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Much of the opposition is coming from workers from GM plants in Saginaw and Grand Rapids, Mich., and Lockport and Rochester, N.Y., where UAW members say they are being pushed to renegotiate a contract that included concessions they signed only last year, when the plants still belonged to the bankrupt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UAW Anger at Contract Concessions on the Rise | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

Boehner was referring to budget reconciliation, a legislative maneuver that would allow the Senate to pass changes to its reform bill with only 50 votes. (Vice President Joe Biden could, in this case, cast a tie-breaking vote.) The White House has been very careful not to explicitly say it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Plan Raises Stakes Ahead of Health Summit | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

With the Conservative opposition's lead slipping, Labour had hoped to gain further ground by softening Brown's austere public image. In a Valentine's Day interview with talent-show judge Piers Morgan, Brown gave a moving account of the death of his baby daughter nine years ago: "I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is British Prime Minister Gordon Brown a Bully? | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

At last week's annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where thousands of conservative activists packed into a cavernous Washington hotel, the mood was bright and the confidence overflowing. Veteran operatives, grizzled reporters and scores of young political field troops joining the fray for the first time all saw the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Obama Fend Off the 'Failure' Attacks? | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

It is clear that the thunderous reaction to this Obama-as-failure thesis represents the current mood of the conservative rank and file, talk-radio hosts and Republican candidates throughout the land, and that they are likely to keep up the theme straight through the midterms - both because it is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Obama Fend Off the 'Failure' Attacks? | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

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