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post from Obama HQ on 03 April 2009 10:11:31 PM. © Obama HQ

Photo: President Obama and French President Sarkozy emerge to address the media prior to the town hall.

You can follow the President's overseas trip at the WhiteHouse.gov blog . . .

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WSJ: Budget Vote a "Significant Victory"

post from Obama HQ on 03 April 2009 02:05:09 PM. © Obama HQ

From the Wall Street Journal:

The House and Senate Thursday approved their versions of a fiscal 2010 budget that included President Barack Obama's biggest priorities, giving the president a significant victory as he works to shift the government's direction from the Bush era.

Democrats made some changes in Mr. Obama's $3.6 trillion budget, but kept intact the core of Mr. Obama's plans for increased spending on health care, energy and education, setting up fierce fights on those issues later this year.
...The House and Senate now must craft a compromise. Along with the $787 billion stimulus enacted in February, the approval of the 2010 budget by both chambers is a substantial boost to the president's agenda.

From the New York Times:

Democrats said the two budgets, which will have to be reconciled after a two-week Congressional recess, cleared the way for health care, energy and education overhauls pushed by the new president. The Democrats said the budgets reversed what they portrayed as the failed economic approach of the Bush administration and Republican-led Congresses.

“This responsible budget will start cleaning up the mistakes of the past and make critical investments in our future,” Senator Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada and the majority leader, said.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California said Democrats would like to find consensus with Republicans, but not at the expense of the infusion of federal money that the majority calls crucial in a time of economic distress.

“The American people want us to find our common ground where we can, but they did not send us here to split the difference,” Ms. Pelosi said. “They want real change, and we have come here to make a difference.”

POLITICO also noted that despite the fact that no Republican in either chamber voted for the budget:

...the 233-196 House vote surpassed the size of budget victories for either party over the last decade. And Democrats lost only two of their members on the 55-43 vote in the Senate.

Congress is now in recess until Monday, April 20th.

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A Breath of Fresh Air from the Heartland (UPDATE)

post from Republicans for Obama - Public Blog on 03 April 2009 01:05:00 PM. © Republicans for Obama - Public Blog

I usually try to stay out of these issues but I read Iowa's Supreme Court decision that basically affirms the right of gays and lesbians to marry in that state.

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A Breath of Fresh Air from the Heartland

post from Republicans for Obama - Public Blog on 03 April 2009 01:05:00 PM. © Republicans for Obama - Public Blog

I usually try to stay out of these issues but I read Iowa's Supreme Court decision that basically affirms gays and lesbian's right to marry in that state.

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G20: Streetside View

post from Barack Oblogger on 03 April 2009 11:13:42 AM. © Barack Oblogger

London blogger Malcolm Clark shares his take on the G20 summit.Malcolm spent time in the U.S. volunteering for the Obama campaign and writing about the elections from a British perspective. He is...

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Obama Strategy for Afghanistan & Pakistan

post from Barack Obama 2008 on 03 April 2009 10:40:00 AM. © Barack Obama 2008

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Obama calls for world free of nukes

President Barack Obama on Friday called for a world without atomic weapons as he traveled in France.

Obama held talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in eastern France before a NATO summit hosted by France and Germany.

"Even with the Cold War now over, the spread of nuclear weapons, or the theft of nuclear material, could lead to the extermination of any city on the planet," Obama told crowd at the French city of Strasbourg.

On Sunday, he said: "This weekend in Prague I will lay out an agenda to seek the goal of a world without nuclear weapons."

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Obama seeks world free of nuclear arms

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"An important step forward"

Late tonight the Senate followed the House of Representatives in successfully passing their own version of the fiscal year 2010 budget resolution. At the conclusion of the Senate vote, President Obama released the following statement:

"Tonight, the Senate has joined the House of Representatives in taking an important step toward rebuilding our struggling economy. This budget resolution embraces our most fundamental priorities: an energy plan that will end our dependence on foreign oil and spur a new clean energy economy; an education system that will ensure our children will be able to compete in the economy of the 21st century; and health care reform that finally confronts the back-breaking costs plaguing families, businesses and government alike."

House and Senate members will now move to conference committee, where they will work out differences between their two respective versions.

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