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Nation #SoSueMe During a trip to Minneapolis on Friday, President Barack Obama spoke about his frosty relationships with Republicans in Congress. One phrase set off a Twitter meme. “I might have said during debate, ‘I want to raise the minimum wage, so sue me if I do.’ I didn’t think [the GOP] would take me seriously,” Obama said in a speech two days after Speaker John Boehner announced his plan to sue the president over executive actions. Over the weekend, Obama fans took to Twitter with the hashtag #SoSueMe. One such tweet, from @tomservo10, was paired with a photo of Obama eating a green and red cold treat: “My shaved ice not patriotic enough for you? #SoSueMe.” (THE WASHINGTON POST )
Obama on Immigration: I’ll Act Alone President rips GOP for not taking action, will focus on border Washington President Barack Obama angrily conceded Monday that Congress would not overhaul immigration laws this year and announced that he will redirect immigration enforcement to the border. The action, which will beef up efforts to stem illegal immigration across the border but likely slow efforts to deport longtime undocumented immigrants already in
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President Barack Obama gave few hints about what executive actions he’ll take.
the country, is one of a series of executive actions Obama pledged to take after House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told him last week that he would not allow an immi-
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gration vote this year. In Rose Garden remarks, the president chided Republicans as bowing to extreme pressures in their party rather than pursuing
common sense changes backed by most Americans and passed by the Senate last year. “Our country and our economy would be stronger today if House Republicans had allowed a simple yes-or-no vote on this bill or, for that matter, any bill,” Obama said. “Instead they’ve proven again and again that they’re unwilling to stand up to the tea party in order to do what’s best for the country.” Now, Obama is likely to face pressure from immigration activists who believe the president has waited too long to take executive action to slow deportations. ZACHARY A. GOLDFARB AND DAVID NAK AMUR A (AP)
Doctors Group: Healthy Women Don’t Need Routine Pelvic Exams Health The nation’s second-largest physicians organization said Monday that healthy women who are not pregnant do not need routine pelvic exams, a controversial recommendation based on its analysis that, on balance, the manual screening does more harm than good. The American College of Physicians, which represents 137,000 internal medicine physicians and related specialists, said the diagnostic procedure causes some women discomfort, anxiety, pain and additional medical costs and may keep
some from seeing their doctors. Yet it does little to detect ovarian cancer or other disorders. As a result, in a new guideline it issued Monday, the organization “recommends against performing screening pelvic examination in asymptomatic, non-pregnant, adult women” who have no elevated risk of cancer or other disease. Healthy women should continue to have Pap smears as recommended by their doctors, the group said. The guideline was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the ACP’s journal. LENNY BERNSTEIN (THE WASHINGTON POST )
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He said “that he could kill me at that very moment and no one could or would do anything about it as we were in Iraq.” — Jean C. Richter, a U.S. government investigator, in a 2007 memo to the State Department referring to Blackwater’s Iraq project manager Daniel Carroll, according to department reports. The New York Times reported Sunday that the State Department had begun investigating security contractor Blackwater’s operations in Iraq, but the inquiry was abandoned after the threat and when American Embassy officials in Baghdad told investigators to leave the country. Weeks later, Blackwater guards fatally shot more than a dozen Iraqi citizens.