2010, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC. West Virginia's governor on Friday named a former aide to fill the US Senate vacancy left by the death in June of the longest-serving US lawmaker, Democrat Byrd, after 57 years in Congress.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)AP - Gov. Joe Manchin says he's trying to salvage legislation that would allow a vote this fall on the late Robert C. Byrd's U.S. Senate seat.

Feinberg sells compensation fund to spill victims (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 11:11 AM PDT

Kenneth R. Feinberg, who was recently appointed by President Barack Obama as the Independent Administrator of the Gulf Claims Facility for the $20 billion BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill compensation fund, speaks at the Economics Club in Washington, Monday, July 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - The administrator of a $20 billion Gulf oil spill compensation fund offered a hard sell Monday, promising fishermen and others with lost income claims from the disaster that he'll be more generous with them than any court would be.

Obama urges Republicans help pass jobless aid (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 08:09 AM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama urged Republican lawmakers to join Democrats in approving an extension of unemployment benefits for laid-off Americans on Monday, saying it is time to put politics aside.

Obama's Monday: Mercury astronaut, Mercury team (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 03:15 AM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama is welcoming a Mercury astronaut and the Phoenix Mercury women's basketball champions to the White House on a day that will end with the sound of Broadway music in the East Room.

Poll: D.C. elites a world apart (Politico)

Posted: 18 Jul 2010 08:17 PM PDT

Politico - In their opinions on policy and politicians ranging from President Barack Obama to Sarah Palin, elites in Washington have a strikingly divergent outlook from the rest of the nation, according to a new POLITICO poll released Monday.

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