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Obama tries to reach out to GOP

Associated Press — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:11:32 +0000

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said today he was open to four new Republican proposals on health care legislation, in a gesture of bipartisanship meant to jump-start his stalled drive to overhaul the system. Obama detailed the ideas, all of which were raised at a bipartisan health care summit last week, in a letter to [...]

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Obama tries to woo reluctant Democrats

Associated Press — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:29:00 +0000

WASHINGTON — A small number of House Democrats who opposed health overhaul legislation on the first go-round may be President Barack Obama’s most important constituency when he unveils a revised proposal on Wednesday. At least nine of the 39 Democrats who voted “nay” when the House passed sweeping overhaul legislation 220-215 in November are now [...]

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International tourism bill passes

Wally Northway — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:24:03 +0000

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate has again passed legislation intended to attract more foreign tourists to the United States, a measure U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) supported as a cosponsor. Cochran voted with the Senate to pass—for a second time—the Tourism Promotion Act. The bill was attached by the House to HR.1299, legislation involving U.S. [...]

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President selects debt commission members

Associated Press — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:42:30 +0000

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s four appointments to the bipartisan debt panel he established last week include the head of manufacturing giant Honeywell and a former top-ranking Federal Reserve official. Obama will name David Cote, chief executive officer at Honeywell International, and former Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Alice Rivlin to the panel today, an administration [...]

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Democrats warily embrace healthcare plan

Associated Press — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:21:24 +0000

WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats cautiously embraced President Barack Obama’s new health care plan as their last hope for enacting a comprehensive overhaul. Republicans trashed it, dimming prospects for any deal at the bipartisan health care summit that Obama has scheduled for Thursday to try to jump-start the debate. A year after calling on Congress to [...]

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Obama unveils $1T healthcare plan

Associated Press — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:31:22 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — Making a last-ditch effort to save his health care overhaul, President Barack Obama on Monday put forward a nearly $1 trillion, 10-year compromise that would allow the government to deny or roll back egregious insurance premium increases that infuriate consumers. The White House immediately demanded an up-or-down vote in Congress on the [...]

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White House looking to flank GOP on healthcare

Associated Press — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:37:09 +0000

WASHINGTON — The White House and congressional leaders are preparing a detailed healthcare proposal designed to win passage without Republican support if GOP lawmakers fail to embrace bipartisan compromises at President Barack Obama’s summit next week. A senior White House official said yesterday that Democratic negotiators are resolving final differences in House and Senate health [...]

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Obama calls out Republicans on healthcare reform

Associated Press — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:00:45 +0000

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says it’s time for Republicans who have attacked his healthcare proposals from the sidelines to step before the cameras and present their own ideas. In the first major move to revive his healthcare agenda after his party’s loss of a filibuster-proof Senate majority, Obama on Sunday invited GOP and Democratic [...]

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President wants SBA loan expansion

Associated Press — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:46:01 +0000

WASHINGTON — In an effort to create more jobs, President Barack Obama will ask Congress to temporarily expand two lending programs for the owners of small businesses, an administration official said Friday. Speaking on the condition of anonymity because the president hadn’t yet announced the proposal, a White House official said the plan would temporarily [...]

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Obama pushing small business plan

Associated Press — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:07:09 +0000

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s bid to sell his economic agenda and re-energize voters picks up in politically significant New Hampshire, where he will again promote an idea to free up money for small businesses that are hurting. Obama travels to Nashua, N.H., today to draw attention to a proposal highlighted in his State of [...]

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