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January 11, 2010
Today, the Associated Press released an analysis of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on the impact of the highway and transit investments. These investments are creating and saving jobs as planned, but the AP focused instead on local overall unemployment rates. By doing so, the AP ignored the jobs created and saved by the Recovery Act, ignored the fact that the Recovery Act has offset cuts in state and local infrastructure spending, and ignored that unemployment would be worse without these critical investments.
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January 7, 2010
This evening, President Obama released a security review on strengthening intelligence and aviation security in response to the attempted terrorist attack on Christmas Day. Speaker Pelosi on the President's remarks:
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January 4, 2010
In the days following the attempted terrorist attack on a Detroit-bound airplane on Christmas Day, some critics of the Obama Administration have made absurd claims that the President and Members of Congress do not take our national security seriously:
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December 29, 2009
Senate passage of health insurance reform legislation last week brings Congress closer to providing quality, affordable health insurance to every American. As we move forward through the legislative process, we will produce a final bill that is founded on the core principles of health insurance reform: affordability for the middle class, security for our seniors, responsibility to our children, and accountability for the insurance industry.
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December 22, 2009
As we close out a year beating back the misinformation and outright lies spread about health insurance reform, one literally takes the prize.Blog Post
December 19, 2009
“Today, President Obama put forward a clear framework for an agreement: mitigation, transparency and financing - a framework that would represent an historic global accord and real progress among the community of nations."
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December 18, 2009
“The agreement reached tonight in Copenhagen is a breakthrough in the global effort to combat the climate crisis and could not have been reached without President Obama's active involvement and leadership."
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December 17, 2009
Today, Speaker Pelosi, Leader Steny Hoyer, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, and Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming Chairman Edward Markey held a press briefing at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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December 17, 2009
“Women have the most to gain and the most to lose in the climate crisis. The impacts are not gender-neutral; as the primary users, managers, and stewards of natural resources, women feel the consequences first."
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