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  • Obama Allies See Lax Scandal Response Imperiling Agenda

    Allies of President Barack Obama are warning the administration that it has been too slow in responding to a cascading set of scandals and risks letting Republicans define his second term and derail his agenda.

  • Obama Focuses on Senate Republicans to Reach Budget Deal

    While most of Washington is focused on confrontations over gun control and immigration law, the White House is quietly exploring the possibility of striking a deal with lawmakers to rein in the budget deficit.

  • Romney Hides Positions From U.S. Voters, Plouffe Says

    White House senior adviser David Plouffe said Republican Mitt Romney is “disingenuously” hiding his positions from voters as polls show the U.S. presidential contest deadlocked in the campaign’s final days.

  • Obama Drops Stimulus for Benefit Cut to Woo Republicans

    Less than a week after job-creation figures fell short of expectations and underscored the U.S. economy’s fragility, President Barack Obama will send Congress a budget that doesn’t include the stimulus his allies say is needed and instead embraces cuts in an appeal to Republicans.

  • Unemployment Rate Won’t Hobble Re-Election, David Plouffe Says

    The White House’s top political adviser, downplaying the significance of the unemployment rate in the 2012 election, said the Republican candidates are offering the same policies that caused the economic crisis and targeted one potential opponent -- Mitt Romney.

  • Plouffe Predicts Passage of Gun Control, Immigration Changes

    President Barack Obama’s proposed immigration law changes and gun control measures should be able to pass Congress, said David Plouffe, Obama’s senior political adviser.

  • White House Defends Paid Speeches by Plouffe Amid New Questions

    The year before he joined the White House staff, President Barack Obama’s senior adviser David Plouffe accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees from organizations and companies with interests connected to U.S. foreign policy, telecommunications, business and regulation.

  • Plouffe Says Romney Dishonest Over What He Would Do as President

    White House senior adviser David Plouffe said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing this weekend, that Republican Mitt Romney is “disingenuously” hiding his positions from voters as polls show the U.S. presidential contest deadlocked in the campaign’s final days.

  • Obama Aide Plouffe Presses Romney on Tax Returns (Transcript)

    Senior White House adviser David Plouffe said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt” airing this weekend that Republican candidate Mitt Romney should release decades of tax returns, calling it an issue of “transparency and trust” for voters.

  • Republican Allies' Spending `Threat' to Democracy, Plouffe Says

    Tax-exempt, Republican-leaning groups that don’t have to disclose their donors are playing a central role in this election and pose a “big threat to our democracy,” a top political adviser to President Barack Obama said.

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