By:
Sarah Leitner
07/12/11 8:40 AM
Federal law limits how much corporate political action committees (PACs) can give to members of Congress, but high-powered K Street lobbysts have found a loophole that enables them to give an estimated $50 million to senators and representatives.
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By:
Fredric Rolando
07/10/11 4:00 AM
I’d like to provide some facts forthe next time you hear about multibillion-dollar Postal losses or potential bailouts. For starters, the Postal Service doesn’t use a dime of taxpayer money and hasn’t for more than a quarter-century. Its revenue comes from the sale of its products and services — delivered to residents and businesses at the best rates in the industrialized world.
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For 24 years, Nancy Pelosi has represented San Francisco. Now, she may also represent Marin County.
In a break from its policy to keep geographic areas in a single district, the California Redistricting Commission is considering a plan to split San Francisco down its hilly middle into two congressional districts.
To see a map of the proposed redistricting of San Francisco, click on the photo to the right.
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President Obama conceded on Friday that the economic recovery is slowing and that American people feel that their leaders have "let them down."
"Our economy as a whole just isn't producing nearly enough jobs for everybody who's looking," a subdued Obama said from the Rose Garden following reports that show a sharp decline in new job growth and an increase in unemployment.
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President Obama is asking congressional leaders and staffers to work on budget negotiations over the weekend and return to the White House on Sunday to try to hammer out a compromise.
"The parties are still far apart on a wide range of issues," Obama told reporters after a meeting with congressional leaders at the White House on Thursday.
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Congress passed and President Obama signed legislation last year banning federal grants and contracts to ACORN or any of its affiliates. Somebody should tell the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) about the ban.
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We were encouraged last week when President Barack Obama challenged Congress to forego its Fourth of July recess and stay on the job to solve the country’s financial crisis. Obama seemed to be seconding The Examiner’s editorial: “Now is the time to act. Business as usual has no place when the country’s future is in peril. Cancel all recesses and junkets, park Air Force One, and get back to the capital and do your job.”
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President Obama scheduled an impromptu meeting with reporters to discuss the status of budget negotiations on Tuesday.
Obama plans to address reporters in the White House briefing room at 4:40 "to discuss the status of efforts to find a balanced approach to deficit reduction," according to a release from the White House press office.
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