Category Archives: Statements

Clad in baseball cap and sunglasses, first lady shops at Target

By doris | Published: September 30, 2011

Full Story at TheLook.today.com Attention Target shoppers: You could have been standing in line with Michelle Obama. The first lady, hard to recognize in a baseball cap and sunglasses, shopped Thursday at a Target store in Alexandria, Va., just outside Washington, D.C. Casually dressed Secret Service agents arrived about a half-hour before Mrs. Obama, who [...]

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Congress at it again

By doris | Published: September 24, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — To those still trying to salvage homes wrecked by natural disasters this summer, don’t worry. Congress has your back. There is just no way lawmakers would let funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency run out. Well, they probably won’t. They don’t want to anyway. But they’ve [...]

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Republicans hope to seize Democratic House seat

By doris | Published: September 13, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW YORK — Democrat David Weprin faced an unusually tight race against Republican Bob Turner in a special election Tuesday in New York’s heavily Democratic 9th Congressional District, where voters unhappy with President Barack Obama could elect a Republican for the first time. The contest to replace disgraced Democratic Rep. Anthony [...]

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Romney says his plan ‘radically restructures the American economy’

By doris | Published: September 3, 2011

Full Story at First Read.msnbc.msn.com TAMPA — On a morning where job creation — or the lack of it — was the primary issue on the political spectrum, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney promised that his plan — not President Obama’s — would be the one to get Americans back to work. “My plan radically [...]

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Inhofe: Perry’s ‘the one’

By doris | Published: August 30, 2011

Full Story at FirstRead.msnbc.msn.com TULSA, Okla. — Sen. Jim Inhofe knew Gov. Rick Perry was running for president before Rick Perry did. “I said to him, ‘Rick, I know you’ll deny it now, and you’re supposed to, but you’re going to end up running,” Inhofe recalls from a conversation with 14 months ago. “And when [...]

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Navy reverses itself on gay marriages on military bases

By doris | Published: May 25, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The Navy confirmed Wednesday that it did an abrupt about-face on guidance allowing same-sex marriages on military bases after receiving a flood of criticism from Capitol Hill, as well as discussions with Defense Department lawyers. The guidance — outlined in a memorandum last month from the Navy chief [...]

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To stem illegal immigration, cut labor demand in U.S.

By doris | Published: May 19, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — News that Mexican authorities found 513 would-be illegal immigrants packed tightly into trucks, with the United States as their destination, should shock Americans into action. They were from Mexico, Japan, China, India and Nepal, and authorities said each had paid $7,000 to gangsters to be smuggled in. Coming only [...]

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Budget bill add-on would impact wolves

By doris | Published: April 14, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A rider in the budget bill to keep the federal government in operation has triggered fury among some wildlife groups because it would remove certain wolves from the endangered species list. The attachment affects gray wolf populations in Montana and Idaho. “Right now, Montana’s wolf population is out of [...]

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Most justices appear skeptical of making Wal-Mart suit class action

By doris | Published: March 29, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Female workers suing retail giant Wal-Mart Stores for workplace discrimination faced an uphill battle at the Supreme Court on Tuesday in their efforts to proceed in a massive class-action lawsuit. The case is among the most important dealing with corporate versus worker rights that the justices have ever [...]

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Analysts debate goals of Obama Libya speech

By doris | Published: March 28, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — President Barack Obama plans to address the nation at 7:30 p.m. ET Monday, following calls from across the political spectrum for the U.S. leader to clarify America’s role in the U.N.-authorized military mission in Libya. Both Democrats and Republicans have criticized the president’s policy in the war-torn North [...]

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Libya bombing called successful; endgame unclear

By doris | Published: March 20, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com WASHINGTON – The U.S. on Sunday claimed initial success two days into an assault on Libya that included some of the heaviest firepower in the American arsenal — long-range bombers designed for the Cold War — but American officials said Sunday it was too early to define the international military campaign’s [...]

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Clinton says no to second term

By doris | Published: March 16, 2011

Full Story at PoliticalTicker.blogs.cnn.com CNN) – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer she does not want to serve a second term as secretary of state or run for president of the United States. Blitzer sat down with the former 2008 presidential candidate in Cairo. Full transcript:

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