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Senate postpones Libya vote amid budget dispute (AP)
05.07.2011 22:59   15 wyświetleń  0 komentarzy
Tags: Democratic, Senate, Republicans, United, American, Take, States, United States, Just, NASA, Libya


A Libyan girl hangs onto a stairwell banister in downtown Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday, July 5, 2011. The U.S. Senate scheduled a vote on Tuesday whether to proceed with a resolution authorizing 'the limited use of United States Armed Forces in support of the NATO mission in Libya.' The resolution would expire when the NATO operation ends or after one year, and it would prohibit the use of American ground forces or private security contractors in Libya. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)AP - Senate Democratic leaders abandoned plans for a test vote Tuesday on authorizing the U.S. military operation against Libya as Republicans insisted they should instead focus on government spending and the nation's borrowing limit.


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Debt deal not that far out of reach (Reuters)
05.07.2011 18:55   25 wyświetleń  0 komentarzy
Tags: President, Obama, Barack Obama, Reuters, Republicans, Dell, August


Reuters - You would never know it from all the hot air rising out of Washington, but President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans could easily reach a deal to raise the debt limit and avoid an early August default. Czytaj więcej »

House panel to take up 3 trade agreements (AP)
05.07.2011 17:57   12 wyświetleń  0 komentarzy
Tags: South, Obama, House, White House, Republicans, While


AP - House Republicans are bucking demands from the Obama White House to include renewal of a U.S. job training assistance program in long-pending legislation providing free-trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama. Czytaj więcej »

GOP uses budget, other tools to sap financial law (AP)
05.07.2011 17:15   15 wyświetleń  0 komentarzy
Tags: President, New York, York, Republicans, Store, Global, Congressional, Just, FIVE, Richard


FILE - In this June 22, 2011 file photo, Terence Toal, left, talks to a fellow trader as they work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Global stock markets pushed modestly higher Tuesday, July 5, as investors awaited a raft of U.S. economic data this week that culminates with closely-watched payrolls figures.(AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)AP - Congressional Republicans are greeting the one-year anniversary of President Barack Obama's financial overhaul law by trying to weaken it, nibble by nibble.


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Why politicians should shut up about their kids (The Week)
05.07.2011 11:06   16 wyświetleń  0 komentarzy
Tags: President, Obama, New York, York, Republicans, President Obama, This, Risk, Well, Mike, The NBA, Frays, Romney


The Week - I've got a pledge I'd like all the 2012 presidential aspirants to make, says Frank Bruni in The New York Times: "How about everyone's agreeing to shut up about their kids?" President Obama recently trotted out his daughters to shame Republicans over their debt-limit brinksmanship. And on the GOP side, there's a virtual "reproductive arms race." At a recent debate, Rick Santorum mentioned his seven kids, Michele Bachmann plugged her five children and 23 foster kids, and Mitt Romney "ticked off five sons, five daughters-in-law and, lest he let Bachmann lap him, 16 grandchildren. This unfortunate surge in politicians' use of their kids as political props doesn't say anything worthwhile about how Candidate Parent would govern — and it doesn't do the kids any good, either. Here, an excerpt: Czytaj więcej »

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