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Obama threatens veto of CISPA database-sharing bill
2013-04-16 22:01:14| CNET News.com
White House veto threat says CISPA legislation does not adequately protect Americans' privacy, raising the odds that controversial data-sharing bill is doomed this year. [Read more]
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Role reversal: GOP blasts Obama plan to sell TVA
2013-04-16 10:14:35| Energy - Topix.net
It's a political role reversal: Republicans are blasting a plan by President Barack Obama to consider selling the Tennessee Valley Authority, a New Deal-era agency long targeted by conservatives as an example of government overreach.
Obama Administration Welcomes Japan into TPP Talks
2013-04-15 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - The National Pork Producers Council has praised the Obama administration for agreeing to accept Japan into the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations.
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Obama budget boosts funding, tax credit for electric cars
2013-04-14 20:03:25| Automakers - Topix.net
A 2012 Chevrolet Volt electric vehicle is parked at the solar-powered electric charging station at the General Motors assembly plant in Hamtramck, Michigan.President Obama's proposed budget includes a boost in funding for the DOE to research more fuel efficient cars, and a boost to the tax credit for electric vehicles.
Has Obama Already Given Up on Climate Change?
2013-04-12 16:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Yorker: The budget released this week by the White House is by far Obama`s most ambitious statement of his legislative priorities since 2009, when, as a newly elected President, he produced a plan brimming over with initiatives like Obamacare, education reform, new spending to aid the depressed economy, and a cap-and-trade régime to curb carbon pollution. Obama`s 2009 budget presaged two years in office that were so legislatively far-reaching that, in Washington policy circles, the document was sometimes...
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