2010年7月31日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Elections

AP EXCLUSIVE: Salazar keeps oil drill ban, for now (AP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 12:41 PM PDT

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar touches the blowout preventer control panel as he asks safety questions in the drilling shack on the drilling floor of the deep water Noble Danny Adkins oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - The helicopter passes over the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico — with surprisingly little oil visible on its surface — when out of the sea rises a skyscraper-like structure nearly 350 feet above the waves. The $600 million rig, nearly 100 miles off Louisiana's coast, has a hull larger than a football field and can drill more than 5 miles beneath the ocean floor.

Rangel using 3-way defense against ethics charges (AP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 12:23 PM PDT

Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., puts on his jacket as he leaves his office to go for a vote on the House floor on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, July 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - To rebut a lengthy list of alleged ethical misdeeds, Rep. Charles Rangel is trotting out this three-way defense: I didn't do it. I did it, but was inattentive. Others lawmakers were allowed to do the same thing without penalty.

Informant says WikiLeaks suspect had civilian help (AP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 03:11 PM PDT

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, left, accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen hold a press briefing, Thursday, July 29, 2010 at the Pentagon. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)AP - An Army private charged with leaking classified material to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks had civilian help, a key figure in the case said Saturday.

Obama says he'll call GOP's bluff on deficit talk (AP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 12:03 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama has a warning for Republicans who denounce the federal deficit but reject proposals to cut it.

Michigan voters search for economic savior (AP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 03:23 PM PDT

President Barack Obama addresses employees at the Chrysler's Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit, Friday, July 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - Michigan voters frustrated over lost jobs, home foreclosures and budget deficits will vote in Tuesday's primary election for leaders they hope can move the state out of its economic morass.

Obama: Rangel case troubling; some Dems say resign (AP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 10:59 AM PDT

Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., puts on his jacket as he leaves his office to go for a vote on the House floor on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, July 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Rep. Charlie Rangel is getting sympathy from some fellow Democrats but scant support from others as he faces trial on several ethics charges.

When Double Dippers become economic party poopers (AP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 08:11 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 29, 2010 file photo, President Barack Obama addresses the National Urban League 100th Anniversary Convention in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)AP - They're a minority, but a vocal one, and they're hovering like storm clouds over a brittle recovery.

California Rep. Waters may face fall ethics trial (AP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 05:27 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2009 file photo, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. A House investigative panel has decided to charge Rep. Maxine Waters of California with ethics violations, raising the possibility of a second trial this fall. People familiar with the investigation, who were not authorized to be quoted, said Friday July 30, 2010 the charges could be filed next week. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - A second House Democrat, Rep. Maxine Waters of California, could face an ethics trial this fall, further complicating the election outlook for the party as it battles to retain its majority.

GOP's Rand Paul softens rhetoric in Ky. Senate bid (AP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 07:59 AM PDT

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul responds to a question during a candidate forum in Louisville, Ky., Thursday, July 22, 2010. A tea party success story in search of a statewide triumph, Paul volunteers that he's spent two decades 'popping off' about one issue or another. Not quite so much now, though. After saying provocatively that he might not support Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell for Republican leader, Paul now proclaims himself a big fan of the man who is a living embodiment of the party establishment. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)AP - A tea party success story in search of a statewide triumph, Kentucky Republican senatorial candidate Rand Paul volunteers that he's spent two decades "popping off" about one issue or another. Not quite so much now, though.

Obama warns U.S. not to "demagogue" immigration (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 01:36 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks about the economy in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington July 19, 2010. REUTERS/Larry DowningReuters - President Barack Obama warned U.S. leaders not to use the divisive issue of illegal immigration as a way to gain power and name recognition in an interview with CBS television released on Saturday.

Obama: Republicans holding small businesses "hostage" (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 12:53 PM PDT

President Barack Obama makes remarks on the Senate campaign finance reform vote in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington July 26, 2010. REUTERS/Jim YoungReuters - President Barack Obama on Saturday accused Republicans of holding American small businesses "hostage to politics" after Republican senators refused to back a $30 billion small-business lending package.

Paperwork nightmare: A struggle to fix new law (AP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 08:45 AM PDT

AP - Tucked into the new health care law is a requirement that could become a paperwork nightmare for nearly 40 million businesses.

Obama blames GOP on small business lending bill (AP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 08:44 AM PDT

President Barack Obama addresses employees at the Chrysler's Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit, Friday, July 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - President Barack Obama is going after Senate Republicans who have stymied his proposal to create a $30 billion fund to help unfreeze lending for credit-starved small businesses.

Obama hopes Rep. Rangel can leave "with dignity" (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 06:59 AM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama called ethics charges against Representative Charles Rangel "very troubling" on Friday and said he hoped the lawmaker could end his career "with dignity."

House approves oil spill bill; stalled in Senate (AP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 12:42 AM PDT

Demonstrator Mary Ann Thomas wears chocolate syrup on her face next to a similarly stained stuffed duck on a fence during a protest in Berkeley, Calif. on Friday, July 30, 2010 to mark the 100th day anniversary of BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - The House has approved a bill to boost safety standards for offshore drilling and remove a liability cap for oil spills, but a partisan fight in the Senate will likely delay action on a response to the Gulf oil spill until Congress returns from its summer recess.

Obama visits spy museum (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 11:45 PM PDT

President Barack Obama is dressed in casual clothes as he departs the 'Spy Museum' in Washington, Friday evening, July 30, 2010. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - It's hard to travel incognito when you're the president — even on a mission to a spy museum.

Agency weighs skirting Congress on immigration (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 06:30 PM PDT

Felipa Solario pauses as she cries while telling her story of having her husband, an illegal immigrant, taken away by authorities some months ago, while she joined hundreds at a solidarity rally at St. Matthews Church to protest the provisions of the new Arizona immigration law that went into effect Thursday, July 29, 2010 in Phoenix, the day after portions of Arizona's SB1070 went into effect, but after a federal judge struck down some of the law's provisions. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - The Obama administration, unable to push an immigration overhaul through Congress, is considering ways it could go around lawmakers to let undocumented immigrants stay in the United States, according to an agency memo.

Kan. Senate race turns nasty as GOP seeks fighter (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 05:31 PM PDT

In this photo from July 27, 2010, Republican U.S. Senate candidate and Kansas Rep. Jerry Moran answers questions during a town hall meeting at the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall in Lenexa, Kan. (AP Photo/John Hanna)AP - The big issue in Kansas' U.S. Senate race is which of two veteran Republican congressmen will fight hardest — and loudest — against President Barack Obama's agenda.

Key Florida campaign-finance provision blocked by federal court (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 04:25 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - A federal appeals court in Atlanta has blocked Florida election officials from providing potentially millions of dollars from the state’s campaign finance system to Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum in his race against multimillionaire challenger Rick Scott.

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