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Wednesday 10: Barackonomics
Spin CycleObama pledged to scour the federal budget for savings in a news conference yesterday, but couldn't name a single federal program he would cut. He seems to have decided to play a higher profile role in reassuring the country......Tags: Eliot Spitzer, Demographics, Illegal Immigrants, James Jones (football), Politics
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Obama shifting missiles, Eastern Europe
The Swampby Julian E. Barnes, and updated again at 12:10 pm EDT The Obama administration will significantly alter plans to create a missile defense system in Eastern Europe, abandoning blueprints for a large ground-based radar and interceptors based in the Czech.....Tags: Defense, Weaponry, Richard Shelby, Democratic Party, George W. Bush
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Obama: Clinton, Gates, Rice and more
The Swampby Peter Nicholas After weeks of speculation, President-elect Barack Obama formally will introduce Sen. Hillary Clinton as his nominee for Secretary of State at a news conference Monday morning in Chicago, according to a Democrat close to the New York.......Tags: Defense, Bill Clinton, Jim Jones, United Nations, Ethics
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Gates: Afghan move 'matter of weeks'
The Swampby Mark Silva With the Obama administration confronting a decision over escalating U.S. military forces in Afghanistan -- something which the general in command there views as essential to averting failure -- the Defense secretary says some time is...Tags: Defense, Economic Policy, Weaponry, Diplomacy, International Military Interventions
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Obama names national-security team
The Swampby Frank James President-elect Barack Obama is announcing his national security team this morning. There are no surprises, all are people whose names were leaked in recent weeks. They are: Senator Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, selecting Defense.....Tags: Diplomacy, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Jim Jones, Upper House, Massacres
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LaHood to be Transportation Sec
The Swampby Mike Dorning updated Peoria Republican congressman Ray LaHood will be nominated Transportation Secretary for the Obama Administration, Republican and Democratic sources said today. A spokesman for the Obama transition team declined to comment and...Tags: Government, White House, U.S. Presidential Transition (2009), Rahm Emanuel, National Government
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Bush's final presidential flight: For father
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated. President George W. Bush made his last expected journey aboard Air Force One as president today, traveling to Norfolk, Va., for the christening of an aircraft carrier named for his father, the 41st president -......Tags: Laura Bush, Defense, Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia), Executive Branch, Condoleezza Rice
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Afghanistan: 'First thing is not numbers'
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama, who is weighing military recommendations to boost the U.S. deployment in Afghanistan again, consulted with the NATO secretary general today and is meeting with Defense Secretary Robert Gates later in the day. After a....Tags: Government, NATO, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, National Government
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Barack Obama: 'Pragmatic progressive'
The Swampby Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten Some liberals might think that R. Bruce Josten has no business visiting President-elect Barack Obama's transition office once, let alone 16 times. That's because Josten is the top lobbyist for the U.S. Chamber of......Tags: Economic Policy, Defense, Ronald Reagan, Career and Workplace, Lobbying
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Obama: 'Don't ask, don't tell' won't do
The Swampby Katherine Skiba and Peter Nicholas President Obama, speaking to the nation's largest gay rights organization, pledged tonight to end the law prohibiting openly gay and lesbian citizens from serving in the military. "I will end 'don't ask, don't tell';....Tags: Defense, Gay Rights, Football, Crimes, Gays and Lesbians
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Hillary Clinton: 'Gosh... White House'
The Swampby Mark Silva Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she is "shocked'' at how much time she spends over at the White House.these days. And Clinton, a former first lady who knows the place pretty well, recalls just what she......Tags: Diplomacy, Weaponry, Defense, Jim Jones, Travel
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Obama: Hate crimes, defense spending
The Swampby Mark Silva Only Congress can produce a bill authorizing $680 billion in national defense spending and extending the protections of federal hate-crime legislation to gay Americans. President Barack Obama will get to sign both today in one stroke, but......Tags: Defense, Football, Gays and Lesbians, Crimes, Martin Luther King Jr.
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