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After jobs speech dust-up, Obama changes date President Barack Obama agrees to delay a planned jobs speech to a joint session of Congress by one day after the House speaker objects to the date the White House originally sought. Huntsman offers tax, trade plan to create jobs Struggling in the polls, Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman proposes sweeping tax changes and new trade agreements as the means to stimulate new jobs. Boehner rebuffs Obama; suggests new day First Read: After President Obama requested to hold a joint session of Congress on the same night as a GOP debate,  the House speaker suggests he do it a day later. Obama to see Irene damage first hand First Read: On Wednesday the White House announced the president will travel to Paterson, N.J., to survey the damaged region. Solar company that got federal loan shuts down A California solar-panel manufacturer granted a half-billion-dollar federal loan â€" is laying off 1,100 workers and filing for bankruptcy. 'More abuse': Warning of more waste in war spending The U.S. has lost billions of dollars to waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan and stands to repeat that in future wars without big changes in how the government awards and manages contracts for battlefield support and reconstruction projects, independent investigators said Wednesday. Condoleezza Rice fires back at Cheney memoir Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday she resented what she viewed as an attack on her integrity by former Vice President Dick Cheney in his just-published memoir. Copyright 2011 msnbc.com RSS URL: http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032552/device/rss/rss.xml

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