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Both sides praise emphasis on jobs, small businesses
Northwest Republicans and Democrats applauded President Barack Obama’s emphasis on jobs, particularly on creating them in small businesses, but wondered about the details of other proposals in the State of the Union speech. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., said she liked Obama’s focus on small business, particularly a plan to take $30 billion repaid by major commercial banks and set it aside for small and medium-sized community banks to make business loans: “We’ve been hearing how hard it is for (small businesses) to get credit.”
Delegation finds some room for agreement on Obama speech
Northwest Republicans and Democrats applauded President Barack Obama’s emphasis on jobs, particularly on creating them in small businesses, but wondered about the details of other proposals in the State of the Union speech.
Protect the Clean Air Act
Protect the Clean Air Act
Murray blogging from China
Murray blogging from China
Decade’s local politics had highs and lows, thrills and chills
Local politics for the Double Zeroes, or whatever one calls the last decade, started with a promise of a new millenium and a broken campaign promise. It ended with lots of zeroes behind red-hued numbers – the difference between what our governments expect to take in and what they are scheduled to pay out. In between, governments were restructured, ballots recounted, politicians recalled or forced to resign.
Double Zeroes gone, not forgotten
Double Zeroes gone, not forgotten
Flight of fancy, 787 style
Flight of fancy, 787 style
Washington, Idaho delegations back Obama’s strategy
Vietnam War veteran Rep. Walt Minnick sat in the auditorium at West Point on Tuesday surrounded by men and women in cadet gray uniforms being told by a president they could lose their lives in another Asian country. “It was an honor to be here, a generation later,” said Minnick, one of seven members of Congress asked to attend President Barack Obama’s speech on raising troop levels in Afghanistan.
Obama wins bipartisan support from local delegation
Vietnam War veteran Rep. Walt Minnick sat in the auditorium at West Point on Tuesday surrounded by men and women in cadet gray uniforms being told by a president they could lose their lives in another Asian country.
Obama speech reax: Bipartisan support for now
Obama speech reax: Bipartisan support for now
Obama signs law to OK Walla Walla VA renovation
President Barack Obama has signed a law authorizing the Department of Veterans Affairs to build a new outpatient clinic at the Jonathan M. Wainwright Memorial VA Medical Center in Walla Walla, Wash.