<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><atom:link href="http://wjz.com/politics/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>WJZ - Baltimore, Maryland's Breaking News, Weather &amp; Sports Station</title><link>http://wjz.com/politics</link><description><![CDATA[WJZ - Baltimore, Maryland's Breaking News, Weather & Sports Station]]></description><language>en-US</language><copyright><![CDATA[(c)  MMX, CBS Corporation. All Rights Reserved.]]></copyright><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:36:43 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Obama Making Final Health Care Pitch To House Dems]]></title><guid>http://wjz.com/politics/obama.pitch.health.2.1577243.html</guid><link>http://wjz.com/politics/obama.pitch.health.2.1577243.html</link><description><![CDATA[Claiming unstoppable momentum but still short of the goal line, President Barack Obama is heading to Capitol Hill to rally House Democrats for a final push on landmark health care legislation. The battle tilted in Obama's direction Friday as more Democrats revealed their positions. <br />
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:13:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[GOP Howls At Health 'Sweetheart Deals']]></title><guid>http://wjz.com/politics/GOP.health.care.2.1576618.html</guid><link>http://wjz.com/politics/GOP.health.care.2.1576618.html</link><description><![CDATA[As Democrats drill down on the final undecideds, Republicans are drilling down on anything that smells like a special deal for that special someone. Republicans have likened it to a game show.<br />
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]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:16:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obama Appeals To Iranian People In Online Video]]></title><guid>http://wjz.com/politics/barack.obama.iran.2.1576812.html</guid><link>http://wjz.com/politics/barack.obama.iran.2.1576812.html</link><description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama has posted an Internet video telling Iranians that the United States wants more educational and cultural exchanges for their students and better access to the Internet to give them a more hopeful future.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:38:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emanuel: 'Fringe Group' Controlling GOP]]></title><guid>http://wjz.com/politics/rahm.emmanuel.tea.2.1576664.html</guid><link>http://wjz.com/politics/rahm.emmanuel.tea.2.1576664.html</link><description><![CDATA[Getting health care reform passed is, of course, President Obama's top domestic priority - which means it's also the top priority of his chief of staff, the tough-talking, take no prisoners veteran of the political wars -- Rahm Emanuel. He talked exclusively to CBS Evening News Anchor Katie Couric for this Sunday's "60 Minutes."<br />
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]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:08:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dodd Requests Investigation Of Lehman Brothers]]></title><guid>http://wjz.com/politics/chris.dodd.lehman.2.1576407.html</guid><link>http://wjz.com/politics/chris.dodd.lehman.2.1576407.html</link><description><![CDATA[A Lehman Brothers whistleblower warned his bosses that accounting gimmicks the bank used before its collapse may have been illegal, his lawyer said Friday. Matthew Lee, a former Lehman senior vice president, was fired days after questioning the accounting tricks in a letter to his superiors, attorney Erwin Shustak said. Shustak gave a copy of the letter to The Associated Press.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rice Regrets How U.S. Prioritized Rebuilding Iraq]]></title><guid>http://wjz.com/politics/condoleeza.rice.iraq.2.1576085.html</guid><link>http://wjz.com/politics/condoleeza.rice.iraq.2.1576085.html</link><description><![CDATA[Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday she would "many times over liberate" Iraq again, but she regretted the Bush administration failed to work closer with Iraqis to rebuild the war-torn country.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:10:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obama: Health Care Can Survive Pivotal House Vote]]></title><guid>http://wjz.com/politics/health.care.reform.2.1574770.html</guid><link>http://wjz.com/politics/health.care.reform.2.1574770.html</link><description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama described the stakes of this weekend's health
care vote in stark terms Friday, using words uttered so rarely out of
the White House that they seem all but banned: "If this vote fails." What then? "The insurance industry will continue to run amok," the
president declared, pointing to rising rates, denials of coverage and
limits on care.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:54:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[End In Sight, Health Care Battle Tips Obama's Way]]></title><guid>http://wjz.com/politics/health.care.reform.2.1575822.html</guid><link>http://wjz.com/politics/health.care.reform.2.1575822.html</link><description><![CDATA[One by one, House Democratic fence-sitters began choosing sides Friday, and the long, turbulent struggle over landmark health care legislation tilted unmistakably in President Barack Obama's direction. In full campaign mode, his voice rising, the president all but claimed victory, declaring to a cheering audience in Virginia, "We are going to fix health care in America."<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:42:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark Sanford To Pay $74K In Ethics Fines]]></title><guid>http://wjz.com/politics/mark.sanford.ethics.2.1573970.html</guid><link>http://wjz.com/politics/mark.sanford.ethics.2.1573970.html</link><description><![CDATA[Gov. Mark Sanford has agreed to pay $74,000 in fines to resolve dozens of charges that he violated state ethics laws with his campaign spending and travel, including a taxpayer-funded rendezvous with his Argentine mistress, the State Ethics Commission said Thursday. <br />
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:19:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Official: Clinton, Netanyahu To Meet Next Week]]></title><guid>http://wjz.com/politics/hillary.clinton.benjamin.2.1573535.html</guid><link>http://wjz.com/politics/hillary.clinton.benjamin.2.1573535.html</link><description><![CDATA[Hoping to diffuse a fight between friends, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton agreed Thursday to meet next week in Washington to confront face to face an embarrassing dispute over Israeli land claims. The Obama administration's special envoy for Mideast peace, George Mitchell, prepared to return to the region for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.<br />
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