Apples, Oranges and Bananas Don t Mate: The President s Closed-Door Meeting with Congressional Leaders
President Obama started the meeting with the bipartisan congressional leadership this morning by telling Republicans he hasn t reached out as effectively as I should have. Let s have honest cooperation, not just photo ops.
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President Obama today joined top Congressional Democrats in urging Congress to pass a small piece of immigration legislation known as the DREAM Act before it adjourns for the year. The measure would give hundreds of thousands of young, undocumented immigrants a conditional path to legal residency.
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The British Ambassador in Washington denied suggestions from a group of US senators this week that Abdelbaset al Megrahi, the convicted Lockerbie bomber who was released by the Scottish Executive on compassionate grounds last year, was set free in order to help British petroleum giant BP secure a $900 million oil exploration deal with Libya.
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