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POLITICO 44: GOP sens. write Napolitano

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Kendra Marr - Nov. 22 (News Report) - Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and 11 of his Senate colleagues blasted Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Friday for supporting the legalization of undocumented immigrants.

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Landrieu a 'yes,' all eyes on Lincoln

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Carrie Budoff Brown,Jake Sherman - Nov. 21 -

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What to watch for in today's debate

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Chris Frates - Nov. 21 (News Analysis) - Nancy Pelosi did it. Can Harry Reid? Two Saturdays ago, Pelosi passed health reform on a squeaker of a House vote. Today, Reid can’t spare a single Democrat as the Senate decides whether to start debate. If not, President Barack Obama’s reform hopes suffer immeasurable harm.

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Obama: Asia trip part of U.S. jobs push

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Patrick O'Connor - Nov. 21 (News) - President Obama saved one last message from his eight-day trip to Asia, telling Americans that he “will go anywhere” in pursuit of economic growth and jobs. “Hi. I’m recording this message from Seoul, South Korea, as I finish up my first presidential

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In Senate, coal fuels climate deals

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Lisa Lerer - Nov. 17 (News Report) - Forget the debate over green jobs, wind farms and solar power. In the Senate, all deals on climate change run through coal country. Black gold has maintained a tight hold over the climate bill — despite a damaging lobbying scandal this summer, growing public health concerns and a destructive toxic coal ash spill that smothered 300 acres in eastern Tennessee last December.

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Green groups split on Danish idea

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Eamon Javers - Nov. 17 (News Report) - U.S. environmental groups are split over how to respond to the Obama administration’s decision to go along with a Danish proposal not to push for a binding global climate agreement at a United Nations conference in Copenhagen next month. The global environmental group Greenpeace blasted the move, calling it a sop to President Barack Obama’s political vulnerability. “Danish Prime Minister [Lars Lokke] Rasmussen has become complicit in a U.S. so-called deal which would put Obama’s political difficulties ahead of the survival of the world’s most vulnerable countries,” said Kaisa Kosonen, climate policy adviser for Greenpeace International.

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Chevron's lobby campaign backfires

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Kenneth P. Vogel - Nov. 16 (News Report) - Facing the possibility of a $27 billion pollution judgment against it in an Ecuadorean court, Chevron launched an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign to try to prevent the judgment as well as reverse a deeply damaging story line. Chevron’s tactics — ranging from quietly trying to wield U.S. trade policy to compel Ecuador’s government to squelch the case, to producing a pseudo-news report casting the company as the victim of a corrupt Ecuadorean political system — were designed to win powerful allies in Congress and the Obama administration as well as to shape public opinion and calm shareholders.

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'The Bloomberg Way' comes to D.C.

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Michael Calderone - Nov. 15 (News Report) - Defining the ethos of one of Washington’s fastest growing news organizations is a style guide called “The Bloomberg Way,” which among other things bans words like “but,” “despite,” and “however,” because they “force readers to deal with conflicting ideas in the same sentence.” But there’s an unambiguous phrase that Matthew Winkler, the style book’s author, thinks should define Bloomberg News — “most influential,” as in the world’s most influential news operation.

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'America's first Pacific president'

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:17:38 -0800

The Politico - By Mike Allen - Nov. 14 - TOKYO — Trying to reassure allies and rivals, President Barack Obama billed himself Saturday as "America’s first Pacific president," promising the nations of Asia "a new era of engagement with the world based on mutual interests and mutual respect."

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MoveOn targets AMA

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:34:50 -0800

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Vets join front lines of climate fight

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Jen Dimascio - Nov. 10 (News Report) - Veterans groups have become a key weapon for environmentalists in their bid to win over swing votes on California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer’s climate change bill. But selling the military community on the importance of climate change was not automatic. In fact, five years ago, the topics of climate change and energy efficiency were considered about as relevant to national security as sunspots

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Women could spell trouble for the GOP

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Glenn Thrush, Meredith Shiner - Nov. 09 (News Analysis) - the growing schism between the Republican Party’s ascendant right wing and its shrinking moderate core has clear gender undertones — and Scozzafava’s departure raises fresh questions about the GOP’s ability to recruit, elect and even tolerate the sort of moderate women who used to be part of its ruling mainstream.

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Tears, tempers fly in Nancy Pelosi's campaign

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Patrick O'Connor, John Bresnahan - Nov. 08 (News) - By Thursday, Ellsworth, who was working closely with Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) realized the church wouldn’t accept anything less than a version of Hyde, so he and his staff started working on a version the bishops could accept, aides said.

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Bishops' backing may get bill to 218

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Patrick O'Connor - Nov. 07 (News Report) - When Rafik Ismail Hamad last traveled from the West Bank to visit relatives in America, he was struck by the pressures one of his nephews was facing. The younger man, an American-born Muslim of Palestinian descent, spoke to his uncle of ethnic taunts by Army colleagues. He was haunted by the wartime disabilities of soldiers he treated as an Army psychiatrist, Hamad recalled, and was overwhelmed by a growing caseload he felt unable to manage.

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Conservatives on NY-23: We didn't lose

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Alex Isenstadt - Nov. 05 (News Report) - Conservatives say Hoffman's loss in NY-23 signaled a victory for the burgeoning political movement.

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Graham warns GOP on 'purity'

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Manu Raju - Nov. 05 (News Report) - “To those people who are pursuing purity, you’ll become a club not a party,” Graham says.

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American Petroleum Institute names new lobbyist

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Mike Allen - Nov. 05 (News Report) - "Marty brings to API a wealth of legislative experience and a deep understanding of the issues that affect America’s energy, economic and environmental security,” Gerard said. “I know he will proudly represent the interests of the thousands of companies and the millions of employees in the oil and natural gas industry, and stand up for policies that promote jobs and affordable energy.”

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Racial disparity: All active ethics probes focus on black lawmakers

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By John Bresnahan - Nov. 03 (News Report) - The House ethics committee is currently investigating seven African-American lawmakers — more than 15 percent of the total in the House. And an eighth black member, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), would be under investigation if the Justice Department hadn’t asked the committee to stand down. Not a single white lawmaker is currently the subject of a full-scale ethics committee probe.

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Behind scenes, President Obama shepherds the health reform bill

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Jeanne Cummings - Nov. 02 (News Analysis) - As health care reform legislation inexorably makes its way through Congress, President Barack Obama, who has the biggest stake in its success, has seemed distant from the grueling, detailed work of crafting the reform law. Yet that impression is

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Conservatives take aim at leaders, Charlie Crist, other races

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Alex Isenstadt, Jim VandeHei - Nov. 02 (News Report) - The conservative coup in upstate New York did much more than lay bare the power of conservative activists: It exposed how little control GOP officials hold over this surging and formidable political movement.

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Ethics list heavy on defense spenders

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Jonathan Allen - Oct. 30 (News Report) - Seven members of the powerful House panel that handles the Pentagon's purse — and the lucrative earmarks inside — have been under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, according to an internal ethics committee document obtained by The Washington Post.

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Lawmakers targeted in ethics probe

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By John Bresnahan - Oct. 30 (Breaking News) - A leaked document shows that House ethics investigators are probing the activities of nearly three dozen lawmakers — an ethical dust storm that will empower the Republicans and could imperil efforts to get health care reform through the House next week.

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Pelosi starts clock on House health bill

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Chris Frates, Patrick O'Connor - Oct. 29 (News Report) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled a $894 billion health care bill Thursday that would extend coverage to 36 million Americans through a mix of subsidies, tax incentives and penalties on individuals and small businesses, but the final package falls short of the more liberal vision of a public health insurance option.

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The White House responds quickly to AP story alleging stimulus jobs overstated -

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Politico Staff - Oct. 28 (News) - The White House's Recovery Implementation Office is firing back with both barrels at an AP story with the headline “Stimulus jobs overstated by thousands.”

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Democrats downplay Lieberman threat

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Glenn Thrush, Manu Raju - Oct. 28 (News Report) - Joe Lieberman has once again rolled a political hand grenade into the Democrats’ tent. The Connecticut independent obliterated any illusion that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) can quickly ram through health care reform with a public option, telling reporters on Tuesday that he would join Republicans in a filibuster to prevent a vote on Reid’s plan if it isn’t changed first.

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