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Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:43:19 GMT

Democratic opposition to seating Burris cracks (AP)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(R), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi(L) addressing reporters on Capitol Hill on January 5, 2009 in Washington, DC. The new US Congress was convening Tuesday at the dawn of an era of dominance for Barack Obama's Democrats in Washington with lawmakers consumed by the worst economic crisis in generations.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)AP - Senate Democrats are looking for ways to defuse the standoff that has denied Roland Burris the vacated Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama of Illinois, but maybe not much longer.


Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:58:01 GMT

Stimulus aside, Obama vows future budget restraint (AP)

President-elect Barack Obama speaks to reporters after a meeting with his top economic advisers at his transition office in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - To a public wary of government spending, President-elect Barack Obama is offering a salve with his massive economic stimulus package: the promise of long-term fiscal discipline.


Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:11:15 GMT

A rare gathering: Bush, Obama and 3 ex-presidents (AP)

AP - An entire generation has gone by since the nation last saw this tableau of American history: every living U.S. president together at the White House.

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:58:18 GMT

Burris' best bet could be federal court (AP)

Illinois U.S. Senate appointee Roland Burris leaves the U.S. Capitol, seen rear, in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009, after he was turned away when he appeared to take his seat. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - If Senate Democrats stick to their refusal to seat Roland Burris as a senator from Illinois, his best bet could be getting a federal judge to force open the Senate's doors.


Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:36:00 GMT

Obama boosts DCCC with extra funds (Politico)

Politico - Winning doesn’t come cheap.

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:15:58 GMT

End to Minn. Senate race pushed even further out (AP)

Republican Norm Coleman along with his wife Laurie and several supporters announces he is suing to challenge the results of the U.S. Senate recount during a press conference Tuesday Jan. 6, 2009 at the State Office Building in St. Paul, Minn. Coleman lost the recount to Democratic candidate Al Franken by 225 votes. (AP Photo/Dawn VIllella)AP - Minnesota's grueling U.S. Senate race, already dragging on two months past Election Day, has now moved even further from the voters — and into the hands of lawyers.


Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:06:45 GMT

Former Australian leader has Blair House reserved (AP)

The Blair House, the government guest house across the street from the White House, is seen in Washington Monday, Dec. 29, 2008. President-elect Barack Obama and his family will stay in The Hay-Adams Hotel, when they move to Washington early, and will later relocate to the Blair House before the inauguration. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - It's a D.C. property so exclusive that even the president-elect couldn't reserve it. So who's staying at Blair House, the White House's guest quarters across Pennsylvania Avenue?
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:44:21 GMT

Ex-Fla. Gov. Jeb Bush won't run for Senate in 2010 (AP)

US President George W. Bush (L) looks on as his brother Florida Governor Jeb Bush speaks in 2006. Former president George H.W. Bush, father of the outgoing US commander-in-chief, on Sunday touted another son Jeb for a future presidential bid.(AFP/File/Jim Watson)AP - Former Gov. Jeb Bush announced Tuesday that he won't run for the U.S. Senate in 2010 to replace the retiring Mel Martinez, saying that it was not the right time to return to elected office.


Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:29:03 GMT

New Congress opens pledging to rescue economy (AP)

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., center, holds a bible as he stands with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, during the mock swearing-in ceremony for Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., right, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - The Capitol rang loud with vows to fix the crisis-ridden economy Tuesday as Congress opened for business at the dawn of a new Democratic era. "We need action and we need action now," said Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Republicans agreed, and pledged cooperation in Congress as well as with President-elect Barack Obama — to a point.


Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:13:36 GMT

Businessman linked to Richardson donated to Obama (AP)

In this Dec. 3, 2008 file photo, President-elect Barack Obama stands with Commerce Secretary designate, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, at a news conference in Chicago. Richardson on Sunday, Jan. 4, 2009, announced that he was withdrawing his nomination to be President-elect Obama's commerce secretary amid a grand jury investigation into how some of his political donors won a lucrative state contract. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - A prominent businessman caught up in a grand jury probe whose political donations ended any role for New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson in the Obama administration also was a generous contributor in support of the president-elect.


Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:50:47 GMT

AP Exclusive: Calendar shows key Ill. gov meetings (AP)

In this Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008 file photo, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has some final words for the media after he announces his choice of former Ill. Attorney General Roland Burris to fill President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat in Chicago. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has revoked embattled Gov. Rod Blagojevich's access to classified federal security information, officials said Friday. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty, file)AP - Gov. Rod Blagojevich's official calendar shows he met with a top union official in his Chicago office the day before Barack Obama was elected president — just as federal prosecutors say the governor was scheming to trade Obama's Senate seat, possibly for a cushy union job.


Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:45:00 GMT

It's the economic rollout, stupid (Politico)

Politico - Barack Obama’s elaborate rollout of his economic recovery plan could provide an impressive early victory for his incoming administration.

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:35:00 GMT

44 Buzz: Commerce guessing game (Politico)

Politico - Commerce Guessing Game

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:32:00 GMT

Support for Panetta trickles in (Politico)

Politico - After a rocky start, Barack Obama’s choice to lead the CIA gained critical support in Congress on Tuesday, with at least five members of the Senate Intelligence Committee backing Leon Panetta.
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:56:50 GMT

Mugabe appoints acting ministers: Herald (AFP)

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has appointed eight acting ministers days after firing a number of ministers from his ZANU-PF party who lost in the March 2008 elections, state media said on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Desmond Kwande)AFP - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has appointed eight acting ministers days after firing a number of ministers from his ZANU-PF party who lost in the March 2008 elections, state media said on Wednesday.


Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:52:24 GMT

CNN: Gupta approached about surgeon general post (AP)

In this Monday, Oct. 8, 2007 file photo, Dr. Sanjay Gupta attends a screening of the environmental documentary 'Planet in Peril,' in New York. President-elect Barack Obama has approached CNN's chief medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta, to be the country's next surgeon general, the cable news network said Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff)AP - President-elect Barack Obama's reported choice for surgeon general, CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, could bring a dose of star power to a job that hasn't had that much clout in decades.


Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Obama said to pick a spy chief with little intelligence experience (The Christian Science Monitor)

The Christian Science Monitor - Leon Panetta, reported to be President-elect Obama's pick to head the Central Intelligence Agency, has little hands-on intelligence experience – a reality that may make it hard for him to win the trust of operatives inside an agency known to be unwelcoming to outsiders.

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:05:00 GMT

Dem says Bennet has 'the goods' to win in 2010 (Rocky Mountain News)

Rocky Mountain News - Sen. Ken Salazar's would-be replacement, Denver Public Schools chief Michael Bennet, might be a political rookie heading into a hard-fought 2010 election, but "he's got the goods" to win, according to the man who oversees the national U.S. Senate battleground for Democrats.

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:42:31 GMT

Networks devoted more time to election: report (Reuters)

A supporter of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama (D-IL) watches as he is declared the winner of the 2008 presidential election in Times Square in New York November 5, 2008. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)Reuters - The presidential election and worsening economy pushed the war in Iraq mostly out of the headlines, especially among the Big Three evening newscasts.


Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:16:56 GMT

Obama pledges new intel chiefs will break with past practices (AFP)

File picture shows ex-White House aide Leon Panetta, selected by President-elect Barack Obama as CIA director. Obama pledged Tuesday to make a break with the CIA's controversial war-on-terror practices in naming new intelligence chiefs, but said they would not look backwards.(AFP/File/Mike Theiler)AFP - US president-elect Barack Obama pledged Tuesday to make a break with the CIA's controversial war-on-terror practices in naming new intelligence chiefs, but said they would not look backwards.


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