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13 hours ago ago from Dunkin Donuts Independent Franchise Owners
Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-Ill.), one of 87 House Democrats sponsoring the 700-page immigration bill, said it was based on months of discussions with community organizations, unions and other groups around the country in hopes of gaining enough momentum to get reforms passed. (Manuel Balce Ceneta / Associated Press / October 13, 2009) Paul Frumkin of Nation's Restaurant News reports that the battle over immigration reform got off to an ...
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5 hours ago ago from BernieHund —
by sinde on December 18, 2009 President Barack Obama campaigned on the power of hope. We supported his dream for America and what we thought was the dream for us. For many of us, hope is all that is left now that reality has slapped us in the face. In recent days we have seen the administration discount some of us who worked to get him elected. We have become disillusioned and disappointed in the White House as we our dreams for ...
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15 hours ago ago from Equity Training and Development Team
Immigration Reform Next for Obama Cabinet : Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke took a page from their personal histories in making an economic argument for why immigration reform should be the next domestic agenda item for President Barack Obama's administration. The pursuit of a better life, both said, gives immigrants an extra motivating factor to take risks and reach further than their circumstances for a ...
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10 hours ago ago from The Erstwhile Conservative: A Blog of Repentance
The strategy used to engineer the health reform bill through Congress was flawed from the beginning. President Obama should have presented a clear blueprint for the legislation, insisted on it, and worked like hell to make sure it happened. He also should have made clear that at the very least a public option was a necessary component to any reform effort, since for whatever reason that's what the base of his party expected him to ...
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13 hours ago ago from AMERICAblog News
But his his argument in favor of passing the Senate health care bill simply rings hollow from a political perspective: But won’t paying the ransom now encourage more hostage-taking in the future? Maybe. But the next big fight, over the future of the financial system, will be very different. If the usual suspects try to water down financial reform, I say call their bluff: there’s not much to lose, since a merely cosmetic reform, by creating a ...
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Tom Sullivan: President Obama Loses His Base: He Just Ran Out of Slack
5 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
The media was quick to declare the Obama honeymoon over this summer. Yet supporters exhilarated by Barack Obama's stunning win in November 2008 were still willing to cut him a lot of slack. That slack just ran out. The simplest, most comprehensive health insurance reform -- single payer -- was off the table before the legislative effort on the matter even started. It was replaced with an amorphous "public option." David Sirota and others ...
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5 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Senate Dems committed to true health care reform have an opportunity to play some country hard ball with Obama and do some real good for our country. Its obvious Obama and his people are desperate to get anything passed that looks like healthcare reform. With that in mind the Dems with guts and the will to use their power for something truly beneficial to the majority of our citizens need to stiffen up and take their best effort to impose ...
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12 hours ago ago from Washington Post - World
COPENHAGEN -- President Obama told leaders of 193 nations here Friday that their collective will to address global warming hangs in the balance and urged both developed and developing countries to accept a climate change agreement he acknowledged was far from perfect. This Story On the final day of a 12-day global summit, Obama said all major economies should announce decisive actions to reduce ...
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9 hours ago ago from The New York Times
COPENHAGEN President Obama , speaking to world leaders gathered here at the frenzied end of two weeks of climate talks, urged them to come to an agreement no matter how imperfect to address global warming and monitor whether countries are in compliance with promised emissions cuts. Global Warming Recent developments on the politics of global warming with background, analysis, timelines and earlier events from NYTimes.com and ...
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9 hours ago ago from Media General - TBO.com
COPENHAGEN - President Barack Obama and world leaders are holding another impromptu meeting in search of a climate deal. Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said Friday that Obama was meeting behind closed doors with the leaders of Australia, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Japan. Also participating in the talks were developing countries Ethiopia, Bangladesh and Colombia, among others. China and Russia, both seen as key participants in ...
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