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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/politics/mcclatchy politics Politics - McClatchy Newspapers en-us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:56:00 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/politics/mcclatchy http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchypl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100209/pl_mcclatchy/3422670 mcclatchy/20100209/3422670 McClatchy Newspapers politics Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:56:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; The Senate Tuesday failed to advance President Barack Obama's nomination of a union lawyer to the National Labor Relations Board, as the debate and vote became a test of union clout in Congress. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchypl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100209/pl_mcclatchy/3422648 mcclatchy/20100209/3422648 McClatchy Newspapers politics Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:26:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; President Barack Obama urged Republicans Tuesday to work with him and Democratic lawmakers on ways to create jobs, saying that it's critical to agree on something even if neither side gets all it wants. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchypl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100208/pl_mcclatchy/3421685 mcclatchy/20100208/3421685 McClatchy Newspapers politics Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:27:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchypl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100208/pl_mcclatchy/3421685"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.1ebe22cfc14c4889aee12dd5e3ad0a11.obama_whcd110.jpg?x=130&y=71&q=85&sig=b00zx8Ahjr18K6717Nkeug--" align="left" height="71" width="130" alt="President Barack Obama answers reporters questions during an unannounced visit to the James Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)" border="0" /></a>McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; Don't count on President Barack Obama's upcoming health care summit to thaw the bitter political climate that's stalled legislation for months, analysts said Monday, not least because Republicans remain wary of the plan.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchypl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100208/pl_mcclatchy/3421685"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.1ebe22cfc14c4889aee12dd5e3ad0a11.obama_whcd110.jpg?x=130&y=71&q=85&sig=b00zx8Ahjr18K6717Nkeug--" align="left" height="71" width="130" alt="photo" title="President Barack Obama answers reporters questions during an unannounced visit to the James Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchypl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100208/pl_mcclatchy/3421643 mcclatchy/20100208/3421643 McClatchy Newspapers politics Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:54:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchypl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100208/pl_mcclatchy/3421643"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100113/capt.bcaaa8ea475248acbbc0820d15251588.texas_schools_social_studies_txjp103.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=woUG.g4dRj9SWsXwV8dtgg--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="University of Texas student Roberto Flotte, left, and State Rep. Norma Chavez, D-El Paso, talk after Chavez gave testimony at a State Board of Education hearing on new social studies curriculum standards on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010 in Austin, Texas. Chavez asked the board to require inclusion of more hispanic figures in the new curriculum.(AP Photo/Jack Plunkett)" border="0" /></a>McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; Failing to overhaul the nation's immigration system, currently a backburner issue for Congress and President Barack Obama, could play a pivotal role in key mid-term election races in November, according to a new study on Latino voting patterns.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchypl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100208/pl_mcclatchy/3421643"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100113/capt.bcaaa8ea475248acbbc0820d15251588.texas_schools_social_studies_txjp103.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=woUG.g4dRj9SWsXwV8dtgg--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="University of Texas student Roberto Flotte, left, and State Rep. Norma Chavez, D-El Paso, talk after Chavez gave testimony at a State Board of Education hearing on new social studies curriculum standards on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010 in Austin, Texas. Chavez asked the board to require inclusion of more hispanic figures in the new curriculum.(AP Photo/Jack Plunkett)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchypl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100207/pl_mcclatchy/3419610 mcclatchy/20100207/3419610 McClatchy Newspapers politics Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:01:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; To hear Sen. Maria Cantwell talk, another economic bubble is building as Wall Street banks &mdash; backed by taxpayer bailouts &mdash; continue to play the high-risk derivatives markets rather than extend credit to struggling businesses on Main Street. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchypl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100206/pl_mcclatchy/3420007 mcclatchy/20100206/3420007 McClatchy Newspapers politics Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:21:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; Goldman Sachs' chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein was awarded a $9 million bonus for 2009, but in restricted stock that he must hold for five years under a new policy adopted to quiet a furor over the firm's soaring compensation, the company disclosed Friday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchypl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100205/pl_mcclatchy/3419796 mcclatchy/20100205/3419796 McClatchy Newspapers politics Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:41:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON_ John Boehner, the Republican leader in the House of Representatives, issued a stinging denunciation Friday of the Obama administration's plan to create a fiscal discipline commission, calling it a "partisan Washington exercise" that's "rigged" to promote Democrats' spending policies. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchypl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100205/pl_mcclatchy/3419749 mcclatchy/20100205/3419749 McClatchy Newspapers politics Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:55:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchypl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100205/pl_mcclatchy/3419749"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100123/capt.photo_1264279793683-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=o7Ky2s9LxVsZ_AN5eJxT9w--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="The CIA symbol is shown on the floor of its headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Canada's former ambassador to Iran, Kenneth Taylor, revealed Saturday that he worked as a CIA spy during the 1979 hostage crisis in wake of the Islamic revolution.(AFP/Getty Images/File)" border="0" /></a>McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; President Barack Obama told hundreds of CIA employees Friday that the deaths of seven of their colleagues in a suicide bombing Dec. 30 in Afghanistan amounted to a "summons . . . to carry on their work, to complete this mission, to win this war and to keep our country safe."</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchypl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100205/pl_mcclatchy/3419749"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100123/capt.photo_1264279793683-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=o7Ky2s9LxVsZ_AN5eJxT9w--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="The CIA symbol is shown on the floor of its headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Canada's former ambassador to Iran, Kenneth Taylor, revealed Saturday that he worked as a CIA spy during the 1979 hostage crisis in wake of the Islamic revolution.(AFP/Getty Images/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchypl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100205/pl_mcclatchy/3419547 mcclatchy/20100205/3419547 McClatchy Newspapers politics Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:12:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; The House of Representatives plans next week to vote on &mdash; and probably approve &mdash; a measure to strip health insurers' antitrust protections, which will be Congress' first step this year to try to overhaul the nation's health care system. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchypl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100205/pl_mcclatchy/3418900 mcclatchy/20100205/3418900 McClatchy Newspapers politics Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:02:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; President Barack Obama called for more civility and bipartisanship at a prayer breakfast on Thursday, but Congress kept to its old ways with a party-line Senate vote on a long-stalled administration nominee and partisan barbs after another stalled nominee was overwhelmingly approved. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchypl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100204/pl_mcclatchy/3418814 mcclatchy/20100204/3418814 McClatchy Newspapers politics Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:53:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; Despite the Obama administration's efforts to create jobs making wind turbines in America, some companies say that sluggish demand for wind energy is holding them back. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchypl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100204/pl_mcclatchy/3418801 mcclatchy/20100204/3418801 McClatchy Newspapers politics Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:44:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; A steep drop in stock prices worldwide, fears of an imminent wave of global debt defaults and a bevy of conflicting economic reports are producing anticipation and trepidation about Friday's new employment data from the U.S. government. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchypl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100204/pl_mcclatchy/3418791 mcclatchy/20100204/3418791 McClatchy Newspapers politics Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:39:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; The House of Representatives voted 233-187 Thursday to approve tough new restrictions on future spending and tax cuts, but the changes are highly unlikely to reduce record federal budget deficits anytime soon. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchypl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100204/pl_mcclatchy/3418586 mcclatchy/20100204/3418586 McClatchy Newspapers politics Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:55:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; The leaders of the nation's historically black colleges and universities breathed a sigh of relief this week when they learned that President Barack Obama's fiscal 2011 budget includes a $30 million funding increase for their financially struggling schools. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchypl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100204/pl_mcclatchy/3417813 mcclatchy/20100204/3417813 McClatchy Newspapers politics Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:41:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; The Obama administration Wednesday announced plans to boost the use of biofuels &mdash; including more ethanol from corn &mdash; and speed up work on a plan to capture carbon dioxide from coal, now the biggest source of global warming pollution. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchypl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100203/pl_mcclatchy/3417752 mcclatchy/20100203/3417752 McClatchy Newspapers politics Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:34:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchypl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100203/pl_mcclatchy/3417752"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100130/capt.b4a241320e784309a67e5d39a42dc644.campaign_finance_foreign_influence_wx204.jpg?x=130&y=101&q=85&sig=TrsfmkPcnFdAYYfZKoN54w--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2010 file photo, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., left, accompanied by Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Supreme Court's decision on campaign finance has jumbled a seemingly simple rule of American politics &mdash; foreigners should play no role in U.S. elections. Now that the court has declared that corporations have a constitutional right to spend from their general treasuries to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress, the prospect of foreign influence in campaigns has emerged as a flashpoint in the back-and-forth between critics of the ruling and its defenders. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)" border="0" /></a>McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; In the wake of the recent Supreme Court ruling that ended most restrictions on corporate funding in elections, a congressional panel was asked Wednesday to enact greater limits on the influence of foreign companies in U.S. elections.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchypl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100203/pl_mcclatchy/3417752"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100130/capt.b4a241320e784309a67e5d39a42dc644.campaign_finance_foreign_influence_wx204.jpg?x=130&y=101&q=85&sig=TrsfmkPcnFdAYYfZKoN54w--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2010 file photo, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., left, accompanied by Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Supreme Court's decision on campaign finance has jumbled a seemingly simple rule of American politics &mdash; foreigners should play no role in U.S. elections. Now that the court has declared that corporations have a constitutional right to spend from their general treasuries to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress, the prospect of foreign influence in campaigns has emerged as a flashpoint in the back-and-forth between critics of the ruling and its defenders. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchypl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100203/pl_mcclatchy/3417580 mcclatchy/20100203/3417580 McClatchy Newspapers politics Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:48:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; A feisty but occasionally frustrated President Barack Obama tried Wednesday to calm nervous Senate Democrats about their political futures and prospects for passing major legislation, as he urged them to keep pushing hard for solutions to the nation's most vexing problems. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchypl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100203/pl_mcclatchy/3416733 mcclatchy/20100203/3416733 McClatchy Newspapers politics Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:15:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; The nation's top military officer told Congress Tuesday that gay men and lesbians should be allowed to serve openly in the military, the strongest endorsement ever by the nation's military leadership for overturning the law that excludes them from the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchypl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100202/pl_mcclatchy/3416632 mcclatchy/20100202/3416632 McClatchy Newspapers politics Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; President Barack Obama's 2011 budget got a cool &mdash; at times frosty &mdash; reception Tuesday from the lawmakers he needs most, as congressional Democrats offered a host of reasons they're skeptical of the White House plan. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchypl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100202/pl_mcclatchy/3416565 mcclatchy/20100202/3416565 McClatchy Newspapers politics Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:11:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON_ Overzealous bank regulators and an attempt by Congress to punish greedy bank executives are combining to restrict the ability of the nation's 8,000 community banks to lend to small businesses, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Tuesday.