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07/19/11 A bipartisan Senate proposal for a $3.7 trillion debt-cutting plan praised by President Barack Obama faces resistance from House Republicans, as lawmakers intensify efforts for a compromise on government spending less than two weeks before a threatened default.
07/19/11 U.S. stocks rose, sending the Standard & Poor's 500 Index to its biggest rally since March, as President Barack Obama endorsed a bipartisan deficit-reduction plan and International Business Machines Corp. spurred the largest technology advance in a year.
07/19/11 WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama endorsed a new bill by Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California to repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act, another step in what the president has termed his "evolving" views on same-sex marriage.
07/19/11 Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar is attacking President Barack Obama and showing himself with former President Ronald Reagan in his first campaign ad in what will likely be a tough re-election contest.
07/19/11 KMBC Anchor Lara Moritz is traveling to Washington, D.C., to interview President Barack Obama.
07/19/11 President Barack Obama moved Monday to get a new consumer-protection bureau up and running, introducing a former Ohio attorney general as director, in an apparent acknowledgment that the woman who masterminded the agency couldn't win Senate confirmation.
07/19/11 WASHINGTON - The choice of former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray to head a new federal consumer-protection agency did not pacify Senate Republicans, who vowed to fight his nomination until President Barack Obama agrees to revise the powers of the bureau.At a Rose Garden ceremony yesterday on a scorching midsummer afternoon, Obama tapped Cordray as the first director of the Consumer ...
07/19/11 BOSTON - President Barack Obama may have cleared the way for a new entrant into the Democratic field lining up to challenge Sen. Scott Brown in the Republican's re-election bid next year, by choosing someone other than consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren to run the new national Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
07/19/11 US President Barack Obama's choice to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau only inflamed a political battle over whether the new agency is a defense against big-business abuses or represents the worst of big-government meddling.
07/19/11 President Barack Obama moved Monday to get a new consumer protection bureau up and running, introducing a former Ohio attorney general as director, in an apparent acknowledgment that the woman who masterminded the agency couldn't win Senate confirmation. read more
07/19/11 DAYTON - Although Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor repeatedly has ripped the new federal health-care law, the Kasich administration still plans to fully implement it in Ohio.Gov. John Kasich said yesterday that plans are moving forward to create a statewide marketplace or exchange for health insurance, as mandated by the Affordable Care Act championed by President Barack Obama .
07/19/11 By passing over Elizabeth Warren as head of a new consumer financial protection agency, President Barack Obama has freed the Harvard Law professor to possibly run against U.S. Sen. Scott Brown.
07/18/11 The New York Post is suggesting that at least one prominent Democratic politician is secretly hoping that President Barack Obama is defeated for re-election next year. That politician is New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has his own presidential aspirations.
07/18/11 WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama warned the financial industry Monday to stop fighting his administration's reforms to help consumers as he officially announced his pick to head a financial watchdog agency.
07/18/11 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama warned the financial industry on Monday to stop fighting his administration's reforms to help consumers as he officially announced his pick to head a U.S. financial watchdog agency.
07/18/11 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Sunday chose former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray to head the new agency charged with protecting U.S. consumers from abusive mortgage lending practices and hidden credit card fees.
07/18/11 President Barack Obama moved Monday to get a new consumer protection bureau up and running, introducing a former Ohio attorney general as director, in an apparent acknowledgment that the woman who masterminded the agency couldn't win Senate confirmation.
07/18/11 Monday's MLB news briefs: President Barack Obama will open the White House to the team in honor of its 2010 defeat of the Texas Rangers in Game 5 of the World Series last fall. It's the first World Series title for the Giants in more than 50 years.
07/18/11 President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Richard Cordray to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the White House announced Sunday.
07/18/11 Courting confrontation and compromise alike, House Republicans on Monday shrugged off President Barack Obama's threat to veto their legislation to cut federal spending by trillions of dollars, even as they negotiated with him over more modest steps to avert a potential government default.
07/18/11 Courting confrontation and compromise alike, House Republicans shrugged off President Barack Obama's threat to veto legislation to cut federal spending by trillions of dollars on Monday while simultaneously negotiating with him over more modest steps to avert a potential government default. | 
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