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(CNN) — Two days before President-elect Barack Obama is officially sworn in, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made clear she disagrees with the incoming administration on at least two issues.
Obama has indicated he is not interested in repealing President Bush’s tax cuts for wealthy Americans before they expire in two years or investigating past actions of the Bush administration.
But speaking on Fox News Sunday, Pelosi said she wants Congress to consider repealing tax cuts on those who make over $250,000 immediately and is pushing for a congressional investigation into whether the Bush administration illegally fired federal prosecutors two years ago.
On taxes, Obama’s stimulus plan does not call for repealing president’s tax cuts for wealthier individuals, even though the president-elect had said he would during the presidential campaign. Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, a top Obama economic advisor, also suggested Sunday that repealing Bush’s tax cuts will not be a priority.
But Pelosi said Sunday she wants the incoming president to stick to his campaign pledge.
“We had campaigned in saying what the Republican Congressional Budget Office told us: Nothing contributed more to the budget deficit than the tax cuts for the wealthiest people in America,” Pelosi said in the interview.
Pelosi said she would not seek to block the president-elect’s stimulus plan over its lack of tax hikes for the rich, but she urged Obama to not to simply let the tax cuts expire in two years.
“[Tax cuts on the wealthy] have to prove their worth to me as to how they grow the economy, how they create jobs,” she said.
Pelosi also pushed for an investigation into the Bush administration’s handling of the Justice Department, despite pledges from Obama and his aides not to focus on the administration they are succeeding.
“I think that we have to learn from the past, and we cannot let the politicizing of, for example, the Justice Department, go unreviewed,” Pelosi said. “Past is prologue.”
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(CNN) — On his first full day back in Washington, President-elect Barack Obama visited Arlington National Cemetery on Sunday, where he took part in a ceremony alongside Vice President-elect Joe Biden.
The two — along with their families and a huge crowd — will attend a celebratory concert Sunday afternoon at the Lincoln Memorial.
It’s all part of the drum-up to Tuesday, when Obama will be inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) – A new national poll suggests that Barack Obama is more popular than ever, regardless of recent speed bumps on the road to transition.
The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Sunday morning also indicates that most Americans see Obama’s inauguration as a chance for the nation to come together.
Eighty-four percent of those questioned in the survey say they approve of how Barack Obama is handling his presidential transition. That is up two points from the middle of December and up five points from the beginning of December.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) –- President-elect Barack Obama and his family attended services at a historic Washington church Sunday morning, but his transition office said no final decision has been made on the family’s congregation in their new home town.
Obama went to the 19th Street Baptist Church Sunday morning with wife Michelle, daughters Sasha and Malia, and his mother-in-law Marian Robinson. The family, which received a standing ovation from the congregation as they came in, sat in the second row, with Obama himself sitting on the aisle.
A pool reporter inside the church said Obama sang along during the hymn “Blessed Assurance” near the beginning of the service. A pastor ended a prayer with a theme of the Obama campaign, adding “yes we can” to “in the name of Jesus we pray, amen.”
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Onlookers are gathering on the National Mall ahead of a musical celebration that will include performances by Beyonce, Sheryl Crow, John Legend and Bruce Springsteen. (Adam Levine/CNN)
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