Archive for the ‘U.S. Elections’ Category
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Ill. sec. of state feels the heat in Burris flap (AP)
AP - Until recently, Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White may have been best known on the national stage for establishing an inner city tumbling team. No longer. -
Wall Street awaits new ‘rules of the road’ (Politico)
Politico - Wall Street, long one of the most powerful industries in Washington, is throwing in the towel.
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Obama economic plan gets high marks (Politico)
Politico - The survey of 1,007 registered voters conducted Dec. 27-29 showed that 79 percent of respondents favored Obama’s plan. The president-elect is advocating a $775 billion stimulus that includes a major investment in infrastructure projects and alternative energy as well as middle-class tax cuts, job training and health care reform.
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Obama’s performance czar has tried to improve IRS (AP)
AP - Nancy Killefer, the management consultant chosen by President-elect Barack Obama to make federal agencies work better for the public, has a lot of experience trying to improve the agency taxpayers love to hate, the Internal Revenue Service. -
Daschle’s approach: Anything but Clinton (Politico)
Politico - They might sit side-by-side in Barack Obama’s Cabinet room someday, but Tom Daschle didn’t much like Hillary Clinton’s tactics for fixing health care 15 years ago – so much so that he wrote a book critiquing them.
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Congress meets to count electoral votes (AP)
AP - The House and Senate are coming together in a centuries-old tradition to count the electoral votes from the November election and formally declare that Barack Obama will be the 44th president of the United States. -
Shooting movie takes stab at Taiwan ex-president (Reuters)
Reuters - A film about the election-eve gun attack on Taiwan’s recently indicted ex-president Chen Shui-bian will debut on the island this week, where it is expected to reignite debate about the controversial 2004 shooting. -
Israelis to arrive in Egypt for cease-fire talks (AP)
AP - Israeli representatives were expected to arrive in Cairo Thursday for Egyptian-brokered talks on a cease-fire proposal after the U.N. Security Council failed to agree on action to end the escalating crisis in Gaza. -
Obama to name ’soft power’ Nye for Japan role: report (AFP)
AFP - US president-elect Barack Obama plans to name influential academic Joseph Nye, best known for coining the phrase “soft power,” as ambassador to Japan, a newspaper said Thursday. -
Feds say inauguration attractive terrorist target (AP)
AP - The upcoming inauguration of Barack Obama is an attractive target for international and domestic terrorists, but U.S. intelligence officials have no information about specific threats to the Jan. 20 event.