http://politics.thedave.net/ News for politics. en-us Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:12:06 e Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:12:06 e 30 http://politics.thedave.net/news/2298/Texas_grand_jury_indicts_Cheney__Gonzales_of_crime politics HOUSTON (Reuters) - A grand jury in South Texas indicted U'S' Vice President Dick Cheney and former attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Tuesday for 'organized criminal activity' related to alleged abuse of inmates in private prisons' Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:27:30 e http://politics.thedave.net/news/2298/Texas_grand_jury_indicts_Cheney__Gonzales_of_crime http://politics.thedave.net/news/1942/CBO_chief_likely_pick_as_budget_director politics WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama appears to have settled on Congressional Budget Office chief Peter Orszag to be his budget director, Capitol Hill Democrats said Tuesday'''' Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:29 e http://politics.thedave.net/news/1942/CBO_chief_likely_pick_as_budget_director http://politics.thedave.net/news/1939/Ted_Stevens_loses_Alaska_Senate_race politics ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Sen' Ted Stevens, the longest serving Republican in Senate history, narrowly lost his re-election bid Tuesday, marking the downfall of a Washington political power and Alaska icon who couldn't survive a conviction on federal corruption charges' His defeat by Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich moves Senate Democrats within two seats of a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority'''' Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:56:34 e http://politics.thedave.net/news/1939/Ted_Stevens_loses_Alaska_Senate_race http://politics.thedave.net/news/2300/U_S__auto_execs_plead_for_Congress_to_fund_bailout politics WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U'S' auto executives warned Congress on Tuesday that their industry was teetering on the brink of disaster as they pleaded for a $25 billion aid package despite political opposition to another multibillion-dollar government bailout' Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:40:00 e http://politics.thedave.net/news/2300/U_S__auto_execs_plead_for_Congress_to_fund_bailout http://politics.thedave.net/news/553/AP__Stevens_Loses_Alaska_Senate_Race politics Alaska Sen' Ted Stevens has lost his bid for a seventh term' The longest-serving Republican in the history of the Senate trailed Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich by 3,724 votes after Tuesday's count' Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:30:02 e http://politics.thedave.net/news/553/AP__Stevens_Loses_Alaska_Senate_Race http://politics.thedave.net/news/1941/Clinton_lawyers_vetting_her_for_secretary_of_state politics CHICAGO (AP) -- Sen' Hillary Rodham Clinton has engaged three prominent lawyers to help President-elect Barack Obama vet her candidacy for secretary of state even as some insiders criticized the pick and advisers to the former first lady said she was weighing whether to take the job if Obama offered it'''' Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:11:33 e http://politics.thedave.net/news/1941/Clinton_lawyers_vetting_her_for_secretary_of_state http://politics.thedave.net/news/1940/Holder_is_Obama_s_top_choice_for_attorney_general politics WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama's top choice for attorney general is Eric Holder, a former No' 2 Justice Department official in the Clinton administration and Obama campaign aide who would become the first African American to serve as the nation's chief lawyer'''' Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:01:15 e http://politics.thedave.net/news/1940/Holder_is_Obama_s_top_choice_for_attorney_general http://politics.thedave.net/news/1486/Obama_Official_Identifies_Possible_Attorney_General_Choice politics An Obama official and others close to the issue say that the president-elect has named Eric Holder as his top choice for ''' Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:53:42 e http://politics.thedave.net/news/1486/Obama_Official_Identifies_Possible_Attorney_General_Choice http://politics.thedave.net/news/2297/Alaska_Democrat_says_beats_Republican_Sen__Stevens politics ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich claimed victory on Tuesday as the first Democrat elected to Congress by Alaska in more than a quarter of a century, unseating powerful Sen' Ted Stevens who was convicted last month of corruption after decades in the U'S' Senate' Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:43:46 e http://politics.thedave.net/news/2297/Alaska_Democrat_says_beats_Republican_Sen__Stevens http://politics.thedave.net/news/554/Obama_Eyes_Holder_For_Attorney_General politics Washington attorney Eric Holder is President-elect Barack Obama's top choice to be the next attorney general and aides have gone so far as to ask senators whether he would be confirmed, an Mr' Obama official and people close to the matter said' Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:30:05 e http://politics.thedave.net/news/554/Obama_Eyes_Holder_For_Attorney_General http://politics.thedave.net/news/1946/Schwarzenegger_opens_climate_summit_with_Obama politics BEVERLY HILLS, Calif' (AP) -- Gov' Arnold Schwarzenegger opened his international climate change summit on Tuesday by upstaging himself with an even bigger political star - President-elect Barack Obama'''' Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:24:14 e http://politics.thedave.net/news/1946/Schwarzenegger_opens_climate_summit_with_Obama http://politics.thedave.net/news/2305/U_S__regulators_face_fight_on_IFRS_accounting_cost politics NEW YORK (Reuters) - Just four days after releasing a formal 'roadmap' proposal to move U'S' companies to international accounting rules, U'S' regulators are facing a slew of complaints about the millions of dollars it would cost companies to make the switch' Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:19:43 e http://politics.thedave.net/news/2305/U_S__regulators_face_fight_on_IFRS_accounting_cost http://politics.thedave.net/news/1948/Minnesota_set_to_begin_recount_in_US_Senate_race politics ST' PAUL, Minn' (AP) -- Minnesota's deadlocked U'S' Senate race will edge closer to resolution on Wednesday as an army of election workers begins a statewide recount of more than 2'9 million ballots'''' Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:01:05 e http://politics.thedave.net/news/1948/Minnesota_set_to_begin_recount_in_US_Senate_race http://politics.thedave.net/news/2304/White_community_adapts_to_Obama_reality politics WESTMINSTER, Maryland (Reuters) - Worried by racial tensions churned up by the U'S' presidential election, teachers at one U'S' high school braced for the worst in their majority white community the morning after Barack Obama was elected the country's first black president' Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:50:22 e http://politics.thedave.net/news/2304/White_community_adapts_to_Obama_reality http://politics.thedave.net/news/31/Source__Orszag_tapped_for_OMB_post politics President-elect Barack Obama has picked Peter Orszag, the head of the Congressional Budget Office, to head his Office of Management and Budget, a top Democratic source told CNN Tuesday' Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:00:09 e http://politics.thedave.net/news/31/Source__Orszag_tapped_for_OMB_post http://politics.thedave.net/news/30/Lieberman_keeps_powerful_chairmanship_post politics Democrat-turned-independent Sen' Joe Lieberman managed to keep his Senate committee chairmanship in part because President-elect Barack Obama didn't want to punish him for supporting Sen' John McCain, Lieberman said Tuesday' Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:58:58 e http://politics.thedave.net/news/30/Lieberman_keeps_powerful_chairmanship_post http://politics.thedave.net/news/32/Begich_claims_victory_over_Stevens_in_Alaska politics Alaska Sen' Ted Stevens, the Republican lawmaker convicted on felony corruption charges in October, was defeated in his bid for re-election by Democrat Mark Begich, according to a release from Begich's campaign and unofficial results from state officials' Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:55:56 e http://politics.thedave.net/news/32/Begich_claims_victory_over_Stevens_in_Alaska http://politics.thedave.net/news/2296/Obama_moves_closer_to_key_cabinet_pick politics CHICAGO (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama moved closer to filling a key spot in his cabinet on Tuesday as his transition team plotted a careful course to shaping the next U'S' administration' Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:26:16 e http://politics.thedave.net/news/2296/Obama_moves_closer_to_key_cabinet_pick http://politics.thedave.net/news/2299/Clinton_job_for_Obama_may_depend_on_Bill politics WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If Sen' Hillary Clinton is to be picked by President-elect Barack Obama as his secretary of state, it may well depend on a review of the business activities of her husband, former President Bill Clinton' Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:25:52 e http://politics.thedave.net/news/2299/Clinton_job_for_Obama_may_depend_on_Bill http://politics.thedave.net/news/1944/McCain_to_seek_5th_Senate_term politics WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen' John McCain, whose presidential bid was snuffed out two weeks ago by President-elect Barack Obama, is setting up a political action committee as a first step in running for a fifth term in the Senate'''' Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:16:34 e http://politics.thedave.net/news/1944/McCain_to_seek_5th_Senate_term