Archive for June 19th, 2009
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Former Congressman Tom Davis Emerges as Favorite in Obama’s Cyberczar Search (Time.com)
Time.com – Politically savvy and with enough tech cred, Tom Davis, a former GOP Congressman from Virginia, appears to be the betting favorite
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Former Congressman Tom Davis Emerges as Favorite in Obama’s Cyberczar Search (Time.com)
Time.com – Politically savvy and with enough tech cred, Tom Davis, a former GOP Congressman from Virginia, appears to be the betting favorite
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Financial Reform to Protect Consumers
The President explains his plan to address one of the major causes of the current economic crisis — the breakdown of oversight leading to widespread abuses in the financial world. The new Consumer Financial Protection Agency will have the sole job of looking out for the financial interests of ordinary Americans by banning unfair practices and enforcing the rules. This is a cornerstone in America’s new economic foundation. (Public Domain)
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Boehner Urges Obama to Push for Block on Gasoline Sales to Iran (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg – June 20 (Bloomberg) — House Republican Leader John Boehner
called on President Barack Obama to push for an embargo of
gasoline sales to Iran and take âa harder positionâ on that
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WEEKLY ADDRESS: President Obama Highlights Tough New Consumer Protections
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Drug companies may narrow Medicare coverage gap (AP)
AP – The pharmaceutical industry would finance improved coverage under the Medicare prescription drug program and help defray the cost of President Barack Obama’s health care legislation under an $80 billion deal with key lawmakers and the White House that officials said Friday night was close to agreement.
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Officials: Hawaii anti-missile move a safeguard (AP)
AP – A new anti-missile system ordered for Hawaii is partly a strategy to deter North Korea from test-firing a long-range missile across the Pacific and partly a precaution against the unpredictable regime, military officials said Friday. -
House impeaches federal judge from Texas (AP)
AP – The House on Friday impeached a federal judge imprisoned for lying about sexual assaults of two women in the first such vote since impeaching former President Bill Clinton a decade ago. -
Sotomayor quits women’s club after GOP criticism (AP)
AP – Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor resigned Friday from an elite all-women’s club after Republicans questioned her participation in it. Sotomayor said she resigned from the Belizean Grove to prevent the issue from becoming a distraction in her confirmation hearings. -
Obama pokes fun at broadcasters’ annual dinner (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama knows a little something about catching flies knowledge he says he’s using to help win over groups in solving the nation’s health care crisis.
