The Government Cafe

Who should lead the IMF?

Tue, 24 May 2011 09:20:06 -0400

Who should lead the IMF?:

Our guest panel of economists explain who they’re backing for the top job at the International Monetary Fund.

GOVT: Updates on Yemen.

Mon, 23 May 2011 09:08:15 -0400

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#SecClinton statement on the ongoing situation in #Yemen: http://go.usa.gov/jHL

Part 2 of Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly debating...

Tue, 17 May 2011 23:17:36 -0400

Part 2 of Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly debating rapper/poet Common’s appearance at the White House.

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statedept: State Department Daily Press Briefing: May 16, 2011

Tue, 17 May 2011 23:17:30 -0400

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State Department Daily Press Briefing: May 16, 2011

nationaljournal: U.S. military photos of the complex where bin...

Mon, 02 May 2011 20:20:10 -0400

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U.S. military photos of the complex where bin Laden was shot.

"The United States condemns the Qadhafi regime’s continued brutal attacks on the Libyan people in..."

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:09:52 -0400

“The United States condemns the Qadhafi regime’s continued brutal attacks on the Libyan people in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1973, which calls for a stop to all attacks on civilians.”

- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (via The U.S. Department of State)

Democrats Plan To Contest Six GOP Senate Seats in '12 Cycle

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:51:07 -0400

Democrats Plan To Contest Six GOP Senate Seats in '12 Cycle:

Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chair Patty Murray said she plans to expand the 2012 Democratic playing field Thursday, highlighting six GOP-held Senate seats she believes Democrats can win.

The Republican-held seats where Murray said the DSCC is “aggressively recruiting” candidates in are Massachusetts, Nevada, Indiana, Maine, Arizona and Texas. She said the races are either in states where Democrats hold an advantage, states where shifting demographics play in their favor, or contests featuring “bloody” Republican primaries.

PHOTO OF THE DAY: Secretary of the Interior Kenneth Salazar and...

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:20:06 -0400

PHOTO OF THE DAY: Secretary of the Interior Kenneth Salazar and Vice President Joe Biden talk during an event at the World War II Memorial in Washington on Tuesday. Biden and Salazar joined others to dedicate a plaque for former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, a World War II veteran, who was involved in building the memorial. (Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)

Reuters: Gaddafi forces sow landmines in east Libya (Mar 31)...

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:20:07 -0400

Reuters: Gaddafi forces sow landmines in east Libya

(Mar 31) Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s forces have sown land mines in areas around the city of Ajdabiyah, adding a dangerous new element to the war on the eastern front, human rights and mine experts said on Thursday. The mines include Brazilian-made anti-personnel mines and Egyptian-made anti-tank mines. […]

The first field was sown around electricity pylons a few yards off the Ajdabiyah-Benghazi road in an area of sand near the town’s Eastern Gate, Peter Bouckaert, a Human Rights Watch monitor in Benghazi, told Reuters.

Mine clearers marked out 24 anti-tank mines and 30 to 40 anti-personnel mines, he said, adding that many vehicles and people on foot pass by the area. […]

Bouckaert said his team had also found stocks of mines abandoned by Gaddafi’s forces. “We found 12 warehouses of anti-vehicle mines in Benghazi, tens of thousands of them,” he said. […]

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Obama announced his plan to reduce oil imports to the United...

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:20:07 -0400

Obama announced his plan to reduce oil imports to the United States by one-third, Neela Banerjee reports. In this photo, Libyan rebel fighters collect the last remaining drops of gasoline from the tanks of a filling station in Ras Lanuf, Libya.

Photo credit: Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times

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President Obama speaks on Libya. For more, Go Here.

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:20:07 -0400

President Obama speaks on Libya.

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P031611PS-0680: President Barack Obama talks on the phone with...

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:00:08 -0400

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President Barack Obama talks on the phone with Prime Minister Naoto Kan of Japan from the Treaty Room office in the White House residence, Wednesday night, March 16, 2011.

(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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A group of young Republicans are devoted followers of Tony...

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:20:08 -0400

A group of young Republicans are devoted followers of Tony Horton’s P90X workout routines. Kelsey Hubbard talks to the celebrity fitness trainer about his workout regimen and putting congressman through their paces in the House gym.

GOV’T: “The California state Legislature and the...

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:20:08 -0500

GOV’T: “The California state Legislature and the congressional delegation are about to look a lot more like California.”

— Dan Schnur, director of USC’s Unruh Institute of Politics. According to new census figures released Tuesday, California’s minority population has grown substantially, most dramatically in the interior of the state. The figures project a sharp rearrangement of the state’s political power during this year’s redistricting of legislative and congressional seats.

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Cornel West takes on union-busting and the state of our...

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 08:20:00 -0500

Cornel West takes on union-busting and the state of our democracy.

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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates talks about how state budgets are...

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 09:21:08 -0500

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates talks about how state budgets are breaking US Schools.

Daily Chart: child brides. In south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa...

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:42:52 -0500

Daily Chart: child brides. In south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa 38% of women marry before they are 18 years old. A UNICEF report found that in Niger, Chad and Bangladesh more than a third of women aged 20-24 were already married by the age of 15.

The Arizona legislature is trying again to pass wide-ranging,...

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:07:11 -0500

The Arizona legislature is trying again to pass wide-ranging, anti-immigration laws.

One recently introduced bill would allow Arizona to build its own wall between it and Mexico. Another would require hospitals to check the legal status of patients if the patient was unable to show proof of health insurance. Illegal immigrants would be barred from driving in the state or enrolling in schools. Officials would be able to check people’s immigration status if they were home schooled. Children would be given special birth certificates that would make it clear that the state doesn’t recognize them as Arizona citizens. The Takeaway reports.

Daily Chart: which countries depend on Libyan oil? Italy is by...

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:01:00 -0500

Daily Chart: which countries depend on Libyan oil? Italy is by far the biggest importer of the stuff; conversely, the country provides only a small fraction of America’s imported oil.

The Political Scene podcast George Packer, Hendrik Hertzberg,...

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:36:14 -0500

The Political Scene podcast

George Packer, Hendrik Hertzberg, and Ryan Lizza discuss budget battles in Washington and the Midwest.