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1 Face to face, Obama urges GOP to work with Dems Nation and World
BALTIMORE — President Obama defended his first year in office Friday in the most hostile of territories: a gathering of House Republicans, who engaged him in a debate that had moments of tense drama and bipartisan harmony.
1/29/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
2 Conservatives to have helping hand in 2010 Nation and World
The energized "tea party" movement, which upended this year's political debate with noisy anti-government protests, is preparing to shake up the 2010 elections by channeling money and supporters to conservative candidates set to challenge both Democrats and Republicans.
12/18/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
3 House passes slew of bills in year-end rush Nation and World
WASHINGTON — The House pushed through a last-minute flurry of legislation Wednesday, including a $636 billion Pentagon funding bill, a short-term rise in the nation's debt limit and an extension of unemployment and health benefits for millions of jobless Americans.
12/16/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
4 Sole Republican to vote for bill knows price Health and Family
WASHINGTON — When Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao, R-La., won a stunning victory in a heavily Democratic district in New Orleans last December, the GOP was so thrilled that House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, sent a memo to his colleagues headlined "The Future is Cao."
11/9/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
5 Kennedy seeks new law on succession Politics
WASHINGTON — Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., who has brain cancer and has been absent from the Senate for most of the year, has asked that state law be changed so his seat could be filled more rapidly in the event of his death.
8/21/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
6 Apparent shift riles proponents of public health plan Health and Family
Several leading Democrats voiced concern Monday about an apparent White House shift on an overhaul of the health-care system, objecting to signals that senior administration officials were open to abandoning the idea of a government-run insurance plan.
8/18/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
7 Alliances collapse as health debate picks up steam Nation and World
WASHINGTON — Months of relative cooperation among disparate interest groups in the health-care reform debate appear to be coming to an end as the major political parties and their surrogates unleash dueling television advertisements, e-mail campaigns and grass-roots protests.
7/19/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
8 CIA chief rebuts Pelosi's charges she was misled Politics
Panetta, whom President Obama tapped to lead the CIA this year, reasserted the agency's claim that it told congressional leaders about the use of such methods during a closed-door briefing in September 2002. Attended briefing Pelosi, D-Calif.
5/16/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
9 Biden's pros, cons out loud Politics
"John McCain said he'd follow Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell," said Sen. Joseph Biden. "Well, let me tell you something: President Barack Obama will follow him to where he lives and then send him to hell."
10/1/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
10 Candidates got advance look at some questions Nation and World
Responding to questions about whether Sen. John McCain had an unfair advantage over Sen. Barack Obama at Saturday's forum on faith in California, a spokesman for the Rev. Rick Warren said both candidates had an advance look at a few questions.
8/19/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
11 Obama camp turns up heat Nation and World
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama released a television advertisement Wednesday that questions John McCain's claims to be a "maverick," and he charged in a campaign appearance that the Republican displays independence only when it suits him politically.
8/7/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
12 Candidates differ on how to fix nation's economy Nation and World
ST. LOUIS — Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain Tuesday outlined sharply different approaches on how to revive the nation's economy and provide aid to struggling workers, providing a clear choice for voters on the issue that Americans say they are most concerned about.
6/11/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
13 Aides concede Clinton is a longshot Nation and World
INDIANAPOLIS — After failing to win the decisive sweep in North Carolina and Indiana that could have reshaped the Democratic race, aides to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton conceded it would be difficult for her to catch Sen.
5/7/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
14 Bitterness aside, Romney endorses McCain Politics
BOSTON — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney on Thursday made a Valentine's Day endorsement of Sen. John McCain, ending a bitter, yearlong rivalry and potentially handing over almost enough delegates to guarantee McCain the Republican nomination.
2/15/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
15 Women a tougher sell for Obama Politics
Sinclair listened with rapt attention as New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke at a rally in Orono on Saturday morning, on the eve of today's Maine caucuses. The 58-year-old committed to Clinton three months ago.
2/10/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
16 Three front-runners get in final pre-holiday push in Iowa Politics
MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa — In a final day of campaigning before suspending their campaigns for Christmas, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., encouraged voters here to view the holiday as a time to become "instruments of peace and change," while Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., accused former Sen.
12/24/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
17 Home-schoolers backing Huckabee Politics
With no buttons, no yard signs and no glossy literature from his nearly invisible Iowa campaign, she took a pair of scissors and cut out a photograph of the former Arkansas governor.
12/18/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
18 Little Democrat difference on immigration Nation and World
Several questions focused on immigration, and the seven participants exhibited little difference on the issue, with all supporting reforms that would allow illegal immigrants now in the country to stay and eventually receive U.S. citizenship, and all criticizing anti-immigrant sentiments.
9/10/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
19 Campaign contributions pouring in Nation and World
WASHINGTON — Sen. Barack Obama raised more money than Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for their Democratic primary clash during the first three months of the year, but Clinton heads into spring with more in her campaign account than the entire field of Republican presidential candidates combined.
4/16/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results