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...resignation speech at Monday’s City Council meeting, Murphy recalled some of the many resolutions the council has passed during his tenure, including reform of the city’s Criminal Offender Record Information policy and efforts to clarify the city’s property tax system...
...White House is still wooing them. Obama has already met in the Oval Office with both. He will have to keep the courtship going if he hopes to match his success on the stimulus with measures to recapitalize the banking system and reform entitlements, energy and health care. On those issues, Snowe and Collins would tend to be supportive, but neither will go along automatically. Snowe, for one, thinks Obama could have done a better job of reaching out to House Republicans and making them as much a part of the negotiations in that chamber as they were...
...package barely 30 hours after the Senate passed its version. In the process, they handed President Barack Obama his first major legislative victory, though the deliberations that led up to its passage highlighted the enormous challenges Obama will face in more complicated endeavors like health-care, entitlement and energy reform...
...ahead-of-schedule victory gives Obama a massive running start on much of his campaign promises, from investments in clean energy and education to health-care reform. But given how hard it was for the President to win the backing of enough members of his own party, let alone the GOP, the stimulus fight showed the limits of his seemingly enormous electoral mandate. Many Democrats, for instance, felt the White House tried too hard to win the favor of Republicans, who in the end didn't lend their support. "I am not happy with it," said Senator Tom Harkin, Democrat...
...Resigned from the National Constitutional Assembly in 1999 to found the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), with support from students, intellectuals, trade unionists and white commercial farmers. The following year, the MDC helped defeat a constitutional reform bill that would have extended Mugabe's rule and appropriated farms from white landowners - Mugabe's first electoral defeat. In the June 2000 parliamentary elections, the MDC won almost as many seats as Mugabe's ZANU-PF party, despite a series of attacks that left nearly 30 supporters dead...