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...would you dress First Lady - elect Michelle Obama for the Inauguration Day ceremony? Emmanuel Vaughn, LOS ANGELES...
...President-elect, however, can be a very persuasive politician, and McCaskill emerged from the luncheon singing a different tune. "He made a pretty compelling case," she said. McCaskill still wasn't quite ready to promise her vote, but others apparently were. Enough Democrats left Tuesday's meeting ready to support Obama that Senate majority leader Harry Reid afterward told reporters, "I think we will get the necessary votes" to block the resolution in a vote expected on Thursday. It was a sharp change from earlier in the morning, when his office had expressed doubts that they had the votes, even...
Meanwhile, companies large and small are lining up to tap the $25 billion in loan guarantees administered by the U.S. Department of Energy to help the automakers re-tool for building more efficient vehicles. Congress appropriated the money in September and President-elect Barack Obama promised to double the funding during a late October visit to Detroit...
Surely this wasn't what Barack Obama had in mind when he imagined the days leading up to his historic Inauguration. On Tuesday, the President-elect journeyed to Capitol Hill to try to avoid the possibility that his first act in office will be vetoing a bill passed by both houses of Congress...
...President-elect Barack Obama and his family settle into Washington ahead of his Inauguration, they will undoubtedly go through a period of adjustment. The girls will need to get used to a new school, the whole family will learn soon enough about the city's muggy summers, and Obama may need to become a hockey fan, because the other local sports teams currently range from mediocre to stupendously...