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...been a year since Mitt Romney dropped out of the Republican presidential race, but he remains an influential conservative voice - particularly on economic issues. The former Massachusetts governor and star business consultant earned ovations at a House Republican retreat in January and recently signed on to headline a major Senate GOP dinner in April. He spoke with TIME about Obama's Oval Office debut, what's wrong with the economic-stimulus bill and what his own future may hold. (See pictures of Barack Obama behind the scenes on Inauguration...
...actually cheaper than the state’s plan. In the last economic downturn—between 2002 and 2004—about 14,500 teachers, firefighters, librarians, and other local employees lost their jobs statewide as a result of comparable local aid cuts made by then-governor Mitt Romney. Local officials said the financial strains of the cuts would be felt immediately. “This a difficult economic season and it’s going to get worse before it gets better,” said Cambridge city councilor Sam Seidel. —Staff writer Liyun...
...November evening in 2007, Obama stood in a school gym in Grundy Center, Iowa (pop. 2,596), while a woman explained that she didn't think he could protect the country as well as a Republican. "Don't think that I care any less than Rudy Giuliani or Mitt Romney about making sure that my daughters don't get blown up," Obama told her. He paused for a moment and then laughed, knowing he should probably stop there. "I live in Chicago," he continued. "It's a much more likely target than Grundy County...
...Brian Rosman, research director for Health Care For All, a health policy group, said that health-care reform did address reimbursement concerns, appropriating $90 million a year for three years to increase state payments to hospitals. But he said that “implementation by the Romney and Patrick administration appears to have really shortchanged some of the key services, particularly mental health.” State Representative Alice K. Wolf agreed with Rosman’s reimbursement concerns, saying that state officials should be aware of the problem.“[Health] Secretary [Judy Ann] Bigby knows this because...
...Romney, Mitt...