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    May 22, 2013 |Story| Reuters

  1. Obama nominee vows to work with Congress to fund transportation

    Reuters
    By Doug Palmer WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's choice to be transportation secretary promised on Wednesday to work with Congress to figure out how to fund U.S. transportation needs during a time of tight budgets and faced...

    Tags: Washington, DC, Transportation, U.S. Congress, Government, John Thune

    2. Apr 10, 2013 |Story| Petoskey News

  2. Deal on background checks is close, Senate roll call expected Thursday

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan deal seems imminent on expanding background checks to more gun buyers, an agreement that could build support for President Barack Obama's drive to curb firearms violence.
    WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan deal seems imminent on expanding background checks to more gun buyers, an agreement that could build support for President Barack Obama's drive to curb firearms violence. Meanwhile, the Senate is ready for an opening...

    Tags: Saxby Chambliss, Chuck Schumer, John McCain, Mark Kirk, Mark Pryor

    3. Mar 22, 2013 |Story| Petoskey News

  3. Senate vote: OK $85 billion cuts, avert shutdown

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate approved legislation Wednesday to lock in $85 billion in widely decried spending cuts aimed at restraining soaring federal deficits — and to avoid a government shutdown just a week away. President Barack Obama's fellow Democrats rejected a call to reopen White House tours scrapped because of the tightened spending.
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate approved legislation Wednesday to lock in $85 billion in widely decried spending cuts aimed at restraining soaring federal deficits — and to avoid a government shutdown just a week away. President Barack Obama's...

    Tags: Economic Stimulus Plan, Tourism and Leisure, U.S. Department of Defense, Mark Pryor, Budgets and Budgeting

    4. Mar 18, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Senators protest sequester cuts, shutdown threat looms

    WASHINGTON — It was bound to happen: As the sequester budget cuts are felt around the country, lawmakers are having second thoughts — and trying to tinker with them in a way that could lead to a full-scale government shutdown. Senators...

    Tags: Washington, DC, Budget Control Act of 2011, U.S. Congress, Kay Hagan, U.S. Department of Defense

    5. Mar 18, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Sen. Roy Blunt placing a hold on Obama's EPA nominee

    <span class="runtimeTopic">WASHINGTON</span> -- Missouri Republican Sen. Roy Blunt said on Monday that he is placing a hold on Gina McCarthy, President Obama&rsquo;s pick to run the Environmental Protection Agency, which could delay a full Senate vote on the nominee.
    WASHINGTON -- Missouri Republican Sen. Roy Blunt said on Monday that he is placing a hold on Gina McCarthy, President Obama’s pick to run the Environmental Protection Agency, which could delay a full Senate vote on the nominee. Blunt said the hold...

    Tags: Gina McCarthy, Claire McCaskill, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, United Auto Workers, Environmental Pollution

    6. Mar 8, 2013 |Story| Petoskey News

  6. U.S. Budget Battle: Furlough plans vary widely at gov't agencies

    WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; Federal workers could face seven days of furloughs at the Housing and Urban Development Department, but Homeland Security personnel might see twice that number. At the Environmental Protection Agency, workers would get four-day holiday weekends with a catch &mdash; one day would be a furlough day.
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal workers could face seven days of furloughs at the Housing and Urban Development Department, but Homeland Security personnel might see twice that number. At the Environmental Protection Agency, workers would get four-day...

    Tags: Labor Day, U.S. Department of Justice, Government, Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. Department of Agriculture

    7. Feb 8, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. For David O. Russell, an entry in his own 'Silver Linings Playbook'

    The last time David O. Russell went to the White House, to screen &ldquo;Three Kings&rdquo; for Bill Clinton in 1999, he brought his 5-year-old son Matthew. Russell didn&rsquo;t fully know it then, but a world&nbsp; of struggle loomed for the boy, who grappled with emotional difficulties for much of his childhood and adolescence. Those challenges also awaited the director, who felt acutely the frustrations of raising a son with behavioral issues.
    The last time David O. Russell went to the White House, to screen “Three Kings” for Bill Clinton in 1999, he brought his 5-year-old son Matthew. Russell didn’t fully know it then, but a world  of struggle loomed for the boy, who grappled...

    Tags: Entertainment Events, Movies, Bill Clinton, Entertainment, Vice (movie)

    8. Feb 7, 2013 |Column| Allentown Morning Call

  8. What the Catholic bishops owe President Obama

    U.S. Catholic bishops have a lot to worry about: the gunning down of children; 11 million undocumented immigrants, many of them Catholic; a warming planet; a chilly economy. Instead they've spent the last year obsessed with contraception.
    U.S. Catholic bishops have a lot to worry about: the gunning down of children; 11 million undocumented immigrants, many of them Catholic; a warming planet; a chilly economy. Instead they've spent the last year obsessed with contraception. The bishops...

    Tags: Mitt Romney, Health Insurance, Political Candidates, Family Planning, Rush Limbaugh

    9. Feb 1, 2013 |Story| Aberdeen News

  9. Senators introduce extension of ag disaster assistance programs

    Washington, D.C. - Senators Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) introduced legislation recently to extend agriculture disaster assistance programs that expired at the end of the 2011 Fiscal Year and were not part of the...

    Tags: Washington, DC, Droughts, U.S. Congress, Natural Disasters, Agriculture

    10. Jan 18, 2013 | Orlando Sentinel

  10. Condoleezza Rice, Taylor Branch on ‘Face the Nation’; Eva Longoria on ‘This Week’

    The TV Guy - Orlando Sentinel
    White House senior adviser David Plouffe will be a guest on ABC's “This Week,” CBS' “Face the Nation,” CNN's “State of the Union” and “Fox News Sunday.” The guest lineup this Sunday morning: “Fox...
    11. Jan 21, 2013 |Story| Petoskey News

  11. Schumer says Senate Democrats will pass budget

    WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; Senate Democrats intend to approve a budget for the first time in almost four years, a prominent lawmaker said Sunday, but he said it will call for higher tax revenues that Republicans are sure to oppose.
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats intend to approve a budget for the first time in almost four years, a prominent lawmaker said Sunday, but he said it will call for higher tax revenues that Republicans are sure to oppose. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N....

    Tags: Washington, DC, U.S. Congress, Chuck Schumer, Fox News Channel (tv network), ABC (tv network)

    12. Jan 19, 2013 |Story| Petoskey News

  12. Religious tensions play out in inaugural

    There may be no clearer reflection of this moment in American religious life than the tensions surrounding prayers at President Barack Obama's inauguration. Efforts by the Presidential Inaugural Committee to bridge the conservative-liberal divide by...

    Tags: Separation of Church and State, Same-Sex Marriage, Protestantism, Republican Party, Judaism

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