Archive for May 15th, 2009
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Obama faces Notre Dame speech backlash
University of Notre Dame senior Emily Toates, like many in the Catholic faith, is angry over her school’s decision to give President Obama an honorary degree at this weekend’s commencement.
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Why Obama Isn’t Funding Needle Exchange Programs (Time.com)
Time.com – Despite campaign promises to do so, Obama has not lifted the federal funding ban on needle-exchange programs for drug addicts. Why the reversal?
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5/16/09: Your Weekly Address
This week the President discusses breakthroughs on two issues where stakeholders from all sides, once opposed, are coming together for real reform. On health care and energy, solutions would provide key pillars for a new foundation for the country. May 16, 2009. (Public Domain)
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EMBARGOED: WEEKLY ADDRESS: President Obama Says Progress on Clean Energy and Healthcare Reform Will Lay New Foundation
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Huntsman chosen ambassador to China (Politico)
Politico – President Barack Obama plans to name Utah Gov. Jon M. Huntsman Jr., a rapidly rising star in the Republican Party, as ambassador to China, a senior administration official said.
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Obama resurrects military trials for terror suspects
President Obama on Friday resumed — with expanded legal protections — the Bush administration’s controversial system of military trials for some Guantanamo Bay detainees.
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DOE narrows list of projects for nuclear loan help (AP)
AP – The Energy Department has narrowed its list of the most likely recipients of $18.5 billion in government loan guarantees for building the first new nuclear power plants.
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Prosecutor, Rove end session on fired US attorneys (AP)
AP – A federal prosecutor questioned former top presidential aide Karl Rove for several hours on Friday, trying to determine his precise role in the Bush administration’s politically tinged firings of U.S. attorneys. -
Pelosi backpedals on CIA claims (Politico)
Politico – Rebuffed by the Democratic head of the CIA and left hanging by a Democratic White House, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi backpedaled Friday on her claims that the CIA lied to her about water-boarding.
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Dems’ climate bill shy on tax credit help (AP)
AP – The House Democrats’ bill to limit gases blamed for global warming would generate a fraction of the money President Barack Obama wanted to get from it to pay for a middle-class tax credit.
