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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] That 95 percent of Americans agree on anything is worthy of a news story. “The number that really stuck out to me from the survey is that 95 percent of Americans think it is important to help kids during the holiday season. That number, we expect it to be…
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Staff Report www.webb.senate.gov Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) today cosponsored legislation to create a bipartisan fiscal task force to address the nation’s long-term budget crisis. The Bipartisan Task Force for Responsible Fiscal Action Act of 2009, S. 2853, was introduced by Sens. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) and Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), chairman and ranking member, respectively, of…
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Staff Report White House news: www.whitehouse.gov I have just concluded an informative and constructive discussion with Republican and Democratic leaders about job creation and our economic future. We spoke about the challenges facing our families, our businesses, and our country as a whole, and what we can do to overcome them. Today’s meeting built…
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Speech at The Brookings Institution www.whitehouse.gov Almost exactly one year ago, on a frigid winter’s day, I met with my new economic team at the headquarters of my presidential transition offices in Chicago. And over the course of four hours, my advisors presented an analysis of where the economy at that time stood, accompanied…
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Staff Report ACC sports: www.theacc.com Boston College’s Corey Raji has been named ACC Player of the Week, while Wake Forest’s C.J. Harris and Georgia Tech’s Mfon Udofia tied for ACC Rookie of the Week honors. Raji averaged 20.5 points, 9.0 rebounds and shot 63 percent (17-of-27) from the field as the Eagles posted a…
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Column by Tom Perriello www.perriello.house.gov My top priority is jobs for Main Street and rebuilding America’s competitive edge in the world. Recently, I was selected for two congressional roles to advance the ball on economic development for Central and Southern Virginia. I was appointed to a Congressional Task Force on Job Creation and was…
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Column by David Reynolds Columns, letters: [email protected] Last time we painted a bleak budget picture, saying that this year’s public budgets are worse than last year’s, but not as bad as next year’s. In my old Washington Bureau of the Budget days it allowed us to put away the usual governmental garbage that we…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] What’s wrong with America, if you ask Laurence Verga, isn’t just with the direction that the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress is taking, but what their Republican predecessors did, or rather didn’t do, ahead of them. “One of the reasons our country is in the challenged position it…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] I didn’t expect that the one thing that would stick out the most from my read of Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue would be the bit about an unnamed former state legislative director in Alaska, what with all the innuendo about the inner workings of the John McCain presidential campaign,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Mike Lund found himself a few feet away from the First Couple at the November state dinner held at the White House in honor of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife, Gursharan Kaur. President Barack Obama broke away from small talk with First Lady Michelle Obama to…
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