Obama to report &#36;34 million in the bank
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Democrat Barack Obama ended the first half of the year with a formidable $34 million cash on hand for the presidential primary contest, while boosting his overall financial picture from April through June with a vigorous fundraising drive, the campaign said Sunday.
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Spending by presidential and congressional candidates and the national party committees that support them already tops &#36;1 billion for the 2004 election cycle, with more than two months of campaigning to go.
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The team raising money for next week's festivities marking President Bush's inauguration has taken in &#36;25.5 million, mostly in donations from corporations, it reported Friday.
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Officials in the nation's capital announced the &#36;425,000 settlement of a lawsuit Monday stemming from a mass arrest that occurred not far from the White House nearly 28 months ago.
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Barack Obama raised $32 million for  his Democratic presidential nominating campaign in January, a  huge haul that aides said will give him the ability to compete  in a potentially long and costly race.
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama raised $32 million in the single month of January, a whopping figure that has permitted the campaign to boost staff and extend advertising to states beyond the sweeping Feb. 5 contests
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As he prepared to announce his campaign  for the White House, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama took care of  some unfinished business at Harvard University -- paying about  $400 in parking fines dating back to his days as a law student.
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More than &#36;8 million has been donated by corporations and individuals to fund President Bush's reinauguration ceremonies, according to figures released Thursday.
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President Bush planned to ask Congress Monday for about &#36;2.5 billion in additional aid to help Florida recover from its recent bout with hurricanes, congressional aides said.
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The U.S. budget deficit will reach  $368 billion this year before any war costs are added in, the  Congressional Budget Office said on Tuesday, according to a  source familiar with the worse-than-expected numbers.
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Sen. Barack Obama announced on  Sunday he had raised $32.5 million for his presidential  campaign in the past three months, the biggest quarterly  fund-raising for any Democrat ever in a pre-election year.
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President Bush's record campaign fund raising left him with millions of dollars to spare, allowing him to donate &#36;11 million to the Republican Party and even send a few checks to the White House Historical Association.
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A Beverly Hills reception for  Barack Obama on Tuesday night brought in $1.3 million for the  Illinois senator's White House bid in the first major show  business fund-raiser of the 2008 presidential campaign cycle,  organizers said.
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Sen. Barack Obama raised $32.5 million from April through June, his presidential campaign said Sunday, in what is a record for a Democratic running for the White House.
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The White House says its drive to halve federal deficits by 2009 remains on track, though it projects that the cost of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will help drive this year's shortfall to a record &#36;427 billion.
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Eager to cast its fundraising total for the second quarter in a positive light, the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) said it expects to report raising less than Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), taking in about $27 million, roughly equivalent to what Clinton drew in the first...
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Federal regulators on Tuesday are  expected to say Fannie Mae  will pay &#36;400 million for  using bad accounting to manage earnings and trigger bonuses,  according to sources briefed on the plan.