Elizabeth Warren’s Meeting at the White House
Elizabeth Warren this afternoon met at the White House with David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett, where the possibility of her heading the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was discussed, but not decided on, a White House official confirms. President Obama did not meet with Warren today. “The President believes that Elizabeth ...
Elizabeth Warren, likely to head new consumer agency, provokes strong feelings
Somewhere along the line, Elizabeth Warren became a symbol. She's either the plain-spoken, supremely smart crusader for middle-class families that her supporters adore, or she's the power-hungry headline seeker her critics loathe, a fiery zealot disguised in professorial glasses and pastel cardigans. But no one disputes that she's the most ...
Cantwell, Murray back Elizabeth Warren for consumer agency
Saying its director should be "independent" and an "outsider," Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., are backing Harvard Law bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren to head the new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. The consumer bureau is a key component of Wall Street reform legislation recently passed by Congress and ...
Gibbs returns to press podium after battle with 'professional left'
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, under fire from liberals, made it clear Wednesday he has no plans to resign.Gibbs returned to the daily White House briefing on Wednesday a day after his criticism of the “professional left” created a political firestorm.In an interview with The Hill, Gibbs said some ...
Spokesman: Gibbs 'answered honestly' when speaking of frustations with the left
An Obama spokesman said the frustrations are real but "minimal" and there's no danger of Gibbs's resigning.White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton said Robert Gibbs "answered honestly" when he told The Hill about frustrations the administration has with "the professional left."Burton, who was filling in at Tuesday’s press briefing ...
Burton to Step in For Gibbs Today
The White House announced that Deputy Press Sec. Bill Burton will brief the White House Press Corps today instead of Press Sec. Robert Gibbs. The switch comes on the heels of Gibbs trashing what he believes are liberal naysayers who don't support President Obama. In a story this morning from ...
Rep. Ellison: 'Gibbs Crossed The Line'
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) called on Robert Gibbs to step down on Wednesday, following the White House press secretary's sharp critique of what he called a "professional left" that is perpetually unsatisfied by President Obama. "I hear these people saying he's like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug ...
White House unloads anger over criticism from 'professional left’
The White House is simmering with anger at criticism from liberals who say President Obama is more concerned with deal-making than ideological purity.During an interview with The Hill in his West Wing office, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs blasted liberal naysayers, whom he said would never regard anything the ...
Fort Hood Soldiers Protest Repeated Deployments
While President Obama is touting the Iraq war as all but over, thousands of soldiers continue to be sent to patrol Iraq’s streets, where violence is climbing to its highest level in two years. Among those thousands of GIs are a very large number who have previously been deployed, and ...
Al Franken Leads Campaign to Whip Support for Elizabeth Warren
Thirteen senators have signed on to support the nomination of Elizabeth Warren to head the government's new Consumer Financial Protection bureau, says a progressive grassroots organization. Now, with the support of Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), the group is starting a campaign to get more senators to make the same pledge. ...
Sanders promises to seek health care waiver from Obama for Vermont
BELLOWS FALLS, VT — U.S. Sen. Bernard Sanders, I-Vt., pledged to personally take Vermont’s case for a statewide single-payer health care system to President Obama if the Legislature authorizes it next year.Sanders, speaking at a health care rally at the Hetty Green Park in downtown Bellows Falls on Saturday afternoon, ...
Arizona immigration law boycotted by bands is blocked
A judge has blocked parts of a controversial immigration law that was about to take effect in the US state of Arizona. Police were to be given the right to check the immigration status of anyone they suspected of breaking the law. But a federal judge intervened, saying America was ...
Antiwar Left Grows in Congress With Latest War-Funding Vote
This has been a tough week for the Defense Department. WikiLeaks released thousands of government documents on the Afghanistan war, and an even bigger treasure trove on Iraq may be next, while a government audit just reported that the Pentagon cannot account for more than 95 percent of $9.1 billion ...
Bullet Trains: Obama Spends Billions on High-Speed Rail
I rode a train from Miami to Orlando — and I liked it. I relaxed in a comfortable seat with Shaq-worthy legroom. I avoided the hassle of the airport and the maniacs on the highways. I did some phone interviews, read a book about the Compromise of 1850 and watched ...
Afghanistan war logs: Wikileaks founder rebuts White House criticism
The founder of the whistleblowing website Wikileaks today defended his decision to publish thousands of secret US military files about the war in Afghanistan, faced with criticism from the White House for placing troops in danger.Julian Assange said his organisation was currently working through a backlog of further secret material ...
WikiLeaks: More US documents coming on Afghan war
LONDON – The release of some 91,000 secret U.S. military documents on the Afghanistan war is just the beginning, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange promised Monday, adding that he still has thousands more Afghan files to post online.The White House, Britain and Pakistan have all condemned the online whistle-blowing group's release ...
'Don't ask' critic Dan Choi honorably discharged
One of the most vocal critics of the military's “don't ask, don't tell” policy has been honorably discharged for being in violation of the policy.Dan Choi, a West Point graduate and first lieutenant with the Army National Guard, said he learned of the decision on Thursday. “It's painful mostly, not ...
If Democrats come, so will war protesters
The same antiwar organizers who mustered the protest crowds that descended on the Republican National Convention in St. Paul in 2008 are vowing to march again if the Democrats choose Minneapolis for their 2012 convention.As before, that would present challenges for law enforcement, but some observers predict there would be ...
Wisconsin groups want funding for Afghanistan war halted
MILWAUKEE — Wisconsin peace groups are making another pitch to curtail funding for the war in Afghanistan. Peace Action Wisconsin and other groups made the rounds of Democratic Congressional offices in Milwaukee. They asked that lawmakers vote against a supplemental appropriations bill that would add billions of dollars for U.S. ...
House-Senate dispute threatens war funding
WASHINGTON — House and Senate Democrats are at odds over how to approve additional funding for U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and will not be able resolve wide differences at least until next week.Last month, House Democratic leaders won approval for an unpopular $58.8 billion war funding by allowing ...
Geithner: Warren 'Would Be A Very Strong Leader' Of Consumer Bureau
Amid reports that he's actively sought to block progressive darling Elizabeth Warren from being appointed to head a soon-to-be-created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner sung her praises to reporters today. But when pressed, he stopped short of endorsing her or saying that her nomination would please him."It's ...
Congressional support grows for Warren to head consumer protection bureau
Members of Congress are now lining up to enter the battle over who President Obama should choose to head the newly-created Bureau of Consumer Protection.Two Democratic lawmakers, Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York and Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, are spearheading efforts in their respective chambers get Harvard Law's Elizabeth ...
Labor Pushes Warren to Head Consumer Agency
Organized labor has jumped into the fight over who should head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that’s part of the financial overhaul. It’s calling on President Barack Obama to pick Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren.AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and the SEIU both had nice things to say about Warren, ...
Join the FAT (Fast Against Torture) on August 1, 2010
Please consider participating in a 24 hour Fast Against Torture in memory of all those illegally, unethically tortured around the world, including, most importantly, those tortured and waterboarded by the Bush-Cheney administration. Sunday August 1, 2010 is the eight-year anniversary of the writing of the "torture memos" by Office of ...
Barefoot Marine veteran’s long trek draws attention to stress syndrome
SHANKSVILLE — Ron Zaleski was a combat-trained Marine, ready to fight when he and five others in his outfit received orders to Vietnam in 1972. But the Long Island native’s orders were changed, so the five others went without him. “All five were shot. Two were killed,” Zaleski said Sunday ...
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