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Geithner: "Careless" but "unavoidable" (Updated)
Spin CycleGeithner in his opening statement forcefully lays out his plan for economic recovery -- government intervention in the economy and credit markets that is huge, quick and decisive; investments in a new economy -- health care, alternative energy,...Tags: Internal Revenue Service
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Schumer: "Tim has made some mistakes"
Spin CycleSchumer, introducing Geithner as home state Senator, follows up on critical comments by ranking Republican Charles Grassley about Geithner's failure to pay taxes. "Tim has made some mistakes," Schumer says, but he "freely admitted and corrected" them on...Tags: Heads of State, Federal Reserve, Internal Revenue Service, National Government, Finance
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Ex-Nassau Sen. Balboni leaving state for private post
Spin CycleIn a sense, he started it all ??? like the flutter of an insect's wing that through a complex chain of natural events, caused the tsunami. If Michael AL Balboni of Nassau County had held onto that State Senate......Tags: Hudson River, Eliot Spitzer
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Obama giving states emission control
The Swampby Ken Bensinger and Jim Tankersley President Barack Obama will direct the EPA today to reconsider a Bush-era decision that stopped California and more than a dozen other states from setting their own stricter limits on auto emissions, according to......Tags: Prius, Chrysler, Automotive Equipment, Maine, Hybrid Vehicles
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Treasury Secretary Geithner: Sworn in
The Swampby Mark Silva Timothy Geithner once had a date with the tax man. Now Geithner is the tax man - secretary of the Treasury Department after his swearing-in tonight, following a 60-34 vote of confirmation by the Senate. The 75th......Tags: Heads of State, Federal Reserve, National Government, Internal Revenue Service, Barack Obama
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Obama's nothing-but-fear riff hits wall?
The Swampby Frank James Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously said in 1933 that Americans had nothing to fear but fear itself. Now it seems we've moved into an era where we appear to have nothing but fear itself. President Barack Obama more......Tags: Weather Warnings, Disasters, Government, Weather, National Government
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Barack Obama: 'Urban president,' office
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama is "the urban president,'' a first in modern times, schooled in New York City, trained in community organization in Chicago, resident of the South Side. And now he has a director of urban affairs.......Tags: Transportation, Executive Branch, South Side, Bill Clinton, NAACP
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Sanjay Gupta out as surgeon general
The Swampby Mark Silva Dr. Sanjay Gupta won't be making any White House calls. The television medical reporter and surgeon whose name was floated as a candidate for surgeon general in the Obama administration, has withdrawn from consideration -- says the......Tags: White House, Medicines, Hillary Clinton, CNN (tv network), Sanjay Gupta
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Valerie Jarrett: 'Consigliere' for Obama
The Swampby Mark Silva John Podesta, the ex-White House chief of staff who helped President Barack Obama staff his White House, has a simple title for Valerie Jarrett, Obama's close friend from Chicago and senior adviser in Washington: "Consigliere.'' Jarrett,...Tags: Bill Clinton, National Government, Hawaii, Trips and Vacations, Easter
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Biden: 'no inappropriate (Blago) contact'
The Swampby Jill Zuckman and John McCormick WASHINGTON - Vice President-elect Joe Biden said Tuesday that a report due out this afternoon will show "no inappropriate contact" between Barack Obama's presidential transition team and Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich....Tags: Heads of State, Executive Branch, Illinois, U.S. Presidential Election (2008), Upper House
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Obama Blago probe clears prez-elect et al
The Swampby Frank James The Obama transition team report on its contacts with Gov. Rod Blagojevich' or the governors' office has been released and, as has been telegraphed for days by the Obama team, it exonerates President-elect Obama and his aides......Tags: Executive Branch, Unions, Illinois, David Axelrod, Corporate Officers
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Ten for a Monday: Israel goes to Iraq, with Paterson
Spin CycleDick Cheney and Joe Biden exchanged insults and different views on the role of the vice-presidency and the accomplishments of the Bush administration in TV interviews. Biden will be overseeing a task-force on the middle class. Obama, on vacation......Tags: Justice System, Steve Israel, Hawaii, Tom Suozzi, Joe Biden
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