Rahm Emanuel

Democrat  •  3 Terms  •  Sworn In 2003
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01/09/09
Impeachment, Senate trial, Blagojevich, Burris

#fullpost{display:inline;}By Bethany Jaeger, Jamey Dunn and Hilary RussellSidestepping the criminal allegations that led the Illinois House to impeach him, Gov. Rod Blagojevich maintains his innocence and says that he “pushed and prodded the system” so

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01/09/09
Human Race Horses: Business for the 21st Century: Human Resources ...

Links for 2008-11-06 [Digg] - - Rahm Emanuel accepts White House job Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), a wily, aggressive West Wing strategist under President Bill Clinton, has a... 2 months ago. EXCELER8ion | People ARE The Social Media ...

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01/09/09
Wheelan for Congress » In the News » Wheelan Quoted in ...

But that is certainly no longer the case for Democratic hopefuls in Illinois’ 5th Congressional District that is soon to be vacated by Rahm Emanuel , President-elect Barack Obama ’s pick for White House chief of staff. ...

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01/09/09
The Art of the Grand Gesture: The Dance Of The Political Veils

Rahm Emanuel's seat in Congress will be won in a special election, and the new representative will get there in the same way that Rahm Emanuel got there---via the Chicago machine. Jimmy DeLeo, reputedly the Mafia's representative to ...

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01/09/09
DownWithTyranny!: Daley Machine Hasn't Come Up With An Emanuel ...

I've been talking with most of the Democrats running for Chicago's 5th district congressional seat, which has been vacated by Rahm Emanuel. The seat, a classic "rotten borough," has been a real home of corruption and its representatives .

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01/09/09
No candidate endorsed to replace Emanuel - 1/10/09 - Chicago News ...

Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2006. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook). The fight to replace Rahm Emanuel in Congress will be waged without an endorsed Democratic candidate. ...

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01/09/09
Democrats Won't Endorse Anyone To Replace Rahm Emanuel

Chicago Ward committeemen narrowly voted to stay neutral in the Democratic primary election to choose a replacement for U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Chicago), who resigned to be President-elect Barack Obama's chief of staff. ...

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01/09/09
Rahm Emanuel: The day the earth stood still

Rahm Emanuel. Rahm Emanuel is a Jew in exile in America, the son of Israeli Jews in exile, living in these United States -Artzot Habrit ("Lands of the Covenant" in Hebrew) - the Promised Land of Menashe ben Yosef. ...

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01/09/09
Human Race Horses: Business for the 21st Century: The Wide World ...

Links for 2008-11-06 [Digg] - - Rahm Emanuel accepts White House job Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), a wily, aggressive West Wing strategist under President Bill Clinton, has a... 2 months ago. EXCELER8ion | People ARE The Social Media ...

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01/09/09
City Dem leaders try to endorse Emanuel replacement today | Clout ...

Local Democratic Party leaders plan to meet this morning to try to winnow the field of prospective replacements for newly appointed White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, who left Congress to work for President-elect Barack Obama. ...

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01/09/09
Rabble Rouser Ruminations: It's A HIgh Old Time In Rahm's Former ...

Until last week, it belonged to U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Tomczak), now chief of staff to President-elect Barack Obama, who ran on the platform of bringing reform to American politics. With so many new readers from strange lands finally ...

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01/09/09
MidEastTruth :: View topic - OBAMA SENDING MESSAGE TO ISRAEL WITH ...

His choice, Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel, has already accepted the job. Obama's offer could be an early signal to the Middle East that the new president intends to follow through on his promises to uphold the U.S.-Israeli alliance in his ...

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01/09/09
Illinois House Impeaches Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s Hair

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01/09/09
Rifts show as Obama urges quick action on stimulus

Lawmakers are under orders to finish action on President-elect Barack Obama's nearly $800 billion economic recovery plan by mid-February. But already it is plain that a set of serious fissures need to be bridged if the bill is to be completed within five w

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01/09/09
Pelosi Turns Back the Clock on House Reform

Pelosi Turns Back the Clock on House Reform Moderate Democrats will be frozen out. JOHN FUNDEvery two years the leadership of the U.S ... to make the legislative train run faster. "Congress has to accomplish things," said Massachusetts keyw

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01/09/09
Rifts show as Obama urges quick action on stimulus

Lawmakers are under orders to finish action on President-elect Barack Obama’s nearly $800 billion economic recovery plan by mid-February. But already it is plain that a set of serious fissures need to be bridged if the bill is to be completed within fiv

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01/09/09
Obama Needs Quick Action

WASHINGTON – Lawmakers are under orders to finish action on President-elect Barack Obama's nearly $800 billion economic recovery plan by mid-February. But already it is plain that a set of serious fissures need to be bridged if the bill is to be complete

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01/09/09
Rifts show as Obama urges quick action on stimulus

Lawmakers are under orders to finish action on President-elect Barack Obama’s nearly $800 billion economic recovery plan by mid-February. But already it is plain that a set of serious fissures need to be bridged if the bill is to be completed within f

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01/08/09
CNIN - The Conservative News Intelligence Network: Blagojevich's ...

Blagojevich's legal team has asked the Illinois House panel that members of Obama's incoming administration testify before the House impeachment committee, including Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett, ...

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01/08/09
Chicago News Bench: Conservative Woman Runs to Fill Rahm Emanuel's ...

Rahm Emanuel leaves the Illinois 5th Congressional District seat vacant as he preps for his duties as Barack Obama's Chief of Staff. John Ruberry, Marathon Pundit, reports that a conservative hispanic woman is running to fill the void: ...

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01/08/09
Blago’s human shield strategy; Durbin stands in the Senate door

...is he milking it or what? Gotta love the histrionics. Blago’s press conference was a “big &$*%^^ you” to Rahm Emanuel (who got name-checked while Blago touted his health care heroism) and the Illinois legislature. Blago’s healed women with breas

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01/08/09
Illinois Issues blog: Impeachment, Senate trial, Blagojevich, Burris

He went as far as crediting former Congressman Rahm Emanuel, new chief of staff for President-elect Barack Obama, for coming up with the idea to import cheaper prescription drugs for seniors. Blagojevich also described the Illinois ...

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01/08/09
Show Me Progress:: What ever happened to Howard Dean?

But key Democrats, including Representative Rahm Emanuel, a former senior adviser to President Clinton, weren't satisfied, and Dean opted to stay away from the celebration, doing TV interviews instead. ...

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01/08/09
Burris denied seat on U.S. Senate / QCTimes.com

Burris also maintained that the announcement by Blagojevich Monday of a date for an election for a successor to Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., proves the governor still has legal authority to carry out his duties. ...

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01/08/09
Anti-immigrant Extremist Eyes Emanuel’s Congressional Seat ...

Just when you thought you had heard it all when it comes to Illinois politics, along comes anti-immigrant extremist Rosanna Pulido in a run for Rahm Emanuel’s vacated seat in the 5th Congressional District. A field representative of the ...

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01/08/09
In Come the Ghouls « toxic culture

Rahm Israel Emanuel - I’ve already said a lot about Rahm-bo and how he isn’t representative of the kind of political change we were expecting out of the Obama administration. While I’m not sure Emanuel will get sucked into the ...

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01/08/09
Human Race Horses: Business for the 21st Century: Net Gen: Next ...

Links for 2008-11-06 [Digg] - - Rahm Emanuel accepts White House job Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), a wily, aggressive West Wing strategist under President Bill Clinton, has a... 2 months ago. EXCELER8ion | People ARE The Social Media ...

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01/08/09
NY Rep. Eric Massa, From Fuel Cell to Fool Sell

The newly sworn-in Democratic Representative from New York’s 29th District, Eric Massa, has apparently made a fuel of himself… and of those that elected him. And the amusing thing is he did it on the way to his swearing in ceremony. ...

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01/08/09
Questions loom over use of Treasury bailout money, 2009-01-09 11 ...

Oversight panel wants better answers from Treasury: Less than a month after its first report, a congressional panel overseeing ... Ill. governor must set election to replace Emanuel: Rep. Rahm Emanuel said Monday that he will resign his ...

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01/08/09
Obama Introduces Tim Kaine As DNC Chair

[ Tim-Kaine-OBAMA-1] President-elect Barack Obama is formally introducing Virginia Governor Tim Kaine as the next Democratic Party chairman. The two were appearing together at a news conference at national party headquarters. Kaine is succeeding outgoing

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