The ranking Republican on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has asked President Obama to withdraw his nominee for Department of Labor solicitor, saying she gave inconsistent testimony to the panel about a program she helped launch in New York this year.
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President Obama briefly interrupted his week-long vacation Tuesday morning to renominate Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve, putting his faith in the man widely credited with helping to avert a global economic collapse.
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President Obama nominated Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to a second four-year term Tuesday as improved housing and consumer confidence data reinforced views that the central bank chief has helped guide the economy out of its deepest recession in decades.
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President Barack Obama has tried to distance himself in every way from Bush-era interrogation policies, stripping the lead role in questioning detainees from the CIA and banning the harshest tactics critics have decried as torture.
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s reappointment of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Tuesday sent a reassuring message of continuity to financial markets and signaled to foreign lenders that the Obama administration won’t tolerate a return to high inflation.
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A prominent Democratic party fund-raiser for Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton was arrested on charges that he lied about his assets.
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U.S. President Barack Obama nominated Ben Bernanke to a second term as Federal Reserve chairman on Tuesday, aiming for continuity at a time when the U.S. economy is breaking free from a deep recession.
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Supporters of President Barack Obama’s health care agenda are ramping up their efforts with rallies and bus tours starting this week, aiming to counter increasing public skepticism leading up to Congress’ post-Labor Day return to Washington.
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Former US vice president Dick Cheney has questioned President Barack Obama’s trustworthiness on national security after the US Justice Department announce a probe into alleged CIA prisoner abuse.
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Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro criticized President Obama for expanding the war effort in Afghanistan, but Castro also mildly praised Obama’s domestic initiatives, such as health care reform.
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