Morning Bulletin: Friday, June 5, 2009
A roundup of news, schedules, and key stories from CBS News Political Director Steve Chaggaris:
**President Obama is Germany; visits site of former concentration camp...
**World reacts to president's speech to Muslims...
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**President Obama is Germany; visits site of former concentration camp...
**World reacts to president's speech to Muslims...
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Morning Bulletin: Thursday, June 4, 2009
A roundup of news, schedules, and key stories from CBS News Political Director Steve Chaggaris:
**President Obama is in Cairo, Egypt; delivered speech aimed at world's Muslims...
**Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor continues meeting with Senators; a new poll shows 55% of Americans approve of her nomination...
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**President Obama is in Cairo, Egypt; delivered speech aimed at world's Muslims...
**Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor continues meeting with Senators; a new poll shows 55% of Americans approve of her nomination...
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Morning Bulletin: Wednesday, June 3, 2009
A roundup of news, schedules, and key stories from CBS News Political Director Steve Chaggaris:
**President Obama arrived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia just after 7:30am ET...
**Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor continues meeting with Senators; Newt Gingrich says his labeling of her as "racist" was "too strong and direct"...
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**President Obama arrived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia just after 7:30am ET...
**Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor continues meeting with Senators; Newt Gingrich says his labeling of her as "racist" was "too strong and direct"...
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Morning Bulletin: Tuesday, June 2, 2009
A roundup of news, schedules, and key stories from CBS News Political Director Steve Chaggaris:
**President Obama meets with Democratic senators today to talk health care...
**Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is on the Hill to meet with Senators...
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**President Obama meets with Democratic senators today to talk health care...
**Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is on the Hill to meet with Senators...
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Morning Bulletin: Monday, June 1, 2009
A roundup of news, schedules, and key stories from CBS News Political Director Steve Chaggaris:
Before President Obama heads out on a five-day trip to Europe and the Middle East this week, today at 11:55 a.m. ET he'll deal with some important business on the home front: General Motors' bankruptcy filing and the future of the auto industry.
"President Barack Obama couldn't let General Motors fail, but he won't concede he's taking over the company," reports the Associated Press' Jim Kuhnhenn. "With a 60 percent equity stake in the carmaker and $50 billion in taxpayer money riding on GM's success, the federal government isn't exactly a hands-off investor. As GM enters into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Obama's economic team is stressing that its goals are to maximize the return to taxpayers and to exit from its involvement as quickly as possible. But as one administration official put it Sunday night, there is an inevitable tension between those two objectives."
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"President Barack Obama couldn't let General Motors fail, but he won't concede he's taking over the company," reports the Associated Press' Jim Kuhnhenn. "With a 60 percent equity stake in the carmaker and $50 billion in taxpayer money riding on GM's success, the federal government isn't exactly a hands-off investor. As GM enters into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Obama's economic team is stressing that its goals are to maximize the return to taxpayers and to exit from its involvement as quickly as possible. But as one administration official put it Sunday night, there is an inevitable tension between those two objectives."
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Morning Bulletin: Friday, May 29, 2009
A roundup of news, schedules, and key stories from CBS News Political Director Steve Chaggaris:
The digging into President Obama's Supreme Court choice, Sonia Sotomayor, has begun and there's no shortage of research, comments and criticism - some of which is extremely harsh.
"Lawyers who have argued cases before Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor call her 'nasty,' 'angry' and a 'terror on the bench,' according to the current Almanac of the Federal Judiciary -- a kind of Zagat's guide to federal judges," reports the Washington Times' Tom LoBianco.
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"Lawyers who have argued cases before Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor call her 'nasty,' 'angry' and a 'terror on the bench,' according to the current Almanac of the Federal Judiciary -- a kind of Zagat's guide to federal judges," reports the Washington Times' Tom LoBianco.
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Morning Bulletin: Thursday, May 28, 2009
A roundup of news, schedules, and key stories from CBS News Political Director Steve Chaggaris:
President Obama returns from his western campaign-style trip which not only included fund-raisers but sales pitches for climate change, his economic recovery plan and - the week's big news - Sonia Sotomayor, his choice for the Supreme Court.
In Washington, however, the right and the left ratcheted up their grumbling over Sotomayor as Senate Republicans stayed their course and honored their leaders' wishes not to "pre-judge" or "pre-confirm" Sotomayor.
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(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
In Washington, however, the right and the left ratcheted up their grumbling over Sotomayor as Senate Republicans stayed their course and honored their leaders' wishes not to "pre-judge" or "pre-confirm" Sotomayor.
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Morning Bulletin: Monday, May 27, 2009
A roundup of news, schedules, and key stories from CBS News Political Director Steve Chaggaris:
While President Obama is out west today talking climate change and the economy, his historic nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court is dominating the news. (Click here for full coverage of Sotomayor's nomination.)
Republicans are trying to figure out their opposition to the first Hispanic and third woman to be nominated to the Court. Senate Republicans are being cautious, fully aware of their problems with women and Latino voters in recent elections.
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(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Republicans are trying to figure out their opposition to the first Hispanic and third woman to be nominated to the Court. Senate Republicans are being cautious, fully aware of their problems with women and Latino voters in recent elections.
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Morning Bulletin: Monday, May 26, 2009
The anticipation as to who President Obama will choose to replace Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court ends at 10:15 a.m. ET as he makes a "special announcement."
4993195A senior White House official confirms to CBS News that he will name federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor, at left, as the first Hispanic justice to serve on the Supreme Court.
The White House is touting the fact that she was originally appointed to the U.S. District Court by President George H.W. Bush in 1991 and that she has been confirmed by the Senate twice before (in 1991 and 1998). They're also touting the fact that she has more judicial experience than any of the current justices at the time they were nominated for the Supreme Court.
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4993195A senior White House official confirms to CBS News that he will name federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor, at left, as the first Hispanic justice to serve on the Supreme Court.
The White House is touting the fact that she was originally appointed to the U.S. District Court by President George H.W. Bush in 1991 and that she has been confirmed by the Senate twice before (in 1991 and 1998). They're also touting the fact that she has more judicial experience than any of the current justices at the time they were nominated for the Supreme Court.
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Morning Bulletin: Friday, May 22, 2009
(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
USA Today's Cathy Chu writes, that "in the most sweeping changes to the credit card industry in 40 years, President Obama is expected to sign a bill Friday to restrict practices that consumers say have pushed them deeper into debt."
Newsweek's Michael Hirsch, "Should The Fed Be Wall Street's Watchdog"
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Morning Bulletin: Thursday, May 21, 2009
A roundup of news, schedules, and key stories from CBS News:
President Obama will deliver a "major" speech on national security today from the National Archives. Administration officials tell CBS News that he will discuss the debate over enhanced interrogation techniques, the closing of Guantanamo Bay and domestic and foreign threats.
"President Obama will attempt today to answer critics of his dismantling of Bush-era policies on detention and interrogation, in a speech reminding Americans that strong national security and adherence to laws and national values are not mutually exclusive. Beyond this lofty reassurance, senior administration officials said, Obama will also repeat the case he made on his third day in office that the Bush administration's system of dealing with "enemy combatants" -- resulting in three prosecutions in seven years and challenged by U.S. courts and allies -- was not sustainable," the Washington Post's Karen De Young writes.
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"President Obama will attempt today to answer critics of his dismantling of Bush-era policies on detention and interrogation, in a speech reminding Americans that strong national security and adherence to laws and national values are not mutually exclusive. Beyond this lofty reassurance, senior administration officials said, Obama will also repeat the case he made on his third day in office that the Bush administration's system of dealing with "enemy combatants" -- resulting in three prosecutions in seven years and challenged by U.S. courts and allies -- was not sustainable," the Washington Post's Karen De Young writes.
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Morning Bulletin: Wednesday, May 20, 2009
President Obama will attend his first quarterly meeting of the President's Economic Recovery Board today at the White House.
"The focus of the meeting will be on energy and green jobs and the board will provide recommendations on how to enhance the strength and competitiveness of the nation's economy through the creation of a comprehensive energy plan that will generate millions of clean energy jobs," according to a White House release.
Here are the details from the White House. The meeting streams live here.
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(AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
Here are the details from the White House. The meeting streams live here.
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Morning Bulletin: Tuesday, May 19, 2009
A roundup of news, schedules, and key stories from CBS News Political Director Steve Chaggaris:
President Obama will announce new fuel efficiency standards for automobiles and the first-ever national emissions limits today at the White House.
The program will begin with model year 2012 cars and by 2016, the average fuel efficiency will be 35.5 miles per gallon, according to a senior administration official, hitting that standard four years before the previously passed CAFE law required. The 2009 model year average fuel efficiency is 25 mpg.
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President Obama will announce new fuel efficiency standards for automobiles and the first-ever national emissions limits today at the White House.
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Morning Bulletin: Monday, May 18, 2009
A roundup of news, schedules, and key stories from CBS News Political Director Steve Chaggaris:
President Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House at 10:30am ET where the Israeli-Palestinan dispute will be the main topic of conversation.
"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is signaling he may resist President Barack Obama's pressure to support Palestinian statehood as the two leaders try to tackle an array of Mideast issues Monday on which they disagree," reports the Associated Press Amy Tiebel. "A senior aide to Netanyahu, national security adviser Uzi Arad, suggested the Israeli leader might not yield to pressure from Obama for a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict. He also seemed to hint that Israel might consider military action against Iran when he said there was a 'sense of urgency' in Israel over the Iranian nuclear threat."
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President Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House at 10:30am ET where the Israeli-Palestinan dispute will be the main topic of conversation.
(AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
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Morning Bulletin: Friday, May 15, 2009
A roundup of news, schedules, and key stories from CBS News Political Director Steve Chaggaris:
President Obama has a fairly uneventful day planned with a series of closed-door meetings, including one with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, along a visit from the 2008 World Series Champion Philadelphia Phillies on his schedule.
4876687But it's House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who's dominating D.C. news today. Just what exactly was she told about waterboarding by the CIA? She said yesterday the CIA "misled Congress." The CIA, in a rare public reaction, defended itself and said that's plain wrong.
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President Obama has a fairly uneventful day planned with a series of closed-door meetings, including one with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, along a visit from the 2008 World Series Champion Philadelphia Phillies on his schedule.
4876687But it's House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who's dominating D.C. news today. Just what exactly was she told about waterboarding by the CIA? She said yesterday the CIA "misled Congress." The CIA, in a rare public reaction, defended itself and said that's plain wrong.
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