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Jun 08 2014
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John Podesta Says White House Is Ready To Spar Over Power Plant Rules
White House senior counselor John Podesta challenged the assumption that new rules on carbon emissions from power plants, which the administration issued this week, would be a problem for Democrats in the fall elections.
"There's no doubt polluters will come after this rule. They’ll try to attack it, and they’ll try to put it squarely in the political context of 2014," Podesta said at a
HuffPostJan 06 2021
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SORE WINNERS: MSNBC Spends Night Lashing Out at Republicans
Despite Tuesday night showing a Democratic sweep in the Georgia Senate runoff election, the mood on MSNBC was anything but joyous. Instead, various hosts and panelists threw a pity party for fellow leftists, bemoaning supposed Republican voter suppression efforts and insisting Republicans should be shamed from political life as un-American racists who won’t win another presidential election.
NewsBustersMay 17 2015
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Jeb Bush: Barack Obama’s policies helped Islamic State’s spread
Jeb Bush praised the U.S. Special Forces involved in Saturday’s killing of a top Islamic State leader in Syria, but continued to blame President Barack Obama’s policies in the Middle East for the group’s spread across the region. “It’s encouraging that one of the senior ISIS leaders has been killed, if it’s confirmed, and kudos to the Special Forces, the best in the world,” Bush said during a
PoliticoSep 15 2020
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‘They made a really big mistake’: Biden confronts a regret of the Obama years
The former vice president surrounds himself with a cadre of left-leaning economic advisers, a reflection of a policy approach seen as more progressive than during the last recession.
President Barack Obama entered the White House in 2009 during a brutal recession, quickly pushed through a sizable stimulus package and then spent the next several years realizing it wasn’t nearly big
PoliticoSep 14 2020
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Latino groups warn that Biden’s sluggish outreach to their voters could hurt in November
Top Latino Democrats are voicing growing concern about Joe Biden’s campaign, warning that lackluster efforts to win the support of their community could have devastating consequences in the November election.
Recent polls showing President Trump’s inroads with Latinos have set off a fresh round of frustration and finger-pointing among Democrats, confirming problems some say have
Washington PostSep 14 2020
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Trump Boasts 'Favored Nation' Order to Lower Drug Prices
President Donald Trump announced Sunday he had signed an executive order aimed at lowering drug prices in the United States by linking them to those of other nations. Trump tweeted Sunday:
"Just signed a new Executive Order to LOWER DRUG PRICES! My Most Favored Nation order will ensure that our Country gets the same low price Big Pharma gives to other countries. The days of global
Newsmax (News)Mar 18 2020
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U.S. and Canada agree to close border to 'nonessential traffic,' Trump says
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that the U.S. and Canada had agreed to close their border to all “nonessential traffic" because of the spread of the coronavirus.
Trump indicated in his announcement on Twitter that it will not affect trade between the two countries but did not offer any additional details.
“We will be, by mutual consent, temporarily closing our Northern
NBC News DigitalMay 05 2015
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Obama to name Marine Gen. Dunford chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff
President Obama plans to name Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Joseph Dunford the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a senior Defense Department official said late Monday.
Air Force Gen. Paul Selva, currently the leader of U.S. Transportation Command, will be named vice chairman, said the official who was not authorized to speak publicly.
Dunford, a widely respected and well
USA TODAYMay 27 2020
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FISA renewal in jeopardy amid resistance from Republicans and progressives
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top Democrats are making a last-ditch attempt to salvage a bill to renew expired surveillance tools Wednesday amid mounting opposition from Republicans and liberals in their own party, but it's still unclear whether the gamble will succeed.
Hours ahead of the scheduled floor vote, Pelosi and her top deputies were still whipping their members, with a growing
PoliticoSep 17 2016
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Ex-Defense Chief Gates: Trump 'Beyond Repair' on Foreign Policy, But Hillary Needs Work
The next president is most likely to face an international crisis shortly after taking office — and both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton "have a credibility problem in foreign affairs," former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday.
"Clinton was the senior-most advocate for using the U.S. military to bring ill-fated regime change in Libya and, further, failed to anticipate the
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