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President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts, 2/23/10


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Published Feb. 23, 2010 at 5:47 p.m.

WASHINGTON – Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key administration posts: ... Stephen T. Ayers, Architect of the CapitolEduardo M. Ochoa, Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education, Department of EducationDeborah Loewenberg Ball, Member, National Board for Education Sciences, Department of EducationAdam Gamoran, Member, National Board for Education Sciences, Department of EducationBridget Terry Long, Member, National Board for

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Notice of Continuation Concerning Cuba


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Published Feb. 23, 2010 at 4:54 p.m.

NOTICE ... - - - - - - - ... CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY RELATING TO CUBA AND OF ... THE EMERGENCY AUTHORITY RELATING TO THE REGULATION OF THE ... ANCHORAGE AND MOVEMENT OF VESSELS ... On March 1, 1996, by Proclamation 6867, a national emergency was declared to address the disturbance or threatened disturbance of international relations caused by the February 24, 1996, destruction by the Cuban government of two unarmed U.S.- registered civilian aircraft in international airspace north

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Message to Congress Concerning Cuba


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Published Feb. 23, 2010 at 4:54 p.m.

TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: ... Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)) provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless, prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the President publishes in the Federal Register and transmits to the Congress a notice stating that the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the anniversary date. In accordance with this provision, I have sent the enclosed notice to the Federal Register for

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Intellectual Property and Risks to the Public


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Published Feb. 23, 2010 at 2:22 p.m.

Hi, I am Victoria Espinel, the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator. I am honored to have been appointed by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve in this new position created by Congress in the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008.  Given the unique nature of this job, I’d like to describe what I’m doing in my office and how we want to engage the public to get input on what we, as a government, should be doing

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GOP Leaders Assail Health Bill But Will Attend Summit


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Published Feb. 23, 2010 at 12:56 p.m.

Republican leaders in Congress continued to assail the comprehensive health care overhaul that Democrats are trying to enact this year, even as they prepared to attend a White House summit called by President Obama ...

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Gibbs: The Public Plan Doesn't Have The Votes


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Published Feb. 23, 2010 at 8:59 a.m.

The White House made it official on Tuesday: the president doesn't think the votes are there to get a public option passed through reconciliation and consequently won't make a push to include or pass the provision ... Speaking at the daily briefing, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked again why the administration did not include the government-run insurance option in its final health care proposal in light of the fact that 23 Democratic senators signed a letter calling for its

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Mitch Daniels Shoots Down 2012 Speculation, Urges GOP To Tone Down Rhetoric


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Published Feb. 23, 2010 at 6:36 a.m.

Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-Ind.) on Tuesday shot down speculation that he would make a presidential run in 2012, saying there are "100 reasons that no sane person would" run for that office ... But he did have some pointed advice for his GOP colleagues thinking about the White House during a breakfast meeting with reporters: tone down the rhetoric, stop concerning themselves with winning the debate, present a platform that can lead to effective governance and show a willingness to accept pared-down

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John Boehner Is Now Upset That The Health Care Bill Isn't Long Enough


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Published Feb. 23, 2010 at 5:51 a.m.

Way back in October of 2009, John Boehner was often seen trooping from photo op to photo op with the House health care reform bill, complaining that it was way too long to read: ... He so loved toting that thing around! In actuality, if you were to eliminate the non-substantive parts of that bill and allow for Congress's unique typesetting style, the bill was no longer than J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", a book that small children typically prove able to read over a

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Will the Republicans Post Their Health Plan… and When?


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Published Feb. 23, 2010 at 5:00 a.m.

The President believes strongly that Thursday’s bipartisan meeting on health insurance reform will be most productive if both sides come to the table with a unified plan to start discussion – and if the public has the opportunity to inspect those proposals up close before the meeting happens ... That’s why yesterday the White House posted online the President’s proposal for bridging the differences between the Senate- and House-passed health insurance reform bills. The proposal puts

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Jimmy Carter Objects To Article Comparing His Foreign Policy To Obama's


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Published Feb. 22, 2010 at 10:59 a.m.

In last month's issue of Foreign Policy magazine, leading analyst and Iraq War supporter Walter Russell Mead opined that President Obama's foreign policy agenda was turning into a duplicate of Jimmy Carter's ... The thesis was beyond speculative. Even by Mead's own admission, Obama's foreign policy is in its nascent stages. Right now, he writes, it "looks a little bit like that of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger." Mead even suggests that the president is trying to pursue a "Jeffersonian"

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