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GOP: Breast exams show 'rationing'

Confusing new recommendations on mammograms and pap smears, a shortfall in the promised supply of swine flu vaccine and a brewing debate over rationing if the flu pandemic worsens are all playing into public fears about the increased role the federal ...

From JOSH GERSTEIN, The Politico,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  White House,  George Lakoff,  University of Pennsylvania

Judge, Obama admin. in same-sex benefit standoff

A prominent federal jurist, Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, is locked in a standoff with the Executive Branch's chief personnel agency over the judiciary's authority to award benefits to same-sex partners of judicial ...

From JOSH GERSTEIN, The Politico,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Alex Kozinski,  Ronald Reagan,  U.S. Congress,  Bill Clinton

Obama approval dips below 50

President Barack Obama’s approval ratings have dipped below 50 percent for the first time in one prominent poll amid a raft of bad news about the economy and continuing job losses. The nation’s economic woes pushed Obama down to a 49 percent approval ...

From JOSH GERSTEIN, The Politico,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Gallup,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Ronald Reagan,  U.S. Republican Party

Feingold fumes over FEC jet 'loophole'

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) is up in arms over the Federal Election Commission's decision Thursday to allow federal candidates to travel on corporate-owned jets at below-market prices, as long as the travel is ostensibly not related to their own ...

From JOSH GERSTEIN, The Politico,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Russ Feingold,  Federal Election Commission,  Barack Obama

'Muslim Mafia' author will return CAIR files

The author who directed an undercover infiltration of the Council on American-Islamic Relations has agreed to return 12,000 pages of the group's documents, as well as audio and video recordings of CAIR personnel, court documents show. An attorney for ...

From JOSH GERSTEIN, The Politico,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ibrahim Hooper

Obama econ. panel sets December meeting

President Barack Obama's blue-ribbon economic recovery panel has set a December 4 meeting which should allow it to just make a White House-imposed deadline for tax reform recommendations. Early press reports said a subcommittee of the panel had been ...

From JOSH GERSTEIN, The Politico,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  Bill Clinton,  Laura D Tyson,  TIAA-CREF

DNI claims 2-for-3 in oversight scrap

For those keeping score at home, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair is claiming he's 2-for-3 in battles with the Central Intelligence Agency for management of the nation's spies and intelligence analysts. Blair sent a memo to his staff last ...

From JOSH GERSTEIN, The Politico,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Central Intelligence Agency,  White House,  Dennis C Blair,  Leon Panetta,  Joe Biden

Obama on terror trials: KSM will die

Americans who are troubled by the decision to send alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to New York for trial will feel better about it when he’s put to death, President Barack Obama said Tuesday. During a round of network television ...

From JOSH GERSTEIN, The Politico,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Al-Qaeda,  Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,  Eric Holder,  White House

Does death for 9/11 plotters offend federalism?

Attorney General Eric Holder’s declaration that he plans to seek the death penalty for five alleged Sept. 11 plotters was the "get tough" aspect of his decision to prosecute the men in federal court rather than in military commissions. "They must face ...

From JOSH GERSTEIN, The Politico,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: John Ashcroft,  Eric Holder,  George W. Bush,  Al-Qaeda,  Peter Clavelle

Obama, Hu talk economic cooperation

President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, vowed Tuesday to harmonize the world’s two largest economies in order to pull the international economy out of its worst slump since the Great Depression. However, the points of friction ...

From JOSH GERSTEIN, The Politico,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Hu Jintao

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