Articles filed under Political Figures
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Obama completes national security teamJan 08, 2009 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Promising to protect the United States while adhering to its core human values, President-elect Barack Obama formally unveiled his intelligence team Friday...
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Rifts show as Obama urges quick action on stimulusJan 08, 2009 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers are under orders to finish action on President-elect Barack Obama's nearly $800 billion economic recovery plan by mid-February. But already it is...
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Burris denies Blago quid pro quo for Senate seatJan 08, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- U.S. Senate appointee Roland Burris said Thursday he's never been involved in an improper deal in his two decades in government and didn't strike any agre...
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Obama warns of dire consequences without stimulusJan 07, 2009 10:00 pm - FAIRFAX, Va. -- President-elect Barack Obama urged dubious lawmakers Thursday to work with him "day and night, on weekends if necessary" to approve the largest taxpayer-...
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Blagojevich lawyers want U.S. attorney off caseJan 07, 2009 10:00 pm - Attorneys for Gov. Rod Blagojevich asked the federal courts today to kick U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and his staff off the case and end the governor's prosecution....
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Lawmakers recommendation: Impeach BlagojevichJan 07, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Gov. Rod Blagojevich should be impeached for failing to put the state's interests before his own and losing the citizens' confidence, an Illinois House pan...
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Burris expects to join Senate 'very shortly'Jan 06, 2009 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Roland Burris said Wednesday he should be able to join the Senate "very shortly," after talking to newly supportive Democratic leaders and working on linge...
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What does Blagojevich get out of Senate appointment?Jan 06, 2009 10:00 pm - Gov. Rod Blagojevich could have expected Tuesday's spectacle in Washington, D.C., as his U.S. Senate appointee was denied a seat representing Illinois in the upper chamb...
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White says he's taking too much blame in Burris sagaJan 06, 2009 10:00 pm - Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White says he's being unfairly blamed by members of the U.S. Senate for not seating Roland Burris. Burris was barred from taking Presid...
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Obama names efficiency watchdog for federal programsJan 06, 2009 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama said Wednesday that reforming massive government entitlement programs -- such as Social Security and Medicare -- would be "a c...