Posts Tagged ‘policy’

GOP vows to reverse Obama birth control policy (AP)

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., center, accompanied by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, and Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H. gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, to criticize President Barack Obama for insisting that employers must provide health insurance that includes birth control for women.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP – Republicans vowed Wednesday to reverse President Barack Obama’s new policy on birth control, lambasting the requirement that religious schools and hospitals provide employees with free contraceptives as an “unambiguous attack on religious freedom in our country.”


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Boehner: Congress to overturn birth control policy (AP)

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks on job creation to employees of Thyssenkrupp Bilstein of America, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012, in Hamilton, Ohio. The company has been in Hamilton since 1995 and manufactures automobile shock absorbers. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)AP – House Speaker John Boehner accused the Obama administration Wednesday of an “unambiguous attack on religious freedom,” promising that Congress will reverse a new policy requiring religious schools and hospitals to provide employees with free birth control if the president doesn’t.


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First Lady Michelle Obama says she’s tired of ‘angry black woman’ tag Denies book’s account that she meddles in policy decisions 

First Lady Michelle Obama insists she’s no “angry black woman,” and says she’s one of her husband’s “biggest allies” and on good terms with his White House advisers.

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FACT CHECK: GOP candidates get Obama policy wrong (AP)

Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn, takes part in the Republican debate, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP – Republican presidential candidates have claimed that the Obama administration is cleansing government files of references to radical Islam, an assertion so juicy that politicians keep repeating it — even though it’s a wild exaggeration.


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GOP presidential rivals to debate foreign policy (AP)

Republican presidential candidate, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman speaks during an employee town hall event at CCA Global Partners in Manchester, N.H., Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)AP – With new trouble appearing in the Middle East and the Pentagon facing possible budget cuts, the Republican White House contenders are debating for the second time in as many weeks how they would do better than President Barack Obama in protecting and extending America’s national security.


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GOP rivals debate foreign policy in South Carolina (AP)

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain speaks to the board of The Federation of Young Republicans Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011, in Atlanta.  (AP Photo/John Bazemore)AP – Republican candidates prepared to challenge President Barack Obama on foreign policy, an issue they have given scant attention in recent weeks, as they gathered Saturday night for their second debate in four days.


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Federal Reserve wraps up policy meeting (AP)

AP – The Federal Reserve, after employing a dwindling set of policy options at its last two meetings, may hit the pause button in hopes that the faint signs of the economy’s rebound will grow stronger.

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