By: CBS News
Jan 22, 2010 At 10:30 pm
President Barack Obama tried to revive his battered agenda and rally despondent Democrats on Friday with a renewed emphasis on jobs. His visit to this struggling Rust Belt city capped a tough first-anniversary week for a presidency that suffered jolts at the hands of Massachusetts voters and the Supreme Court.
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By: Associated Press, WCBS
January 22, 2010, 6:15 p.m.
The Senate's health care reform bill sits on the podium following a news conference by Republican senators on Capitol Hill on Nov. 21, 2009, in Washington, D.C. Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images
President Barack Obama, two days after signaling retreat on a massive health care overhaul, discounted the small-bore approach Friday and pledged to press for ambitious changes despite running into a “bit of a buzz saw” of opposition.
Even as the president sought to bring the public and nervous Democrats back on board, a leading member of his party suggested Congress slow it down on health care, a sign of eroding political will in the wake of Tuesday’s Republican election upset in Massachusetts.
Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., who ushered the overhaul legislation through the Senate’s health committee last year after the death of his friend, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, said Obama and lawmakers could “maybe take a breather for a month, six weeks.”
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By: Huffington
January 22,2010
President Barack Obama is telling voters in Ohio, already wracked by high unemployment, that investments in clean-energy technologies will help boost the nation’s economy. Obama planned to use his visit Friday to test-drive an aggressive populist push on jobs, a top concern for voters across the country.
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President Obama’s State of the Union Address
From ABC News
…But when you talk to small business owners in places like Allentown, Pennsylvania or Elyria, Ohio, you find out that even though banks on Wall Street are lending again, they are mostly lending to bigger companies. But financing remains difficult for small business owners across the country…
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