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Last updated: 09/16/11 at 12:05 AM
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Interesting & Fun Facts About The White House
The architect for the White House was chosen through a design competition. George Washington selected the winner, James Hoban on July 16, 1792, after a brief review.
The East room present today was added on G
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Extreme Mortman
http://www.extrememortman.com/white-house/facts-about-the-white-house
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President Obama’s director of progressive media is obsessed with one particular conservative provocateur. Jesse Lee’s duties at the White House include “online response” — and there has been no shortage of responses to one person who routinely communicat
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The Heritage Foundation
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Commentary/2011/07/White-House-Uses-Twitter-to-Bully-Critics
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...to cover the fundraiser as a so-called "pool" reporter, meaning she could attend as long as she shared her notes with the White House to distribute to other reporters. Pool reporting is a common arrangement among media organizations and in-demand politicians...
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FOX News
http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/politics/~3/_9XHSDHl3ws/
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...from a fundraiser held for President Obama April 21 at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco. Marinucci was invited by the White House to serve as the local pool reporter to feed information to other members of the press who did not attend. White House guidelines...
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San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/29/MN5I1J9PMT.DTL&feed=rss.news
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...would not speak on the record about the issue. Chronicle senior political reporter Carla Marinucci was invited by the White House to cover the Obama fundraiser on April 21 on the grounds that she send her written report to the White House to distribute to...
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San Francisco Chronicle
http://feeds.sfgate.com/click.phdo?i=5e6c2487f6a006d07a6190231a3bcd6a
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...their 2-year-old daughter, Gabriella, were among 30,000 people from all 50 states who received tickets for the 133rd annual White House Easter Egg Roll. Andrea Payne's brother, a medically retired Army officer who works for the Department of Defense, applied...
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Ventura County Star
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2011/apr/23/santa-paula-family-to-join-white-house-easter/?partner=RSS
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...family; Elmo, Maria and Gordon of Sesame Street; Kristi Yamaguchi; and Geena Davis. “The official Emcee of the 2011 White House Easter Egg Roll is Tommy McFly. He will introduce acts on the music stage and get everyone excited about the different Egg Roll...
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Alice@97.3
http://radioalice.radio.com/2011/04/20/white-house-easter-egg-lineup-announced/
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...on repurposing items. A new White House video on health care is just more bad messaging from the administration. The White House commission on the BP oil spill has concluded that one simple question could have prevented the tragedy. Following the success...
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Good Guide
http://www.good.is/post/the-white-house-tax-receipt/
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...President Ronald Reagan speaks about Martin Luther King Jr. during a televised speech at the White House in Washington. A White House site offering one-page biographies of all 44 presidents offer an unusual history lesson. Some are examples of blatant boosterism...
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San Francisco Chronicle
http://feeds.sfgate.com/click.phdo?i=82128dd734f86c4cc344eb3a73b7ee80
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...House's first ever home-brewed beer. According to the Obama Foodorama blog March 1, 2011 article by Eddie Gehman Kohan, White House Honey Ale, the first beer to ever be brewed at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, made its debut earlier last month at the White House...
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Suite 101
http://www.suite101.com/content/a-hoppy-beginning-the-white-houses-first-homebrew-a361409
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...a "White House" game. That's a knock against Michigan, but it's hard to argue right now. While I wouldn't mind seeing the White House policy re-examined in early October -- say, if both Penn State and Michigan are ranked and undefeated -- I understand the...
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ESPN
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/13807/no-white-house-at-penn-state-this-year
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...the full download uncovers almost 30,000 records, including many from outside the mid-September time-frame detailed on the White House site. In other words, only the records from the specific two week time period are viewable on the White House site. Many...
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Big Government
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BigGovernment/~3/3xOQ9_-byGQ/
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS
An 18-foot high Douglas fir illuminated with LED lights adorns the Blue Room at the White House on Dec. 2. The first known Christmas tree at the White House was in the tenure of Benjamin Harrison.
Christmas at the White House
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Washington Times
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/22/white-house-chefs-check-lists-twice/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS
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As he rose to power last January, House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo did not look like a leader to inspire sharp divisions. Other legislators described him as approachable and quiet; he promoted himself as a consensus builder.
Nearly a year later, the pictur
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Boston Globe
http://feeds.boston.com/click.phdo?i=2bfa2e31cb12c9681a588de3f0fc856b
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“We want something that works for both the international community but also ... what works for the United States,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday afternoon. “We think the elements are there to reach that agreement.”
Sen. John
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The Hill
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/72885-president-enters-fray-in-denmark
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WASHINGTON The House on Wednesday narrowly approved a short-term, $290 billion increase in federal borrowing power, setting the stage for a major fight over national fiscal policy in 2010.
As the House finished its business for the year, lawmakers, in a
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The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/us/politics/17cong.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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As the Democrats in Congress approach the end of a frustrating first year's legislative effort, their leaders and the White House are being tempted by three possible shortcuts around the regular lawmaking process. Though the Democrats have a majority of
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Human Events Online
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34859
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Gate-crashing: Is it contagious? Two weeks before the Salahis' infamous appearance at the state dinner, a Georgia couple accidentally showed up a day early for a White House tour -- and instead were escorted into an invitation-only breakfast with Preside
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The Washington Post
http://feeds.voices.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=a2ef4b2040aec391d06fb894642f0168
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I took a tour of the White House on Friday night and didn't once spill my drink on a rug or break any furniture. It's the kind of house where you worry about causing damage. It's your rich grandma's house. I'm rough on material things, like clothes and h
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The Washington Post
http://feeds.voices.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=7d8eae01bb37c5057da8fdce117d3a04
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The lost revenues would be replaced with tax increases, a source of dispute.
Published: 12/10/2009 2:29 AM
Last Modified: 12/10/2009 2:29 AM
WASHINGTON — The House voted Wednesday to extend $31 billion in popular tax breaks, including an income ta
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Tulsa World
http://www.tulsaworld.com/site/articlepath.aspx?articleid=20091210_13_A3_Presid646232&rss_lnk=1
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WASHINGTON —
Despite Republican opposition on Capitol Hill, President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he's still hoping for bipartisan support for his efforts to use financial bailout money to help small businesses and bring down double-digit unemploy
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram
http://www.star-telegram.com/190/story/1818597.html
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...the White House - including one in the laundry room. CHRISTMAS THEME Jacqueline Kennedy began the tradition of a theme for White House Christmases when she chose to decorate a tree in the Blue Room with items evoking Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Suite." There...
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1373587.html
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Christmas at the White House," by Jennifer B. Pickens:
The first known Christmas tree at the White House was in the tenure of Benjamin Harrison, who helped trim one in the upstairs library with friends, family and staff. "We shall have an old-fashioned
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Simple Thoughts
http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/vignettes-from-white-house-christmases-past-chain-saws-barney-cam-and-more/
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The 1989 White House Christmas ornament featured the Presidential Seal commemorating the Bicentennial of the Presidency.
The White House has served as the home of the President for more than 200 years. Christmas celebrations have been around a bit
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Associated Content
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2463010/christmas_ornaments_from_the_white.html
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WASHINGTON (Dec. 8) -- President Barack Obama is promoting help for highways and small businesses, bridges and energy-efficient homes in a broad pitch to get Americans back to work and roll back the double-digit unemployment that's approaching a
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AOL News
http://news.aol.com/article/president-barack-obama-to-outline-jobs/472387
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Politics Today is CBSNews.com's inside look at the key stories driving the day in politics, written by CBS News Political Director Steve Chaggaris:
** Use of leftover bailout funds may be limited by budget rules...
** A set of compromises to replace th
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CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/12/08/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5936456.shtml
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Timeline of White House access and security The Associated Press More News A glance at changing public access and security at the White House through history: --- 1790s - People wander with impunity through the construction site while the Executive
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KansasCity.com
http://www.kansascity.com/444/story/1612515.html
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CARIBOU, Me. Dozing in a big lift chair, propped up by pillows in the living room of her modest home here, Bertha G. Milliard greeted the nurse who had come to check her condition and review the medications she takes for chronic pain, heart failure, str
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The New York Times
http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=e4a65921a5b1a72e3f8a362436c5ed59
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We can infer this, because when Tareq and Michaele Salahi were asked to come before a House panel on Thursday to explain how they crashed President Obama's state dinner, they didn't accept the invitation. They didn't even give the courtesy of an RSVP to
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The Washington Post
http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=cf0a4ef9fc7758d60384f445cbb930f1
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The House voted to permanently extend the estate tax on Thursday, approving a measure that would lock in a top rate of 45 percent on some multimillion dollar estates.
The vote was 225 to 200, with only Democrats voting for the extension. A group of 26 R
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The New York Times
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/house-okays-permanent-extension-of-estate-tax/?partner=rss&emc=rss
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...Director Mark Sullivan agreed to testify before the committee. He's said the security breach was his agency's fault. The White House also took some responsibility for the foul-up. "After reviewing our actions, it is clear that the White House did not do everything...
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San Diego Union-Tribune
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/dec/03/congress-may-subpoena-white-house-party-crashers/
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The White House has announced new rules on guests (PDF) in the wake of revelations that Tareq and Michaele Salahi gained entry to the White House during the Obama administration's first state dinner despite not having been invited.
In a memo, Jim
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CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/12/02/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5867834.shtml
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By Naftali Bendavid WASHINGTON — House and Senate leaders plan to craft major jobs packages by year's end, as they respond to intensifying pressure to show they are doing more to ease unemployment.House leaders aim to pass at least part of a package thi
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Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125978590960473343.html?mod=WSJ_topics_obama
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The Obama administration's social secretary will not testify at a congressional hearing into the security lapse that allowed a Virginia couple to crash last week's state dinner, the White House said Wednesday.
Press secretary Robert Gibbs said Desiree
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FOX News
http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/politics/~3/SztlCusB0Fw/white-house-social-secretary-testify-crasher-gate-probe
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On Wednesday afternoon, First Lady Michelle Obama gave members of the press a preview of the White House's holiday decorations. The previous night the White House had opened the doors "to the first of more than 50,000 visitors who will come to the
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Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/02/white-house-holiday-previ_n_377365.html
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WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA/The White House)--Wednesday, First Lady Michelle Obama held a news conference to unveil how the White House plans to mark the holidays for 2009.
Here is a written excerpt, provided by the White House press office, of Mrs. Obama's
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WUSA Washington, DC
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Wusa9com-DcNews/~3/TB-8CxEcF9s/local_article.aspx
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WASHINGTON - The Secret Service will change some of its screening policies after an attention-hungry couple was able to crash the Obama administration's first state dinner.
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Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/apnewsbreak-gate-crashers-spur-220418.html
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...It's not just Fox News that's become subject of White House derision. The following is an excerpt from a joke e-mail that is circulating among White House staffers. It's a response, of sorts, to the analytical essay that POLITICO editor-in-chief John Harris...
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Beltway Blips
http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/the-white-house-takes-on-politico/
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When Vice President Biden travels to Iraq, which he does every two months or so, he flies on Air Force Two to an airbase in southern England and then transfers to a cargo plane, a C-17, retrofitted for vice-presidential comfort with an Airstream trailer
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Real Clear Politics
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/magazine/29Biden-t.html?ref=magazine&pagewanted=all
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...officially presented the tree to the Obamas on Friday. It's the fourth time one of their trees has become the official White House tree. "It's big enough for Sasha to climb in, I think," Sundback joked after the Obamas walked from the North Portico of the...
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MSNBC
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/34174208/ns/today-white_house/
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First lady Michelle Obama, right, with her daughters Sasha and Malia, right, as they stand with the White House Christmas tree as it is delivered to the North Portico of the White House in Washington, Friday, Nov. 27, 2009. With the Obama's are Eric
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WRTV Indianapolis
http://www.theindychannel.com/politics/21740284/detail.html
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Building upon last month’s historic release of nearly 500 White House visitor records , today the White House releases more than 1,600 records of visits to the White House in response to another month’s worth of requests. You can view all the records
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Beltway Blips
http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/november-release-of-white-house-visitor-records/
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It's Thursday. So I took blah-blah's word for it at this time. I thought just readin the Pulse couldn't be no crime.
AND THEN THERE WERE TWO -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid introduced his health care reform bill yesterday and moved the debate into
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The Politico
http://www.politico.com/livepulse/1109/How_the_Reid_bill_played__Pressure_on_moderate_Dems__Cornyn_says_bill_was_cooked_up_behind_closed_do.html
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The pharmaceutical industry has been monitoring this legislation closely, and recent studies have indicated that the industry may be artificially raising prices for certain pharmaceutical products in expectation of new reforms that could otherwise r
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The Politico
http://www.politico.com/livepulse/1109/House_EC_Committee_asks_for_study_on_drug_pricing_.html
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The report, requested by House Republicans, found that Medicare cuts contained in the health package approved by the House on Nov. 7 are likely to prove so costly to hospitals and nursing homes that they could stop taking Medicare altogether.
Congress c
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The Washington Post
http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=e813fa815c758aa7efa62e57eeb93fa7
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Answers to some of the big questions out there, from abortion coverage to the public option, and more
With the House having approved its version of a healthcare reform bill on Saturday, Democrats in Congress are now closer to passing major reform than
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Salon
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/11/11/healthcare/index.html?source=rss
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Politics Today is CBSNews.com's inside look at the key stories driving the day in politics, written by CBS News Political Director Steve Chaggaris:
** Choosing a strategy in Afghanistan...
** Reid guns for a health care bill on the Senate floor next we
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CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/11/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5613358.shtml
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WASHINGTON Amid intense lobbying by the Obama administration, House Democratic leaders struggled Friday for the final votes needed to pass sweeping health care legislation, working to ease concerns among Hispanic holdouts and abortion foes.
"We're
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San Diego Union-Tribune
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/nov/06/house-dems-struggle-for-final-votes-on-health-care/
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The love affair between Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and her fans was reaching its apex Thursday afternoon.
Photo: AP
Rep. Michele Bachmann stood alone at a podium at the foot of the Capitol Thursday, blowing kisses and waving to the fa
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The Politico
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29221.html
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In this Oct. 29, 2009 file photo, first lady Michelle Obama harvests vegetables from the garden with children from Washington's Bancroft and Kimball Elementary schools on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon,
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Examiner.com
http://www.examiner.com/x-4819-Cable-TV-Examiner~y2009m11d4-Food-Network-Chefs-Battle-at-White-House?cid=exrss-Cable-TV-Examiner
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