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June 19, 2013 | NPR · Now that the U.S. military has officially agreed to allow women into combat roles, let's examine how quickly the various branches are moving to make that happen. The overall process is expected to take years.
 
June 19, 2013 | NPR · The conventional shorthand for the IRS scandal is that employees "targeted" conservative groups for extra scrutiny in the applications for tax-exempt status. Except, as an inspector general's report showed, it wasn't just conservative groups that got extra scrutiny. Plenty of liberal groups had to produce extensive documentation answer dozens of questions, too.
 
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June 19, 2013 | NPR · A keen eye and extensive knowledge of feathers allows forensic ornithologist Carla Dove (yes, that's her name) figure out from feather and bone fragments which type of bird crashed into a plane or was eaten by a snake. But the expertise has an uncertain future.
 

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June 18, 2013 | NPR · National Security Agency director Keith Alexander returned to the Hill on Tuesday, this time to testify before a House intelligence committee about the NSA spying revelations. Alexander said the programs in question foiled 50 terrorist plots, including one against the New York Stock Exchange.
 
June 18, 2013 | NPR · Melissa Block talks to Republican Congressman Mac Thornberry, who serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He talks about the testimony by leaders of the National Security Agency, the Department of Justice and the FBI on Tuesday morning. He's been supportive of the NSA surveillance program, saying it's not only legal, but vital to security.
 
June 18, 2013 | NPR · Robert Siegel and Melissa Block read emails from listeners about Mozart's violin and the price of potatoes.
 

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June 15, 2013 | NPR · This week the Obama administration announced it would send weapons to the Syrian rebels, because of credible evidence Syrian government forces had indeed used chemical weapons. Weekend Edition Saturday Host Scott Simon talks with NPR's Deborah Amos about how Syrians are reacting to the news.
 

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June 16, 2013 | NPR · Weekend Edition Sunday Host Rachel Martin speaks with Karim Sadjadpour, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to learn more about new Iran's president-elect, cleric Hassan Rouhani.
 

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William Daley

Jan 9, 2012 — Daley was never a favorite of many key Democratic constituencies. Organized labor weren't fans because of Daley's role as the Clinton administration point person to get NAFTA passed. Daley was also viewed as a big-business Democrat, for many Democrats their party's counterpart a RINO.
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Jan 9, 2012 — Daley, who became chief of staff one year ago, was replaced by Budget Director Jack Lew. President Obama said Daley did "extraordinary work."
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Nov 8, 2011 — Just because White House chief of staff Bill Daley will be offloading some of his duties to his predecessor Pete Rouse, that doesn't mean he's been demoted, President Obama's press secretary told journalists Tuesday.
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Sep 16, 2011 — Obama is a steady-as-you-go kind of leader. He's known for not having wide emotional swings, not getting too up or too down, regardless of what the outside world is doing. Combine that with his tendency to lean on a small inner circle of trusted advisers and a purge seems even more unlikely.
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Jul 27, 2011 — It could be taken as a sign of just how dysfunctional Washington is in the summer of the mother of all debt-ceiling fights. William Daley, with arguably the strongest business ties of any member of President Obama's inner circle, said the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's head didn't tell him in a phone call that the group was backing Boehner's debt-ceiling proposal.
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Mar 7, 2011 — While some U.S. policymakers continued to call for strong U.S.-led military action against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, namely a no-fly zone, Obama officials kept resisting such demands, citing the difficulty.
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Feb 2, 2011 — Daley, the White House chief of staff, said the U.S. government can't stage manage Egypt's crisis. What it can manage is its relationship with an ally and its own reaction to circumstances.
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Jan 11, 2011 — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants health care law repealed. And it still finds Obama the problem, not solution, despite the naming of the business friendly William Daley as the new White House chief of staff.
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Jan 6, 2011 — Obama's selection of William Daley puts the president on the right side of CEOs and centrists judging by the reaction from those groups. Liberals disliked the pick, which doesn't hurt the White House's effort to reposition itself.
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Jan 6, 2011 — The former commerce secretary will fill the vacancy left by Rahm Emanuel, who left the position last fall and is now running for mayor of Chicago.
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