via Art Levine: GOP Blocks Obama’s Labor Nominee, Pushes Big Lie on “Card Check”.
Art Levine
Posted January 24, 2009 | 12:05 AM (EST)
Despite rising unemployment and a cratering economy, the GOP has placed a hold on the nomination of President Obama’s choice for Secretary of Labor, the pro-worker Hilda Solis. The issue at stake is the [...]
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A Second Look: Art Levine: GOP Blocks Obama’s Labor Nominee, Pushes Big Lie on “Card Check”
A Second Look: To Combat Obama, Al-Qaeda Hurls Insults – washingtonpost.com
via To Combat Obama, Al-Qaeda Hurls Insults – washingtonpost.com.
By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, January 25, 2009; Page A01
With Obama, al-Qaeda faces an entirely new challenge, experts say: a U.S. president who campaigned to end the Iraq war and to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and who polls show is well liked [...]
A Second Look: Obama Plans Fast Action to Tighten Financial Rules – NYTimes.com
via Obama Plans Fast Action to Tighten Financial Rules – NYTimes.com.
By STEPHEN LABATON
Published: January 24, 2009
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration plans to move quickly to tighten the nation’s financial regulatory system.
Officials say they will make wide-ranging changes, including stricter federal rules for hedge funds, credit rating agencies and mortgage brokers, and greater oversight of the [...]
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