Articles filed under Political Figures
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GOP candidate has given own campaign $1.25MNov 26, 2013 10:57 pm - A Republican candidate for Illinois governor who reported income of $53 million last year has contributed more than $1 million to his own campaign, but an analysis Tuesd...
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Speaker calls Illinois 'most crooked, most broke' at political summitNov 02, 2013 6:00 pm - The guest roster read like a Who's Who of local and national Republican and conservative figures. Among them were U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam, former congressman and now broa...
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Former Obama aide denies he weighed dropping BidenNov 01, 2013 10:13 am - WASHINGTON — A new book asserts the idea of replacing Vice President Joe Biden with Hillary Rodham Clinton was floated in President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campa...
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Jackson to sell D.C. home to pay $750,000 judgmentOct 25, 2013 4:50 pm - Prison-bound former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. plans to sell his home in Washington, D.C., to help pay a $750,000 forfeiture judgment — part of his sentence for illeg...
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Durbin: GOP leader told Obama 'I cannot even stand to look at you'Oct 24, 2013 8:00 am - Illinois Senator Dick Durbin said on his Facebook page this weekend that a top House Republican leader told President Barack Obama, “I cannot even stand to look at you” ...
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Out of the spotlight, Obama nurtures his faithOct 19, 2013 4:33 pm - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is not an overtly religious man. He and his family rarely attend church, and he almost never elaborates in public about his own relat...
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DHS selection suggests priority shift to securityOct 18, 2013 8:31 am - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s selection of a former top Pentagon lawyer to head the Homeland Security Department suggests the agency will be stepping back from i...
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No safe bets for Obama despite toned-down agendaOct 18, 2013 8:00 am - WASHINGTON — Regrouping after a feud with Congress stalled his agenda, President Barack Obama is laying down a three-item to-do list for Congress that seems meager when ...
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Emerging Senate proposal focus in budget battleOct 12, 2013 2:15 pm - WASHINGTON — The focus of efforts to end the government shutdown and prevent a U.S. default shifted to the Senate on Saturday, where leaders were in talks aimed at resol...
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Obama takes economy message to corporate leadersSep 18, 2013 10:01 am - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, facing a budget showdown with Congress, is pushing his economic agenda to some of the nation’s top corporate executives while cautio...