Rahm Emanuel

Democrat  •  3 Terms  •  Sworn In 2003
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01/09/09
Geoffrey Wheatcroft: How Israel gets away with murder

Then late on Thursday the American representative shocked other council members by abstaining. This volte face came on direct orders from the White House, ...

Source: Independent, UK
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01/09/09
Democratic leaders can't agree who to back for Emanuel seat

Update: None of the five candidates seeking to succeed former Congressman Rahm Emanuel could muster a majority of support at a Democratic slating meeting ...

Source: Chicago Tribune, United States
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01/09/09
The last picture show?

Obama appointed Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff. Emanuel, an ardent Zionist, served as a volunteer in the Israeli Defense Force, and is a duel citizen of ...

Source: Cape Coral Daily Breeze, FL
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01/09/09
Slating session to fill Emanuel's seat moved up, with no clear taker

... a successor to former US Rep. Rahm Emanuel to this morning, and as of Friday night, no candidate was claiming to have locked up a majority of the vote. ...

Source: Chicago Sun-Times, United States
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01/08/09
Blagojevich pledges not to resign after impeachment

...best to associate himself with the president-elect one more time, citing a measure the governor had worked on with former Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the incoming White House chief of staff. Blagojevich said he had worked with Emanuel on reimportation of prescri

Source: The Hill
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01/08/09
Conservative Bloggers Up In Arms Over GOP Cooperation With Obama

(Erickson says he thinks that the trap was most likely being set by chief of staff Rahm Emanuel rather than Obama himself. "I don't think Obama's smart ...

Source: Huffington Post, NY
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01/08/09
Obama presses Congress to move on economic relief

Hoekstra had lengthy discussions on the appointment in December with Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff, and he praised the incoming administration for ...

Source: DetNews.com, MI
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01/08/09
Friday Talking Points [60] -- Democratic Assertiveness Training

First up was Representative Bobby Rush. Now, Bobby Rush is a former Black Panther leader who is now in the House of Representatives from a Chicago district. ...

Source: Huffington Post, NY
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01/08/09
Blagojevich pledges not to resign after impeachment

... the president-elect one more time, citing a measure the governor had worked on with former Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the incoming White House chief of staff. ...

Source: The Hill, DC
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01/08/09
Republican Appointees Reject Chambers Appeal

...the Chief Chambers Case: http://www.peer.org/campaigns/whistleblower/chiefchambers/index.php View a press release form then Rep. Emanuel: http://www.house.gov/apps/list/speech/il05_emanuel/administration_whistleblowers.html Visit the "Honest Chief" webs

Source: YubaNet
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01/08/09
Rifts Show As Obama Urges Quick Action On Stimulus

...transition team and congressional leaders. Obama's chief political strategist, David Axelrod, and incoming chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, heard plenty of ideas and criticisms during Capitol Hill meetings Thursday. "There was what one would expect, which

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01/08/09
Rifts emerge in Congress as Obama urges quick action on $800 billion economic recovery plan

...transition team and congressional leaders. Obama's chief political strategist, David Axelrod, and incoming chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, heard plenty of ideas and criticisms during Capitol Hill meetings Thursday. "There was what one would expect, which

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01/08/09
On The Agenda

Supports of the concept cheered Obama's appointment of Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) as his White House chief of staff this past year because he has been a ...

Source: Defined Savings Alert, NY
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01/07/09
Mayor Daley is Preaching Chicago's Gospel

We are informed by WBBM that North Side Alderman Patrick O'Connor may enter the race for Rahm Emanuel's Congressional seat. ...

Source: The Windy Citizen, IL
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01/07/09
Can Labor Revive the American Dream?

At a November gathering of CEOs, Rahm Emanuel refused to answer a question about the bill, and that same month economic adviser Jennifer Granholm called it ...

Source: The Nation., NY
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01/07/09
Scandals show need for limited government

Blagojevich's ties to Obama's designated White House chief of staff, former Illinois congressman Rahm Emanuel, have threatened to cast a shadow over Obama's ...

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch,  United States
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01/07/09
Democrats taking long road back to fiscal waste

Long before Rahm Emanuel was admonishing liberal Democrats to "never allow a crisis to go to waste," Mr. Oberstar was standing on the banks of the ...

Source: Washington Times, DC
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01/07/09
Our Rep. Brown-Waite's New Capitol Hill Role Is Right On The Money

Here's rooting for a growl on behalf of restraint from the honorable Rep. Brown-Waite, and that it resonates in bipartisan fashion.

Source: Tampa Tribune, FL
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01/07/09
ANALYSIS-US Democrats make clear they will guard turf

Given that Obama is a former member of the US Senate and his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, was a member of the House of Representatives, the experts said it ...

Source: Reuters
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01/07/09
(AMM) Labor attorney with steel ties vies for House seat in Illinois

... Mine Workers of America, has tossed his hat into the ring in the race for former Rep. Rahm Emanuel's seat in the House of Representatives in Illinois. ...

Source: Metalbulletin.com (subscription), UK
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01/07/09
Updated 1/8: Roskam named to Ways and Means committee

Former US Rep. Rahm Emanuel chaired the Ways and Means Committee until President-elect Barack Obama tapped him for Chief of Staff. ...

Source: Rolling Meadows Review, IL
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01/07/09
Friends in far away places

... according to Federal Election Commission data released last month, and former 5th District Rep. Rahm Emanuel was foremost among them. ...

Source: Chicago Journal, IL
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01/07/09
Chickens dancing, roosting in 5th District

Until last week, it belonged to US Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Tomczak), now chief of staff to President-elect Barack Obama, who ran on the platform of bringing ...

Source: Chicago Tribune, United States
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01/07/09
Obama Introduces Kaine As DNC Chairman

...2006, Dean clashed with Sen. Charles Schumer, the then head of the Senate Democrats' campaign committee, and Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel, who led the House Democratic effort and is now Obama's incoming chief of staff, over how to spend Democratic dollars

Source: CBS 5
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01/07/09
Obama Anoints Kaine, Praises (And Snubs?) Dean

...Dean's absence at today's event, and from Obama's administration." Obama praised Dean for "working with my chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel," to retake the House of Representatives in 2006, when in fact the two spent most of that time fighting. However, the

Source: The Nation
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01/07/09
THE DEMS' 'POLICE' NEED POLICING

...Illinois Senate seat. Until then, we await the release of the taped exchanges involving Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) & Co. Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.) - as the proverbial wayward Samson yanking

Source: New York Post
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01/06/09
'Emotional' Schauer sworn in to Congress

The votes made him late for his own reception in his House offices but he made a triumphant entrance with Rahm Emanuel, a former Democratic House leader who ...

Source: Lansing State Journal, MI
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01/06/09
Passing on cash $$$$$

John Porter, as a GOP candidate to run for Rep. Rahm Emanuel's 5th District seat. Actor Tom Cruise and his wife, Katie, and 2-year-old daughter, Suri, ...

Source: Chicago Sun-Times, United States
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01/06/09
Morning Bell: Temporary Tax Cuts, Permanent Spending, and ...

As Obama’s chief of staff Rahm Emanuel recently said, “You never allow a serious crisis to go to waste.” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is urging fellow ...

Source: Heritage.org, DC
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01/06/09
On your marks

By JESSICA PUPOVAC The date for a special election to replace Rahm Emanuel as the Fifth Congressional District representative has been set for April 7, Gov. ...

Source: Chicago Journal, IL
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