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Embattled AIG Hoping to Avoid Backlash When Paying Out More Bonuses

ABC News' Matt Jaffe reports: After AIG, which received a record $180 billion in federal bailout money, incited a national uproar in March by paying out $165 million in bonuses, the insurance giant is taking steps to avoid a similar...

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July 9, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (48)

Newest Senator Meets High Court Nominee

ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf reports: Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, whose confirmation hearings start next Monday, met today with the newest member of the Senate Judiciary Committee – and the newest senator, too. You can still smell the fresh...

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'Top Line' -- Wheels Coming Off Obama Agenda?

It's been a rough week for the Obama administration agenda -- with health care stalled in an ugly congressional back-and-forth, and the White House on the defensive about the impact of the stimulus bill.

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July 9, 2009 in Gov. Sarah Palin, Top Line | Permalink | User Comments (3)

CIA Spat: Pelosi Vindicated? Not Quite

CIA Director Leon Panetta said in a House and Senate hearing that the agency did not inform Congress of a covert intelligence program that began after Sept. 11, 2001, but does that mean House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is vindicated?

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The Note: Buckeye Brawl -- Ohio Hosts Latest Round in Stimulus Fight

President Obama is traveling abroad, but matters domestic are at the fore, with debate raging over jobs and the impact of the stimulus bill -- and Ohio (where else?) serving as ground zero for the fight on the day of a vice-presidential visit, ABC News senior political reporter Rick Klein writes Thursday in The Note. And is this the president’s least productive foreign trip to date? Plus -- what ever happened to health care month on the Hill?

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The Note's Must-Reads for Thursday, July 9, 2009

The Note's Must-Reads are a round-up of today's political headlines and stories from ABC News and the top U.S. newspapers. Posted Monday through Friday right here at www.abcnews.com Compiled by ABC News’ CARRIE HALPERIN, CLAUDIA MORALES, PETER MARTINEZ, GEORGIA DAWKINS...

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