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Senate ready to debate health care bill
By Noam N. Levey - Los Angeles Times
November 22, 2009
Without a vote to spare, Democrats pushed their health care legislation over its first obstacle on the Senate floor Saturday, as the chamber voted to begin formal debate of a sweeping measure to guarantee medical coverage for nearly all Americans.
GOP: Women’s health recommendations could affect care
By Laurie Kellman - Associated Press Writer
November 21, 2009
Republicans are seizing on this week’s recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care — and to try to chip away support by women for President Barack Obama’s proposed health care overhaul.
Former independent counsel praises Constitution in speech
System for investigating U.S. officials ‘was not sound,’ he says in interview
By George Diepenbrock
November 20, 2009
If Ken Starr could change the U.S. Constitution, he would eliminate the requirement that the president must be a natural-born citizen.
Byrd longest-serving Congress member
Associated Press
November 19, 2009
Sen. Robert C. Byrd became history’s longest-serving member of Congress on Wednesday, earning a formal salute from the Senate and President Barack Obama for his nearly 57 years of service.
Obama: Rally the world for climate deal next month
By Jennifer Loven and Arthur Max - Associated Press Writers
November 18, 2009
President Barack Obama, with China’s leader at his side, lifted his sights Tuesday for a broad interim accord at next month’s climate conference that he said will lead to immediate action and “rally the world” toward a solution on global warming.
Obama, Hu show differences as well as cooperation
By Jennifer Loven - Associated Press Writer
November 17, 2009
President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao emerged from hours of intense talks today determined to marshal their combined clout on crucial issues, but still showing divisions over economic, security and human rights issues that have long bedeviled the two powers.
Censors block Obama’s call to free the Web
By Alexa Olesen - Associated Press Writer
November 17, 2009
President Barack Obama prodded China about Internet censorship and free speech, but the message was not widely heard in China where his words were blocked online and shown on only one regional television channel.
In China, Obama describes freedoms as ‘universal rights’
By Jennifer Loven - Associated Press Writer
November 16, 2009
Pressing for freedoms on China’s own turf, President Barack Obama said today that individual expression is not an American ideal but a universal right that should be available to all.
Obama urged to take state job program to national level
By Tony Pugh - McClatchy Newspapers
November 15, 2009
As job losses continue to slow the nation’s economic recovery, labor experts and economists are urging Congress and the Obama administration to boost funding for a little-known program that 17 states are using to avert layoffs and keep workers in their jobs.
2012 already? GOP nominee wannabes jockeying early
By Liz Sidoti - Associated Press Writer
November 15, 2009
Sarah Palin is embarking on a book tour. Tim Pawlenty is building a national political operation. Mitt Romney is weighing in on the recession. They’re all jockeying for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination — even if they won’t say so.
In Asia, Obama talking climate
By Jennifer Loven - Associated Press Writer
November 15, 2009
President Barack Obama and other world leaders agreed today that next month’s much-anticipated climate change summit will be merely a way station, not the once hoped-for end point, in the search for a worldwide global warming treaty.
Obama urges Congress to put off probes for now
By Philip Elliott - Associated Press Writer
November 15, 2009
President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Congress to hold off on any investigation of the Fort Hood rampage until federal law enforcement and military authorities have completed their probes into the shootings at the Texas Army post, which left 13 people dead.
Obama hails U.S. engagement in Asia
By Jennifer Loven - Associated Press Writer
November 14, 2009
President Barack Obama declared today that an era of American disengagement in the globe’s fastest-growing region is over and warned that the U.S. and its Asian partners “will not be cowed” by North Korea’s continued defiance over its nuclear weapons and other provocations.
Obama calls for spending cuts in next budget
By Tom Raum and Andrew Taylor - Associated Press Writers
November 14, 2009
The Obama administration, mindful of public anxiety over the government’s mushrooming debt, is shifting emphasis from big-spending policies to deficit reduction.
Obama wants revised Afghanistan options
By Ben Feller and Anne Gearan - Associated Press Writers
November 13, 2009
President Barack Obama rejected the Afghanistan war options before him and asked for revisions, his defense secretary said Thursday, after the U.S. ambassador in Kabul argued that a significant U.S. troop increase would only prop up a weak, corruption-tainted government.

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