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| Geithner Announces New Financial Stability Plan |
| SEN. CHRISTOPHER DODD (D-CONN.): Good morning. Twenty-one days ago today, as he articulated the challenges we American face, President Obama asked all of us to participate in a new era of shared respo... |
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| Obama to Discuss Guantanamo With Victims of Terror Attacks, Their Relatives |
| President Obama will meet today with victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the USS Cole bombing and their families as his administration reviews how to handle detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba... |
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| Bipartisan Deal Eases Way For Stimulus Bill in Senate |
| Against a backdrop of rising unemployment, Senate Democrats struck a hard-won deal yesterday with a handful of Republican moderates to scale back spending in a massive economic stimulus bill, virtuall... |
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| Many View New Attorney General as Chance to Right What They Consider Racial Wrongs |
| For decades, the face of the criminal justice system in this country has been black and male: hundreds of thousands locked behind bars, arrested in disproportionate numbers and facing execution at rat... |
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| Driving Mr. Daschle Out? |
| Can Tom Daschle make it into the end zone with both feet inbounds?
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| Letter from Nancy Killefer to President Obama |
| February 3, 2009 Dear Mr. President, I recognize that your agenda and the duties facing your Chief Performance Officer are urgent. I have also come to realize in the current environment that my perso... |
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| Driving Mr. Daschle Out? |
| Can Tom Daschle make it into the end zone with both feet inbounds?
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| Holder Sworn in as Attorney General |
| Eric H. Holder Jr. was sworn in today as the nation's first African American attorney general, opening a new chapter for a Justice Department that had suffered under allegations of improper political ... |
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| Obama Calls for More Narrowly Focused Policy for Afghan War |
| As President Obama prepares to formally authorize the April deployment of two additional combat brigades to Afghanistan, perhaps as early as this week, no issue other than the U.S. economy appears as ... |
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| Democrats Pen Principles for Climate-Change Bills |
| Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee yesterday unveiled a set of principles that will guide their efforts to craft legislation aimed at slowing global warming, firing an open... |
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| Is Obama's Honeymoon Over? |
| President Obama needed a diversion. At 11:09 yesterday morning, the White House announced that his nominee to be the administration's chief performance officer had withdrawn because of some underperfo... |
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| Obama Nominates Judd Gregg, an Independent-Minded Conservative, to Lead Commerce |
| During a long political career that includes 16 years in the Senate, Judd Gregg has been known as a tough negotiator, a deficit hawk and an independent-minded conservative.
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| Obama Says He Erred in Nominations |
| President Obama acknowledged yesterday that he had "made a mistake" in trying to exempt some candidates for positions in his administration from strict ethics standards and accepted the withdrawal of ... |
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| Ex-Workers Could Retain Credit for Federal Service |
| Retired federal employees considering returning to government service from the private sector may face a dilemma. Under current law, many of them lose credit for their previous years of service and ha... |
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| Obama Delivers Remarks at Signing of SCHIP Legislation |
| PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: All right. Please, everybody have a seat. This is good.
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| Senate Lacks Votes to Pass Stimulus |
| Senate Democratic leaders conceded yesterday that they do not have the votes to pass the stimulus bill as currently written and said that to gain bipartisan support, they will seek to cut provisions t... |
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| After Delay, Panel to Vote on Solis Nomination |
| The nomination of Rep. Hilda L. Solis (D-Calif.) for labor secretary goes to a scheduled Senate committee vote today after a face-off with Republican lawmakers that highlights their disagreements with... |
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| CIA Pick Panetta's Public Earnings Released on Eve of Senate Confirmation Hearing |
| Leon E. Panetta, President Obama's pick to head the CIA, earned more than $1 million last year in consulting and speaking fees and from service on the boards of nearly a dozen institutions and corpora... |
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| Citing Geithner's Tax Error, Critics Say Obama's Ethics Standards Are Flexible |
| As he insists that ethical standards should be the same for both the powerful and the people, critics say that President Obama is looking the other way when it comes to his Treasury secretary.
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| Former Gregg Staffer Under Investigation |
| President Obama's nominee for secretary of commerce, Sen. Judd Gregg, said yesterday that one of his former top staff members in his U.S. Senate office is under investigation in the Jack Abramoff gift... |
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| Stimulus Bill Gets Housing Tax Perk |
| Seeking to jump-start the housing market, the Senate added new tax relief for homebuyers to its $900 billion economic stimulus bill yesterday as the legislation moved toward a final vote.
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| Vilsack Says USDA Must Serve Eaters as Well as Farmers |
| When former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack was nominated as secretary of agriculture, many food policy activists, noting his reputation as a friend to corporate agriculture and ethanol producers, rendered ... |
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| Amid Anger Over Economy, Obama Looks For Right Tone |
| President Obama, who swept to the White House on a message of hope and inspiration, is struggling to contend with a different emotion among Americans -- anger.
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| Congress Delays Troubled Switch To Digital TV |
| Congress yesterday approved a four-month delay in plans to halt analog television, the latest chapter in a troubled effort by the government to clear airwave space for emergency responders and wireles... |
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| Immigration Priorities Questioned |
| As the Obama administration vows to re-engineer immigration policy to target criminals, a new report says that in recent years, a high-profile federal program shifted its focus away from catching the ... |
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| Many View New Attorney General as Chance to Right What They Consider Racial Wrongs |
| For decades, the face of the criminal justice system in this country has been black and male: hundreds of thousands locked behind bars, arrested in disproportionate numbers and facing execution at rat... |
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| Ruling Favors Ex-Congressman and Could Limit Other Investigations |
| A federal appeals court has dealt a blow to the investigation of a former congressman in a ruling that could also limit probes of other lawmakers, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
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| A Retreat in Spending |
| After the massive buildup in defense spending during the Bush administration, the defense industry is in the line of fire.
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| Salazar Voids Drilling Leases On Public Lands in Utah |
| In a clear signal that the Obama administration is shifting the government's approach to energy exploration on public lands, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar yesterday canceled oil and gas leases on 77 ... |
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| Speeches That Keep On Giving |
| A few hundred or so former and current Department of Homeland Security people are finding it much easier to get to sleep these days, thanks to a lovely present from their former boss Michael Chertoff ... |
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| A Horse and Pony Show |
| Lawmakers, the saying goes, are either workhorses or show horses. As they debated the economic stimulus package yesterday, senators took this truism a step further: The workhorses and the show horses ... |
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| Clinton Packs Full Asia Agenda for First Trip as Secretary of State |
| Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will travel to Asia on her first voyage as chief diplomat, skipping the more traditional itinerary of Europe or the Middle East in order to place a renewed fo... |
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| Federal Agencies With Growing Problems Await New Leaders, Direction |
| Since President Obama took office, the Food and Drug Administration has been criticized for lax food safety inspections, the Securities and Exchange Commission has been berated for missing Bernard L. ... |
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| Labor Nominee's Hearing Off as Husband's Tax Liens Surface |
| A Senate committee yesterday abruptly called off a session to consider President Obama's nomination of Rep. Hilda Solis (D-Calif.) to be labor secretary after learning that her husband had paid about ... |
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| Obama to Discuss Guantanamo With Victims of Terror Attacks, Their Relatives |
| President Obama will meet today with victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the USS Cole bombing and their families as his administration reviews how to handle detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba... |
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| President's Stimulus Plan Tests Power of Persuasion |
| Attempting to persuade a nervous nation and skeptical lawmakers to back his economic rescue plan, President Obama has morphed into the nation's fiscal salesman in chief, pitching his prescription for ... |
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| CIA Nominee Panetta Vows An End to Disputed Tactics |
| Leon Panetta, President Obama's surprise choice to be CIA director, yesterday promised a "new chapter" for the embattled spy agency, telling a Senate panel he would banish controversial interrogation ... |
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| Faith-Based Office To Expand Its Reach |
| President Obama yesterday announced the creation of his faith-based outreach office, expanding its agenda beyond funding social programs to work on policies aimed at strengthening family life and redu... |
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| Treasury Overpaid for Bank Assets in Bailout, Oversight Panel Says |
| The Bush administration received assets that were worth $78 billion less than the amount it invested as part of the massive infusion of capital into the country's banks, congressional investigators ha... |
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| Bipartisan Group of Senators Seeks to Cut $100 Billion From Stimulus Bill |
| A bipartisan coalition of senators withheld support for President Obama's economic recovery package yesterday, leaving the scope and timing of his first major initiative in doubt as they sought to cut... |
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| For Obama, a Trusted Voice Who Knows the Terrain |
| After decades moving through the revolving door between the private sector and government service, Gregory B. Craig has landed again at the White House, serving as counsel to a young administration in... |
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| New SEC Chief Moves To Toughen Enforcement |
| Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary L. Schapiro yesterday announced a pair of measures to allow the agency's enforcement staff to launch investigations into financial wrongdoing more quic... |
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| Obama Announces New Economic Recovery Board |
| PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you. Thank you. Please have a seat.
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| Ginsburg's Illness Puts Focus on the Choices Ahead for Obama |
| The announcement this week that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer served as an early reminder of the weighty judicial choices ahead for President Obam... |
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| Obama Tells Terrorism Victims, Families He's Keeping an Open Mind About Guantanamo Bay |
| President Obama assured relatives and victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the bombing of the USS Cole that he is keeping an open mind about how to handle the approximately 245 detainees held at... |
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| Palin's Husband, 9 Others in Contempt |
| JUNEAU, Alaska, Feb. 6 -- The Alaska Senate on Friday found Gov. Sarah Palin's husband and nine state employees, including some of her top aides, in contempt for ignoring subpoenas to testify in a leg... |
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| Panetta Addresses Claims That Harsh Tactics Worked |
| Leon E. Panetta, President Obama's choice to be CIA director, told Congress yesterday that he would investigate assertions by the current agency leadership that harsh interrogation tactics used on ter... |
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| Some From Bush White House Blast Obama, but Former President Stays Mum |
| Richard B. Cheney says President Obama's policies will make it easier for terrorists to kill Americans. Alberto R. Gonzales says the new attorney general could be undermining the morale of U.S. intell... |
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| Steele's Campaign Spending Questioned |
| Michael S. Steele, the newly elected chairman of the Republican National Committee, arranged for his 2006 Senate campaign to pay a defunct company run by his sister for services that were never perfor... |
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| Bipartisan Deal Eases Way For Stimulus Bill in Senate |
| Against a backdrop of rising unemployment, Senate Democrats struck a hard-won deal yesterday with a handful of Republican moderates to scale back spending in a massive economic stimulus bill, virtuall... |
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| Double Blow for Police: Less Cash, More Crime |
| Philadelphia officials are leaving 200 police positions unfilled and cutting back on overtime.
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| Echoes From the Campaign Trail |
| President Obama retreated to the serenity of Camp David for the first time yesterday, stepping back briefly from a presidency that has quickly found itself tested by a loyal opposition and the loss of... |
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| Obama Readies Campaign-Style Approach to Stimulus |
| President Obama retreated to the serenity of Camp David for the first time this afternoon, stepping back briefly from a presidency that has quickly found itself tested by a loyal opposition and the lo... |
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| Economists Agree Time Is of the Essence for Stimulus |
| With Congress moving closer to adopting a $820 billion stimulus package and the Obama administration poised to unveil a new bank bailout plan, economists say that the federal government is taking its ... |
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| In Geithner's Overhaul, Aggressive Use of All Available Tools Expected |
| The nation's top economic policymakers were putting the finishing touches yesterday on a financial rescue plan that will deploy hundreds of billions of dollars to spur the flow of credit to consumers ... |
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| Obama's NSC Will Get New Power |
| President Obama plans to order a sweeping overhaul of the National Security Council, expanding its membership and increasing its authority to set strategy across a wide spectrum of international and d... |
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| The Dissenter Who Changed the War |
| Army Gen. Raymond T. Odierno was an unlikely dissident, with little in his past to suggest that he would buck his superiors and push the U.S. military in radically new directions.
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| A Military Tactician's Political Strategy |
| As Gen. David H. Petraeus flew into Baghdad in February 2007, preparing to take command of U.S. forces in Iraq, Col. Peter R. Mansoor, his executive officer, knelt alongside his seat. "You know, sir,"... |
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| Bailout Plan Delayed as Stimulus Pitch Absorbs Agenda |
| Senior Obama administration officials sought to intensify pressure on Congress yesterday to pass a massive stimulus package for the crumbling economy, warning lawmakers of the consequences of delay wh... |
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| If Spending Is Swift, Oversight May Suffer |
| The Obama administration's economic stimulus plan could end up wasting billions of dollars by attempting to spend money faster than an overburdened government acquisition system can manage and oversee... |
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| Obama Confidant Plans To Meet Azerbaijani Leader |
| David Plouffe, who managed Barack Obama's presidential campaign and was cited by Obama as the "unsung hero" in his ascendancy to the White House, is expected to meet this week with Azerbaijan's presid... |
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| At His First Prime-Time News Conference, Obama Is Serious and Expansive |
| In a prime-time debut for the new Oval Office occupant and a press corps often accused of being too enamored of him, President Obama faced journalistic skepticism from the opening question.
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| Harvard Dean, Chosen as Solicitor General, Goes Before Senators |
| When Harvard Law School hosted a huge dinner a few years ago for the conservative Federalist Society, the school's dean, Elena Kagan, received such long and enthusiastic applause that she felt compell... |
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| In Stimulus Bills, A Windfall for Agency Budgets |
| The economic stimulus packages under consideration on Capitol Hill represent a massive financial windfall for agencies across the federal government. Taken together, they could lead to more spending f... |
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| President Obama Speaks at Townhall Meeting in Elkhart, Ind. |
| SPEAKER: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA OBAMA: Thank you so much. Well, listen. Everybody can have a seat. Make yourselves comfortable. We're going to be here a while. (APPLAUSE) It is good to be back in Elkh... |
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| Senate to Vote Today on Stimulus Bill |
| With little margin for error, the Senate overcame a key parliamentary hurdle yesterday to move a massive economic stimulus bill one step closer to becoming law and set the stage for potentially tumult... |
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| Bush Faithful Rewarded With Jobs |
| Fred F. Fielding, Emmet T. Flood, William A. Burck and Daniel M. Price worked together at the White House under George W. Bush. Less than two weeks before leaving office, Bush made sure the senior aid... |
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| Leahy Proposes Panel To Investigate Bush Era |
| The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday called for a "truth commission" to investigate controversial actions of the Bush administration, including the politically inspired firings of ... |
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| New Bailout May Top $1.5 Trillion |
| The gravity of the financial crisis confronting the Obama administration will come into stark focus today when officials unveil a three-pronged rescue program that may commit up to $1.5 trillion in pu... |
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| Obama Asks For Review Of Online Security |
| President Obama yesterday ordered a 60-day review of the nation's cybersecurity to examine how federal agencies use technology to protect secrets and data.
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| Obama Says Economic Crisis Comes First |
| President Obama declared last night in his first prime-time news conference that the task of saving and creating jobs is more important than cultivating the bipartisan cooperation he promised to bring... |
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| Geithner Announces New Financial Stability Plan |
| SEN. CHRISTOPHER DODD (D-CONN.): Good morning. Twenty-one days ago today, as he articulated the challenges we American face, President Obama asked all of us to participate in a new era of shared respo... |
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| House Members Likely to Forgo Pay Raise for 2010 |
| They are probably not headed to the poorhouse quite yet, but lawmakers in the House will soon be getting the same pinch from the economic downturn that millions of other Americans are: a pay freeze.
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| Pakistan Wants More Aid, Cooperation From U.S. |
| Inside the warm welcome and promises of a "new beginning" that Pakistan extended U.S. special envoy Richard C. Holbrooke yesterday was a warning that Pakistan expects more from the United States in re... |
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| Biden Is Surprised At Criticism Of Plan |
| Vice President Biden voiced surprise at the criticism some House liberals have voiced about the administration's economic stimulus plan and said yesterday that he is holding out hope that the final ve... |
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| Dingell Is Longest-Serving House Member |
| Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.) today becomes the longest-serving member of the House of Representatives in history, but his honor comes just as his colleagues have effectively declared that his time o... |
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| Dr. Geithner Readies the Electrodes |
| Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner was under a great deal of stress.
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| Obama Paints America's Choice as His Plan or Nothing |
| FORT MYERS, Fla., Feb. 10 -- President Obama likes to portray the battle over the economic stimulus package that passed the Senate on Tuesday as a stark choice between his approach and that of those w... |
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| Raided Firms Have Murtha Ties |
| Two separate federal raids at the Virginia offices of a lobbying powerhouse and at the Pennsylvania headquarters of a defense contractor have one thing in common: Both businesses have made millions fr... |
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| Senate, House Begin Talks on Stimulus |
| Senators began talks with the House yesterday to determine which tax breaks and spending provisions will survive as part of a final stimulus package, but despite the optimism leaders in both chambers ... |
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| Congress Reaches Stimulus Accord |
| Congressional leaders agreed yesterday on the details of a nearly $790 billion stimulus package, an unprecedented attempt by the federal government to jolt the economy, create millions of jobs and eas... |
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| Key GOP Senator in Stimulus Deal Is Known for Centrist Approach |
| Six years ago, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) was working to broker a deal with a Democratic colleague that would steer $20 billion in relief to struggling state governments when she was abruptly called... |
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| Prosecutor to Interview Key Witnesses About U.S. Attorney Firings |
| A federal prosecutor investigating the dismissal of nine U.S. attorneys during the Bush administration has issued a subpoena to former senator Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.) and is preparing to interview k... |
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| States Counting on Stimulus Aid to Balance Budgets |
| If the House version of the federal stimulus package becomes law, Ohio will save 300 youth services jobs, 130 more in addiction counseling and at least 20 positions for aides who provide a respite to ... |
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| Wall Street Slams Plan With Sell-Off |
| Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner vowed yesterday to bring the "full force" of the U.S. government to battle the financial crisis, assembling an unprecedented coalition of agencies and mustering ... |
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| Justice Department Putting New Focus on Combating Corporate Fraud |
| Ten years ago, a Justice Department official drafted a set of guidelines for prosecuting corporate crime. Little noticed at the time, the strategy ultimately transformed the way prosecutors pursue cor... |
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| Lawmakers' Goal to Cap Executive Pay Meets Resistance |
| Congressional efforts to impose stringent restrictions on executive compensation appeared to be evaporating yesterday as House and Senate negotiators worked to fine-tune the compromise stimulus bill.
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| Peanut Executive Takes the Fifth |
| As salmonella illness began spreading across the country last fall, the owner of a Georgia peanut plant that was causing the outbreak railed against the cost and delays that the contamination was caus... |
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| Senate Will Vote On Labor Nominee |
| Rep. Hilda L. Solis (D-Calif.) took a big step toward becoming President Obama's labor secretary yesterday when a Senate committee voted to send her nomination to the full Senate.
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