Archive for July 22nd, 2009
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Transcript: Obama pleads health care case
President Obama took his health care reform push to the American people at a Wednesday night news conference. Here is a transcript of the conference.
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Will Obama’s health care plan mirror the 1994 Clinton failure?
In 1994, universal health care was a key policy plan for then-President Bill Clinton. It eventually failed.
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Health care debate shifts to how much reform is needed
President Obama prepared to take his push for health care reform to the American people in a Wednesday night news conference, with the debate focusing on how much overhaul is needed.
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After lawsuit, Obama releases info on health talks
The Obama administration is fighting to block information on visits by health care executives to the White House. Msnbc.com’s Bill Dedman reports. -
Trustee: Palin not involved with defense fund
The trustee for a legal defense fund set up to help Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said the former vice presidential candidate has never been involved with the trust or accepted money from it to pay her legal bills. -
Fact check: Obama’s health care claims adrift?
President Barack Obama’s assertion Wednesday that government will stay out of health care decisions in an overhauled system is hard to square with the proposals coming out of Congress and with his own rhetoric. -
FACT CHECK: Obama’s health care claims adrift? (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama’s assertion Wednesday that government will stay out of health care decisions in an overhauled system is hard to square with the proposals coming out of Congress and with his own rhetoric. -
Obama backs millionaire’s tax (Politico)
Politico – President Barack Obama used a prime-time news conference Wednesday to urge Americans to get behind his flagging health care reform efforts in Congress, seeking to reassure an increasingly jittery public that the government can overhaul the system without jeopardizing the care most citizens currently receive.
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Obama says police acted ’stupidly’ in arrest (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama said Wednesday that police acted “stupidly” in the arrest of prominent black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and that despite racial progress blacks and Hispanics are still singled out unfairly for arrest. -
Obama: Banking system needs new regulation
President Barack Obama says the financial system has stabilized but needs new regulations to curtail behavior and practices that led to the meltdown that brought Wall Street to the brink of collapse.
