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Ford CEO offers to work for $1 a year — Part of plan to persuade Congress to lend automakers $25 billion in aid — (L-R) United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger, General Motors (GM) CEO Richard Wagoner, Jr., Chrysler CEO Robert Nardelli and Ford Motor Company CEO Alan Mulally wait …
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Mel Martinez To Retire — Florida Sen. Mel Martinez (R) has decided against seeking a second term, a decision he will formalize shortly in the Sunshine State, according to an informed party source. — Martinez's decision was based on a desire for more free time and a less scheduled life, said the source.
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Josh Kraushaar / The Politico:
Sink not running against Martinez — One of the Democrats' leading candidates to challenge Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) in 2010 has decided to pass up the opportunity, according to a source familiar with her decision. — Florida's chief financial officer, Alex Sink, has decided to run …
Manu Raju / The Politico:
Murkowski to Palin: Leave my seat alone — Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski has some Republican-to-Republican advice for Gov. Sarah Palin: If you want to make a run at the White House, keep your hands off my Senate seat. — Murkowski, up for reelection in 2010, is nervously awaiting word …
Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
The Sovereignty Dodge — What Pakistan Won't Do, the World Should — “We don't think the world's great nations and countries can be held hostage by non-state actors,” Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said yesterday. Fair enough. But what is the world to do when those non-state actors operate …
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CNN:
Bill Clinton not interested in wife's Senate seat — WASHINGTON (CNN — Former President Bill Clinton has no interest in replacing his wife in the U.S. Senate, his spokesman said, adding any speculation that he would be interested is “completely false.” — As Hillary Clinton prepares …
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Keith B. Richburg / Washington Post:
A Rush for Clinton's Senate Seat — N.Y. Governor Is Silent for Now About Any Early Favorites — The nomination of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to be secretary of state in the Obama administration has set off an intense political scramble in New York for a cherished prize: her soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat.
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Report Sounds Alarm on Threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction — The odds that terrorists will soon strike a major city with weapons of mass destruction are now better than even, a bipartisan congressionally mandated task force concludes in a draft study that warns of growing threats from rogue states …
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New York Times:
Pardon Is Back in Focus for the Justice Nominee — WASHINGTON — In the much praised career of Eric H. Holder Jr., President-elect Barack Obama's choice to be attorney general, there is one notable blemish: Mr. Holder's complicated role in the 2001 pardon of Marc Rich, a billionaire financier …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Gregory to host ‘Meet the Press’ — NBC News plans to name David Gregory as moderator of “Meet the Press,” infusing one of television's most prized franchises with a sharp edge leavened by a youthful style and versatility, according to network executives. — Gregory, 38, celebrated …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
49 days to Inauguration — Obama offers ‘hand of friendship and cooperation’ to Republican governors — David Gregory to be named moderator of ‘Meet the Press’ — The billion-dollar man: Team Obama has helped raise more than $900m — Nancy Cordes will be CBS News congressional correspondent - Anniversary today: Autumn and Jim VandeHei
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Tim Fernholz / American Prospect:
INSULTS. — One of the clever things about the Catholic church has been it's ablity to maintain its status as a political force and a tiny state, and have some effect as a kind of diplomatic go-between and agenda setter.Think of the Vatican as the internationl equivalent of D.C. “Congresswoman” Eleanor Holmes Norton, say.
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Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Gates's Top Deputies May Leave — Major Shifts at Pentagon Anticipated in Obama Administration — Although President-elect Barack Obama's decision to keep Robert M. Gates at the helm of the Pentagon will provide a measure of continuity for a military fighting two wars …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Lieberman now praising Obama — Sen. Joe Lieberman, the maverick lawmaker from Connecticut, has praised President-elect Barack Obama's national security team after criticizing Obama's ability to lead during wartime earlier this year. — Lieberman, the Democrat-turned-independent …
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CNN:
Limbaugh calls Obama's selection of Clinton ‘a brilliant stroke’ — (CNN) — Rush Limbaugh seems to have given Hillary Clinton his stamp of approval for the second time this year. — The conservative talk show host — who urged supporters during the primary season to back Clinton in an effort …
Neil Irwin / Washington Post:
Economic Signs Point to Longer, Deeper Recession — Decline Began a Year Ago, Experts Declare; Wall Street Reacts With Huge Sell-Off — The U.S. economy entered a recession one year ago, a group of the nation's leading economists said yesterday, and new evidence that the downturn will be deep …
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Greg Mankiw / Greg Mankiw's Blog:
Fiscal Policy Puzzles — As a student of Alan Blinder, Larry Summers, and Stanley Fischer, I was trained to view the short-run effects of fiscal policy through the lens of Keynesian macroeconomic theory. I am sure that many of the economists in the new Obama administration share that intellectual framework.
Wall Street Journal:
Governors Against State Bailouts — Hard to believe, but not everyone in politics wants a free lunch. — As governors and citizens, we've grown increasingly concerned over the past weeks as Washington has thrown bailout after bailout at the national economy with little to show for it.
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