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Dana Bash/CNN: Bipartisanship Didn’t Last Long In Obama’s First 100 Days
By Dana Bash, CNN Senior Congressional Correspondent.
Editor’s note: How would you rate the new Congress in President Obama’s first 100 days? You’ll get a chance to make your opinion known on at 7 p.m. ET Wednesday on the CNN National Report Card.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — There’s little debate that Democrats who run Congress mark President Obama’s [...]
SWINE FLU UPDATE: OBAMA SAYS “NO CAUSE FOR ALARM”
President Obama said Monday that the swine flu outbreak is a “cause for concern and requires a heightened state of alert,” but is not a “cause for alarm.”
He added that the federal government is closely monitoring emerging cases and had declared a public health emergency as a “precautionary tool to ensure that we have the [...]
Leahy Wants To Probe ‘Chain of Command’ On Torture
An independent commission is needed to determine who authorized the use of abusive interrogation techniques against suspected terrorists, a leading advocate of such a panel said Sunday.
“I want to know who was it who made the decisions that we will violate our own laws; we’ll violate our own treaties; we will even violate our own [...]
Rep. Murtha Feels The Heat From Obama And Congress
So powerful was Representative John P. Murtha at one time that he used to put up billboards in his Western Pennsylvania district declaring that “the P is for Power.” Few in Congress dared disagree: he doled out or withheld billions in federal money each year for lawmakers’ pet projects, better known as earmarks.
Now, however, a [...]
UAW Strikes Concession Agreement With Chrysler-Clears Way For Recovery
Chrysler LLC cleared another major obstacle to its survival Sunday when it reached a tentative deal for concessions with the United Auto Workers union.
The troubled automaker is just days from a Thursday U.S. government deadline to gain concessions from its unions and debtholders and form an alliance with Italy’s Fiat Group SpA or face almost [...]
Center For Disease Control Warns, Seasonal Vaccine No Help Against Swine Flu
U.S. health officials say they are “very pessimistic” that the seasonal flu vaccine protects against the unique swine flu infecting people in the United States, Mexico and other countries.
A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official said Sunday afternoon that tests of the seasonal vaccine and the new virus show no cross-reaction, suggesting that [...]
Feinstein Calls For Congressional Hearings On Interrogation Methods
The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Sunday she hopes public outrage over Bush-era interrogation methods subsides so Congress can calmly investigate the issue.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein said she wants congressional hearings to move forward on the interrogation techniques. The memos detailed waterboarding, a simulated drowning tactic, and other techniques used on a captured suspected [...]
Obama On Interrogation Prosecution – A Mixed Message
Until last week, President Barack Obama had made it clear he intended to “look forward,” rather than insist on punishment of Bush-era officials who approved harsh interrogation practices.
But a series of missteps by the White House threatened to undermine that decision and stoked the political tempest aides say Mr. Obama had hoped to avoid. The [...]
Television Icon Bea Arthur Dead At 86
Bea Arthur, the actress best known for her roles as television’s “Maude” and the sardonic Dorothy on “The Golden Girls,” has died of cancer, a family spokesman said Saturday.
She was 86.
Spokesman Dan Watt said that Arthur died Saturday morning at her home in Los Angeles, her family by her side.
She is survived by her sons [...]
SWINE FLU UPDATE: U.S. Declares Public Health Emergency – 20 Cases Confirmed So Far
The U.S. government will declare a public health emergency as it confirmed that there are now 20 confirmed cases of swine flu in the country.
At a White House press conference, Dr. Richard Besser, acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ensured Americans that the administration is taking aggressive steps to control [...]
