Obama Plans to Tap Yellen for Fed Vice Chairman
03/12/2010 – 0:40President Barack Obama plans to nominate Janet Yellen as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, a person familiar with the matter said.
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Obama lobbied on black unemployment, immigration
03/11/2010 – 19:51(Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Thursday faced pressure to help create jobs in African-American communities and deliver an immigration overhaul even as he tried to push healthcare reform across the finish line.
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Competing on the Global Playing Field in the 21st Century
03/11/2010 – 19:50Obama doles out $1.4 million Nobel prize to 10 charities
03/11/2010 – 18:06President Barack Obama announced Thursday the charities where he’d be donating his Nobel Peace Prize winnings, giving the most to a military charity and earthquake relief in Haiti.
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Obama pushes trade initiative as jobs helper
03/11/2010 – 15:05WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sought Thursday to put some detail behind his lofty drive to double U.S. exports over the next five years, calling the effort imperative to putting people back to work. But doubts remain about how many net jobs his trade agenda will create — and how he will get it done.
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Obama taps Boeing, Xerox chiefs to lead export body
03/11/2010 – 8:14(Reuters) – President Barack Obama, anxious to spur growth and tackle unemployment, will name two top executives from Boeing and Xerox on Thursday to spearhead his drive to boost U.S. exports, the White House said.
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House rejects pullout from Afghanistan
03/10/2010 – 20:56(Reuters) – The House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly rejected a measure calling for President Barack Obama to pull U.S. forces from Afghanistan, in an election-year test of his decision to escalate the war.
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Obama-Graham partnership emerges in climate debate
03/10/2010 – 20:54WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuters) – It’s rare when a conservative Republican in Congress heaps praise on President Barack Obama, especially in regards to fighting global warming, but Senator Lindsey Graham did just that on Wednesday.
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Obama decries waste, fraud in gov’t health system
03/10/2010 – 20:53ST. CHARLES, Mo. — President Barack Obama denounced waste, inefficiency and downright fraud in the government’s health care system on Wednesday as he sought to rally public support for his revamped overhaul plan. “Improper payments cost taxpayers almost $100 billion last year alone,” Obama said at a rally in this St. Louis suburb.
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Obama facing uprising over new NASA strategy
03/10/2010 – 17:00WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama is trying to tamp down an uprising in politically vital Florida against a new strategy for NASA that has rankled space veterans and lawmakers and sparked fears of job losses.
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