Open Congress : News Articles for Barack Obama

Barack Obama selects a 'Leon Panetta' to head the CIA

2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

...George Smiley or someone else with secret qualifications in the crucial, clandestine world of intelligence, president-elect Barack Obama has made his first or second inexplicable pick of advisors. The 61-year-old Panetta's main apparent qualification fo

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Analysis: Barack Obama Tested By Stimulus, Scandal

2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

...two weeks before Inauguration Day, congressional Democrats have stalled Barack Obama's economic recovery legislation while his pick for Commerce secretary, Bill Richardson, has withdrawn under an ethics cloud. It's a hard dose of reality to swallow at t

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Barack Obama meets with congressional leaders, promises 'a genuine partnership'

2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

...- Barack Obama insists America has only one president at a time. But for the next two weeks, this city shows all signs of hosting two - working a mile apart along Pennsylvania Avenue. On Day One of President-elect Obama’s tenure in Washington, the Dem

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Analysis: Barack Obama tested by stimulus, scandal

2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

MyDD

2009-01-05T00:00:00Z

...are getting ugly between President-elect Barack Obama's transition team and New Mexico Gov. ... READ MORE President-elect Barack Obama's plans for an aggressive stimulus package may face tough opposition from congressional Republicans who don't want to

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Kaine to take over as Democratic chairman

2009-01-05T00:00:00Z

...Sunday. In this Aug. 21, 2008 file photo, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine looks on as then Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama,D-Ill., right, speaks during a town hall meeting at John Tyler Community College in Chester, Va. Kaine is set to

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Black Ministers Rally Behind Blagojevich Pick, Burris

2009-01-05T00:00:00Z

...2009. Burris is leaving for Washington D.C. on Monday, after Il. Gov. Rod Blagojevich appointed him to fill President elect Barack Obama's Senate seat. Warm words of support and prayers for Roland Burris contrasted with the frigid reactions from Senate

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Obama Arrives In Washington

2009-01-05T00:00:00Z

...selecting former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack and Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar to his cabinet. Watch in its entirety President-elect Barack Obama's news conference, during which he nominates Arne Duncan as his education secretary. President-elect Barack Obama pic

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Sasha & Malia Obama Start School

2009-01-05T00:00:00Z

...Obama, wife Michelle and daughters Malia and Sasha Usher and Kerry Washington with Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama at a rally at South Carolina State University Sen. Barack Obama, with his family, after winning the Iowa democratic pres

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Kaine to take over as DNC chairman

2009-01-05T00:00:00Z

...Dharapak) In this Aug. 21, 2008 file photo, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine looks on as then Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama,D-Ill., right, speaks during a town hall meeting at John Tyler Community College in Chester, Va. Kaine is set to

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Sen. Reid Called Blagojevich About Senate Seat

2009-01-04T00:00:00Z

...words for the media after he announces his choice of former Ill. Attorney General Roland Burris to fill President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat in Chicago. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has revoked embattled Gov. Rod Blagojevich's acc

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Ill. Gov. Says Reid Called About Sen. Pick

2009-01-04T00:00:00Z

...Fitzgerald lists the various charges against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was arrested and accused of trying to sell Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat. The current Illinois governor was born and raised in Chicago. There is no absolute number of dri

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Richardson Withdraws Bid To Be Commerce Sec.

2009-01-04T00:00:00Z

...Obama selecting former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack and Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar to his cabinet. Watch in its entirety President-elect Barack Obama's news conference, during which he nominates Arne Duncan as his education secretary. President-elect Barack Oba

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Ill. Gov. Says Reid Called About Sen. Pick

2009-01-04T00:00:00Z

Barack Obama: Country needs economic stimulus plan

2009-01-04T00:00:00Z

...The Obamas arrived at their temporary home at the Hay-Adams Hotel on Saturday evening. They are expected to be joined Sunday by Barack Obama, who remained in Chicago to wrap things up at his home and transition office. The Obamas moved early so their da

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Michelle Obama, Daughters Arrive In DC

2009-01-04T00:00:00Z

...campaigning, U.S. citizens go to the polls to vote in the election between Democratic presidential nominee U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Republican nominee U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). Here's a look at Obama's day. Long before President-elect Barac

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Inauguration Tests Troubled Transportation Grid

2009-01-04T00:00:00Z

...faces an economy that his soon-to-be vice president calls "far worse" than imagined. Watch in its entirety President-elect Barack Obama selecting former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack and Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar to his cabinet. Watch in its entirety President-

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Huge mess left for Barack Obama

2009-01-03T00:00:00Z

...and much of the mortgage and housing crisis would not have taken place. As it has been said by some, with President-elect Barack Obama the grownups are back in town. But has the Bush administration left behind a mess of such magnanimous proportions that

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Sen. Reid called Blagojevich about Senate seat

2009-01-03T00:00:00Z

...Harry Reid says Reid called Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in early December to discuss the seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama. Reid spokesman Jim Manley says the Nevada Democrat made one call to Blagojevich on Dec. 3. That was six days before

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Dignitaries expected at funeral for former Sen. Claiborne Pell

2009-01-03T00:00:00Z

...Pell between 1985 and 1997, said all 100 U.S. senators had been invited to the funeral. A spokeswoman for President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team said Vice President-elect Joseph Biden, Pell’s Senate colleague and friend, plans to attend the

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