Posts Tagged ‘agreement’

Lawmakers edge toward agreement on Wall St. bill (AP)

The Bank of England warned Friday the eurozone debt crisis posed a risk to Britain's financial system and urged its banks to build up their reserves(AFP/File/Patrik Stollarz)AP – Working into early Friday, lawmakers drafting an overhaul of bank regulations softened a contentious Wall Street restriction that would force large bank holding companies to spin off their lucrative derivatives business.


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Greek leader says agreement reached on aid deal (AP)

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou arrives at the cabinet meeting in the Greek Parliament in Athens, Sunday, May 2, 2010. Papandreou said Sunday that Greece has reached agreement with the IMF and European Union on a rescue package for the debt-laden country. His government later in the day is set to announce harsh spending cuts through 2012, as part of the loan agreement worth some 120 billion euros ($159 billion). (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)AP – Greece has reached agreement with the EU and IMF on an aid package to stave off bankruptcy, and has no choice but to implement new harsh austerity measures, including cuts to civil servants’ salaries and pensions, Prime Minister George Papandreou said.


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Democrats seek agreement, vote on health care (AP)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. leaves after a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 12, 2010.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP – Under White House pressure to act swiftly, House and Senate Democratic leaders reached for agreement Friday on President Barack Obama’s health care bill, sweetened suddenly by fresh billions for student aid and a sense that breakthroughs are at hand.


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Dems seek agreement, quick vote on health care (AP)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. leaves after a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 12, 2010.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP – Under White House pressure to act swiftly, House and Senate Democratic leaders reached for agreement Friday on President Barack Obama’s health care bill, sweetened suddenly by fresh billions for student aid and a sense that breakthroughs are at hand.


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Pelosi: Dems close on health care agreement (AP)

US President Barack Obama speaks on healthcare and health insurance reform at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania. Obama has launched a populist assault on price-gouging American insurance firms, escalating his last-ditch bid to pass a historic health reform bill.(AFP/Saul Loeb)AP – Democrats claimed momentum Wednesday in their drive to enact the sweeping health care legislation sought by President Barack Obama, citing near agreement on crucial issues despite persistent Republican efforts to knock them offstride.


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Health summit: Heated talk, little agreement (AP)

U.S. President Barack Obama (R) delivers remarks next to Vice President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington after the Senate passed the health care reform bill December 24, 2009. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/FilesAP – With tempers flaring, President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans clashed in an extraordinary live-on-TV summit Thursday over the right prescription for the nation’s broken health care system, talking of agreement but holding to long-entrenched positions that leave them far apart.


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