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Official: Obama to back more business tax breaks
(AP)
AP - President Barack Obama will call on Congress to pass new tax breaks that would allow businesses to write off 100 percent of their new capital investments through 2011, the latest in a series of proposals the White House is rolling out in hopes of jump-starting economic growth ahead of the November elections.
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Dems launch $2M pro-reform blitz
(Politico)
Politico - The Health Information Center will go live with an ad touting the law and battling false information.
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Obama Unpopular Ahead of Midterms: Will the GOP Benefit?
(Time.com)
 Time.com - Nine weeks before the midterm elections, Barack Obama finds himself on the wrong side of the polls. Where did all that adoration go -- and is a Republican sweep next?
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How the House would be won
(Politico)
Politico - POLITICO outlines three categories of Democratic-controlled seats in play this fall.
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Obama getting fewer judges confirmed than Nixon
(AP)
 AP - A determined Republican stall campaign in the Senate has sidetracked so many of the men and women nominated by President Barack Obama for judgeships that he has put fewer people on the bench than any president since Richard Nixon at a similar point in his first term 40 years ago.
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District Polls Are Troubling Signs for Democrats
(CQPolitics.com)
CQPolitics.com - While serious Democratic observers worry whether their party can somehow hang on to 218 seats in the House, more than a few Republican strategists and neutral observers have become convinced that the GOP is on the cusp of a stunning victory that could at least equal the party's 52-seat 1994 gain.
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Spratt Tries to Budget for Fall Victory
(CQPolitics.com)
CQPolitics.com - YORK, S.C. -- Rep. John M. Spratt Jr. had just finished opening the 27th annual Summerfest fair here in his hometown when he came face to face with a former donor who was, at that moment, only interested in giving the Congressman a piece of his mind.
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Obama assails GOP, promotes new jobs program
(AP)
 AP - A combative President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program Monday that would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign-season assault on Republicans for causing Americans' hard economic times.
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Rep. Frank faces town hall foe in Mass. primary
(AP)
 AP - Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank's retort was an Internet sensation.
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Spain not convinced new Basque truce is credible
(AP)
 AP - How many cease-fires can you announce and break before everyone stops paying attention?
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Obama proposed $50 billion to rebuild road, rails and runways
(McClatchy Newspapers)
McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama Monday proposes a quick $50 billion boost in federal spending to rebuild roads, railways and runways — a move he says will create jobs and which Democrats hope will improve their election prospects in November.
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US, China hail warmer relationship
(AFP)
 AFP - Chinese and US officials congratulated each other Monday on a warming of ties between the two powers, after relations were strained earlier this year.
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