Word: pushed
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With promises to push for greater budgeting transparency and to accommodate a wider range of campus tastes, Kevin M. Mee ’10 and James A. McFadden ’10 were elected as chair and vice-chair of the the 20-person College Events Board Monday night...
...that is why Tom Daschle had to go. If he hadn't jumped, Obama would have had to push him, even though Daschle was a mentor and close friend. It wasn't just the unpaid taxes. And it wasn't just that two other Obama Administration officials had neglected to pay their taxes as well. It was the lifestyle, and the choices Daschle made. It was that he had given speeches worth $200,000 to health-care-industry groups that he would have had to regulate as Health and Human Services Secretary. It was that he made $5 million...
...where the likes of Ted Kennedy and Max Baucus have their own strongly held notions of what reform should look like. His stature and close relationship with Obama also would have helped fight the impulses of some in the Administration - including chief economic adviser Larry Summers - to delay the push for health reform until after the economy gets fixed...
...Ironically, Wertheimer and a group of other public-interest lobbyists made a push in 2007 to bar former members of Congress, like Daschle, from participating in the non-lobbying coordination of lobbying efforts for a preset "cooling-off period" of two years. The chief sponsor of that effort happened to be Senator Obama. "Obama was the one who really became excited about the whole idea," says Craig Holman, a lobbyist for Public Citizen, a group that helped write the bill. "We lost that on the House side, initially. It was largely the committee chairmen who didn't want that...
...your decision to respond to the call for unity, to push Africa forward towards the United States of Africa." - In his inaugural address as chairman of the African Union...