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		<title>Senate GOP Hammers Obama&#8217;s State of Union, Pre-Delivery</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senator McConnell speculates that Obama#39;s SOTU will be a quot;campaignquot; speech.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Senator McConnell speculates that Obama#39;s SOTU will be a quot;campaignquot; speech.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Defiant Obama bypasses Senate, installs new consumer chief</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA['I refuse to take 'no' for an answer,' the president said]]></description>
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		<title>Obama bypassing Senate to appoint Richard Cordray consumer chief</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama will appoint former Ohio Atty. Gen. Richard Cordray on Wednesday to be the first director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency, making a controversial decision to install Cordray while the Senate is in brief recess to avoid Republican opposition, according to a White House official.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[President Obama will appoint former Ohio Atty. Gen. Richard Cordray on Wednesday to be the first director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency, making a controversial decision to install Cordray while the Senate is in brief recess to avoid Republican opposition, according to a White House official.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Senate Politics Shut Down Some Agencies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Senate Republicans filibustered President Obama's nominee to a key consumer watchdog post this month, it was the first time in history the Senate blocked an appointment in an effort to effectively shut down an agency.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[When Senate Republicans filibustered President Obama's nominee to a key consumer watchdog post this month, it was the first time in history the Senate blocked an appointment in an effort to effectively shut down an agency.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>What We and The Senate Don&#8217;t Know About Drone Killings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask Osama bin Laden has become President Obama's catchphrase and policy when it comes to the fight against al-Qaeda, but the successful results of America's drone program only provide one answer--and perhaps it's not the only one we want.  The Washington Post's Greg Miller has a piece shedding light on those other sticky and morally ambiguous facets of Obama's expanding, clandestine (and ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Ask Osama bin Laden has become President Obama's catchphrase and policy when it comes to the fight against al-Qaeda, but the successful results of America's drone program only provide one answer--and perhaps it's not the only one we want.  The Washington Post's Greg Miller has a piece shedding light on those other sticky and morally ambiguous facets of Obama's expanding, clandestine (and ...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Senate Republicans Seek to Block Unconfirmed Appointments to Labor Boards</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republicans are hoping to deter President Obama from making any unconfirmed appointments to controversial boards while Congress is on vacation, refusing to officially adjourn for the year in hopes of preventing any behind-the-scenes action. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Republicans are hoping to deter President Obama from making any unconfirmed appointments to controversial boards while Congress is on vacation, refusing to officially adjourn for the year in hopes of preventing any behind-the-scenes action. ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Senate Rejects Obama&#8217;s Choice of El Salvador Ambassador</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senate Republicans Monday blocked Mari Carmen Aponte, President Obama's choice to be ambassador to El Salvador, stating there were unresolved questions about whether Cuban intelligence officials tried to recruit her as a spy in the 1990s.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Senate Republicans Monday blocked Mari Carmen Aponte, President Obama's choice to be ambassador to El Salvador, stating there were unresolved questions about whether Cuban intelligence officials tried to recruit her as a spy in the 1990s.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Senate blocks reappointment of ambassador to El Salvador</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senate Republicans on Monday blocked President Obama's choice to be ambassador to El Salvador after raising questions about whether her former boyfriend was a spy for Cuba. Republicans also were concerned that Mari Carmen Aponte wrote a commentary about gay pride that offended some citizens in the conservative Catholic country.]]></description>
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		<title>Senate blocks consumer bureau chief</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate on Thursday failed to muster the 60 votes needed to confirm President Obama's pick to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has become the symbol of the administration's efforts to rein in Wall Street excess.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Senate on Thursday failed to muster the 60 votes needed to confirm President Obama's pick to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has become the symbol of the administration's efforts to rein in Wall Street excess.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Senate Republicans block Obama appeals nominee</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked President Obama's nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, partly as payback for the Democrats' past opposition to Republican nominees.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked President Obama's nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, partly as payback for the Democrats' past opposition to Republican nominees.]]></content:encoded>
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