Senior members of the Obama administration are pressing lawmakers to use a shortcut to drive the president’s signature initiatives on health care and energy through Congress without Republican votes, a move that many lawmakers say would fly in the face of President Obama’s pledge to restore bipartisanship to Washington.
03/18/2009
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: administration, budget, Obama
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates will disregard possible job losses when deciding the fate of weapons programs and systems in the Pentagon’s 2010 budget, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
“It’s not the responsibility of this building to worry about the economic impact of budgetary decisions,” Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell told reporters.
03/17/2009
— Filed under: Economy
Tags: budget, choises, Pentagon
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President Obama defended his proposed $3.6 trillion budget on Tuesday against critics who say it is too ambitious, declaring that American families cannot always choose which crises to tackle first and neither can he as president.
03/17/2009
— Filed under: Economy
Tags: budget, crisis, Obama
