Posts Tagged ‘seeks’
Roseanne Barr seeks Green Party presidential nod (AP)
AP – Roseanne Barr is running for the Green Party’s presidential nomination — and she says it’s no joke.
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Obama seeks to broaden reach of housing assistance (AP)
AP – Conceding his earlier housing programs have fallen short, President Barack Obama on Wednesday proposed a vast expansion of government assistance to homeowners, aiming to make lower lending rates a possibility for millions of borrowers who have not been able to get out from under burdensome mortgages.
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Obama seeks to divide Americans, Daniels says
President Obama has resorted to “extremism” with stifling, anti-growth policies and sought to divide Americans, not unite them, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels said Tuesday in the formal Republican response to the president’s State of the Union address.
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Skier’s family seeks help for medical bills
As the skiing community continues to mourn Sarah Burke’s death, more than $185,000 had been raised by Friday evening on a fundraising website set up to help her family cover hospital costs.
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Obama seeks power to merge agencies (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama on Friday took aim at his government’s own messy bureaucracy, prodding Congress to give him greater power to merge agencies and promising he would start by collapsing six major economic departments into one. Pressing Republicans on one of their own political issues, Obama said it was time for an “effective, lean government.”
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APNewsBreak: Obama seeks power to merge agencies (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama will ask Congress on Friday for greater power to shrink the federal government, and his first idea is merging six sprawling trade and commerce agencies whose overlapping programs can be baffling to businesses, a senior administration official told The Associated Press.
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Santorum faces skeptics as he seeks votes in NH (AP)
AP – Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum faced skepticism about his support for gun rights and engaged in a hostile exchange over gay marriage Thursday, all the while emphasizing a conservative record that he acknowledges is imperfect.
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