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- Dennis Moore won’t seek re-election in 2010
- 08:19 a.m., November 23, 2009 Updated 11:13 a.m.
- U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Kan., will not to seek a seventh term in Congress, his spokesman said Monday morning.
- Bishop asked Kennedy to avoid sacrament
- November 23, 2009
- A month of harsh words between Rep. Patrick Kennedy and a strident critic, Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin, escalated Sunday when the bishop acknowledged asking Kennedy not to receive Holy Communion because of the Democratic lawmaker’s support for abortion rights.
- Senate Democrats at odds over health care reform
- November 23, 2009
- Moderate Senate Democrats threatened Sunday to scuttle health-care legislation if their demands aren’t met, while more liberal members warned their party leaders not to bend.
- Senate ready to debate health care bill
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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’
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
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