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Rob Lowe gives White House reporters a 'West Wing' flashback
It's been seven years since the end of President Jed Bartlet's second term on the NBC drama, "The West Wing," but the memory of the series is still fresh enough that when Rob Lowe unexpectedly stepped into the real White House briefing room, the assembled...Tags: National Economic Council, White House, Homeland (tv program), Jay Carney, Eric Cantor
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GOP may seek to tie debt ceiling deal to tax code changes
WASHINGTON — In a little more than a week, the U.S. will hit its debt limit — and the maneuvering has begun against a backdrop of the mid-2011 drama that led to the nation's first-ever credit downgrade. An improving economy and higher taxes,...
Tags: Consumers, Finance, Politics, Budget Control Act of 2011, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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Obama leaves Austin after Applied Materials speech
Austin American-StatesmanMaking a quick day's escape from what he called the political "gloom and doom" of Washington, President Barack Obama came to a gray and windy Austin on Thursday in search of some rays of light. His agenda stalled only five months into his second term,...Tags: Science and Technology, Students, Technology, Applied Materials Incorporated, New Products
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Child's play over the budget
WASHINGTON -- The budget feud on Capitol Hill is looking like those Vietnam War peace talks when negotiators bickered over the shape of the table. House Republicans, after howling for years about Senate Democrats' failure to pass a budget, are...
Tags: U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Government Health Care, Politics, Barack Obama, Budgets and Budgeting
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Mary Jo White's spin at SEC's revolving door
One of the oft-repeated justifications for why Wall Street must be regulated by Wall Streeters is that what goes on there is both so complex and so essential that only those who have been part of it can be trusted to oversee it. This argument is bunk, of...Tags: Eliot Spitzer, Sherrod Brown, Barack Obama, National Economic Council, U.S. Department of Justice
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Charm has its limits
WASHINGTOLN -- It's week two of the president's charm offensive, and already there is dissension in the ranks. Jay Carney, the occasionally charming spokesman for the newly charming president, began his daily media briefing Monday with a smile, a...
Tags: U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Sea Bass, Government Health Care, Bob Woodward, CBS Corp.
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Mitt Romney on ‘Fox News Sunday’; Bob Woodward on ‘Face the Nation’
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelThe guest list will be more star-studded than usual this Sunday morning. It should be especially fascinating to hear the discussion about whether the White House is threatening reporters. Bob Woodward of The Washington Post has said he was made... -
My Story of the Fantastically Unimpressive Bob Woodward
Bob Woodward has been in the news lately for a silly flare-up over his self-aggrandizing misrepresentation of an innocuous email sent by Gene Sperling regarding the sequester. I won’t re-litigate the whole mess here (and if you want a solid recap,...
Tags: Iraq, Lewis Libby, Dick Cheney, Coughing, Bob Woodward
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Saturday's TV Highlights: Mitt and Ann Romney on Fox News Sunday
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 3 - 9, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES "The Graham Norton Show" Richard Gere, John...
Tags: Steve Israel, BBC, ABC Family (tv network), USA Today, Iran
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White House to nominate new budget director
WASHINGTON – As he prepares for more spending battles with Congress, President Obama plans to nominate Sylvia Mathews Burwell, head of the Walmart Foundation, as his next budget director, the White House said Sunday. A former deputy budget...
Tags: Charity, Jeffrey Zients, Valerie Jarrett, Politics, Budgets and Budgeting
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Regretfully, Washington as usual
WASHINGTON -- Last week gave us a textbook case of why Americans hate Washington. The nation was on the verge of a financial shock -- an entirely avoidable shock that policymakers themselves set in motion -- but all people in this town wanted to talk...
Tags: The Washington Post, U.S. Congress, White House, MSNBC (tv network), F-bomb Dropping
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Woodward and Sperling
WASHINGTON -- To the world beyond the Beltway, it might not mean much that Bob Woodward of the famed Watergate duo went public with his recent White House run-in. This would be an oversight. It also may not mean much that the White House press corps...
Tags: Richard Nixon, Bob Woodward, Politics, Barack Obama, Washington, DC
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