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USA Today, 07.01.09 03:03 UTC

New Congress hears call to 'get something done'

WASHINGTON — House and Senate leaders marked the first day of the 111th Congress by preaching bipartisanship Tuesday and promising to start work quickly on President-elect Barack Obama's economic proposals and issues ranging from climate change to health care.

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BBC World News, 05.01.09 13:31 UTC

Top tasks

Barack Obama enters the White House this month with a wide-ranging agenda for change. The BBC's Max Deveson considers which issues he is likely to tackle head on - and which he may be tempted to put ...

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Times Online Business, 27.12.08 00:36 UTC

Doubts increase over Barack Obama's ambitious spending promises

Barack Obama is expected to spend so much propping up the world’s biggest economy in 2009 that the national debt will balloon by an astonishing $2 trillion (£1.36 billion). It is $2 trillion ...

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WashingtonPost Politics, 22.12.08 05:03 UTC

Howard Dean, a Victim of His Own Success?

Former Vermont governor Howard Dean, the man regarded by many sharp political operatives as the progenitor of President-elect Barack Obama's successful 2008 campaign, finds himself without an obvious ...

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Los Angeles Times, 20.12.08 05:32 UTC

Next Obama must put his centrist Cabinet to work

The team of politicians and technocrats lacks a strong ideological bent, but they might have the technical skills to carry out his ambitious agenda.

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USA Today, 19.12.08 01:06 UTC

Reform of health care up in air as economy sinks

Phyllis Smith, a 60-year-old uninsured seamstress in Yantis, Texas, goes without medications for high blood pressure and diabetes because she can't afford a visit to her doctor to get her prescriptions refilled.

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Los Angeles Times, 15.12.08 05:05 UTC

Tom Daschle has his own health plan

Learning from Clinton's mistakes, the nominee for Health and Human Services secretary favors going on the political offensive to bring about reform.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 12.12.08 14:06 UTC

Daschle named Obama's 'leading architect' for health

WASHINGTON -- Tom Daschle will be a "leading architect" of efforts to revamp the U.S. health-care system, President-elect Barack Obama said yesterday in announcing that the former Senate Democratic ...

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 12.12.08 14:06 UTC

Obama tries to outpace Illinois governor scandal

Blagojevich's arrest for corruption cited by GOP as example of 'Chicago politics'

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NPR, 12.12.08 11:33 UTC

Obama Focused Despite Hometown Political Scandal

by Scott Horsley Morning Edition, December 12, 2008 · At a news conference in Chicago, President-elect Barack Obama named Tom Daschle as his choice for Health and Human Services Secretary. If ...

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