Obama Daily News Digest

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats pushed forward healthcare reform legislation in a key congressional panel on Friday but the battle over President Barack Obama’s top domestic policy goal looked ready to move outside Washington as lawmakers prepared for a month-long break.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House of Representatives committee voted on Friday to ban deals in which drug companies pay generic firms to delay bringing out a cheaper, copycat version of a drug.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday no decision had been taken to ease some sanctions against Sudan, one day after a senior U.S. official suggested this step might help the peace process.

This week, the Environmental Protection Agency’s survey vessel, the BOLD, is surveying the New England coast, from Boston Harbor to the Penobscot Bay in Maine. Two EPA scientists are giving constant updates from the vessel about their experience. Frankly, it looks windy and rainy out there, but coastal monitoring is a long term initiative that goes on rain or shine.

 

For budding ocean scientists, EPA has put together a great site that catalogs this week long coastal New England survey. So, stay tuned in to their adventures this week aboard the BOLD and cross your fingers for starry skies.

 

For more information about EPA's BOLD program, visit http://www.epa.gov/bold/.

Commentators are slowly but surely catching up to the idea that the dynamic for 2010 will be different from the dynamics for 2008 and 2006.  This isn’t to say that the GOP will take back control of the House in 2010, but substantial gains are increasingly easier to defend.
The latest evidence of this comes from [...]

There is a need to correct some of the media misanalysis regarding Barack Obama’s standing in public opinion polls.
First, let’s clarify where Obama stands in the public’s mind. Obama’s approval rating has declined to the low 50s, according to several recent polls. The rate of that decline is larger and faster than many presidents, such [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday “the glory days are coming to an end” for the health insurance industry and predicted it will fail to stop healthcare overhaul legislation moving through Congress.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Government regulators could prohibit incentive-based pay packages at large U.S. financial institutions that encourage “inappropriate risks” under a bill approved on Friday by the U.S. House of Representatives.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama had lunch with the chief executives of four major companies on Friday, the White House said in a statement.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd, a leading force for U.S. healthcare reform, has prostate cancer, a disease that is easily treated, a Senate Democratic aide said on Friday.

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