Barack Obama's Blog » Threatens http://www.barackobamasblog.com Barack Obama 2008 Presidential Blog Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:59:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Liberal group threatens to pull Obama support http://www.barackobamasblog.com/liberal-group-threatens-to-pull-obama-support/ http://www.barackobamasblog.com/liberal-group-threatens-to-pull-obama-support/#comments Sat, 16 Jul 2011 10:58:39 +0000 Obama http://www.barackobamasblog.com/liberal-group-threatens-to-pull-obama-support/ Liberal group threatens to pull Obama support
A liberal group upset over potential cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security delivered pledges Friday to President Barack Obama’s national campaign headquarters threatening to pull its support.
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Obama gives Republicans 36 hours to get debt deal done
U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday said he has given Republican leaders in Congress another 24 to 36 hours to present him a plan to reduce the U.S. deficit.
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A simple majority could pass most of the health care reform bill in the US Senate. That’s a procedure often referred to as reconciliation. President Obama today made a veiled threat to use that process should Republicans not come up with a way of covering more Americans for health care. The GOP proposal covers 3 million Americans. The current house/senate bills cover 30 million Americans. The President mentioned a month or several weeks as a time line. Distributed by Tubemogul.

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