U.S. President Barack Obama may moderate a meeting between the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority at the United Nations next month in talks that could lead to the resumption of the peace process, Israeli President Shimon Peres said on Monday.

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Obama seeks cap on federal pay raises (USA Today)

On August 31, 2009, in Barack Obama, by Federal Voting

President Obama urged Congress Monday to limit cost-of-living pay raises to 2% for 1.3 million federal employees in 2010, extending an income squeeze that has hit private workers and threatens Social Security recipients and even 401(k) investors.

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Obama Hurt by Hands-Off Strategy

On August 31, 2009, in Barack Obama, by Federal Voting

Among the many problems President Barack Obama confronts on the health-care front, one is fairly simple. He is defending a plan that doesn’t really exist. It may be time for the White House to change that. As the president and his administration …

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President Obama urged Congress Monday to limit cost-of-living pay raises to 2% for 1.3 million federal employees in 2010, extending an income squeeze that has hit private workers and threatens Social Security recipients and even 401(k) investors.

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The United States is having more success fighting terrorism under President Barack Obama partly because of his “radically different” approach to foreign policy, National security adviser Jim Jones said on Monday.

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Growing Government Role Fuels Anger

On August 31, 2009, in Barack Obama, by Federal Voting

At August’s town-hall meetings, voters often started with complaints about health care, only to shift to frustrations about all the other things President Barack Obama and the Democrats have done or tried to do since January. The $787 billion …

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Bennett on Kennedy, Bork, Obama

On August 31, 2009, in Barack Obama, by Federal Voting

The former U.S. secretary of education turned on his recognizably thick voice during an appearance in Wichita to offer encouragement to U.S. Rep. Todd Tiahrt, a Wichita Republican who wants to climb the ladder to the U.S. Senate in 2010. The path to …

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A public that wants to know everything about Barack Obama can thank Lisa Jack for a glimpse of what the future president was like when he was just another college freshman trying to cut a figure in this world — with a partly unbuttoned Oxford shirt, a big Panama hat and puffs of cigarette smoke as his props of choice for projecting that coveted aura of post-adolescent confidence and cool.

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Biden Blows Through the Area–But Why? (NBC Philadelphia)

On August 31, 2009, in Joe Biden, by Federal Voting

There was a little bit of a surprise for rush hour motorists Monday morning as Joe Biden’s Vice-Presidential motorcade looped along some Philadelphia highways causing a few temporary road closures and traffic headaches.

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When Alaska Governor Sarah Palin announced she would resign from office a full 18 months before the end of her term, some concluded that she was positioning herself for a 2012 run for president.

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