AOL News has a new home! The Huffington Post.
Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Hot on HuffPost:
See More Stories
Executive Behind Lavish Conference Leaves Agency
Walker Recall Effort Struggles To Gain Momentum
AndrewStern
Andrew Stern Makes it Official: He's Stepping Down as Head of SEIU
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyAndrew Stern confirmed Wednesday that he's stepping down as president of the 2.2-million-member Service Employees International Union. "With the strength and power of SEIU members voices we have accomplished what once seemed unimaginable," Stern said in a statement released by the union. "And, I can imagine no greater honor than these hard-working Americans entrusting me to represent them and their voice." No reason was given for his resignation but a labor official said Tuesday that Stern "always supported term limits in the labor movement" and that he thought it was time to move ...
On Obama White House Visitor Log: Lobbyists, Movie Stars and Bailed Out CEOs
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyThe White House released a visitor's log late Friday that revealed many of DC's biggest Democratic lobbyists have made frequent visits, despite President Obama's stringent new lobbying rules. The record of visitors also looks like a red carpet list of celebrities and Hollywood movie stars. And CEOs of all those Wall Street banks the government bailed out earlier this year came calling frequently, too. Many of the Democratic lobbyists who frequented the White House this year are also among the highest earning lobbying firms in 2009, including power player Steve Elmendorf of Elmendorf Strategies ...
ACORN Getting Adult Supervision
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyIn 1970, when Students for a Democratic Society was organizing draft resistance to protest the Vietnam War, Wade Rathke, a SDS worker, founded the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, made up of lefties committed to social justice, anti-poverty and community activism. ...
Follow Politics Daily
POPULAR
- Nancy Pelosi Confirms House May Skip Up or Down Vote on Senate Health Bill
- Debrahlee Lorenzana: A Double Take on Those Double D's
- Campbell Brown Quits CNN With Shockingly Frank Farewell
- Palin Earnings Estimated at $12 Million
- The Five Most Racist Obama Cartoons?
- Jimmy Carter Leaves Church Over Treatment of Women
- Soraya M., Stoned to Death for Being an "Inconvenient Wife''
- No posts are available.
News From Our Partners
- Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st
- Picking new leader, Egyptians search for superman
- Egyptians vote in first free presidential vote
- Moon chips from Vegas casino mogul sent to NASA
- Egyptians vote to rid nation of autocratic rule
- More Stories »
- 'Masters of the Universe' Sure Have Fragile Egos
- Romney: My Mistakes 'Haunt Me'
- Newt Lauds Romney: He's Like Eisenhower
- Irked Senate Panel Votes 30-0 to Cut Pakistan Aid
- GSA Bash Organizer Steps Down
- More Stories »
- Know Your Enemy
- Obama’s Challenge in Egypt
- The Edwards Waiting Game
- Are Doctors Doing Too Much?
- The Pagan Cult of Reagan
- More Stories »
- Ambition Counteracting Ambition
- Robert Blagojevich Speaks Out
- In Iowa, Obama Calls Romney's Words 'A Cow Pie of Distortion'
- In Iowa, Obama Calls On Congress to Act on Clean Energy Tax Credits
- Romney Has Interesting Morning in Inner-City Philly
- More Stories »
Top News
More News
More on Aol
Local News
More Blog/Sites
Sites and Services
HuffPost Politics