After months of struggling to stay alive on government loans, Chrysler finally succumbed to bankruptcy Thursday, pinning its future on a top-to-bottom reorganization and plans to build cleaner cars through an alliance with Italian automaker Fiat.
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AP – Under pressure from Congress to develop ways to measure progress in Afghanistan, two top aides to President Barack Obama said the administration was readying benchmarks to gauge security, governance and economic development there.
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The case of the missing law clerks is this spring’s most-watched mystery at the Supreme Court.
Politico – Republicans are pushing the hot-button issue of what will be done about Guantanamo’s prisoners—so much so that Democrats signaled Thursday that they will likely drop language sought by the Pentagon to authorize the use of war funds to relocate the inmates.
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Politico – Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin blames the powerful banking lobby for Thursday’s defeat of legislation he championed empowering bankruptcy judges to modify some troubled mortgages.
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Republican Commissioner Robert McDowell was first out of the gate at the FCC with a shout-out to future fellow commissioner Mignon Clyburn.
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CQPolitics.com – Practically cursing at a lobbying juggernaut that he “frankly can’t match,” Sen. Richard J. Durbin watched — again — as his amendment that would give bankruptcy judges the option of changing the terms of a mortgage fell to a united Republican caucus and a few steadfast Democrats.
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President Obama told Democratic leaders that a full inquiry would steal energy from his agenda.
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AP – Riding a crest of populist anger, the House on Thursday approved a bill to restrict credit card practices and eliminate sudden increases in interest rates and late fees that have entangled millions of consumers.
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AP – The case of the missing law clerks is this spring’s most-watched mystery at the Supreme Court.
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AP – President Barack Obama says he wants Congress to send him a bill by Memorial Day to save billions of dollars by overhauling the process for buying military weapons systems.
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AP – It’s called the “White House to Lighthouse” ride for wounded warriors from Iraq and Afghanistan. President Barack Obama says like a lot of great ideas, it originated in a bar.
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