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Romney campaigns in Florida, Obama presses ‘To-Do List’
President Obama will push his “To-Do List” for Congress on Wednesday morning, once with Congressional leadership and again with small business owners in Washington, while presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney will spend the first of two day this week campaigning in Florida.
Here’s your look at the candidates’s schedules for May 16, from the White House Press office and the PBS News Hour political calendar:
Obamas’ 2011 assets valued at as much as $8 million; includes up to $1 million in JPMorgan Chase account
President Obama’s 2011 assets include anywhere from $500,000 to $1 million held in a JPMorgan Chase checking account, according to annual financial disclosure forms released by the White House on Tuesday.
The bank is under heightened scrutiny this week, as the Department of Justice is launching a criminal probe into the firm following reports of its staggering $2 billion trading loss.
The White House has argued that the news of JPMorgan Chase’s loss underscores the need for financial regulatory reform such as the Dodd-Frank measure that Obama signed into law in 2010.
“You could have a bank that isn’t as strong, isn’t as profitable managing those same bets and we might have had to step in,” Obama said in an appearance on ABC’s “The View” this week. “That’s why Wall Street reform is so important.”
In contrast to Obama, Vice President Biden has from $2,000 to $30,000 in two savings accounts and $2,000 to $32,000 in four checking accounts, the forms show. The Bidens also had income of $21,000 from a residential property in Wilmington, Del.
The forms also underscore that while Democrats may be united in their 2012 campaign focus on “economic fairness,” for Obama, it pays to be a president who has penned several best-selling books.
The Obamas in 2011 held total assets ranging from $2,566,000 to $8,265,000.
That’s more than ten times the total assets reported by the vice president and his wife, Jill, in 2011. The Bidens reported assets ranging from $233,000 to $776,000.
George W. Bush backs Mitt Romney
Former president George W. Bush has offered his endorsement of Mitt Romney.
From within an elevator.
As the doors were closing.
Reports Matt Negrin of ABC News:
Mitt Romney on Obama and Clinton: It’s a beef, not a bromance
Des Moines, IA--Mitt Romney seems to have found a constant companion on the campaign trail these days. It's not his wife. And it's not any of the revolving cast of veep wannabees who have hit the hustings with the presumptive nominee over these last weeks.
Nope.
It's Bill Clinton.
(Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press)
Speaking at the Fort Des Moines hotel here Tuesday to about 200 people under a "Cut the Spending" banner, Romney name-dropped Clinton, as if he was a Friend of Bill.
"Almost a generation ago, Bill Clinton announced that the era of big government was over, even a former George McGovern campaign worker, like President Clinton, was signaling to his own party that Democrats should no longer try to govern by proposing a new program for every problem," Romney said. "President Obama tucked away the Clinton doctrine in his large drawer of discarded ideas, along with transparency and bipartisanship."
Romney has invoked Clinton in previous speeches, but this time he went a bit further, suggesting that there is something more under the surface between Clinton and Obama.
"It's enough to make you wonder if maybe it was a personal beef with the Clintons," Romney said. "Probably, it runs much deeper than that."
In Omaha, Obama campaign works to ‘defend the dot’
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OMAHA, Neb. — Late last Thursday, hours after Mitt Romney had wrapped up a large rally and one of the most successful fundraisers in Nebraska history, Gary Wilwerding was camped out with about a dozen others inside a small office in a strip mall here that was buzzing with activity.
Obama campaign aims for victory in Omaha (Tuesday’s Trail Mix)
It’s primary day in Nebraska, where Mitt Romney campaigned late last week and where the Obama campaign is seeking to win the lone electoral college vote awarded by Omaha, home of Warren Buffett and a relatively liberal enclave in the deep red Cornhusker State.
Can Democrats “defend the dot” that Obama won in 2008? Today’s Trail Mix takes a look:
Mitt Romney in Iowa, President Obama hosts L.A. Galaxy | Schedules for May 15
Mitt Romney returns to Iowa today, while President Obama is back in Washington for a string of White House meetings.
View Photo Gallery: With the Republican presidential nomination essentially assured after Ron Paul said he would suspend campaigning on Monday, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney steps up his criticism of President Obama.
Here’s your look at the candidates’ schedules for Tuesday, May 15, primary day in Nebraska and Oregon. (Times are Eastern)
James Clyburn backs same-sex marriage; says ‘national’ approach is needed
House Assistant Minority Leader James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said Monday that he believes same-sex marriage should be legal — and the No. 3 House Democrat appeared to go further than President Obama in suggesting that a national policy, rather than a state-by-state one, is needed on the issue.
House Assistant Democratic Leader James Clyburn (D-S.C.) (Chip Somodevilla — Getty Images)
Obama’s gay marriage move won’t matter in House races: DCCC chair
Rep. Steve Israel, the man in charge of Democrats’ efforts to retake the House, says he doesn’t think President Obama’s endorsement last week of same-sex marriage will be a factor in November’s races.
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In an interview on MSNBC Monday morning, Israel (N.Y.) said he believes Obama “made the right decision” last week.
“I’ve supported this decision for my entire time in Congress and as a public official,” he told MSNBC’s Chris Jansing. “It was the right decision, but every member of Congress and every challenger has to reflect the values and priorities of the districts in which they’re running. I don’t believe that this issue is going to sway the election one way or the other.”
Courting women, Obama gives commencement speech at Barnard College
President Obama urged young women Monday to strive for leadership positions and become more politically involved. 
President Barack Obama is seen on stage before delivering the commence address at Barnard College, Monday, May 14, 2012, in New York.
(Pablo Martinez Monsivais - AP)
“You are now poised to make this the century when women shape not only their own destiny, but the destiny of this nation and this world,” Obama said in a commencement speech. “Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.”
Obama made the remarks in an address to nearly 600 female graduates of Barnard College in New York, honing his message to women in an election year when their issues have been front and center. The graduates gave him a rousing welcome and punctuated his speech with cheers and applause.
The president personally requested the speaking appearance in February, and Barnard President Debora Spar made room by asking New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson, who had been scheduled to speak, to step aside. Obama graduated from the affiliated Columbia College, located across the street, and his half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, attended Barnard.
After his address to Barnard graduates, Obama was scheduled to tape an appearance on the ABC talk show “The View,” whose five female co-hosts will interview him for a segment that will air Tuesday.
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