Word: electioneering
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The problem, as usual, is the Senate - and, in an election year, the calendar. Republicans are already suggesting that Obama's belated push for the Volcker rule and other add-ons will require new hearings and more delay, and that its line-in-the-sand approach to the consumer agency...
By late December, Obama's entire economic team agreed to support the rule, along with limits on the size and scope of banks that go beyond the amendment Kanjorski drew up. Geithner would have preferred to limit risk-taking through tougher rules on leverage and capital - and he's still...
President Mahinda Rajapaksa - Sri Lanka's self-described "rebel with a cause" - extended his four decades in politics with a landslide victory on Jan. 27 in the country's first election since the end of its 26-year civil war. Upending predictions that the contest would be a close fight...
• Was appointed Prime Minister by Kumaratunga in April 2004 after the Sri Lanka Freedom Party won the general election.
"Today's victory will be remarkable ... We expect a peaceful election and are getting ready to enjoy a better tomorrow." - After voting in Medamulana, his rural district on the southern coast, on Jan. 26 (Reuters, Jan. 26, 2010)