Archive for November, 2010

No U.S. president of the modern era ever got in trouble with voters by speaking ill of civil servants. At least since Ronald Reagan, it’s been far easier (and better politics) to portray the federal work force as lazy, uncaring, overpaid, anti-business…

By a nearly 3-2 margin, the Senate voted Tuesday to let lawmakers keep sprinkling bills with home-state pet projects like roads, bridges, water treatment plants, grants to local police departments and special interest tax breaks. But with anti-earmark GOP…

The White House posted a photo:

President Barack Obama talks with Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., Republican Whip, at the conclusion of a meeting with bipartisan Congressional leadership in the Oval Office Private Dining Room, Nov. 30, 2010. Listening at right are Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Republican Leader; Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., Republican Whip; and Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., Majority Leader. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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The White House posted a photo:

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden meet with bipartisan Congressional leadership in the Oval Office Private Dining Room, Nov. 30, 2010. Attending the meeting, clockwise from President Obama are: Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., Majority Leader; Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Republican Leader; Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Assistant Majority Leader; Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., Republican Whip; Vice President Biden, Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., Republican Whip; Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., Majority Leader; Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, Republican Leader; and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Senate Democrat said Tuesday he’d move to force a test vote this week on a measure to give tens of thousands of young illegal immigrants a path to legal status.

Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he’d move to schedule action on…

Thanks to that latest Internet spawn called WikiLeaks, the world now knows that diplomats, like all other human creatures, gossip, tattle on each other and even on occasion bend the truth to their own purposes.

This disclosure calls to mind that…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Heralding a new era of divided government, President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans pledged warily to seek common ground on tax cuts and reduced spending Tuesday in their first meeting since tumultuous midterm…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is calling on the Senate to act to overturn the “don’t ask, don’t tell” ban on openly gay people serving in the military.

In a statement Tuesday, Obama said a new Pentagon survey confirms that most in the…