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Obama is really, really AIGry: senator
The Swampby Peter Nicholas President Obama is letting it be known that, yes, he's awfully upset about the bonuses paid to employees of AIG, the insurance giant that received a federal bailout. U.S. Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) met privately with the......Tags: Kent Conrad, American International Group, White House, National Government, Barack Obama
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House cracks down on AIG bonuses
The Swampby James Oliphant Working furiously to respond to public outrage over Wall Street excess, the House of Representatives Thursday passed a bill that seeks to recoup the lion's share of the $165 million in bonuses paid to executives of American......Tags: U.S. Department of the Treasury, American International Group, Dave Camp, Fannie Mae, Ohio
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Aaron Schock: Republican superstar
The Swampby James Oliphant He is the Republican "Dream Date," a smooth-speaking, polished product of Peoria, as comfortable with Facebook as a face-to-face. John McCain's daughter gushed over him as the future of the party. Readers of the liberal Webzine...Tags: Stephen Colbert, Ronald Reagan, Politics, Lower House, John McCain
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Napolitano: Watching threats, not ideas
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated Janet Napolitano, homeland security secretary, says her agency's report on the threat potentially posed by right-wing extremists "struck a nerve'' with her. The former U.S. attorney says that because she was "personally...Tags: Ohio, Oklahoma, Democratic Party, Defense, Oklahoma City
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Napolitano: 'I apologize' to veterans
The Swampby Mark Silva We heard something this morning that we don't often hear in Washington: An apology. After the Department of Homeland Security issued an assessment of the risk of right-wing extremism growing in the nation's current economic and political.......Tags: Ohio, Politics, Texas, FBI, Social Issues
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Ensign hangs on despite scandal
The SwampThe senator, at a hearing last month. (Getty/Chip Somodevilla) by Lisa Mascaro After delivering a floor speech against the financial overhaul bill last week, Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) walked out of the Capitol into the spring sunshine and spoke......Tags: Ethics, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Ohio, Nevada, Politics
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Obama budget means bigger deficits: CBO
The Swampby Frank James President Barack Obama's ambitious agenda to make major investments in healthcare, education and energy was imperiled by a new estimate by Congress's budget experts who suggested that the president's $3.6 trillion budget and its new...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, White House, Colorado, Ohio, Evan Bayh
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GOP unveils budget to Dems' ridicule
The Swampby Frank James House Republicans proudly introduced their alternative to President Barack Obama's $3.6 trillion budget today. And the Democrats laughed at it. The GOP lawmakers gamely called their budget plan "The Republican Road to Recovery." There may...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Rahm Emanuel, White House, National Government, Heads of State
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Obama: 'Ocean liner... not a speedboat'
The SwampSee the president's line about knowing "what I'm talking about before I speak'' in the video above, and see the entire news conference below. by Mark Silva President Barack Obama, calling his disputed spending plans for education, energy and health......Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, White House, American International Group, Ohio, Economic Policy
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White House: GOP 'party of no detail'
The Swampby Mark Silva The Republican Party has gone from the "party of no'' to 'the party of no detail,' says Peter Orszag, the White House budget director. Fine bipartisan talk from the Obama White House, yes? Orszag, appearing on Bloomberg......Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, White House, Peter Orszag, Wisconsin, Politics
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NY election: Does tie go to Obama?
The Swampby James Oliphant, and updated Remember when elections actually, you know, settled things? Even as Norm Coleman and Al Franken fight their own version of The Forever War in Minnesota, we have a new too-close-to-call election. In New York's 20th......Tags: Voting, American International Group, Politics, Kirsten Gillibrand, Minnesota
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GOP budget 'April Fools:' White House
The Swampby Mark Silva First Democrats taunted congressional Republicans for having no real alternative to President Barack Obama's proposed $3.55-trillion budget, then the White House budget director ridiculed the House GOP's alternative as devoid of detail -...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, White House, Wisconsin, Health, Politics
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