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		<title>Pa. GOP picks Burns as nominee for Murtha&#8217;s seat</title>
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					PITTSBURGH (AP) &#8211; Republicans in Pennsylvania have nominated a political newcomer to fill the congressional seat of the late Rep. John Murtha. 

Tim Burns is a 41-year-old millionaire businessman and a native of Murtha&#8217;s hometown of Johnstown. Burns now lives in the town of Eighty Four, about 30 miles south of Pittsburgh. 

Burns beat out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iwatchobama.com/obama-news/pa-gop-picks-burns-as-nominee-for-murthas-seat/</link>
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		<title>Report: Obama to tap Yellen to be Fed vice chair</title>
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					WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; President Barack Obama is planning to nominate Janet Yellen, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, to take over as vice chairman of central bank in Washington, The Wall Street Journal reported. 

Citing a person familiar with the matter, the Journal said the White House has also chosen two other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pelosi: &#8216;The choice has to be made&#8217;</title>
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Congressional Democrats embarked on the final push for a historic health care bill Thursday with no guarantee that they have the votes to pass it. 


Democratic leaders were gearing up for a pair of committee hearings next week that will start the clock on a final, down-to-the-wire vote, which will require House Democrats to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reid&#8217;s wife, daughter injured in accident</title>
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					WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid&#8217;s wife and daughter were hospitalized Thursday&#8212;the wife with a broken back and neck&#8212;after their minivan was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer truck on an interstate highway in suburban Virginia, authorities said. 

Reid&#8217;s wife, Landra, 69, and the couple&#8217;s daughter, Lana Barringer, 48, were taken by ambulance to Inova [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US criticizes China&#8217;s domestic, economic policies</title>
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					WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; The Obama administration accused China on Thursday of abusing its citizens&#8217; rights and maintaining currency policies that cost millions of U.S. jobs, a double-barrel attack that comes amid a growing willingness to confront and even antagonize the Asian power. 

President Barack Obama spent his first year in office arguing that China was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dems look to health vote without abortion foes</title>
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					WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; House Democratic leaders Thursday abandoned a long struggle to strike a compromise on abortion in their ranks, gambling that they can secure the support for President Barack Obama&#8217;s sweeping health care legislation with showdown votes looming as early as next week. 

In doing so, they are all but counting out a small [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iwatchobama.com/obama-news/dems-look-to-health-vote-without-abortion-foes-2/</link>
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		<title>Dodd to offer his own financial regulation bill</title>
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					WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; With one eye on the calendar and the other on elusive bipartisanship, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd plans to offer his own version of a sweeping overhaul of financial regulations without Republican support. 

Dodd said Thursday he would release his proposal on Monday and begin the committee&#8217;s work on the bill [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iwatchobama.com/obama-news/dodd-to-offer-his-own-financial-regulation-bill-2/</link>
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		<title>Obama backing of immigration overhaul &#8216;unwavering&#8217;</title>
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					WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; President Barack Obama on Thursday assured immigration advocates frustrated by the wait for a promised overhaul of U.S. immigration laws that he remains committed to fixing a system he has said is broken. 

What remains unclear is whether Congress will send him a bill this year. 

Obama also met separately later in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iwatchobama.com/obama-news/obama-backing-of-immigration-overhaul-unwavering/</link>
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		<title>Reid&#8217;s wife, daughter injured in accident</title>
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					WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid&#8217;s wife and daughter were being treated in a hospital Thursday for serious injuries they sustained when their vehicle was rear-ended by a truck, a spokesman said. 

Reid&#8217;s wife, Landra, 69, broke her back and neck in the accident, Reid spokesman Jim Manley said. 

She and the couple&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iwatchobama.com/obama-news/reids-wife-daughter-injured-in-accident/</link>
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		<title>Gov&#8217;t may seek more authority on vehicle safety</title>
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					WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; Government vehicle safety regulators may seek greater authority to investigate defects in cars and trucks and are weighing a range of new safety requirements in response to Toyota&#8217;s recall of more than 8 million vehicles over brake and acceleration problems. 

David Strickland, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said Thursday [...]]]></description>
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