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...Wall Street Journal suggests that B of A may hold a special place in the government's heart because it bought Countrywide and Merrill Lynch at times when a public bailout of those companies could have caused the credit system angina. With Congress and watchdog agencies watching how the Treasury and Fed are using their thinning cash reserves, B of A will not be getting any sympathy or special dispensations from regulators...
...styled its approach to be the opposite of that of Bill and Hillary Clinton, who presented lawmakers with a complex bill that was more than 1,000 pages long. Obama has spelled out broad goals - expanding coverage and bringing down costs - but has pretty much left it up to Congress to decide...
Meanwhile, time is running short. Both the House and Senate have set an extraordinarily ambitious timetable that would have the legislation passing each chamber by the time Congress adjourns for its August recess. Increasingly, the President's allies worry that they simply cannot get there that quickly without a much bigger investment of Obama's enormous political capital...
...says, Obama is content to let Congress do its work. "The mistake you can make here is to be so wedded to an approach that you destroy your opportunity for a consensus," Axelrod says. "That's just not something we are going to do. This is too important." On health-care reform as in medicine, Obama is convinced that the right bedside manner can make all the difference in the world...
Martinelli, who takes office July 1, will also have a delicate U.S.-related issue atop his desk: pushing the U.S. Congress to ratify the separate, bilateral free-trade agreement that Panama City and Washington signed in 2006. President Barack Obama favors it, but its passage in the U.S. has been in doubt because many in Congress are angry that Pedro Miguel Gonzalez - who has been indicted in the U.S. for the killing of a U.S. soldier in 1991 - remained president of Panama's National Assembly (until September 2008) amid the controversy. Gonzalez lost his Assembly seat in Sunday's election...