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o magnify divisions between the two Presidents. "President Obama tucked away the Clinton doctrine in his large dr

the Alawites' affairs. But is it too late for settlements? The New Yorker Two Presidents find a mutual advantage Ryan Lizza September 10, 2012 -- Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have never been close. Some of their advisers concede that the two men don't really like each other. They have openly disagreed on

isagreed on policy issues and political strategy, and the acrimony generated during the 2008 Democratic primaries, when Hillary Clinton ran against Obama for the nomination, has yet to fully dissipate. Nevertheless, a carefully orchestrated reconciliation of sorts has been under way for some time now

health-care reform, which the Clintons failed to achieve, also resonates. "Health care means a lot to all three of those people—Hillary, Bill, and Barack," the official said. "I think historic achievements matter to historic figures like Bill Clinton." As a Democratic President facing a resurgent con

s been a consistent critic of China's human rights record, leading the state-run Xinhua news agency in 2008 to brand her a "disgusting fig=." 21. David Rubenstein was a wonk before he was a tycoon, having served as a domestic policy advisor in the Carter administration. At a time when the Obama campaign has

says that Blinken, "a longtime Biden confidant," had previously "served as deputy secretary of state and deputy national security adviser during the Obama administration," while Reuters (1/26, Zengerle) says Blinken had been "a committee staff director - when Biden, who spent decades in the Senate, wa

force before it expires would be completed in the coming days." The AP (1/26, Isachenkov) says the treaty, which was "signed in 2010 by President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, limits each country to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers, an

e treaty, which was "signed in 2010 by President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, limi

on the Capitol Hill attack and COVID-19 (virtual) - Economic Club of Washington, DC, hosts online Congressional Panel, with Economic Club President David Rubenstein interviewing Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell and Republican Rep. Tom Reed on the 6 Jan attack on the U.S. Capitol, the current political environment

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anagers are allowed to keep for themselves as compensation is treated as capital gains and taxed at about half the rate of ordinary income. President Barack Obama has called for that income, known as carried interest, to be taxed at ordinary income tax rates, saying the payments are more like income from a serv

private equity managers, gets treated as capital gains, with a top basic rate of 20 percent as opposed to the ordinary income rate of 39.6 percent. Obama and other Democrats have been trying since 2007 to change that law with little success. Camp is wrapping a change to carried interest inside a recons

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