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March 11, 2010
VIDEO - Several caucus members feel strongly that the president is not listening to their concerns...
March 10, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate voted Wednesday to extend a host of soon-to-expire elements of last year's economic stimulus measure...
March 10, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans have come to detest Congress ever more deeply as it nears the end of a nasty…
March 10, 2010
VIDEO - President Obama is making his closing arguments for a health care overhaul, pushing a new anti-fraud plan...
March 8, 2010
OPINION - Harlem's voters have something they haven't had the benefit of in quite some time: viable options for his…
March 4, 2010
OPINION - 'The Gang of Four', consisted of David Dinkins, Charles Rangel, Basil Paterson and Percy Sutton. But that old…
March 4, 2010
OPINION - Obama has come closer than any president to passing comprehensive health care reform, yet he has much more…
March 3, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - "I don't see how another year of negotiations would help. Moreover, the insurance companies aren't starting over,"…
March 3, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic leaders hope President Obama's unveiling of his final health care package Wednesday will help resuscitate an…
March 2, 2010
OPINION - Black leaders have at times lightly chided Obama to do and say more for African-Americans, but they're also…
February 26, 2010
The White House will announce next week -- "probably closer to Wednesday" -- the president's preferred path forward for getting…
February 26, 2010
OPINION - In Gov. Paterson's mind, he wasn't supposed to lose...
February 26, 2010
OPINION - This week's televised health care summit reminded America that President Obama is smarter than nearly every Republican on…
February 25, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) - Rep. Steve Israel told The Associated Press that he called Paterson early Thursday, urging him to…
February 24, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The 70-28 vote sends the bill back to the House, which passed a far more costly measure…
February 23, 2010
OPINION - Think of what could be accomplished if Republicans accepted President Obama's hand more often than they give him…
February 22, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - A bipartisan jobs bill cleared a GOP filibuster on Monday with critical momentum provided by the Senate's…
February 19, 2010
LAS VEGAS (AP) - President Obama plans to offer new help to the states hit hardest by the housing crisis,…
February 18, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House and congressional leaders are preparing a detailed health care proposal designed to win passage…
February 11, 2010
Watson is the 12th Democrat who will leave Congress at the end of 2010...