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Barack Obama

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Barack Obama is a United States Senator from Illinois. He is best known for being the nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2008 presidential election, and the first African American to be a elected President of the United States.

A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.

  • 1996: Elected to the Illinois Senate
  • 2004: Elected to the US Senate
  • 2008: First African American to elected President of the United States

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Senator Richard Shelby, the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee seen here in 2009, has taken the extraordinary step of blocking more than 70 of US President Barack Obama's nominees amid a dispute over a lucrative US Air Force tanker deal, senate aides said Friday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Win Mcnamee)AP - Republican Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama has released most of the "holds" he had placed on President Barack Obama's nominees, his office said Monday.


09 February 2010 - Alabama senator releases holds on Obama nominees (AP)

FILE - in this Jan. 28, 2010 file photo, first lady Michelle Obama speaks about childhood obesity, at the YMCA in Alexandria, Va. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)AP - First lady Michelle Obama says President Barack Obama "has done a phenomenal job," but that people have a right to criticize him.


09 February 2010 - First lady: President Obama had 'phenomenal year' (AP)

AP - The Republicans' first test of their new Senate clout could come in a vote to block President Barack Obama's choice of a union attorney for a seat on the National Labor Relations Board.

09 February 2010 - Vote on NLRB nominee first test of GOP's new power (AP)

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