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A political tip sheet for the rest of us outside the Washington Beltway, for Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012:
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President Barack Obama on Tuesday took a shuttered Army fort in Virginia with an important role in the nation's slavery history and made it a national monument.
Surrounded all day and most nights by delicious cakes, cookies, pies and more, Susie Morrison gave in to temptation too often during long hours at work in the White House pastry kitchen.
Nine local TV stations from across the country and the Hearst Television network are being given special access to the White House. That means on-air time with President Barack Obama and top administration officials to discuss his stalled $447 billion jobs bill.
The publisher of a book Michelle Obama is writing about her White House produce garden says it will be called "American Grown."
Michelle Obama urged high school students Thursday to be serious about getting an education and to remember that means more than just learning geometry or the finer points of history.
President Barack Obama has joined four unemployed construction workers in Florida for a round of beers on a day his jobs bill met defeat on Capitol Hill.
Rolling through small Southern towns in a campaign-style bus, President Barack Obama on Monday pressed lawmakers back in Washington to start taking up pieces of his rejected jobs bill and mocked the Republicans who had shot it down in total. The Senate moved to vote soon on one part, a plan to help states hire teachers, but the proposal seemed doomed.
President Barack Obama signed into law Friday a major overhaul of the nation's patent system to ease the way for inventors to bring their products to market. "We can't afford to drag our feet any longer," he said.
President Barack Obama says a bill he signed Friday overhauling the U.S. patent system will "put a dent" in a towering stack of nearly 700,000 applications still waiting to be reviewed, making it faster and easier to turn innovative ideas into new jobs and new businesses.
President Barack Obama signed into law Friday a major overhaul of the nation's patent system, a measure designed to ease the way for inventors to bring their products to market. "We can't afford to drag our feet any longer," the president said.
Calorie by calorie, first lady Michelle Obama is chipping away at big portions and unhealthy food in an effort to help America slim down.
President Barack Obama urged enthusiastic college students Wednesday to join him in his fight to get Congress to act on his new jobs bill. "Every single one of you can help make this bill a reality," the president called out at a hot and noisy rally at North Carolina State University.
President Barack Obama stood on a bridge overlooking the rain-swollen and fast-rushing Passaic River in Paterson, New Jersey's third-largest city, and said Sunday the federal government would work to rebuild towns recovering from Hurricane Irene's wrath.
The White House is making it easier for people to press the federal government to act.
President Barack Obama put in a brief appearance Saturday at the home of his friend and one-time teacher, Harvard Law School professor Charles Ogletree, as he continued his Martha's Vineyard vacation.
President Barack Obama is back in Washington after spending three days touring small, Midwestern towns by bus. But he isn't staying long.
President Barack Obama says that there is nothing wrong with America — but there is something wrong with American politics.
President Barack Obama is making a pitch Thursday for the job-creating potential of clean energy before talking up his re-election at a pair of fundraising events with high-dollar campaign contributors.
President Barack Obama is making a pitch Thursday for the job-creating potential of investing in clean energy before talking up his re-election at a pair of fundraising events with high-dollar campaign contributors.
President Barack Obama was making a pitch Thursday about the job-creating potential of investing in clean energy before talking up his re-election at a pair of fundraising events with high-dollar campaign contributors.
Looks like President Barack Obama may get his 50th birthday bash after all.
Claiming that the two parties aren't that far apart, President Barack Obama is urging Democratic and Republican lawmakers to reach a deal quickly to keep the government from defaulting on payments to veterans, Social Security recipients and others.
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