While President Obama and the assorted GOP contenders for the 2012 presidential nomination push their ideas for getting the country back in the black, there are some U.S. cities and counties on the brink.
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The White House will propose a new tax rate for people earning more than $1 million a year to ensure that they pay at least the same percentage of their earnings in taxes as middle-income Americans, administration and White House officials told CNN on Sunday.
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Chris Christie's decision on Tuesday to pass up a White House bid means that only one establishment candidate remains: Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, who offers brainy competence and private-sector experience as the answer to four years of Mr. Obama.
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President Barack Obama signed legislation into law early Wednesday that will keep the federal government funded through November 18, the White House said. The measure, called the "Continuing Resolution Act, 2012," ends the latest threat of a government shutdown.
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While President Obama and the assorted GOP contenders for the 2012 presidential nomination push their ideas for getting the country back in the black, there are some U.S. cities and counties on the brink. -
Coming in at No. 9 on the list is Camden. The city has been beset with money issues for quite a while, highlighted by a mass layoff of its police officers and firefighters earlier this year. The city collected $181,257,000 in revenue in 2009, but was in debt to the tune of $103,284,000 during that same year.
Obama Loses Big on Jobs Bill - Yahoo! News - 0 views
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Nothing quite illustrates the depth of Barack Obama's weakness in Washington better than the painfully public defeat the Senate handed him Tuesday by blocking his signature American Jobs Act.
Potatoes Get Senate Protection on School Lunch Menus - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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WASHINGTON - The Senate stood up Tuesday for the humble white potato and rebuffed an effort by President Obama to limit its consumption by millions of schoolchildren around the country. The administration has proposed limiting the amount of potatoes and other starchy vegetables that can be served in school lunches to one cup per student per week, and banning them from school breakfasts.
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"Issa proud of being a 'pain' to Democrats Washington (CNN) -- Since becoming chairman of the powerful House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Rep. Darrell Issa has made waves throughout Washington, at one point calling President Barack Obama's administration "one of most corrupt." Issa has made it clear since taking over the helm on the committee that he wants explanations from the Obama administration -- from the BP oil spill to issues regarding the Labor Relations Board to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). The California Republican makes no qualms about his role in getting to the bottom of things, including his latest mission: the much-criticized "Fast and Furious" federal gun-running investigation."
U.S. Debated Cyberwarfare Against Libya - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Just before the American-led strikes against Libya in March, the Obama administration intensely debated whether to open the mission with a new kind of warfare: a cyberoffensive to disrupt and even disable the Qaddafi government's air-defense system, which threatened allied warplanes.
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Abbas pushes for U.N. recognition of Palestinian state - CNN.com - 0 views
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will submit a letter to the United Nations Security Council Friday requesting formal U.N. recognition of Palestinian statehood, according to a top Palestinian official.
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The Associated Press: House probing $528M loan to failed solar company - 0 views
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Solyndra Inc. was given a very large loan out of the economic stimulus package of 2009. Since then the business has been shut down and law makers have been questioning what happened to this $528 million loan.
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This story is newsworthy because right now president Obama is recommending new ways to stimulate job growth and the original stimulus package was supposed to do the same thing. The loan to this company resulted in a loss of jobs because the company closed down.
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This article is timely because everyone is concerned about the state of the economy in the United States.
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House Republicans questioned Wednesday whether the White House rushed approval of a half-billion-dollar loan guarantee for a now-bankrupt solar panel manufacturer once cited as the kind of renewable energy company worthy of federal stimulus money.
Some Democrats Are Balking at Obama's Jobs Bill - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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This story is interesting to me because it involves my countries politics so it directly affects me.
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This story has importance because it is about the government and a possible bill that will affect everyone in the country. It is also a very recent article so it has timeliness and there is conflict between the democrats and the republicans.
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Bob Turner Wins Anthony Weiner's House Seat - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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This story is newsworthy. It affects many in the republican party and in politics as well. This stroy fills the qualities of celebrity, importance, and timeliness. Celebrity because this person (Bob Turner) is very well talked about, Importance because it effects all republicans, and Timeliness because it happened two days ago.
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A little-known Republican businessman from Queens, channeling voter discontent with President Obama into an upset, won election to Congress on Tuesday from the heavily Democratic district in New York City last represented by Anthony D. Weiner.
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The Republican, Bob Turner, a retired cable television executive, defeated Assemblyman David I. Weprin, the scion of a prominent Democratic family in Queens, in a nationally watched special election.
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