White House opens doors to local reporters
(CNN) - In the latest effort to sell his jobs proposals and gin up support in key battleground regions, President Barack Obama will sit down with ten local news reporters on Tuesday while his staff provides them with special access to the White House grounds, senior advisers and cabinet secretaries.
The White House is billing the event as "Live from the White House," and is providing space on the South Lawn for the local reporters to anchor their broadcasts Tuesday night. In addition to a quick interview with President Obama, the reporters will speak with several cabinet secretaries and a White House staffer from their hometown markets.
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'Go big' advocates to debt committee: Don't wimp out
New York (CNNMoney) - The congressional debt committee, three weeks from its deadline and reportedly deadlocked, will get a polite earful on Tuesday from the most passionate proponents of a big, balanced and bipartisan deficit-reduction plan.
Their key message: Table partisan interests in favor of the country's interests to reduce the risk of a fiscal crisis. In other words, rein in the federal budget across the board, reform the tax code and make sure all but the most vulnerable share in the sacrifices required.
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Clinton's mother, Dorothy Rodham, dies at 92
Washington (CNN) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's mother, Dorothy Howell Rodham, died early Tuesday in Washington. She was 92.
Hillary Clinton had canceled a scheduled trip to Britain and Turkey after her mother fell ill. No details of her mother's illness were disclosed.http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/wp-admin/post-new.php
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Cain: 'I was falsely accused'
(CNN) - Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said Tuesday that the financial settlement with one of his sexual harassment accusers "was in the vicinity of 3 to 6 months (of) severance pay."
The payment was "not outside our guidelines for what most people get ... when they leave the restaurant association involuntarily," he said.
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'Team Cain:' A portrait of the candidate's marriage
Atlanta (CNN) - The pastor at the Atlanta megachurch asked married couples celebrating anniversaries to come to the front.
Gloria and Herman Cain were among those who stepped forward.
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New Hampshire primary date to be announced Wednesday
Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN) - The New Hampshire secretary of state will end a month of tense speculation and maneuvering Wednesday when he announces the date for the state's primary.
Bill Gardner plans to announce the first-in-the-nation primary date at 11 a.m. Wednesday in his office at the state house in Concord.
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Romney to give policy address Friday
(CNN) – Mitt Romney will deliver a policy address Friday at an Americans for Prosperity summit in Washington, according to the group and the Republican presidential candidate's campaign.
The conservative group is partially funded by billionaires Charles and David Koch and has served an influential role in the tea party movement.
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Rick Perry's tax and spend conundrum
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) - Rick Perry has an economic plan. He wants the federal government to spend less money, and he wants huge tax cuts.
Oh, and a balanced budget by 2020.
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Clinton cancels trip for mother's illness
(CNN) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has canceled a scheduled trip to Britain and Turkey after her mother fell ill, a senior State Department official said Monday night.
Clinton had been scheduled to attend a conference on Afghanistan on Wednesday in Istanbul, with a stop in London for talks with her British counterpart, Foreign Secretary William Hague, on the way. No details of her mother's illness were disclosed.
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CNN: Report: Cain accused of inappropriate behavior in 1990s
The campaign of presidential candidate Herman Cain has criticized a news report alleging that Cain displayed inappropriate behavior to two female employees in the 1990s, saying the news media has started "to launch unsubstantiated personal attacks on Cain."
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