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  • Hedge-Fund Billionaire Leads Donors in Pushing Obama on Keystone

    President Barack Obama faces growing pressure from Democratic donors to reject the Keystone XL pipeline amid signs that the project is headed for approval.

  • Ex-Obama Aide Duels Ex-Kerry Staffers Over Keystone

    Supporters and opponents of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline have recruited former aides to Secretary of State John Kerry and President Barack Obama in dueling efforts to influence the White House.

  • Rove Tops President Obama as Drawing Card in Democrat Burton’s Fundraising

    One name is often missing from Bill Burton’s pitch for money to help Democrats keep the presidency in 2012: Barack Obama.

  • Burton Says Pro-Obama PAC Raised $6 Million in June (Transcript)

    Former White House spokesman Bill Burton, co-founder of the Priorities USA Action super-political action committee that is devoted to helping re-elect President Barack Obama, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing this weekend, that the group raised more than $6 million in June, its best month yet.

  • Republicans Join Democrats to Back Ending Donor Anonymity

    As spending by outside groups financed by anonymous donors has escalated in election campaigns, some Republican lawmakers are rethinking opposition to legislation requiring organizations that run political advertisements to identify who’s paying for them.

  • Pro-Obama Super-Pac Raised $6 Million in June for Attacks

    A super-political action committee devoted to helping re-elect President Barack Obama raised more than $6 million in June, its best month yet, said Bill Burton, Priorities USA Action co-founder and former White House spokesman.

  • Rove, Burton Groups Subject of IRS Complaint

    Advocates of stronger campaign finance laws today challenged the tax-exempt status of political groups that Republican Karl Rove and Democrat Bill Burton helped set up, a move that could force them to disclose their donors.

  • Obama Said Leaning Toward McDonough for Chief of Staff

    President Barack Obama has signaled to his senior advisers that Denis McDonough, currently a deputy national security adviser, is his leading candidate to succeed Jack Lew as White House chief of staff, according to two people familiar with the matter.

  • Ohio’s Auto-Driven Rebound Boosts Obama in Pivotal Race

    Chrysler Group LLC is hiring more than 1,100 new workers at its sprawling Toledo, Ohio, manufacturing complex. JPMorgan Chase & Co. is looking for hundreds of bankers in Columbus. And the Cleveland Clinic has been adding registered nurses at such a clip that it rented out the Cleveland Browns football stadium for a job fair.

  • Secret Donors Multiply in U.S. Election Spending

    In the weeks before last November’s election, television viewers in South Carolina were treated to an animated caricature of Representative John Spratt high- kicking in a chorus line with President Barack Obama and then- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi .

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