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The pro-Israel lobby in Washington, which Hagel once criticized, was gearing up to fight him.”Chuck Hagel, as a former colleague and a patriot with a decorated service record, has earned the right to nothing less than a full and fair process in the Senate. I look forward to fully studying his record and exploring his views,” Democratic Senator Charles Schumer of New York said.In an interview published as his nomination was being announced, Hagel told the Lincoln Journal Star, a Nebraska newspaper, that critics had “completely distorted” his record and said there was “not one shred of evidence that I’m anti-Israeli.”He expressed “unequivocal, total support for Israel” and backed tough sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program.Brennan, on the other hand, appeared to be generating less outright opposition, suggesting a possible easier path to confirmation. He withdrew his name from consideration for the top CIA post in 2008 in the face of criticism over comments suggesting the harsh interrogation methods produced useful information from detainees.There is no evidence Brennan was directly involved in the Bush-era program, which included techniques such as waterboarding, a form of simulated drowning, and sleep deprivation.As White House counterterrorism chief, he was a key player in the secret operation that led to the death of Osama bin Laden in 2011, and he has been at the heart of policies dealing with drone strikes in Yemen, among other issues.’ANOTHER POLITICAL FIGHT’Brennan, 57, would replace disgraced retired General David Petraeus, who got entangled in a sex scandal as CIA director and resigned in November after admitting to an affair with his biographer.”Clearly, Mr. Brennan has the qualifications and expertise to be the next CIA director,” said Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which will consider Brennan’s nomination. “He has longstanding knowledge of the operations of this critical agency and also the strength to see that it follows the law. 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He has offered controversial views on key U.S. ally Israel, once complaining about the power of “the Jewish lobby” in Washington and urging direct talks with Iran over its nuclear ambitions.Past remarks seen as disparaging to gays have drawn the ire of gay rights groups. A group called the Log Cabin Republicans published a full-page ad in The Washington Post that attacked, for example, Hagel’s 1998 opposition to an “openly, aggressively gay man” to serve as a U.S. ambassador. 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He noted her ability to reach consensus with colleagues – something Summers’ opponents say he lacked – and her success at predicting the risks of a major recession before it happened.”Given the urgent economic challenges facing our nation, I urge the Senate to confirm Janet without delay,” Obama said. “I am absolutely confident that she will be an exceptional chair of the Federal Reserve.”Yellen is expected to get strong backing in the Senate, especially from her fellow Democrats, though some Republicans have raised concerns.Yellen made clear she would focus squarely on continuing the Fed’s efforts to strengthen the economic recovery and to boost employment – points that could rub some Republican lawmakers, who think the Fed has pumped too much money into the economy, the wrong way.”Ms. Yellen subscribes to the liberal school of thought that the best way to handle our nation’s fiscal challenges is to throw more money at them,” said Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the body’s No. 2 Republican.Yellen also nodded to the importance of the Fed’s other job – keeping inflation in check.She is expected to gain enough support to secure the 60 votes needed to overcome any procedural hurdles in the 100-seat Senate. Democrats control the chamber 54-46.”Janet is exceptionally well qualified for the position, with stellar academic credentials and a strong record as a leader and a policymaker,” Bernanke said in a statement.(Additional reporting by Steve Holland, Alister Bull, and Roberta Rampton; Editing by Grant McCool and Tim Dobbyn)Obama says he will not negotiate with Congress on debt ceilingWASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama warned Republicans in Congress on Monday that he will not negotiate over an extension of the U.S. debt ceiling as part of a budget battle that will soon dominate Washington, with a deadline fast approaching.Pivoting to domestic policy after devoting weeks to the crisis in Syria, Obama scolded his political opponents for threatening a federal government shutdown and attempting to attach conditions to funding the budget for the 2014 fiscal year that begins October 1.”Let’s stop the threats. Let’s stop the political posturing. Let’s keep our government open. 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If the cap is not raised, the United States will not be able to pay all of its bills and would go into default.Obama said “the last time the same crew threatened this course of action,” the mere talk of a debt default sent the stock market into a months-long tailspin and slowed U.S. economic growth.”I will not negotiate over whether or not America keeps its word and meets its obligations. 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Senate Democrats also introduced a bill to raise the debt ceiling with no conditions through 2014, but included none of the deficit reductions that Republicans have demanded.House Republicans emerged from a morning meeting saying they would insist on deficit-reduction talks with Obama as a condition for raising the federal debt limit, but some signaled they might pass short-term legislation to avert a default in exchange for immediate talks.”If we have a negotiation and a framework set up, we can probably reach a way to raise the debt ceiling while the negotiation is in progress. But nobody is going to raise it before there is a negotiation,” Republican Representative Tom Cole of Oklahoma said.’A RECESSION OR WORSE’The impasse sparked a rising tide of warnings about the potential global economic chaos of a U.S. default, with foreign creditors and the International Monetary Fund’s chief economist warning of the potential consequences.”I think what could be said is if there was a problem lifting the debt ceiling, it could well be that what is now a recovery would turn into a recession or even worse,” IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard said.Japan’s finance minister said a failure by the United States to quickly resolve its political deadlock over government finances could damage the global economy.”The U.S. must avoid a situation where it cannot pay (for its debt) and its triple-A ranking plunges all of a sudden,” Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso told reporters after a cabinet meeting.”The U.S. must be fully aware that if that happens, the U.S. would fall into fiscal crisis,” he said in the latest sign that Japan and China, the biggest foreign creditors to the United States, are worried the impasse could harm their trillions of dollars of investments in U.S. Treasury bonds.Obama said he did not think the crisis would create lasting international damage, saying “folks around the world will attribute this to the usual messy process of American democracy.”The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a traditional supporter of pro-business Republicans, also warned about further delays in reopening the federal government and raising the debt limit.”The debt ceiling specifically must pass on a timely basis to avoid inflicting substantial and enduring damage on the U.S. economy,” said Bruce Josten, the group’s executive vice president.Polls show growing public concern over the impasse, with Republicans getting slightly more of the blame.A Reuters/Ipsos poll on Tuesday found the percentage of Americans concerned about the shutdown rose to 75 percent from 66 percent last week. 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The panel would also make recommendations on a measure to fund the government for the 2014 fiscal year, ending the shutdown.The plan is reminiscent of a failed 2011 “supercommittee” of Republicans and Democrats from the House and Senate that was asked to find trillions of new budget savings.The White House said Obama would veto a bill for the new deficit-reduction panel if it reached his desk as it did nothing to solve the immediate obligation for Congress to open the government and pay its bills.The special committee measure passed the House in a 224-197 vote on Tuesday evening with the support of just two Democrats and opposed by five Republicans. It seemed unlikely to be taken up in the Senate.Despite widespread warnings about failing to raise the debt limit, some House Republicans dismissed the prospect of a first-ever default.”There’s no way to default. There is enough money coming into the Treasury to pay interest and roll over principal,” said Representative Justin Amash of Michigan, a favorite of the smaller-government Tea Party wing of the Republican Party.Asked about warnings of catastrophic consequences if the debt limit is not increased, Amash told reporters: “I say it’s patently not true what they are saying.”(Additional reporting by David Lawder, Richard Cowan, Caren Bohan, Jeff Mason, Matt Spetalnick and Mark Felsenthal; Writing by John Whitesides; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)Obama says U.S. to keep ‘going after’ al Qaeda-linked groups in AfricaWASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Tuesday staunchly defended his decision to order commando raids in Libya and Somalia last weekend, saying the United States would keep targeting al Qaeda-linked groups in Africa but had no intention of going to war there.Speaking at a news conference, Obama said the United States was justified in seizing a senior al Qaeda figure in Tripoli and whisking him out of the country, and he made clear that it likely would not be the last operation of its kind.”Where you’ve got active plots and active networks, we’re going to go after them,” Obama said. “We’re not going to farm out our defense.”Nazih al-Ragye, better known by the cover name Abu Anas al-Liby, is being held aboard a U.S. Navy ship in the Mediterranean Sea where he was questioned by an elite American interrogation team.Three Republican U.S. senators said on Tuesday that Liby – a suspect in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 civilians – should be brought to the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. But the Obama administration was not likely to transfer him there.One U.S. official said Liby might face prosecution in a federal court in New York, where he is under criminal indictment.Obama said Liby had killed “a whole lot of Americans” and that the U.S. government had strong evidence against him and he would be “brought to justice.” But he offered no details on how the case would be handled.The capture of Liby and a failed attempt by U.S. commandos to capture an Islamist militant in Somalia offered evidence the United States was willing to use ground troops to seize wanted militants in unstable African countries where they operate.But analysts said it was too early to tell whether such operations might eventually mean a diminished focus on the armed drone strikes central to Obama’s counterterrorism policy in places like Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen.In a speech in May, Obama said he wanted to pull the United States back from some of the most controversial aspects of the global fight against Islamist militants as U.S. forces gradually withdrew after more than a decade of war in Afghanistan.But he made clear on Tuesday that U.S. forces would keep up targeted strikes in Africa against al Qaeda affiliates and allies that may not be able to attack beyond their borders but “can do a lot of damage inside their borders.”In cases where local governments lack the capacity to fight these groups, he said, “We’re going to have to continue to go after them.”Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan said earlier on Tuesday that Libyans accused of crimes should be tried at home, but that the raid would not harm ties with Washington.REPUBLICANS PUSH FOR GUANTANAMO DETENTIONU.S. Senators Lindsey Graham, Kelly Ayotte and Saxby Chambliss said they hoped to urge Obama, via a congressional resolution or an amendment to an upcoming defense authorization bill, to adopt a policy for long-term detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects.At a news conference, the Republican senators praised Obama for seizing Liby, now being held aboard the USS San Antonio, an amphibious transport dock ship.But they disagreed with what they said was the administration’s decision to keep him on a ship to be interrogated for 60 days, adding that was not long enough to gather information.”Putting him on a Navy vessel for a matter of days or weeks is not a proper way to gather intelligence in the war on terror. This system of using Navy warships in lieu of Gitmo compromises our ability to gather intelligence,” said Graham, a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.The call to bring Liby to Guantanamo comes as Obama pushes to close the detention center, where hundreds of suspects have been held for years without trial.Concerned about the circumstances of his capture, New York-based Human Rights Watch urged the United States to ensure Liby was “promptly charged before a judge and given access to a lawyer in accordance with international human rights law.”The capture in Tripoli came the same weekend that a Navy SEAL team swooped into Somalia in an operation targeting a senior al Shabaab figure known as Ikrima, described by U.S. officials as a foreign commander for the organization.Obama, who ordered the SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011, approved both operations, but the White House said the timing was “coincidental.”The Somalia raid was designed to capture Ikrima, but the SEAL team broke off the mission when it became apparent that capturing him would not be feasible without a heavy risk of civilian casualties and to the SEAL team itself, officials said.”The fact is it was a failure,” said Republican Senator John McCain, a frequent critic of Obama’s national security policy. “The fact is that there was an intelligence failure there. Otherwise the mission would have been completed.”Ikrima, whose real name is Abdikadar Mohamed Abdikadar, was linked with now-dead al Qaeda operatives Harun Fazul and Saleh Nabhan, who had roles in the 1998 embassy bombing in Nairobi and in the 2002 attacks on a hotel and airline in Mombasa, Kenya, U.S. officials said.(Additional reporting by Roberta Rampton and Jeff Mason; Editing by Peter Cooney)Obama says willing to talk to Republicans, but not under duressWASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama warned on Tuesday that a U.S. debt default could wreak havoc and he would talk to congressional Republicans about any topic but urged them to raise the debt limit without conditions.Obama said he told House Speaker John Boehner in a phone call that he would not hold talks under the threat of a debt default or of keeping the government shut.(Reporting By Mark Felsenthal; Editing by Sandra Maler)Obama seeks immediate fix to stalled military death benefitsWASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama directed government lawyers to find an immediate fix for stalled aid for the families of soldiers killed in the line of duty during the government shutdown, White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters on Wednesday.Obama signed a law just before the shutdown allowing the Pentagon to pay the military, but lawyers said the bill did not permit the government to pay a $100,000 tax-free payment to families of fallen troops during the impasse.At least five families of soldiers killed last weekend in Afghanistan were affected by the suspension, U.S. Senator John McCain said. The Republican lawmaker said on Tuesday that members of Congress should be “embarrassed” and “ashamed” for the lapse.Obama was “very disturbed” when he heard about the lapse, and directed lawyers at the Defense Department and White House budget office to find a way to resume the payments, Carney told reporters.”The president expects this to be fixed today,” Carney said.He said the Pentagon told Congress that it would be “legally unable” to pay death benefits in the event of a shutdown, but that the issue “was not explicitly addressed” in the law that allows the military to continue to be paid.(Reporting by Mark Felsenthal and Roberta Rampton; Editing by Christopher Wilson and Eric Beech)Obama seeks to ease doubts on global leadershipUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – President Barack Obama sought to ease doubts about his leadership on the world stage on Wednesday as he confronted a looming diplomatic crisis in the Middle East and hailed popular Arab revolts.Obama attempted to reassert his credentials as a world statesman in an address inside the cavernous U.N. General Assembly hall even as he grappled with high unemployment and low poll numbers at home that threaten his re-election bid.His high-profile foray into foreign policy challenges was dominated by efforts to head off a Palestinian plan to seek U.N. recognition of statehood, a move that could erode U.S. global standing and further isolate close ally Israel.Obama’s last-ditch diplomatic drive won praise from Israel, which will rely on Washington to block the Palestinian U.N. membership bid in the Security Council, but the Palestinians vowed they would not be deterred.The president — whose earlier peace efforts accomplished little — insisted that Middle East peace “will not come through statements and resolutions” at the world body and put the onus on the two sides to break a yearlong impasse and return to peace talks.”There is no short cut to the end of a conflict that has endured for decades,” Obama told an annual gathering of world leaders in New York, though he offered no new prescriptions for relaunching negotiations.Obama finds himself in the quandary of opposing a move toward Palestinian self-determination even as he hailed Arab democracy movements that have shaken — or toppled — authoritarian rulers in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and Libya.A senior Palestinian official said Obama’s stance violated the spirit of the “Arab spring,” and it seemed the best the president could hope for was to slow down the Palestinian statehood bid or contain the diplomatic damage it causes.This comes as Obama’s outreach to the Muslim world has already been faltering and further underscores the stark new limits of U.S. influence amid Middle East upheaval.Obama attempted to strike a delicate balance from the U.N. podium. He sought to reassure Palestinians he was not abandoning his pledge to help them end Israeli occupation and achieve eventual statehood while also placating any Israeli concerns about Washington’s commitment to their security.He was considered unlikely to lean too heavily on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for concessions to the Palestinians, mindful that he cannot afford to alienate Israel’s broad base of support among American voters as he seeks re-election in 2012.REPUBLICAN CRITICISMIleana Ros-Lehtinen, Republican head of the House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee, said Obama was “slow to respond to the dangerous Palestinian statehood scheme” and that he did take a strong enough stand in favor of Israel.Members of the General Assembly, where pro-Palestinian sentiment is high and Israel has often felt ostracized, listened politely but without enthusiasm to Obama’s speech.Even as the looming U.N. showdown overshadowed Obama’s agenda, he sought to rally fellow leaders for concerted action to spur the sagging global economy. He also kept pressure on the Europeans over the euro zone debt crisis.Obama held a marathon round of bilateral talks with new Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy.”We stand with our European allies as they reshape their institutions and address their own fiscal challenge,” Obama said in his speech.For their part, other leaders are concerned about political dysfunction in Washington underscored by a bipartisan brawl over debt and deficits that led to a downgrade of America’s top-notch credit rating.Obama’s vision of multilateral diplomacy helped him earn a Nobel Peace Prize after only 11 months in office and made him wildly popular in Europe and elsewhere. He promised a dramatic shift from what was widely perceived as the go-it-alone “cowboy diplomacy” of predecessor George W. Bush.While many world leaders have welcomed the change in U.S. tone, the euphoria over Obama’s collaborative approach has worn off, and questions about global economic concerns have overshadowed “soft power” issues he previously espoused.Obama’s annual turn at the U.N. podium came at a time when he is increasingly preoccupied with Americans’ domestic concerns — a stagnant economy and high unemployment — considered critical to his 2012 re-election chances.Foreign policy has slipped down his policy agenda, a trend not lost on fellow world leaders trying to fathom how much of a role Obama intends to play in world affairs.A key example was Obama’s decision to keep U.S. forces mostly in a support role in the NATO bombing campaign that helped oust Muammar Gaddafi.Obama has drawn criticism for what has been seen as a slow and uneven response to the “Arab spring” revolts engulfing friends and foes alike, and Republicans say his “leading from behind” approach undermines U.S. global prestige.Obama also used his speech to laud the U.S. killing of Osama bin Laden, urge further sanctions against Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and tout his efforts to wind down wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also called on Iran and North Korea to meet their nuclear obligations — twin standoffs that have eluded his efforts at resolution.(Additional reporting by Arshad Mohammed, Andrew Quinn, Lou Charbonneau, Alistair Lyon; Editing by Doina Chiacu and Todd Eastham)Obama tax blueprint opening gambit in potential tax rewriteWASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Wednesday revived a list of his favorite tax ideas, hoping to raise $580 billion in new revenues from the wealthy over a decade in a potential opening gambit to forge a deal with Congress to overhaul the tax code.While certain not to move forward en masse, his 2014 budget blueprint has elements likely to spur discussion, including a proposal to tax derivatives more stringently, as lawmakers weigh a tax code revamp and face a deadline on the government’s debt limit this summer.”These are all opening bids in any potential grand bargain, so from that perspective they are important,” said Chris Krueger, an analyst at Guggenheim Partners.Congressional Republicans largely blasted the Democratic president’s budget proposal, highlighting the difficulty policymakers have had forging a long-term deficit-cutting plan.Obama’s budget does not seek to raise individual tax rates as he has proposed in prior budgets. For years, he sought to raise rates on household income above $250,000.Obama and most Republicans agreed during last year’s fiscal cliff battle to raise rates for households earning more than $450,000 a year, to 39.6 percent from 35 percent.A senior administration official said on Wednesday the White House preferred not to “re-litigate” that fight.Obama’s budget also proposes a new “Buffett tax,” a minimum tax rate for the wealthy, named for investor Warren Buffett, that phases in a minimum 30 percent tax rate on household income above $1 million.The bid revives Obama’s offer last year to Republican House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner during the talks to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff of looming tax hikes.The budget also reprised a proposal to cap tax breaks among wealthier taxpayers, starting at household income of roughly $250,000, limiting the value of deductions and loopholes in determining taxable income. A phased-in limit on deductions is now part of the tax code for more affluent taxpayers.The new cap would apply to the same list of breaks proposed in years past, including the charitable tax break and the exemption for municipal bond interest.Boehner last year said he could back raising new revenue through curbing deductions, though he now rules out new revenue.One battle Obama proposed to fight again is over the estate tax, pitching to raise it to 45 percent for estates worth over $3.5 million, after a deal to cap it in January at 40 percent for estates over $5 million.The budget also ends a tax break for “carried interest” profits earned by fund managers like those who run private equity and other investment firms, officials said.In a bid to attract Republicans, Obama proposed changing the inflation calculation for Social Security benefits to help shore up the finances of the public pension program, which would raise revenue and curb benefits.That proposal also would push people more quickly into higher tax categories, as their income rises faster than the brackets are adjusted.CORPORATE BREAKS A TARGETTop tax-writers in Congress are working on a tax rewrite, but the process is fraught with disagreement over details and whether to raise new revenue in the process.Prominent in the budget are proposals to raise hundreds of billions of dollars from U.S. multinational corporations that avert tax on income held overseas. Obama seeks to raise about $157 billion over a decade with these measures.These include limiting the ability of corporations to defer tax on foreign income and tightening foreign tax credit rules.Obama also sought more revenue by curbing energy tax breaks, and proposed an end to a tax advantage for corporate jets.”It doesn’t mean the administration is not open to a deal,” said Michael Mundaca, Obama’s top tax official in the Treasury Department during his first term and now co-director of national tax at Ernst & Young. “It is just that they may not be going to negotiate through the budget.”There were a few areas of potential agreement with Republicans. Obama pitched changing the taxation of derivatives to mark them to a market price yearly for taxation purposes, which he says will raise $19 billion over a decade.That proposal largely mirrors one put forward by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp. But that idea is part of a plan to drastically cut individual tax rates, which most Democrats have not signed onto.Another area that suggested compromise to some was Obama’s call for “revenue-neutral” business tax reform, something he had been unclear on in the past.”If he had taken a lot of corporate expenditures and used that for deficit reduction, that would really spell doom for tax reform,” said Gabe Horwitz, director of the economic program at the Democratic centrist group Third Way.The cuts to corporate breaks are counterbalanced by proposals to double a tax credit for small start-up companies and extend a business research and development tax credit. Obama also wants to expand a child care tax credit.The president has backed cutting the top U.S. corporate tax rate to 28 percent from 35 percent, now the highest in the industrialized world. But most companies do not pay the top rate after taking advantage of numerous tax breaks.(Editing by Kevin Drawbaugh, Howard Goller, Tim Dobbyn and Todd Eastham)Obama tax ideas face long odds ahead of electionWASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s bid to get millionaires and multinational companies to pay more taxes may play well with many voters but it faces long odds in the deadlocked U.S. Congress.Obama used his State of the Union speech on Tuesday to press the case for a new minimum 30 percent tax on Americans earning more than $1 million a year and for tougher treatment of corporations that move jobs out of the United States.At the same time, he called for tax credits to lure jobs back to the United States.”Right now, companies get tax breaks for moving jobs and profits overseas,” Obama said. “Meanwhile, companies that choose to stay in America get hit with one of the highest tax rates in the world.”Obama, facing a tough re-election campaign, for several years has called for steeper taxes on corporations’ foreign profits and closing what he calls tax loopholes that also benefit multinational companies.Most of these ideas have stalled for years in Congress – even some Democrats say they can wait for a complete overhaul of the tax code.A tax lobbyist affiliated with Democrats said real debate over the proposed tax changes would have to wait until after the November 6 presidential and congressional elections.”They would only likely stand a chance in a broader corporate tax reform debate and I just don’t think that tax reform is in the cards,” the lobbyist said.Obama and Republicans both say the tax code needs a major rewrite and lawmakers are laying the groundwork for such a reform, but the process is expected to take years. The 35 percent U.S. corporate rate is among the highest in the world and critics say it harms business competitiveness.Obama is calling for a number of tax policies that could in theory appeal to Republicans, in the name of boosting the flagging economy. For example, he wants to trim tax rates for manufacturers and double a tax deduction for high-tech manufacturing – ideas that might gain some bipartisan backing.But even that is unlikely in the current environment.”Tempted as they may be by more tax cuts, anything that smacks of a deal with Obama, or a victory for Obama, especially one that undercuts their theme – however detached from the reality – that Obama is a tax-increaser, will be reflexively resisted by Republicans in both houses,” said Norm Ornstein, a congressional watcher at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.BUFFETT RULEProbably the biggest tax change Obama outlined is a revamp of what he has called the Buffett rule, named for billionaire investor Warren Buffett, to ensure the wealthy pay what he calls a fair share of taxes. Obama proposed a minimum 30 percent tax on millionaires, and eliminating many tax deductions for them – including for housing, healthcare and childcare.Buffett’s secretary – famous for her boss’s observation that she pays a higher tax rate than he does – sat in the congressional gallery as a guest of the White House to underscore the point.A minimum 30 percent tax rate would be about twice the tax rate paid by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in the past two years, according to filings he released on Tuesday.Lower tax rates enacted under former Republican President George W. Bush are set to expire at the end of this year, setting up a fight over extending them in late 2012.Obama and Democrats want to let the lower rates for the wealthy expire. Obama said given steep budget deficits, Americans face a choice.”Do we want to keep these tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans? Or do we want to keep our investments in everything else?” Obama asked.The top individual income tax rate is now 35 percent, but the superwealthy can enjoy lower rates in some cases if they earn most of their income from investments – as does Romney – which are subject to a 15 percent rate.A version of Obama’s so-called Buffett rule has been promoted by Democrats in Congress as a way to pay for extending the payroll tax cut, but has no chance of passing.Obama had previously proposed limiting deductions for wealthier Americans to a certain percentage of their income, but he went further in Tuesday’s speech to advocate cutting out certain tax breaks completely for millionaires.Even before Obama spoke, Republicans were blasting the speech as a campaign event.”No Bailouts, No Hand-outs, And No Cop-outs,” read one congressional Republican press release.(Editing by Mohammad Zargham)Obama tells Russia’s Medvedev more flexibility after electionSEOUL (Reuters) – President Barack Obama was caught on camera on Monday assuring outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he will have “more flexibility” to deal with contentious issues like missile defense after the U.S. presidential election.Obama, during talks in Seoul, urged Moscow to give him “space” until after the November ballot, and Medvedev said he would relay the message to incoming Russian president Vladimir Putin.The unusually frank exchange came as Obama and Medvedev huddled together on the eve of a global nuclear security summit in the South Korean capital, unaware their words were being picked up by microphones as reporters were led into the room.U.S. plans for an anti-missile shield have bedeviled relations between Washington and Moscow despite Obama’s “reset” in ties between the former Cold War foes. Obama’s Republican opponents have accused him of being too open to concessions to Russia on the issue.Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney seized on Obama’s comment, calling it “alarming and troubling.”"This is no time for our president to be pulling his punches with the American people,” Romney said in a campaign speech in San Diego.As he was leaning toward Medvedev in Seoul, Obama was overheard asking for time – “particularly with missile defense” – until he is in a better position politically to resolve such issues.”I understand your message about space,” replied Medvedev, who will hand over the presidency to Putin in May.”This is my last election … After my election I have more flexibility,” Obama said, expressing confidence that he would win a second term.”I will transmit this information to Vladimir,” said Medvedev, Putin’s prot??g?? and long considered number two in Moscow’s power structure.The exchange, parts of it inaudible, was monitored by a White House pool of television journalists as well as Russian reporters listening live from their press center.The United States and NATO have offered Russia a role in the project to create an anti-ballistic shield which includes participation by Romania, Poland, Turkey and Spain.But Moscow says it fears the system could weaken Russia by gaining the capability to shoot down the nuclear missiles it relies on as a deterrent.It wants a legally binding pledge from the United States that Russia’s nuclear forces would not be targeted by the system and joint control of how it is used.The White House, initially caught off-guard by questions about the leaders’ exchange, later released a statement recommitting to implementing missile defense “which we’ve repeatedly said is not aimed at Russia” but also acknowledging election-year obstacles on the issue.”Since 2012 is an election year in both countries, with an election and leadership transition in Russia and an election in the United States, it is clearly not a year in which we are going to achieve a breakthrough,” White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said.”Therefore, President Obama and President Medvedev agreed that it was best to instruct our technical experts to do the work of better understanding our respective positions, providing space for continued discussions on missile defense cooperation going forward,” he said.(Reporting By Matt Spetalnick in Seoul and Steve Holland in San Diego; Editing by Robert Birsel and David Brunnstrom)Obama to choose Yellen for top Fed job, markets relievedWASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama will nominate Fed number two Janet Yellen on Wednesday to run the world’s most influential central bank, providing some relief to markets that would expect her to tread carefully in winding down economic stimulus.The nomination will put Yellen on course to be the first woman to lead the institution in its 100-year history. The advocate for aggressive action to stimulate U.S. economic growth through low interest rates and large-scale bond purchases would replace Ben Bernanke, whose second term as Fed chairman expires on January 31.If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, which is expected to endorse her, she would provide continuity with the policies the Fed has established under Bernanke. Analysts say she would move cautiously in reining in policies in place to shore up the world’s largest economy.Expectations that the Fed might start to taper its stimulus program have roiled financial markets since May and the central bank shocked investors in September by maintaining its cash injections of $85 billion a month in full.”Thank God Yellen will be nominated under the current circumstances. You don’t want a change at the central bank right now,” said Dan Fuss, a portfolio manager at Loomis Sayles in Boston. “This Yellen news is one uncertainty lifted from already nervous markets.”Her nomination would come during a political stalemate in Washington that has closed the U.S. government and threatened a U.S. default if lawmakers fail to raise the $16.7 trillion debt ceiling by an October 17 deadline.U.S. stock index futures rose and the dollar slipped on the news of Yellen’s pending nomination. The debt standoff is fueling expectations the Fed may delay any plans to reduce its stimulus for now.If confirmed, she would join the Fed’s honor roll along with such household names as Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan, predecessors as head of an institution that can influence the course of the world economy.”I believe she’ll be confirmed by a wide margin,” said Senator Charles Schumer, a Democrat from New York.Described as a “good egg” by fellow Fed policymaker Richard Fisher and a “very able person” by Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, her most immediate challenge may be to determine when the Fed should scale back its bond buying.After September’s surprise decision against tapering, many economists now think the Fed will not move until Bernanke has left office.Obama turned to Yellen, 67, after his former economic adviser Lawrence Summers withdrew from consideration in the face of fierce opposition from within the president’s own Democratic Party, raising questions about his chances of congressional confirmation. The contest between Summers and Yellen played out all summer in a public way not usually associated with the selection of the top U.S. central banker.Obama is scheduled to announce his nomination at the White House at 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT), a White House official said on Tuesday. Bernanke is expected to attend.RESPECTED ECONOMISTYellen has enjoyed strong support from Democrats. In an unusual move, 20 Senate Democrats signed a letter earlier this year pressing Obama to turn to the former professor from the University of California at Berkeley.Her Republican backing is much softer. Many Republicans worry Fed policy of holding overnight interest rates at zero and buying bonds aggressively to drive other borrowing costs lower could lead to asset bubbles and an unwanted pickup in inflation.”I voted against Vice Chairman Yellen’s original nomination to the Fed in 2010 because of her dovish views on monetary policy,” Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee said in a statement. “We will closely examine her record since that time, but I am not aware of anything that demonstrates her views have changed.”Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama, another Republican, said he has concerns about her “proclivity to print money” and her record as a bank regulator.Still, Yellen is expected to garner enough support to secure the 60 votes needed to overcome any procedural hurdles in the 100-seat Senate. Democrats control the chamber 54-46.A respected economist whose research has taken her deep into theories of monetary policy, Yellen has earned a reputation as one of the Fed officials most worried about unemployment and least concerned about inflation.”With employment so far from its maximum level and with inflation running below the committee’s 2 percent objective, I believe it’s appropriate for progress in the labor market to take center stage in the conduct of monetary policy,” she said in March.Yellen studied economics at Yale University and taught at Berkeley for more than a decade before her first stint as a Fed board governor from 1994 to 1997, a post she left to head President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers.She later served as president of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, where her first-hand view of the overheated real estate market helped her see the dangers of the housing bubble earlier than many of her colleagues.As Fed chair, Yellen would arguably be the most powerful woman in the world.She has been central to moving the Fed toward more clarity and precision in its communications, an openness which she sees as the key to an effective monetary policy.Yellen led a panel of officials who rewrote the Fed’s rules on communications and helped convince her colleagues to adopt an explicit inflation target for the first time last year.Her selection bolsters the credibility of promises the Fed has made about the future course of monetary policy that have been a hallmark of its approach ever since it dropped interest rates to zero in 2008.Specifically, she could be expected to abide by, if not strengthen, the Fed’s stated commitment to keep rates steady at least until the U.S. jobless rate hits 6.5 percent, as long as inflation does not threaten to pierce 2.5 percent. The nation’s jobless rate stood at 7.3 percent in August.EASY MONEYYellen, who has long argued that the Fed should tolerate slightly higher inflation if that is the cost of fighting high unemployment, has never dissented on a Fed policy decision.But she also has not shied away from advocating rate rises if she feels the situation calls for it. In 1996, after then-Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan had repeatedly put off raising rates, she and a colleague went to him to argue that the central bank was at risk of courting inflation.Once again, the central bank is facing criticism from some quarters that it is risking inflation. Its controversial bond purchases have put the Fed on track to buy some $3 trillion in mortgage and Treasury debt.The easy money was aimed at digging the U.S. labor market out of the deep hole caused by the 2007-2009 recession.While it pushed U.S. borrowing costs to record lows and sent U.S. stocks to record highs, the loose policy also fueled resentment in some emerging markets, who had to contend with a flood of hot money as investors sought higher returns.Now, the flood gates are reversing.The mere mention by Bernanke in May that the Fed could soon begin to ease up on its monthly purchases sent global financial markets reeling and U.S. borrowing costs sharply higher. Currencies and equities in many emerging markets plunged – underscoring the delicate task Yellen would face.Despite the Fed’s aggressive efforts to prop up the economy, growth has been lackluster and the labor market is still sickly.(Additional reporting by Pedro Nicolaci da Costa, Richard Cowan, and Roberta Rampton in Washington; Ann Saphir in San Francisco; Editing by Tim Dobbyn and Neil Fullick)Obama to name Yellen as next Fed chair on Wednesday: White HouseWASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will nominate Federal Reserve Vice Chairwoman Janet Yellen to be the next head of the U.S. central bank on Wednesday, a White House official said on Tuesday.If confirmed, Yellen would replace Ben Bernanke, whose current term as head of the Fed ends in January. Obama is due to make the announcement at the White House at 3 p.m.(Reporting By Mark Felsenthal and Jeff Mason; Editing by Stacey Joyce)Obama tries to woo business, slams “burdensome” taxWASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama stepped up efforts to woo the U.S. business community on Monday, seeking its help to tackle “burdensome” corporate taxes in a speech to a business group that has long been a fierce critic.Obama, on a drive to win over business and independent voters before the 2012 presidential election, also repeated a promise to advance trade deals with Panama and Colombia that would help U.S. companies, but he did not lay out a timetable for getting the pacts passed.”I understand the challenges you face. I understand you are under incredible pressure to cut costs and keep your margins up. I understand the significance of your obligations to your shareholders and the pressures that are created by quarterly reports. I get it,” Obama told the powerful U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has often opposed the president for what it sees as his “big government” agenda.Members of the Chamber, which the White House has accused of funding ad campaigns against Democrats during last year’s congressional elections, listened politely but were mostly noncommittal in response to the president.White House spokesman Robert Gibbs later told reporters that Obama had not gone seeking applause.”Another barrier government can remove is a burdensome corporate tax code with one of the highest rates in the world,” Obama said.Calling taxes a burden chimes with the view of the corporate world, and is another example of Obama’s efforts to repair relations between the White House and businesses after steep losses by his Democrats in November elections.Chastened by that defeat, Obama has tried to do a better job of communicating with business, dialing down a sometimes acrimonious debate during his first two years in office.’CHANGE IN TONE’”We thought it was a good change in tone,” the Chamber’s president, Thomas Donohue, told Fox News Channel. “He came, he visited, and we look forward to doing things together.”Others in the audience at the Chamber’s headquarters — a stone’s throw from the White House — welcomed Obama’s speech but were still wary of him.”Are they going to follow through or is this just the politics of saying the right thing and it stops there?” said Juliana Zoto Efessiou, who launched a social media venture after her bridal boutique failed during the recession.With one eye on re-election, Obama needs to bring down the unemployment rate of 9 percent and wants companies to hire more. He repeated a call for business to step up investment and hiring to mobilize “nearly $2 trillion sitting on their balance sheets.”"Many of your own economists and salespeople are now forecasting a healthy increase in demand. So I want to encourage you to get in the game,” Obama said.Business had fought Obama’s massive overhaul of Wall Street regulation and reform of the healthcare system, and it resented the president’s sharp rhetoric on executive pay during the height of the financial crisis.The White House, while irritated by the Chamber’s opposition to policies it says will help the economy, has sought to mend relations by employing softer presidential rhetoric and staffing choices that appeal to the business community.Obama picked Bill Daley, formerly of JPMorgan Chase, to be his chief of staff and recently brought on General Electric Co Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt as his new top outside economic adviser. He also agreed on a tax deal with Republicans last year and has promoted initiatives to boost U.S. exports.While talk of cutting overall corporate tax rates goes down well with some American companies, Obama might upset others by closing loopholes and slashing deductions.Business had hoped Obama would outline a way forward on Monday for stalled trade agreements with Panama and Colombia. But the president made only brief reference to those pacts.”We finalized a trade agreement with South Korea that will support at least 70,000 American jobs. And by the way, it’s a deal that has unprecedented support from business and labor, Democrats and Republicans,” he said.”That’s the kind of deal that I will be looking for as we pursue trade agreements with Panama and Colombia, as we work to bring Russia into the international trading system.”(Additional reporting by Matt Spetalnick, Caren Bohan and Jeff Mason; Editing by Eric Walsh)Obama: U.S. will continue going after al Qaeda-linked groups i

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