Posts Tagged ‘chairman’

Bachmann loses Iowa campaign chairman to Paul (AP)

Republican Presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. meets with patrons at the Nodaway Diner during a campaign stop, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011, in Greenfield, Iowa.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP – Michele Bachmann’s struggling presidential campaign saw her Iowa chairman defect Wednesday to rival Ron Paul’s side, an embarrassing blow that came as some called for her to leave the race to free up her supporters for other candidates.


View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

GOP chairman demands that Weiner resign (AP)

U.S. Congressman Anthony Weiner, D-NY, addresses a news conference in New York,  Monday, June 6, 2011. After days of denials, a choked-up New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner confessed Monday that he tweeted a bulging-underpants photo of himself to a young woman and admitted to 'inappropriate' exchanges with six women before and after getting married. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP – The Republican Party chairman said Tuesday that Rep. Anthony Weiner should resign after admitting to sexually charged online relationships with several women and lying about his misdeeds.


View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

Clinton, Joint Chiefs chairman press Pakistan (AP)

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton looks on during a press conference as part of the 50th anniversary Ministerial Council Meeting 2011 at the OECD, in Paris, Thursday, May 26, 2011. Prospects for economic growth in the United States and the eurozone have improved and are predicted to hit 2.6 percent and 2 percent this year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)AP – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Pakistan on Friday to repair badly frayed relations after the killing of terror mastermind Osama bin Laden at a comfortable hideout not far from this capital city.


View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

Sony chairman credited with developing CDs dies (AP)

FILE - In this May 1991 file photo, former president and chairman of Sony, Norio Ohga, holds a Sony Mini Disc in New York. Sony says Ohga, credited with developing the compact disc, has died Saturday, April 23, 2011. He was 81. Sony Corp. Chairman Howard Stringer said Ohga helped redefine the Japanese manufacturer not only as an electronic hardware company but helped it also expand into software or entertainment. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)AP – As a young man, aspiring opera singer Norio Ohga wrote to Sony to complain about the quality of its tape recorders. That move changed the course of his life, as the company promptly recruited the man whose love of music would shape the development of the compact disc and transform the Japanese electronics maker into a global software and entertainment empire.


View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

Joint Chiefs chairman to reassure Jordan, Israel (AP)

President Barack Obama makes a statement on the resignation of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak in the Grand Foyer at the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP – With Egypt’s military leading a hoped-for drive to democracy, President Barack Obama’s senior military adviser was heading to the Mideast on Saturday to reassure two key allies — Jordan, facing its own rumblings of civil unrest, and Israel, which sees its security at stake in a wider transformation of the Arab world.


View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

House GOP Chairman outlines sweeping spending cuts (AP)

AP – House Republicans proposed ending more than 60 government programs and cutting hundreds of others Wednesday in a $35 billion down payment on their promise to rein in federal deficits.

View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

GOP chairman Steele running for re-election (AP)

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2010 file photo, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele speaks in Washington. Steele could disclose late Monday whether he'll seek re-election to the two-year post as several challengers line up to try to succeed him.  (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)AP – Embattled GOP Republican Party chairman Michael Steele announced Monday that he will seek a second term despite a rocky two years marked by allegations of financial mismanagement and frequent verbal gaffes.


View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

Amazon Free Clicks