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Health care: Public option, more time
The Swampby Mark Silva As the House prepares to take the first vote Saturday on the health-care legislation that President Barack Obama is seeking by year's end, most Americans say they'd be happy with Congress taking more time to either work......Tags: CNN (tv network), Republican Party, Medical Services, Opinion Research Corporation, Barack Obama
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Larry Summers: Job growth by Spring
The Swampby Mark Silva Larry Summers, the president's chief economic adviser, says the shedding of jobs in an economy emerging from recession should end by Spring. "It will take time,'' Summers said in an appearance on CNN's State of the Union......Tags: New Hampshire, Economy, Employees, Small Businesses, Government Debt
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Top stories, 2009: Economy, health care
The Swampby Mark Silva The economy was the big story of 2009. That and health care. From the start of the year, Americans have paid close attention to both an unfolding economic crisis, the Pew Research Center has found in a......Tags: Swine Flu, Sonia Sotomayor, Medical Services, U.S. Airways, Inauguration of President Barack Obama (2009)
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Florida GOP chief out, twine unwinding?
The Swampby Mark Silva Jim Greer -- and the Swamp will remember him today as the fellow who criticized President Barack Obama's back-to-school speech to students last fall as a platform for the president's "socialist ideology'' -- resigned today as......Tags: Local Elections, Marco Rubio, Politics, Charlie Crist, Florida
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Voters' discontent rings loud and clear
The SwampFive-term Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, standing with his wife Joan, concedes defeat in Philadelphia Tuesday evening. (EPA/Chris Gardner) by Mark Z. Barabak Delivering a powerful message of discontent, voters Tuesday swept out veteran Sen. Arlen...Tags: Jim Bunning, Hodgkins Disease, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Blanche Lincoln, Los Angeles Times
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Obama: 'Buzz saw' won't stop me
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama, allowing that he has run into a "buzz saw,'' carried his pitch for economic revival, health-care and an agenda now threatened by political upheaval to battleground Ohio today. "We've gotten pretty far down the......Tags: Corporate Crime, Ohio, George Voinovich, Employees, George W. Bush
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Obama's polarized rating: Widest divide
The Swampby Mark Silva At his inaugural address a little over one year ago, President Barack Obama appealed to a sense of commonality in the challenges facing Americans. "What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility a......Tags: Corporate Crime, Republican Party, Bill Clinton, Massachusetts, Barack Obama
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White House: 'Presidents make mistakes'
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated It was nearly a year ago, in February, that President Barack Obama set out to promote his economic stimulus plans in a round of network television interviews. Instead, he found himself explaining the mistake he......Tags: Brian Williams, Medical Services, Politics, Washington (U.S. state), Television Industry
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Obama unplugged: 'This is just politics'
The Swampby Mark Silva At the end of the week, at the end of the day, perhaps the most extraordinary thing that played out in the political sphere of Washington was not a State of the Union address, but rather a......Tags: Republican Party, Barack Obama, Washington (U.S. state)
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Pence unveils more of his 'Roadmap for Indiana' at rally Monday
Republican candidate for governor Mike Pence unveiled more of his Roadmap for Indiana Monday. Pence was joined by running mate Sue Ellspermann and lieutenant governor Becky Skillman for a rally at Union Station. He says his roadmap will put more...
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Investors find Bernanke's words stimulating
You'd never think of Fed-speak as the warm fuzzies, but that's the way investors took Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's speech Friday at Jackson Hole, Wyo. Bernanke didn't say when he might stimulate the economy again, or how he might do it, but in...
Tags: Employment Opportunities, Europe, European Debt Crisis, Unemployment, Mario Draghi
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Business can do business with Obama
Even for a speaker as famously gifted as President Barack Obama, business executives are a tough crowd.
In my experience, they don't laugh out loud at jokes as easily as, say, college students and others who might be more prone to laugh, clap, cheer or...Tags: Business, Medical Services, General Electric Company, Health and Safety at Work, White House
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