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Texas may strip away transgender marriage rights
Law & Politics 04/25/2011Two years after Texas became one of the last states to allow transgendered people to use proof of their sex change to get a marriage license, Republican lawmakers are trying to roll back the clock.Advocates for the transgendered say a proposal to bar...
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White House: Obama to lay out spending plan
Law & Politics 04/11/2011One budget deal down, President Barack Obama and Congress began to pivot Sunday from the painful standoff over this year's spending to a pair of defining debates over the nation's borrowing limit and the election-year budget.Much will be revealed at ...
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Obama re-election launches with email, website
Law & Politics 04/03/2011President Barack Obama formally launched his re-election campaign Monday, urging grass-roots supporters central to his first White House run to mobilize again to protect the change he's brought over the past two years.The official start of his second...
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Fla. high court: Governor can reject rail funding
Law & Politics 03/04/2011U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced Friday that $2.4 billion in high-speed rail funding intended for Florida will be sent to other states after the state Supreme Court upheld Gov. Rick Scott's decision to reject the money.The Republica...
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Obama: US needs better math, science education
Law & Politics 02/20/2011President Barack Obama says improving math and science education is essential to helping the U.S. compete globally, and he wants the private sector to get involved in making it happen.Obama recorded his weekly radio and Internet address during a visi...
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GOP mocks Obama budget, House weighs spending cuts
Law & Politics 02/17/2011President Barack Obama's $3.7 trillion budget for 2012 was quickly dismissed Tuesday by House Republicans for taking a pass on tackling historically huge federal deficits.Obama told a news conference, meanwhile, that the budget he sent Congress will ...
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Too big to stop? Obama's overhaul lumbers on
Law & Politics 02/02/2011Most insurers, hospital executives and state officials expect they'll keep carrying out President Barack Obama's health care overhaul even after a federal judge cast its fate in doubt by declaring all of it unconstitutional."It's still the law of the...
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Obama marks anniversary of abortion rights case
Law & Politics 01/23/2011President Barack Obama is marking the 38th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark decision on abortion by calling the procedure a constitutional right he's committed to protecting.Obama also said in a statement Saturday that he remains committed...
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Election ruling ripples through W.Va. Legislature
Law & Politics 01/20/2011A day after the state Supreme Court required an election for governor this year, lawmakers appeared divided Wednesday over whether candidates should be nominated by party conventions or a special primary.Tuesday's decision mandating a 2011 vote cited...
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Obama's economist pick seen as sign of new agenda
Law & Politics 12/28/2010Among the first announcements President Barack Obama will make upon returning from his Hawaiian vacation is his choice for top economic adviser, a decision that could signal a new direction for the administration as it struggles to jumpstart the econ...
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House sends food safety bill to president
Law & Politics 12/22/2010The House has passed a sweeping bill aimed at making food safer following recent contaminations in peanuts, eggs and produce, sending it to President Barack Obama for his signature.The legislation passed Tuesday would give the government broad new po...
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Biden defends White House compromise on tax cuts
Law & Politics 12/19/2010Vice President Joe Biden defended the Obama administration for its willingness to extend tax cuts for top earners, despite earlier promises that he and the president would fight against the Bush-era policy."We got to the end, we couldn't get it done,...