President Barack Obama pushed Congress Tuesday to give oil market regulators more muscle to deter price manipulation by speculators, the latest White House response to determined Republican attacks on administration energy policies amid high gas prices at the pump.
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Obama wants to target oil market manipulation
Celebrities including Alec Baldwin visited Capitol Hill Tuesday to shine their spotlight on federal funding for the arts.
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Actors, musicians visit Congress for arts funding
The Christian Science Monitor – In a rush to recess, Congress on Friday extended a payroll tax holiday and other expiring measures through the end of the year in rare bipartisan votes that nevertheless exposed internal divisions in both parties.
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Payroll tax vote exposes divisions within each party
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AP – Under fierce election-year fire, President Barack Obama on Friday abruptly abandoned his stand that religious organizations must pay for birth control for workers, scrambling to end a furor raging from the Catholic Church to Congress to his re-election foes. He demanded that insurance companies step in to provide the coverage instead.
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Under fire, Obama adjusts his birth control policy
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AP – A defiant President Barack Obama, tired of GOP stalling his nominee to lead a new consumer protection agency, bucked that opposition and put him in charge without Senate approval.
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Obama bypasses Senate, installs new consumer chief
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AP – What are taxpayers supposed to think? The Pentagon says threatened budget cuts will invite aggression, endanger national security and devastate its operations.
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Pentagon spending cuts: Dangerous or just overdue?
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Reuters – The top Democrat in Congress said on Tuesday he saw few signs of progress on a deficit-cutting deal, as negotiators struggled to bridge their differences on tax increases and benefit cuts.
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Reid, Boehner huddle on budget deal
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AP – The jobs crisis has left so many people out of work for so long that most of America’s unemployed are no longer receiving unemployment benefits.
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Most of the unemployed no longer receive benefits
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The Christian Science Monitor – If roads, bridges, and jobs back home are such priorities for members of Congress, why is it so hard to get a bill passed to support them?
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If jobs are top priority, why can’t Congress pass a jobs bill?
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