Archive for July 25th, 2009
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Defense secretary scores big wins on weapons cuts (AP)
AP – Robert Gates is on a roll. Question is, how long will it last? -
Tax on ‘Cadillac’ health plans gets boost (Politico)
Politico – White House officials are embracing a plan to tax “gold-plated, Cadillac” insurance policies, giving momentum to an idea that is receiving bipartisan consideration on Capitol Hill.
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Some incumbent senators seem to get no respect (AP)
AP – When it comes to next year’s primaries, three senators probably are feeling a lot like Rodney Dangerfield: They can’t get any respect. -
SPIN METER: Few health exec visits to WH public (AP)
AP – Despite President Barack Obama’s promise of transparency on his health care overhaul, few White House meetings with medical industry representatives on a list recently released by his administration were made public at the time, an Associated Press review found. -
Analysis: Race is daunting challenge, opportunity (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama’s summary of the furor over a black Harvard professor’s arrest was so understated, and perhaps obvious, that it barely rose above the cable-news driven din. -
Obama hawks health care overhaul, citing study (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama, citing a new White House study suggesting that small businesses pay far more per employee for health insurance than big companies, said Saturday the disparity is “unsustainable it’s unacceptable.” -
Iraq to send students to colleges in US, abroad (AP)
AP – Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saturday his country plans to send up to 10,000 Iraqi students per year to colleges in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia over the next five years as a part of a new scholarship program. -
Dodd may snub lobbyists, but not their cash (AP)
AP – Facing the toughest re-election fight of his nearly 30 years in the Senate, Sen. Christopher Dodd boasts about snubbing lobbyists. -
US: Parade of officials to caution Israel (AP)
AP – The Obama administration is dispatching four of its most senior foreign policy and security figures to Israel this coming week with the same message on two open questions causing friction between the close allies: Don’t do it. -
Clinton’s Mideast defense claims set off tremors (AP)
AP – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton set off tremors in the Middle East this week when she said a nuclear Iran could be contained by a U.S. “defense umbrella” an offhand remark that appears to have emerged from obscure Washington policy debates and her own presidential campaign rhetoric.
