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 [...]
Posts on ‘January 25th, 2009’
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 [...]
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 [...]
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