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START Treaty Up for Cliffhanger Vote in Senate
By Patricia Murphy
With the clock running out on the lame-duck session of Congress, the Senate expects to begin voting Tuesday on ratification of the Strategic Arms Nuclear Reduction Treaty, the arms-reduction pact signed in Prague by President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in April. Proponents of the ...
Obama Presses for Vote on START Treaty: Calls It 'Urgent National Priority'
By Tom DiemerReminding Republicans that "politics stops at the water's edge," President Obama pressed hard Saturday for Senate ratification of the new nuclear arms treaty with Russia, calling it an urgent national priority, necessary to "make America more secure." In his weekly Internet address, the president ...
Gov. Bill Richardson in North Korea, but War of Words Rages
By Tom Diemer
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, visiting North Korea again amid heightened tensions with its southern neighbor, was to begin a series of meetings Friday with senior diplomats in the reclusive communist country. But a war of words raged on as the North's official news agency denounced a South Korean ...
Bill Richardson Travels to North Korea on Unofficial Diplomatic Mission
By Christopher Weber
Traveling as a private citizen, not a government representative, Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico was on his way late Tuesday to North Korea, where he will talk to officials about the recently-escalated military standoff with South Korea. "My objective is to try and to get the North Koreans to ...
Senate Has Votes to Ratify START Treaty: Democrats Expect Debate This Week
By Lynn Sweet
The Senate has the votes to ratify the New START nuclear arms treaty with Russia, Democratic sources told Politics Daily on Monday. The debate is expected to start in the Senate as soon as Wednesday. At a Tuesday caucus, Senate Democratic leaders are expected to tell members a ratification debate ...
START Treaty Wins Backing of GOP Senators Snowe, Collins
By Lynn Sweet
The Obama White House, eager for the Senate to ratify the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia before Christmas, won the support Friday of two key senators, Maine Republicans Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, with just a few procedural strings attached. White House press secretary ...
Hillary Clinton Says Iran's Foreign Minister Snubbed Her at Meeting
By Tom Kavanagh
In the normally decorous realm of high-level diplomacy, Hillary Rodham Clinton says she was treated in a most undiplomatic fashion last week. The secretary of state was snubbed twice when she tried to speak with her Iranian counterpart, Manouchehr Mottaki, during a dinner in Bahrain, the Washington ...
Obama, GOP Leaders Agree to Negotiations on Bush Tax Cuts
By Patricia Murphy and Alex Wagner
The top Republicans in Congress came out of their first meeting with President Obama since they swept the November elections and said the conversation Tuesday at the White House yielded an agreement by the president to begin negotiations on the future of the Bush tax cuts, now on track to expire at ...
WikiLeaks Case: Lawbreakers 'Will Be Held Accountable,' Eric Holder Vows
By Politics Daily Staff
Sunday's release of thousands of classified U.S. State Department cables by the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks was condemned by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday, with Holder promising to prosecute any individual who broke the law. "To the ...
Liz Cheney Blames George Bush for North Korea Situation
By Matt LewisSince being sworn-in nearly two years ago, President Obama has blamed his predecessor for many of America's problems. Typically, Republicans have pushed back at these assertions, arguing that Obama refuses to accept responsibility for anything. But an exception to this rule can be found in the ...
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