http://www.newsvine.com/resetNewsvine - reseten-usCopyright 2013Fri, 1 Mar 2013 18:30:01 +0000Wed, 22 May 2013 08:54:33 +0000http://www.newsvine.comhttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/26/17103661-the-reset-one-fiscal-crisis-gives-way-to-anotherhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/26/17103661-the-reset-one-fiscal-crisis-gives-way-to-anotherusbarack-obamaus-newsresetTue, 26 Feb 2013 17:53:53 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2013, file photo, Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. A deeply divided Senate is moving toward a vote on President Barack Obama’s contentious choice of Chuck Hagel to head the Defense Department, with the former Republican senator on track to win confirmation after a protracted political fight. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)</p><p>President Barack Obama walks off the Marine One helicopter to head to Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. The president is traveling to Newport News, Va., for an event on the automatic budget cuts. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)</p><p>Following a closed-door party caucus, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, center, and GOP leaders meet with reporters, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 26 2013, to challenge President Obama and the Senate to avoid the automatic spending cuts that take effect in four day. Speaking at the Republican National Committee headquarters, Boehner complained that the House, with Republicans in the majority, has twice passed bills that would replace the across-the-board cuts known as the "sequester" with more targeted reductions, while the Senate, controlled by the Democrats, has not acted. A frustrated Boehner told reporters, quote, "We should not have to move a third bill before the Senate gets off their ass and begins to do something." From left are, Rep. James Lankford, R-Okla., Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kansas, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va. and House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy of Calif. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) </p><p>FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks about automatic defense budget cuts during a visit to Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries in Newport News, Va. Obama is pulling out all the stops to warn just what could happen if automatic budget cuts kick in. Americans are reacting with a collective yawn. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)</p><p>FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, file photo, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio wraps up a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, where he and GOP leaders challenged President Obama and the Senate to avoid the automatic spending cuts set to take effect in four days. The scheduled cuts in defense spending, unemployment benefits and other programs could slow an already struggling economy. And. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)</p><p>New Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks to service members and civilian employees at the Pentagon, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, after being sworn-in. Hagel took charge of the Defense Department Wednesday after a bruising confirmation fight &#8212; and two days before billions in budget cuts are scheduled to hit the military. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)</p><p>FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2013, file photo, Jack Lew testifies at his confirmation hearing to be the new Treasury Secretary in Washington. The Senate confirmed Lew on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, to be Treasury secretary, affirming President Barack Obama's choice of a budget expert at a time when Congress and the White House are at odds over sharp government spending cuts. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)</p><p>FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2013 file photo, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. With across-the-board spending cuts all but certain, Republicans and Democrats in the Senate are staging a politically charged showdown designed to avoid public blame for any public inconvenience or disruption in government services that result. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)</p><p>President Barack Obama, left, is introduced by Andrew N. Liveris, right, President, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Dow Chemical Company, before Obama spoke at the Business Council dinner in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)</p><p>In this Feb. 28, 2013, photo, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio pauses while meeting with reporters during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, to answer questions about the impending automatic spending cuts that take effect March 1. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)</p><p>House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks to reporters outside the White House in Washington, Friday, March 1, 2013, following a meeting with President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders regarding the automatic spending cuts. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</p><p>President Barack Obama speaks to reporters in the White House briefing room in Washington, Friday, March 1, 2013, following after meeting with congressional leaders regarding the automatic spending cuts. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)</p><p>President Barack Obama speaks to reporters in the White House briefing room in Washington, Friday, March 1, 2013, following after meeting with congressional leaders regarding the automatic spending cuts. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/19/17018509-the-reset-obama-counts-down-to-govt-budget-cutshttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/19/17018509-the-reset-obama-counts-down-to-govt-budget-cutsuswhite-housebarack-obamaus-newsrepublican-controlled-houseresetdemocratic-led-senateTue, 19 Feb 2013 17:32:04 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke attends the summit of financial ministers and heads of central banks of the G20 group of nations ahead of their meeting in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)</p><p>FILE - In this file frame grab from video, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio takes a sip of water during his Republican response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/Pool, File)</p><p>President Barack Obama waves to members of the media as walks across the South Lawn of the White House following his arrival on Marine One helicopter, Monday, Feb. 18, 2013. President Obama was returning from a weekend of golfing in Palm City, Fla. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)</p><p>President Barack Obama greets first responders after speaking in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office building on the White House complex in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, to urge Congress to come up with an alternative plan to avert automatic spending cuts set to kick in on March 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)</p><p>President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks about the sequester, accompanied by emergency responders, a group of workers the White House says could be affected if state and local governments lose federal money as a result of budget cuts, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office building on the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)</p><p>President Barack Obama speaks about the sequester, as he stands with emergency responders, a group of workers the White House says could be affected if state and local governments lose federal money as a result of budget cuts, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, at the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office building on the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)</p><p>White House press secretary Jay Carney gestures as he briefs reporters at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)</p><p>Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, responds to President Obama's State of the Union speech during an interview with The Associated Press at his Capitol office, in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)</p><p>In this Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2012, photo, Eva Cevallos with her eleven-month daughter, Quinn, shop during the Thanksgiving Pre-Black Friday event at the Walmart Supercenter store in Rosemead, Calif. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. offered a weak business outlook Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013, as new economic challenges for its low-income U.S. shoppers start to take a toll. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)</p><p>FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013 file photo, a woman shops at a Nordstrom store in Chicago. U.S. consumer prices were flat last month, the latest sign inflation is in check. That could give the Federal Reserve room to continue its efforts to stimulate growth. The consumer price index has risen 1.6 percent in the 12 months ending in January, the Labor Department said Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. That's down from a 2.9 percent pace a year ago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)</p><p>White House press secretary Jay Carney and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood brief reporters regarding the sequester, Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)</p><p>President Barack Obama addresses the National Governors Association, Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)</p><p>President Barack Obama addresses the National Governors Association in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)</p><p>First lady Michelle Obama, appearing on screen from Washington, and actor Jack Nicholson present the award for best picture during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday Feb. 24, 2013, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)</p><p>New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie joins other governors of the National Governors Association at the 2013 Governors’ Dinner at the White House in Washington, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/11/16927492-the-reset-gop-using-senate-math-to-block-hagelhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/11/16927492-the-reset-gop-using-senate-math-to-block-hagelussenate-republicansbarack-obamaus-newsresetchuck-hagelMon, 11 Feb 2013 18:07:09 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2012 file photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, speaks to reporters after leaving a closed-door meeting investigating the violent Sept. 11, assault on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya at the Capitol in Washington, A struggling Republican party is hanging ever more hope for its revitalization on Sen. Marco Rubio, a Cuban-American seen by many as a top contender for its 2016 presidential nomination. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)</p><p>FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, talks about proposals to reduce gun violence at the White House in Washington. Obama has called for a ban on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines and is pushing other policies in the wake of the mass shooting in December 2012 at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. In response, gun-rights advocates have accused Obama and others of ignoring the Second Amendment rights of Americans. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)</p><p>Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, right, and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, left, gestures as they address the press during a news conference Friday, Feb. 8, 2013 in Richmond, Va. The two governors discussed K-12 education reforms. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)</p><p>FILE – In this Jan. 24, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington. As President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, Feb. 12, 2013, he presides over an economy much healthier than the one he inherited four years ago. Yet growth remains slow and unemployment high. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)</p><p>President Barack Obama bestows the Medal of Honor on retired Staff Sgt. Clinton Romesha for conspicuous gallantry, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Romesha's leadership during a daylong attack by hundreds of fighters on Combat Outpost Keating in Afghanistan led to award. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)</p><p>In this Feb. 7, 2013 photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks with The Associated Press in his Capitol Hill office in Washington. In the nearly 100 days since President Barack Obama won a second term, the Florida senator has taken calculated, concrete steps to emerge as a next generation leader of a rudderless party and put a 21st Century stamp on the conservative movement. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)</p><p>President Barack Obama is greeted by Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., second from left, Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., right, before giving his State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday Feb. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, Pool)</p><p>President Barack Obama speaks at Linamar Corporation in Arden, N.C., the day after delivering his State of the Union address, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)</p><p>President Barack Obama gestures as he gives his State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday Feb. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, Pool)</p><p>President Barack Obama shakes hands after arriving at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Decatur, Ga., Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, before speaking to promote his economic and education plan that he highlighted in his State of the Union address. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)</p><p>FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2013 photo, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, repeats his call for President Obama to submit a budget proposal to Congress, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington. After two stressful years as Washington’s most powerful Republican and a pair of failed high-profile rounds of budget talks with President Barack Obama &#8212; and disappointment over Obama’s re-election &#8212; the battle-scarred House speaker has adopted a you-first approach. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)</p><p>A man works on storage containers in Duisburg, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. The German economy shrank by a larger-than-expected 0.6 percent in the final quarter in 2012, official figures showed Thursday, in a clear sign that the European financial crisis took its toll on the continent's largest economy. The quarterly decline was primarily due to a drop in exports as demand weakened from other European nations, many of which are in recession, the Federal Statistical Office said. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)</p><p>FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2013, file photo, Republican Chuck Hagel, President Obama's choice for Defense Secretary, testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Senate Republicans on Feb. 14, 2013, temporarily blocked a full Senate vote on Hagel's nomination as defense secretary.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)</p><p>Senate Armed Services Committee members, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. confer on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, at the start of the committee's hearing on the appointments of military leaders. The two Republicans have been vocal in their opposition to the nomination of Chuck Hagel to be the next secretary of defense. While Democrats hold a 55-45 edge in the Senate and have the numbers to confirm Hagel on a majority vote, they need the support of five Republicans to clear the way for an up-or-down vote on him. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)</p><p>President Barack Obama shakes hands with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/04/16839418-the-reset-obama-on-deck-for-2nd-big-speech-in-rowhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/04/16839418-the-reset-obama-on-deck-for-2nd-big-speech-in-rowusstate-departmentbarack-obamaus-newsnew-yearresetchuck-hagelleon-panettawith-john-kerryMon, 4 Feb 2013 17:29:55 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, shakes hands with Israeli President Simon Peres during a brief ceremony in the president' Jerusalem residence Saturday Feb. 2, 2013. Israel's president has asked Netanyahu to form the next government, and Netanyahu says he wants to advance peace talks with the Palestinians. (AP Photo/Jim Hollander, Pool)</p><p>United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta speaks to a person on the field before the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Gene Puskar) </p><p>New Secretary of State John Kerry shows his first diplomatic passport he got when he was eleven years old when his father was in the foreign service, Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, during a ceremony welcoming him as the 68th secretary of state, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)</p><p>President Barack Obama waves as he prepares to board Air Force One before his departure from Andrews Air Force Base, Monday, Feb., 4, 2013, enroute to Minnesota. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)</p><p>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks with reporters after a weekly Democratic strategy session, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)</p><p>President Barack Obama shakes hands with invited guests after he brought his gun violence proposals on the road to Minneapolis, Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, at the Minneapolis Police Department's Special Operations Center, where he outlined his plan before law enforcement personnel. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)</p><p>House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va. gestures as he gives a major policy address entitled: "Making Life Work." Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013, at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)</p><p>House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va., left, talks to Rashawn Williams and his younger sister Dominique Williams, after giving a major policy address entitled: "Making Life Work," Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013, at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington,. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)</p><p>President Barack Obama returns a salute as he walks from Marine One helicopter as he lands at the U.S. Naval Academy before attending the Senate Democratic Issues Conference in Annapolis, Md., Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)</p><p>FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2013, file photo Republican Chuck Hagel, a former two-term GOP senator from Nebraska and President Obama's choice for Defense Secretary, testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. A Senate panel on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013, abruptly postponed a vote on Chuck Hagel's nomination to be defense secretary amid Republican demands for more information from President Barack Obama's nominee about his paid speeches and business dealings (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)</p><p>Outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta adjusts his papers as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, before the Senate Armed Services Committee about the Pentagon's role in responding to the attack last year on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, where the ambassador and three other Americans were killed. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)</p><p>First lady Michelle Obama applauds as President Barack Obama waves after he spokes at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)</p><p>House Minority Whip Rep. Steny Hoyer of Md., right, is seated with other lawmakers as they listen to President Barack Obama speak at the House Democratic Issues Conference in Lansdowne, Va., Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. From left are, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., unidentified, Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., Rep. Joseph Crowley, D-N.Y. and Hoyer. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)</p><p>President Barack Obama waves as he walks across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, following his arrival on Marine One helicopter from the House Democratic Issues Conference in Lansdowne, Va. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)</p><p>House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, leaves a news conference after telling reporters that the looming sequester and resulting budget cuts would be like "taking a meat ax to our government," at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013. Eager to buy time and avoid economic pain, President Barack Obama urged Congress on Tuesday to pass targeted short-term spending cuts and higher taxes as a way to put off sweeping, automatic cuts that would slice deeply into military and domestic programs starting March 1. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/28/16739410-the-reset-govt-slowing-economic-and-job-growthhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/28/16739410-the-reset-govt-slowing-economic-and-job-growthusronald-reaganbarack-obamaus-newsresetchuck-hagelMon, 28 Jan 2013 17:26:33 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>President Barack Obama, with current White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew, right, announces that he will name current Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough,left, as his next chief of staff, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Lew has been nominated by the president to become treasury secretary. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</p><p>FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2013 file image taken from video and provided by CBS, President Barack Obama, center, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speak with ”60 Minutes” correspondent Steve Kroft, left, in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington. The interview will air Sunday, Jan. 27 during the “60 Minutes” telecast on CBS. (AP Photo/CBS, File)</p><p>FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2011 file photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks at the Newseum in Washington. In an opinion piece published Sunday Jan. 27, 2013 in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Rubio wrote that the existing system amounts to "de facto amnesty," and he called for "commonsense reform." (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)</p><p>The lights of the U.S. Capitol remain lit into the night on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. In the short term, the economy's headwinds are still restraining growth, including, th heaviest millstone weighing down the economy; the rift between President Barack Obama and Republicans over taxes and spending. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)</p><p>FILE-In this Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012, file photo, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks during a news conference in Washington. First appointed by President George W. Bush in 2006 and given a second four-year term as chairman by President Barack Obama, Bernanke has not signaled whether he'd like a third four-year term as head of the nation's central bank if Obama pressed him to stay on. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)</p><p>President Barack Obama waves from the top of the steps of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Md., Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Obama is traveling to Las Vegas to deliver a speech on immigration. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)</p><p>President Barack Obama waves to reporters as he walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, as he returns from a trip to Las Vegas where he spoke about immigration. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)</p><p>Former Republican Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama's choice for defense secretary, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)</p><p>Republican Chuck Hagel, President Obama's choice for defense secretary, testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)</p><p>A protestor holds a sign as former Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama's choice for defense secretary, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)</p><p>Republican Chuck Hagel, President Obama's choice for defense secretary, testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)</p><p>In this Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013 photo, Fernando Rames answers questions on a job application at the job fair in Sunrise, Fla. U.S. employers added 157,000 jobs in January, and hiring was much stronger at the end of 2012 than previously thought, providing reassurance that the job market held steady even as economic growth stalled, according to Labor Department reports, Friday, Feb. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)</p><p>White House press secretary Jay Carney briefs reporters at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/25/16699441-ap-impact-recession-tech-kill-middle-class-jobshttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/25/16699441-ap-impact-recession-tech-kill-middle-class-jobsjobsus-newsdisappearinggreatresetthe-greatus-theFri, 25 Jan 2013 18:18:41 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2011 photo, a row of self checkout lines are available at a Big Y supermarket in Manchester, Conn. According to a three-month AP investigation released in January 2013, five years after the start of the Great Recession, instead of relying on someone else in the workplace or their personal lives, people are using technology to do tasks independently. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)</p><p>FILE - In this Monday Oct. 10, 2011, file photo, Siri, Apple's virtual assistant, is displayed on the Apple iPhone 4S in San Francisco. According to a three-month AP investigation released in January 2013, five years after the start of the Great Recession, instead of relying on someone else in the workplace or their personal lives, people are using technology to do tasks independently. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)</p><p>FILE - In this Wednesday, June, 15, 2011, file photo, job seekers wait in a line at a job fair in Southfield, Mich. In the United States, half of the 7.5 million jobs lost during the Great Recession were paid middle-class wages, ranging from $37,000 to $68,000. But only 2 percent of the 3.4 million jobs gained since the recession are mid-pay. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)</p><p>FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2007, file photo, recent graduates line up to see potential employers at a job fair in Tokyo. According to a three-month AP investigation released in January 2013, five years after the start of the Great Recession, millions of middle-class jobs have disappeared from the global economy and have been replaced by technology. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)</p><p>FILE - In this March 25, 2009, file photo, job seekers wait to submit applications at a job fair in Beijing, China. According to a three-month AP investigation released in January 2013, five years after the start of the Great Recession, millions of middle-class jobs have disappeared from the global economy and aren't just being lost to China and other developing countries, but increasingly, jobs are being replaced by technology. (AP Photo/Greg Baker, File)</p><p>In this Jan. 15, 2013, photo, photos of workers with their families hang on the wall in the break room of Factory Automation Systems as Rosser Pryor, co-owner and President, right, looks on at the company's Atlanta facility. Pryor, who cut 40 of 100 workers since the recession, says while the company is making more money now and could hire ten people, it is holding back in favor of investing in automation and software. (AP Photo/David Goldman)</p><p>In this Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, photo, Brake drums roll down a conveyor belt to a station which robotically balances the drum at Webb Wheel Products in Cullman, Ala. Webb Wheel hasn't added a factory worker in three years, though it's making 300,000 more drums annually, a 25 percent increase, because of robots. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)</p><p>In this Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, photo, Webb Wheel Products President Duane Ricketts is pictured in front a portion of their inventory of brake drums in Cullman, Ala. “Everyone is waiting for the unemployment rate to drop, but I don't know if it will much,” Ricketts says. “Companies in the recession learned to be more efficient, and they're not going to go back.” (AP Photo/Dave Martin)</p><p>This Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, photo, shows the Doosan V550M at Webb Wheel Products in Cullman, Ala. According to Dwayne Ricketts, the president of Webb Wheel Products, the Doosan V550M can "drill holes on both sides of a 130-pound brake drum without missing a beat, and it doesn't take vacations or complain about anything."(AP Photo/Dave Martin)</p><p>FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2012, file photo, passengers use the self service check-in at the U.S. Airways gate at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, in Grapevine, Texas. According to a three-month AP investigation released in January 2013, five years after the start of the Great Recession, instead of relying on someone else in the workplace or their personal lives, people are using technology to do tasks independently. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)</p><p>FILE - In this Wednesday, March 5, 2008, file photo. a Costco shopper purchases TurboTax at Costco in Mountain View, Calif. According to a three-month AP investigation released in January 2013, five years after the start of the Great Recession, instead of relying on someone else in the workplace or their personal lives, people are using technology to do tasks independently. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)</p><p>In this Jan. 15, 2013, photo, Rosser Pryor, Co-owner and President of Factory Automation Systems, sits next to a new high-performance industrial robot at the company's Atlanta facility. Pryor, who cut 40 of 100 workers since the recession, says while the company is making more money now and could hire ten people, it is holding back in favor of investing in automation and software. (AP Photo/David Goldman)</p><p>In this Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, photo, brake drums roll down a conveyor belt to a station which robotically balances the drum at Webb Wheel Products in Cullman, Ala. Webb Wheel hasn't added a factory worker in three years, though it's making 300,000 more drums annually, a 25 percent increase, because of robots. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/25/16688316-inventors-rewards-angry-mobs-exilehttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/25/16688316-inventors-rewards-angry-mobs-exiletechnologybusinessushistoryofprotestgreatresetFri, 25 Jan 2013 05:02:25 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>This 1926 image shows crowds posing outside Warner's Theatre in New York for the 1926 opening of John Barrymore in "Don Juan." This silent film's synchronized score led directly to the breakthrough talkie, "The Jazz Singer," the following year. For every clever man who invents a labor-saving machine, it seems a crowd of angry men rises up to destroy it. In the 1930s, silent films were being replaced by “talkies,” and musicians who played in movie theaters across the country were losing work. So their union launched a smear campaign. It took out ads calling the music “canned” and urged people to insist on the live variety. (AP Photo)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/25/16688303-luddites-they-raged-against-the-machine-and-losthttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/25/16688303-luddites-they-raged-against-the-machine-and-losttechnologybusinessusapgreatresetludditesFri, 25 Jan 2013 05:02:11 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>This publicly distributed illustration from 1812 shows frame-breakers, or Luddites, smashing a loom. The Luddites were British textile artisans who 200 years ago smashed the mechanized looms they thought threatened their jobs. Machine-breaking was criminalized by the Parliament of the United Kingdom as early as 1721, but the Frame-Breaking Act 1812 made the death penalty available. (AP Photo)</p><p>FILE- In this Friday, Nov. 23, 2012, file photo, Elton John greets the audience during his concert at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai, China. The Luddite label has been applied to everyone from anti-technology extremists to those who merely struggle with technology or don't want to bother with it to extremists. "I'm a Luddite,'' pop star Elton John told the Britain's The Telegraph newspaper in 2011. “I don't have a phone. I don't have a computer. I don't have an iPad. And I don't have an iPod.'''(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)</p><p>FILE - This June 21, 1996, file photo shows Theodore Kaczynski. The Luddite label has been applied to everyone from anti-technology extremists, such as the “Unabomber,'' Ted Kaczynski, to those who merely struggle with technology or don't want to bother with it. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/24/16671680-imagining-a-future-when-machines-have-all-the-jobshttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/24/16671680-imagining-a-future-when-machines-have-all-the-jobstechnologyusfordpoliticsgreatresetmartin-fordThu, 24 Jan 2013 06:32:12 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>In this Monday, Jan. 14, 2013, photo author Martin Ford, 49, poses for a portrait in San Francisco. Ford's book, "The Lights in the Tunnel" describes a nightmare scenario where machines leave 75 percent of American workers unemployed by 2089. Consumer spending collapses. Even those who are still working slash spending and save everything they can; they fear their jobs are doomed, too. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)</p><p>In this Monday, Jan. 14, 2013 photo, author Martin Ford, 49, poses for a portrait in San Francisco. Ford's book, "The Lights in the Tunnel" describes a nightmare scenario where machines leave 75 percent of American workers unemployed by 2089. Consumer spending collapses. Even those who are still working slash spending and save everything they can; they fear their jobs are doomed, too. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)</p><p>In this Monday, Jan. 14, 2013 photo, author Martin Ford, 49, poses for a portrait in San Francisco. Ford's book, "The Lights in the Tunnel" describes a nightmare scenario where machines leave 75 percent of American workers unemployed by 2089. Consumer spending collapses. Even those who are still working slash spending and save everything they can; they fear their jobs are doomed, too. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/24/16671675-manufacturers-cutting-white-collar-jobs-now-toohttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/24/16671675-manufacturers-cutting-white-collar-jobs-now-tootechnologyusjobsus-newsgreatmanufacturingresetapfnThu, 24 Jan 2013 06:31:45 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>In this Jan. 15, 2013, photo, photos of workers with their families hang on the wall in the break room of Factory Automation Systems as Rosser Pryor, co-owner and President, right, looks on at the company's Atlanta facility. Pryor, who cut 40 of 100 workers since the recession, says while the company is making more money now and could hire ten people, it is holding back in favor of investing in automation and software. (AP Photo/David Goldman)</p><p>In this Jan. 15, 2013, photo, Rosser Pryor, Co-owner and President of Factory Automation Systems, sits next to a new high-performance industrial robot at the company's Atlanta facility. Pryor, who cut 40 of 100 workers since the recession, says while the company is making more money now and could hire ten people, it is holding back in favor of investing in automation and software. (AP Photo/David Goldman)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/24/16670500-practically-human-can-smart-machines-do-your-jobhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/24/16670500-practically-human-can-smart-machines-do-your-jobtechnologypoliticsadvancegreatpacific-gasresetthe-greatus-theart-liscanothe-great-resetThu, 24 Jan 2013 05:25:46 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>In this Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, photo, a robot paints brake drums at Webb Wheel Products in Cullman, Ala. Webb Wheel hasn't added a factory worker in three years, though it's making 300,000 more drums annually, a 25 percent increase, because of robots. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)</p><p>In this Jan. 10, 2013, photo, a man rides a train on Tokyo's Yurikamome Line that runs without any drivers or conductors along Tokyo Bay. Katsuya Hagane, the manager in charge of operations at New Transit Yurikamome, which employees just 60 regular employees, says the automated systems reduce the number of staff needed. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)</p><p>In this Jan. 10, 2013, photo, children ride in the very front seats of Tokyo's Yurikamome Line that runs without any drivers or conductors along Tokyo Bay. Katsuya Hagane, the manager in charge of operations at New Transit Yurikamome, which employees just 60 regular employees, says the automated systems reduce the number of staff needed. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)</p><p>In this Friday, Jan. 11, 2013 photo, customer Chung Yong-min does banking through a screen monitor connected to a video conference with bank employee Oh Ji-young, located in another office, at a Smart Banking Center in Seoul, South Korea. Standard Chartered is expanding its “smart banking'' branches that employ a staff of three instead of eight. The company expects to have 30 more by the end of 2013. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) </p><p>FILE - In this January, 16, 2011, file photo, a driverless vehicle which is controlled by an advanced navigation system arrives at the Personal Rapid Transport (PRT) station at the Masdar Institute campus in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. The United Arab Emirates introduced the world's longest automated rail system, 32 miles, in Dubai in 2009. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)</p><p>In this Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013 photo, Jim Dunham, wires circuits for a control panel at Factory Automation Systems at the company's Atlanta facility. Factory Automation Systems cut 40 of 100 workers since the recession and instead is investing in automation and software. (AP Photo/David Goldman)</p><p>FILE - In this May 11, 2006, file photo,Verizon lineman Clemente Calma installs fiber optic cable on a telephone pole in Massapequa Park, N.Y. Verizon is rapidly replacing copper phone lines with lower-maintenance fiber-optic cables. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)</p><p>In this Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, photo, Webb Wheel Products employees watch as the Doosan V550M drills holes in one side of a 130-lb CK drum without help from humans at Webb Wheel Products in Cullman, Ala. Webb Wheel hasn't added a factory worker in three years, though it's making 300,000 more drums annually, a 25 percent increase, because of robots. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)</p><p>In this Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013 photo, Rosser Pryor, co-owner and President of Factory Automation Systems, right, looks over plans with John Ridgley, project manager, next to a high-performance industrial robot at the company's Atlanta facility. Factory Automation Systems cut 40 of 100 workers since the recession and instead is investing in automation and software. (AP Photo/David Goldman)</p><p>In this Friday, Jan. 11, 2013 photo, PG&E employee Art Liscano, 66, reads a meter at a house in Clovis, Calif. The number of meter readers in the U.S. fell from 48,000 in 2000 to 36,000 in 2010. Every day, PG&E replaces 1,200 old-fashioned meters with digital versions that can collect information without human help, generate more accurate power bills, and even send an alert if the power goes out. (AP Photo/Gosia Wozniacka)</p><p>In this Friday, Jan. 11, 2013 photo, PG&E employee Art Liscano, 66, reads a meter at a house in Clovis, Calif. Liscano's department employed 50 full-time meter readers just six years ago. Now, it has six. (AP Photo/Gosia Wozniacka)</p><p>This combination of undated AP Photos, shows left, a remaining analog meter in Clovis, California and right, a smart reader. Every day, PG&E replaces 1,200 old-fashioned analog meters with digital "SmartMeter" versions that can collect information without human help, generate more accurate power bills, even send an alert if the power goes out. (AP Photo/Gosia Wozniacka)</p><p>In this Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, photo, a robot lifts and stacks brake drums at Webb Wheel Products in Cullman, Ala. Webb Wheel hasn't added a factory worker in three years, though it's making 300,000 more drums annually, a 25 percent increase, because of robots. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/23/16665490-how-us-jobs-came-back-after-recent-recessionshttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/23/16665490-how-us-jobs-came-back-after-recent-recessionsusglanceus-newsgreatresetWed, 23 Jan 2013 22:01:56 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>In this Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, photo, Alison Guzman, a recruiter for "Okey Dokey" grocery stores, stands next to a stack of job applications at the job fair in Sunrise, Fla., Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. Job fair planners estimated that more 7,500 people attended the event. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/23/16665268-is-technology-a-job-killer-a-few-history-lessonshttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/23/16665268-is-technology-a-job-killer-a-few-history-lessonstechnologyushistorygreatinnovationresetof-innovationWed, 23 Jan 2013 21:39:41 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>FILE- In this Tuesday, April 25, 1989, file photo, the new Motorola Micro TAC personal telephone, is unveiled during a news conference in Washington. From textile machines to the horseless carriage to email, technology has upended industries and wiped out jobs for centuries. It also has created millions of jobs, though usually not for the people who lost them. (AP Photo/Motorola)</p><p>FILE - This undated file photo shows a section of the "Difference Engine", the first computer ever made, designed by Charles Babbage between 1823 and 1842. From textile machines to the horseless carriage to email, technology has upended industries and wiped out jobs for centuries. It also has created millions of jobs, though usually not for the people who lost them. (AP File Photo)</p><p>In this Wednesday, Jan. 16 2013 photo, a calendar reminder is photographed on an iPhone screen in New York. From textile machines to the horseless carriage to email, technology has upended industries and wiped out jobs for centuries. It also has created millions of jobs, though usually not for the people who lost them. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/23/16652710-ap-photos-a-look-at-jobs-replaced-by-technologyhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/23/16652710-ap-photos-a-look-at-jobs-replaced-by-technologytechnologyusjobsus-newsdisappearingvanishinggreatresetphoto-gallerythe-greatus-theWed, 23 Jan 2013 05:12:29 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>FILE - In this Wednesday, June, 15, 2011, file photo, job seekers wait in a line at a job fair in Southfield, Mich. In the United States, half of the 7.5 million jobs lost during the Great Recession were paid middle-class wages, ranging from $37,000 to $68,000. But only 2 percent of the 3.4 million jobs gained since the recession are mid-pay. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)</p><p>FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2007, file photo, recent graduates line up to see potential employers at a job fair in Tokyo. According to a three-month AP investigation released in January 2013, five years after the start of the Great Recession, millions of middle-class jobs have disappeared from the global economy and have been replaced by technology. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)</p><p>FILE - In this March 25, 2009, file photo, job seekers wait to submit applications at a job fair in Beijing, China. According to a three-month AP investigation released in January 2013, five years after the start of the Great Recession, millions of middle-class jobs have disappeared from the global economy and aren't just being lost to China and other developing countries, but increasingly, jobs are being replaced by technology. (AP Photo/Greg Baker, File)</p><p>This Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, photo, shows the Doosan V550M at Webb Wheel Products in Cullman, Ala. According to Dwayne Ricketts, the president of Webb Wheel Products, the Doosan V550M can "drill holes on both sides of a 130-pound brake drum without missing a beat, and it doesn't take vacations or complain about anything."(AP Photo/Dave Martin)</p><p>FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2011 photo, a row of self checkout lines are available at a Big Y supermarket in Manchester, Conn. According to a three-month AP investigation released in January 2013, five years after the start of the Great Recession, instead of relying on someone else in the workplace or their personal lives, people are using technology to do tasks independently. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)</p><p>In this Sept. 6, 2012, file photo, passengers use the self service check-in at the U.S. Airways gate at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, in Grapevine, Texas. According to a three-month AP investigation released in January 2013, five years after the start of the Great Recession, instead of relying on someone else in the workplace or their personal lives, people are using technology to do tasks independently. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)</p><p>FILE - In this Wednesday, March 5, 2008, file photo. a Costco shopper purchases TurboTax at Costco in Mountain View, Calif. According to a three-month AP investigation released in January 2013, five years after the start of the Great Recession, instead of relying on someone else in the workplace or their personal lives, people are using technology to do tasks independently. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)</p><p>FILE - In this Monday Oct. 10, 2011, file photo, Siri, Apple's virtual assistant, is displayed on the Apple iPhone 4S in San Francisco. According to a three-month AP investigation released in January 2013, five years after the start of the Great Recession, instead of relying on someone else in the workplace or their personal lives, people are using technology to do tasks independently. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)</p><p>FILE - In this Wednesday, June, 15, 2011, file photo, job seekers wait in a line at a job fair in Southfield, Mich. In the United States, half of the 7.5 million jobs lost during the Great Recession were paid middle-class wages, ranging from $37,000 to $68,000. But only 2 percent of the 3.4 million jobs gained since the recession are mid-pay. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)</p><p>FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2007, file photo, recent graduates line up to see potential employers at a job fair in Tokyo. According to a three-month AP investigation released in January 2013, five years after the start of the Great Recession, millions of middle-class jobs have disappeared from the global economy and have been replaced by technology. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)</p><p>FILE - In this March 25, 2009, file photo, job seekers wait to submit applications at a job fair in Beijing, China. According to a three-month AP investigation released in January 2013, five years after the start of the Great Recession, millions of middle-class jobs have disappeared from the global economy and aren't just being lost to China and other developing countries, but increasingly, jobs are being replaced by technology. (AP Photo/Greg Baker, File)</p><p>In this Jan. 15, 2013, photo, photos of workers with their families hang on the wall in the break room of Factory Automation Systems as Rosser Pryor, co-owner and President, right, looks on at the company's Atlanta facility. Pryor, who cut 40 of 100 workers since the recession, says while the company is making more money now and could hire ten people, it is holding back in favor of investing in automation and software. (AP Photo/David Goldman)</p><p>In this Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, photo, Brake drums roll down a conveyor belt to a station which robotically balances the drum at Webb Wheel Products in Cullman, Ala. Webb Wheel hasn't added a factory worker in three years, though it's making 300,000 more drums annually, a 25 percent increase, because of robots. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)</p><p>In this Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, photo, Webb Wheel Products President Duane Ricketts is pictured in front a portion of their inventory of brake drums in Cullman, Ala. “Everyone is waiting for the unemployment rate to drop, but I don't know if it will much,” Ricketts says. “Companies in the recession learned to be more efficient, and they're not going to go back.” (AP Photo/Dave Martin)</p><p>This Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, photo, shows the Doosan V550M at Webb Wheel Products in Cullman, Ala. According to Dwayne Ricketts, the president of Webb Wheel Products, the Doosan V550M can "drill holes on both sides of a 130-pound brake drum without missing a beat, and it doesn't take vacations or complain about anything."(AP Photo/Dave Martin)</p><p>FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2012, file photo, passengers use the self service check-in at the U.S. Airways gate at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, in Grapevine, Texas. According to a three-month AP investigation released in January 2013, five years after the start of the Great Recession, instead of relying on someone else in the workplace or their personal lives, people are using technology to do tasks independently. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)</p><p>FILE - In this Wednesday, March 5, 2008, file photo. a Costco shopper purchases TurboTax at Costco in Mountain View, Calif. According to a three-month AP investigation released in January 2013, five years after the start of the Great Recession, instead of relying on someone else in the workplace or their personal lives, people are using technology to do tasks independently. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)</p><p>In this Jan. 15, 2013, photo, Rosser Pryor, Co-owner and President of Factory Automation Systems, sits next to a new high-performance industrial robot at the company's Atlanta facility. Pryor, who cut 40 of 100 workers since the recession, says while the company is making more money now and could hire ten people, it is holding back in favor of investing in automation and software. (AP Photo/David Goldman)</p><p>In this Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, photo, brake drums roll down a conveyor belt to a station which robotically balances the drum at Webb Wheel Products in Cullman, Ala. Webb Wheel hasn't added a factory worker in three years, though it's making 300,000 more drums annually, a 25 percent increase, because of robots. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)</p><p>This combination of Associated Press file photos shows Steven Herman, right, head of the Library of Congress storage facility, at the Library of Congress in 2003, in Washington, and left, a "bookBot", an automated retrieval system at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library at North Carolina State University in 2013, in Raleigh, N.C. Many middle-class workers have lost jobs because powerful software and computerized machines are doing tasks that only humans could do before. (AP Photo)</p><p>This combination of Associated Press file photos shows a worker, left, assembling a motor in a Mercedes Benz factory in 2008 in Berlin, and a robot, right, painting a brake drum at Webb Wheel Products, in 2013, in Cullman, Ala.. Thanks to robots, Webb Wheel hasn't added a factory worker in over three years, though it's making 300,000 more drums annually, a 25 percent increase. (AP Photo)</p><p>This combination of Associated Press file photos shows, left, an information technology room in 2001, in Hurst, Texas, and right, a SAP server room in 2012, in Walldorf, Germany. SAP allows companies to use cloud computing to track sales and inventory without needing to hire IT employees. (AP Photo)</p><p>This combination of Associated Press file photos shows, left, a train conductor in 2011, in New Brunswick, N.J., and right, Tokyo's Yurikamome Line that runs without any drivers or conductors along Tokyo Bay, in 2013. Katsuya Hagane, the manager in charge of operations at New Transit Yurikamome, with just 60 regular employees, says the automated system helps keeps hiring down. (AP Photo) </p><p>This combination of Associated Press file photos shows, left, the General Services Administration telephone switchboard and its operators in 1951, and right, Siri, Apple's virtual assistant, on the Apple iPhone 4S in 2011, in San Francisco. The number of switchboard and telephone operators in the U.S. fell from 182,000 to 73,000 in 10 years through 2010 because of new technology. (AP Photo)</p><p>This combination of Associated Press file photos shows, left, passengers checking-in at an American Airlines ticketing counter in 2011, in Dallas, and right, a row of self-check-in kiosks in 2012, in Seattle. Many middle-class workers have lost jobs because powerful software and computerized machines are doing tasks that only humans could do before. (AP Photo) </p><p>This combination of Associated Press file photos shows, left, travel agent, Gabriele Herlitschka leafing through an Asia and Australia travel catalogue in her travel agency office in 2002, in Duesseldorf, Germany, and right, Expedia worker Mike Brown in an alcove set up for employees in 2013, in Bellevue, Wash. The number travel agents fell 46 percent from 142,000 to 76,000 in ten years through 2010. (AP Photo)</p><p>This combination of Associated Press file photos shows, left, a teller at the Taipei Bank, in 2002, in Taipei, Taiwan, and the 2011 Bank of America mobile application on a mobile device. Many middle-class workers have lost jobs because powerful software and computerized machines are doing tasks that only humans could do before. (AP Photo)</p><p>This combination of Associated Press file photos shows, left, Yolanda Boozer, a secretary in the office of President Lyndon B. Johnson, in 1963, in Washington, and right, a reminder application as demonstrated on an iPhone, in 2013, in New York. The number secretaries and administrative assistants in the U.S. fell from 4.2 million to 3.1 million in ten years through 2010. (AP Photo)</p><p>This combination of Associated Press file photos shows, left, mail carrier Mike Gillis delivering mail in 2011, in Montpelier, Vt., and right, Microsoft Outlook being demonstrated on a desktop computer in 2013, in New York. The number of "mail carriers" in the U.S. fell 10 percent from 358,000 to 321,000 in ten years through 2010. (AP Photo)</p><p>This combination of Associated Press file photos shows, left, toll collector Anthony Morris working a booth at the Rip Van Winkle Bridge in Catskill, N.Y., in 2012, and, right, Manisha Padhye holding up an E-Z Pass in 2009, in Broadview Heights, Ohio. Many middle-class workers have lost jobs because powerful software and computerized machines are doing tasks that only humans could do before. (AP Photo)</p><p>This combination of Associated Press file photos shows, left, Tori Stinson at Meadowbrook Insurance Company checking a client's paperwork in 2004 in Southfield, Mich., and right, the TurboTax online tax computer program is displayed on a computer in Palo Alto, Calif., in 2008. The number of bookkeeping, accounting and auditing clerks fell from 1.7 million to 1.3 million in the U.S in ten years through 2010. (AP Photo)</p><p>This combination of Associated Press file photos shows Steven Herman, left, head of the Library of Congress storage facility, at the Library of Congress in 2003, in Washington, and left, a "bookBot", an automated retrieval system at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library at North Carolina State University in 2013, in Raleigh, N.C. Many middle-class workers have lost jobs because powerful software and computerized machines are doing tasks that only humans could do before. (AP Photo)</p><p>This combination of Associated Press file photos shows Steven Herman, left, head of the Library of Congress storage facility, at the Library of Congress in 2003, in Washington, and right, a "bookBot", an automated retrieval system at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library at North Carolina State University in 2013, in Raleigh, N.C. Many middle-class workers have lost jobs because powerful software and computerized machines are doing tasks that only humans could do before. (AP Photo)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/22/16644567-the-reset-john-kerry-breezes-through-hill-hearinghttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/22/16644567-the-reset-john-kerry-breezes-through-hill-hearingbarack-obamajohn-kerryus-newsresetTue, 22 Jan 2013 17:50:12 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>FILE - This Jan. 7, 2013 file photo shows, President Barack Obama and his choice for Defense Secretary, former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, left, and his choice for new CIA Director, current Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, John Brennan in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Minutes after his inauguration speech Monday, President Barack Obama signed documents officially submitting top administration nominations to the Senate. Obama affirmed the nominations of John Brennan to be director of the CIA, former Sen. Chuck Hagel for secretary of defense, Sen. John Kerry to be secretary of state and Jack Lew for Treasury secretary. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)</p><p>President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama arrive to dance together at an Inaugural Ball, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013, at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, during the 57th Presidential Inauguration. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</p><p>Bundled up people arrive in below freezing temerpatures to attend the National Prayer Service at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and their families plan to attend a prayer service, a day after the 57th Presidential Inauguration. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)</p><p>Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, testifies on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, before Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the deadly September attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)</p><p>Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., President Barack Obama's nominee to become secretary of state, gives a 'thumbs-up' as he arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, to testify before his confirmation hearing before the committee to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)</p><p>Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., sits before the committee he has served on for 28 years and led for the past four as he seeks confirmation as U.S. secretary of state, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Kerry, who is likely to face friendly questioning on a smooth path to approval, is President Barack Obama's choice to succeed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton who is stepping down after four years as America's top diplomat. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/18/16586987-the-reset-gop-is-pushing-state-election-changeshttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/18/16586987-the-reset-gop-is-pushing-state-election-changesusbarack-obamasenate-democratsus-newsresetFri, 18 Jan 2013 18:13:23 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks during the last news conference of his first term in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Obama's political organization is forming an outside, nonprofit group to support the president's legislative agenda. The unprecedented move gives Obama a way to promote his agenda outside the confines of the White House and seeks to harness the energy from his re-election campaign into support for legislation. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)</p><p>FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2012, file photo, Chairman of the Republican National Convention Reince Priebus addresses the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. After back-to-back presidential losses, Republicans in key states want to change the rules to make it easier for them to win. From Wisconsin to Pennsylvania, GOP officials who control legislatures in states that supported President Barack Obama are considering changing state laws that give the winner of a state’s popular vote all of its Electoral College votes, too. Instead, these officials want Electoral College votes to be divided proportionally, a move that could transform the way the country elects its president. Priebus endorsed the idea and other Republican leaders support it, too, suggesting that the effort may be gaining momentum. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)</p><p>A painter touches up an entrance post outside the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 18, 2013, in preparation for this weekend's 57th Presidential Inauguration, where President Barack Obama will be sworn in for a second term. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)</p><p>FILE -M This Jan. 14, 2013 file photo shows Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, displaying the official tickets, maps and access plans that will be distributed to people coming to see President Obama take the oath of office for his second term, during a press conference, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Schumer's office announced Thursday that eBay and Craigslist agreed to cancel the listings. The office said the StubHub website had already refused to sell Inaugural tickets. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)</p><p>The sun rises behind the Capitol Dome early in the morning before the ceremonial swearing-in of President Barack Obama at the U.S. Capitol during the 57th Presidential Inauguration in Washington, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) </p><p>President Barack Obama waves after his ceremonial swearing-in at the U.S. Capitol during the 57th Presidential Inauguration in Washington, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) </p><p>President Barack Obama greets people on the West Front of the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013 in Washington, after his ceremonial swearing-in during the 57th Presidential Inauguration. (AP Photo/Win McNamee, Pool)</p><p>FILE - This Jan. 15, 2013 file photo shows House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio walking on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republican leaders scramble for votes on a stopgap debt-limit measure that would let the government keep borrowing until at least mid-May, giving up for now on trying to win spending cuts from Democrats in return. But the respite would be only temporary, with major battles still to come between the GOP and President Barack Obama over taxes, spending and deficits. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)</p><p>Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, and the House GOP leadership speak to reporters after a closed-door meeting on avoiding a potential debt crisis, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. Joining Boehner, from left, are Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., chair of the Republican Conference, Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kan., and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va. House Republicans have said that they will not agree to a long-term debt ceiling increase unless the Senate works with them to pass a budget deal and have also threatened to withhold Congress’s paychecks if either chamber fails to adopt a budget by April 15. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)</p><p>Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the deadly September attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)</p><p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks with reporters following a Republican strategy session at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. From left to right are Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)</p><p>President Barack Obama announces in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, that he will nominate Mary Joe White, right, to lead the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), and re-nominate Richard Cordray, left, to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a role that he has held for the last year under a recess appointment. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/11/16466359-the-reset-obama-rounding-out-his-second-term-teamhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/11/16466359-the-reset-obama-rounding-out-his-second-term-teamuswhite-housepoliticssocial-securitymitt-romneybarack-obamaus-newssecond-amendmentresetFri, 11 Jan 2013 18:00:59 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>Vice President Joe Biden, accompanied by Attorney General Eric Holder, gestures as he speaks during a meeting with Sportsmen and Women and Wildlife Interest Groups and member of his cabinet, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. Biden is holding a series of meetings this week as part of the effort he is leading to develop policy proposals in response to the Newtown, Conn., school shooting (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)</p><p>Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right, and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, center, get a tour National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial by James Laychak, president of the Pentagon Memorial Fund, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, at the Pentagon. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)</p><p>Afghan President Hamid Karzai gestures as he speaks with President Barack Obama during their bilateral meeting in the Oval Office of the White in Washington, Friday, Jan. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)</p><p>President Barack Obama speaks during the last news conference of his first term in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</p><p>President Barack Obama gestures during the final news conference of his first term as he speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</p><p>President Barack Obama speaks about the debt limit in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</p><p>FILE - In this July 7, 2011 file photo, House Speaker John Boehner, of Ohio, listens at left as President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting with Congressional leadership to discuss the debt in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. In the heated talk about deep spending cuts that will dominate Congress in the coming weeks, one thing is likely to be in short supply: details. The reason is simple. Americans embrace the general, abstract idea of reducing federal spending. Their support quickly fades, however, when specific programs are targeted. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)</p><p>President Barack Obama gestures as he answers reporters questions during the final news conference of his first term in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</p><p>A pistol purchased from a northern Virginia gun show without a background check as well as a high capacity assault style rifle magazine are on display on the podium after a news conference on gun control legislation at the Capitol in Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013 in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)</p><p>FILE - In a Friday, Jan. 4, 2013 file photo, a sign is posted for an upcoming gun show, in Leesport, Pa. Nearly six in 10 Americans want stricter gun laws in the aftermath of last month's deadly school shooting in Connecticut, with majorities favoring a nationwide ban on military-style, rapid-fire weapons and limits on gun violence depicted in video games and movies and on TV, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. A lopsided 84 percent of adults would like to see the establishment of a federal standard for background checks for people buying guns at gun shows, the poll showed. President Barack Obama was set Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 to unveil a wide-ranging package of steps for reducing gun violence expected to include a proposed ban on assault weapons, limits on the capacity of ammunition magazines and universal background checks for gun sales. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)</p><p>President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, left, hugs eight-year-old letter writer Grant Fritz during a news conference on proposals to reduce gun violence, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, in the South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington. Obama and Biden were joined by law enforcement officials, lawmakers and children who wrote the president about gun violence following the shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., last month. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)</p><p>A convention attendee looks through the sight of a Sig Sauer semiautomatic rifle at the 35th annual SHOT Show, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, in Las Vegas. The National Shooting Sports Foundation was focusing its trade show on products and services new to what it calls a $4.1 billion industry, with a nod to a raging national debate over assault weapons. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)</p><p>FILE - In this March 6, 2011 file photo, Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough speaks at an interfaith forum at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society in Sterling, Va. People familiar with White House thinking say President Barack Obama is likely to name top national security aide Denis McDonough as his next chief of staff, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013.(AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)</p><p>This April 19, 2005 photo released by Statoil via NTB scanpix, shows the Ain Amenas gas field in Algeria, where Islamist militants raided and took hostages Wednesday Jan. 16, 2013. As Algerian army helicopters clattered overhead deep in the Sahara desert, Islamist militants hunkered down for the night in the natural gas complex they had assaulted Wednesday morning, killing two people and taking dozens of foreigners hostage in what could be the first spillover from France's intervention in Mali. (AP Photo/Kjetil Alsvik, Statoil via NTB scanpix) NORWAY OUT</p><p>FILE - This Jan. 17, 2009 file photo shows traffic redirected from Pennsylvania Ave. in downtown Washington, with the Capitol in the background. From a transportation perspective, Inauguration Day won’t be all that different from most regular workdays in the nation’s capital: If you want to get downtown on time, you’re probably better off not driving. Instead, the hundreds of thousands of people spilling into the city are encouraged to travel by rail, bus or bicycle. And no matter what they choose, they’ll eventually end up on foot &#8212; and possibly walking several miles &#8212; to catch a glimpse of President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, File)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/10/16449311-the-reset-obama-picks-familiar-faces-for-2nd-termhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/10/16449311-the-reset-obama-picks-familiar-faces-for-2nd-termbarack-obamaus-newsresetThu, 10 Jan 2013 17:12:24 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>President Barack Obama shakes hands with outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, where the president announced that he is nominating Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, John Brennan, as the new CIA director; and former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel as the new defense secretary. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</p><p>FILE - This Jan. 9, 2012, file photo shows then-Budget Director Jack Lew listening as President Barack Obama speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. Lew, the current White House chief of staff is President Barack Obama's expected pick to lead the Treasury Department, with an announcement possible before the end of the week. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)</p><p>This Sept. 21, 2011, memo posted on the White House website shows then-Office of Management and Budget director Jack Lew's signature. Lew’s nomination for treasury secretary means a new signature could soon be coming to the dollar bill. Not that you’ll be able to read it. Lew’s signature starts off promising enough, with a soft “J.” But what follows next are seven loopy scribbles, rendering his signature completely illegible. The treasury secretary’s signature is emblazoned in the lower right corner of U.S. dollar bills of all denominations. It remains to be seen whether President Barack Obama will make Lew change up his signature or if the Senate will make it a condition of his confirmation. (AP Photo/The White House)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/02/16304729-the-reset-foreign-policy-moves-into-spotlighthttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/02/16304729-the-reset-foreign-policy-moves-into-spotlightuspoliticscapitol-hillbarack-obamaus-newsnew-yearcentral-intelligence-agencyresetinauguration-dayreturning-republicanre-elected-americanWed, 2 Jan 2013 18:17:58 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., left, walks with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell from Kentucky, to the Senate floor for a vote on the fiscal cliff, on Capitol Hill Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013 in Washington. The Senate passed legislation early New Year's Day to neutralize a fiscal cliff combination of across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts that kicked in at midnight. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)</p><p>House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., left, and Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, arrive to a second Republican caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)</p><p>President Barack Obama waves as he gets off Air Force One upon his arrival at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Honolulu, Hawaii, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. The president is back in Hawaii for vacation after a tense, end-of-the-new-year standoff with Congress over the fiscal cliff. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</p><p>President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden walk away from the podium after Obama made a statement regarding the passage of the fiscal cliff bill in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)</p><p>In this photo provided by the Office of the Governor of New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie speaks at a news conference at New Jersey's State House on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013, in Trenton, N.J. Christie blasted fellow Republican John Boehner for the House Speaker's decision Tuesday to delay a vote on Superstorm Sandy relief and says the inaction is "inexcusable." Republican Rep. Peter King of New York on Wednesday said Boehner has promised votes to aid victims of Superstorm Sandy by Jan. 15. (AP Photo/New Jersey Governor's Office, Tim Larsen)</p><p>House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., front row, center, poses with female House members on the steps of the House on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, prior to the officially opening of the 113th Congress. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)</p><p>House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, enters the House of Representatives chamber, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, after surviving a roll call vote in the newly convened 113th Congress. He is escorted by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va., House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy of Calif., and House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer of Md. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)</p><p>President Barack Obama holds his shave ice as he exits Island Snow to greet people waiting outside, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, in Kailua, Hawaii. President Obama and the first family are in Hawaii for a holiday vacation. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</p><p>In this Wednesday, Dec. 12 2012 photo, Taneshia Wright, of Manhattan, fills out a job application during a job fair in New York. U.S. employers added 155,000 jobs in December, a steady gain that shows hiring held up during the tense negotiations to resolve the fiscal cliff. The solid job growth wasn’t enough to push down the unemployment rate, which remained 7.8 percent last month, the Labor Department said Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. The rate for November was revised up from an initially reported 7.7 percent. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)</p><p>House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio heads into a closed-door strategy session with GOP members, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013, at the start of the first full day of business for the new 113th Congress. Yesterday, Boehner survived a suspenseful roll call vote for his speakership as some conservatives opposed his recent dealings over the "fiscal cliff" negotiations. The House plans to hold it's first vote on a Superstorm Sandy aid package today after a delay prompted Republican recriminations against the leadership. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)</p><p>President Barack Obama walks with daughter Malia on the first family's return from vacationing in Hawaii, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)</p><p>FILE - This Dec, 18, 2008 file photo shows then-Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel in Omaha, Neb. President Barack Obama will nominate Hagel as his next defense secretary, a senior administration official said Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013. The selection of the decorated Vietnam combat veteran sets up a potentially contentious confirmation hearing because Hagel has come under scrutiny from his former colleagues over his positions on Israel and Iran. Some Republicans already have declared their public opposition to Hagel replacing Pentagon chief Leon Panetta in Obama's second-term Cabinet. (AP Photo/Dave Weaver, File)</p><p>President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, to announce that he is nominating Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, John Brennan, right, as the new CIA director; and former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, left, as the new defense secretary. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</p><p>President Barack Obama shakes hands with outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, where the president announced that he is nominating Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, John Brennan, as the new CIA director; and former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel as the new defense secretary. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</p><p>Feet are seen passing through the tarp covered walkway, for security, to the Blair House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, as the Afghan delegation headed by the Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrives. President Barack Obama will host Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his delegation at the White House for bilateral meetings on Friday, Jan. 11. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)</p><p>FILE - In this July 14, 2011, file photo, U.S. soldiers board a U.S. military plane, as they leave Afghanistan, at the U.S. base in Bagram north of Kabul, Afghanistan. The Obama administration gave the first explicit signal Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, that it might leave no troops in Afghanistan after December 2014, an option that defies the Pentagon's view that thousands of troops may be needed to keep a lid on al-Qaida and to strengthen Afghan forces.(AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)</p><p>FILE - In this May 20, 2012, file photo, President Barack Obama, right, shakes hands with with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, during their meeting at the NATO Summit in Chicago. The Obama administration gave the first explicit signal Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, that it might leave no troops in Afghanistan after December 2014, an option that defies the Pentagon's view that thousands of troops may be needed to keep a lid on al-Qaida and to strengthen Afghan forces. Karzai is scheduled to meet with Obama at the White House on Friday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/12/15867022-the-reset-obama-also-facing-a-personnel-cliffhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/12/15867022-the-reset-obama-also-facing-a-personnel-cliffuspoliticsfederal-reservebarack-obamaus-newsresetWed, 12 Dec 2012 18:15:47 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>FILE - In this June 9, 2010, file photo, Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, right, listens with president of the Federal Reserve of Richmond, Jeffrey Lacker, left, at J. Sergeant Reynolds Community College in Richmond, Va. With an eye on the “fiscal cliff,” the Federal Reserve is expected to announce a new bond-buying plan to support the U.S. economy on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. Lacker has said he thinks the job market is being slowed by factors beyond the Fed's control and he says further bond purchases risk worsening future inflation. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)</p><p>House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio walks to the House floor to deliver remarks about negotiations with President Barack Obama on the fiscal cliff, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Boehner said President Barack Obama is slow-walking talks to avoid the fiscal cliff, and hasn't outlined spending cuts he's willing to support as part of a compromise. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)</p><p>FILE - This Dec. 5, 2012 file photo shows President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks about the fiscal cliff at the Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers, in Washington. Some of the best Republican arguments against President Barack Obama's proposals to avoid a “fiscal cliff” come from the president himself. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)</p><p>House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, who conferred with President Barack Obama by phone yesterday, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012, following a closed-door meeting with the GOP caucu. Boehner and the other House Republican leaders are calling for Obama to come up with plan they can accept for spending cuts and tax revenue to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff" of automatic tax hikes and budget reductions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)</p><p>House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. gestures as she meets with reporters during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. Pelosi questions why the fiscal cliff negotiations are going to the last minute. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)</p><p>President Barack Obama waves to reporters shouting questions at him regarding the fiscal cliff as he crosses Pennsylvania Ave in front of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, as he goes to a holiday party at Blair House. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)</p><p>FILE - This June 7, 2012 file photo shows U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice listening during a news conference at the UN. Rice has withdrawn from consideration for secretary of state. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)</p><p>Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, left, arrives at the White House for a meeting with President Barack Obama, in Washington, on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. With time growing short and no "fiscal cliff" progress evident, President Barack Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner set face-to-face negotiations for late Thursday at the White House. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/10/15821537-the-reset-debt-limit-looms-as-next-fiscal-cliffhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/10/15821537-the-reset-debt-limit-looms-as-next-fiscal-cliffpoliticsbarack-obamaresetMon, 10 Dec 2012 17:48:59 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>Former President George W. Bush holds up a book as he gives opening remarks at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas for a conference titled "Immigration and 4% Growth: How Immigrants grow the U.S. Economy," Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012, in Dallas. The George W. Bush Institute is hosting panel discussions highlighting the positive impact of immigration on U.S. economic growth. (AP Photo/LM Otero)</p><p>FILE - This Nov. 16, 2012 file photo shows President Barack Obama shaking hands with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, during a meeting to discuss the deficit and economy. Congress and the White House can significantly soften the initial impact of the “fiscal cliff” even if they fail to reach a compromise by Dec. 31. One thing they cannot control, however, is the financial markets' reaction, which possibly could be a panicky sell-off that triggers economic reversals worldwide. The stock market's unpredictability is perhaps the biggest wild card in the political showdown over the fiscal cliff. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)</p><p>President Barack Obama turns and waves as he boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Monday, Dec. 10, 2012, as he travels to Michigan to visit the Daimler Detroit Diesel plant in Redford, Mich. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)</p><p>President Barack Obama speaks to workers about the economy during a visit to Daimler Detroit Diesel in Redford, Mich., Monday, Dec. 10, 2012. The scene playing out on Capitol Hill is a familiar one as lawmakers with competing ideologies wage an 11th-hour battle to avert a predictable crisis. This one comes just a year after an equally divided Washington nearly let the country default on its loan obligations, a debt-ceiling debate that contributed to the electorate's deep lack of faith in their elected leaders and a drop in the nation’s credit rating. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)</p><p>President Barack Obama listens as Cindy Burtis, right, talks about the head line with Tom Percha, left, at far left is Brandy Reynolds, at Detroit Diesel in Redford, Mich. on Monday, Dec. 10, 2012. Daimler AG plans to announce $100 million investment into the facility at Detroit Diesel. (AP Photo/The Detroit News, Robin Buckson, Pool)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/03/15648533-the-reset-jobs-may-return-as-2016-campaign-issuehttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/03/15648533-the-reset-jobs-may-return-as-2016-campaign-issueuspoliticsbarack-obamaus-newsresetus-theMon, 3 Dec 2012 19:29:35 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>President Barack Obama talks with K'NEX Vice Chairman and General Counsel Robert Glickman, left, K'NEX Inventor and Chairman Joel Glickman, second from right, and Rodon Group President and Chief Executive Officer Michael Araten, right, during a tour of the company in Hatfield, Pa. Friday, Nov. 30, 2012. The visit comes as the White House continues a week of public outreach efforts, while also attempting to negotiate a deal with congressional leaders. The Rodon Group manufactures over 95% of the parts for K'NEX Brands toys. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)</p><p>President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama leaves a reception in honor of the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors recipients, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. At the back left is Caroline Kennedy. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)</p><p>House Speaker House John Boehner of Ohio, center, leaves a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, after reporting on his private talks with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on the fiscal cliff negotiations. "No substantive progress has been made between the White House and the House" in the past two weeks, Boehner said. The “fiscal cliff” is a combination of tax increases and spending cuts worth about $670 billion that will take effect at the start of next year unless Congress and the White House agree to postpone or replace them. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)</p><p>President Barack Obama, flanked by National Governors Association (NGA) Chairman, Delaware Gov. Jack Markell, left, and NGA Vice Chair, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, meets with the NGA executive committee regarding the fiscal cliff, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is at right. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)</p><p>Members of the National Governors Association (NGA) Executive Committee, from left, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert; Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker; Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton; Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe, and Chairman, Delaware Gov. Jack Markell, talk to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012, following their meeting with President Barack Obama regarding the fiscal cliff. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)</p><p>President Barack Obama delivers his speech to the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) symposium at the National Defense University in Washington, Monday, Dec. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at a press conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, Wednesday Dec. 5, 2012. NATO foreign ministers were set Wednesday to shift their focus to the way forward in Afghanistan during a second day of talks in Brussels, as the military alliance prepares to withdraw its combat troops in 2014. (AP Photo/Kevin Lamarque, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice, third from left, speaks after the U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. The General Assembly approved a resolution raising the Palestinians' U.N. status from an observer to a nonmember observer by a vote of 138-9, with 41 abstentions &#8212; a majority of more than two-thirds of the world body's 193 member states. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)</p><p>President Barack Obama smiles as he is introduced by Jim McNerney, chief executive officer of The Boeing Company, before speaking about the fiscal cliff during an address before the Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers, Wednesday, Dec. 5,2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)</p><p>High school English teacher Tiffany Santana listens at left as President Barack Obama speaks to the media during a visit with middle class taxpayers to discuss the importance of extending income tax cuts for Americans and small businesses, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, in Falls Church, Va. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</p><p>President Barack Obama, right, and daughter Malia Obama, sing as Santa Claus arrives during the 90th annual National Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony on the Ellipse south of the White House, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)</p><p>In this Friday, Nov. 30, 2012 photo, a person fills out an application at the Fort Lauderdale Career Fair, in Dania Beach, Fla. The U.S. economy added a solid 146,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent, the lowest since December 2008, the Labor Department announced Friday, Dec. 7, 2012. The government said Superstorm Sandy had only a minimal effect on the figures. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)</p><p>House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio gestures as he speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Dec. 7, 2012, to discuss the pending fiscal cliff. Boehner said there's been no progress in negotiations on how to avoid the fiscal cliff of tax hikes and spending cuts and called on President Barack Obama to come up with a new offer. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/14/15166131-the-reset-fiscal-cliff-politics-a-risky-gamehttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/14/15166131-the-reset-fiscal-cliff-politics-a-risky-gameuspoliticsbarack-obamaus-newshouse-democraticnancy-pelosiresetWed, 14 Nov 2012 18:15:58 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>This Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012, photo shows the Capital building in Washington. The federal government started the 2013 budget year with a $120 billion deficit, an indication that the U.S. is on a path to its fifth straight $1 trillion-plus deficit. Another soaring deficit puts added pressure on President Barack Obama and Congress to seek a budget deal in the coming weeks. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)</p><p>House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., followed by Rep. Grace Napolitano, D-Calif., and others, emerges from a closed caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. to announce that she wants to remain as the top Democrat in the House of Representatives. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)</p><p>House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio walks from the House floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012, as the lame duck 112th Congress session began. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)</p><p>President Barack Obama gestures as he answers a question during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</p><p>Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, speaks to reporters after the House Republicans voted for their leadership for the next session of Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. He is flanked by Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., left, and Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kan., right. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)</p><p>President Barack Obama, followed by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., is greeted by, from left, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, back to camera, and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, upon their arrival at JFK International Airport in New York, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012, before taking a aerial tour of damage along the New York coastline in the of Superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)</p><p>President Barack Obama walks from Marine One with Col. Michael Minihan to board Air Force One, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., en route to New York to visit areas devastated by Superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/26/14107623-pick-6-resetting-the-heisman-trophy-racehttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/26/14107623-pick-6-resetting-the-heisman-trophy-racecollege-footballsportsheismanpickresetmatt-barkleylandry-jonesmontee-balltyler-wilsonWed, 26 Sep 2012 08:31:38 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>West Virginia quaterback Geno Smith (12) looks for a receiver during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Maryland in Morgantown, W.Va., Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Christopher Jackson)</p><p>Vanderbilt quarterback Jordan Rodgers (11) scrambles to recover a fumble in the backfield as Georgia linebacker Jarvis Jones (29) pursues during the first half of an NCAA college football game on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012, in Athens, Ga. (AP photo/John Amis)</p><p>Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein (7) is stopped by Oklahoma linebacker Corey Nelson (7) during the second quarter of an NCAA college football game in Norman, Okla., Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)</p><p>Notre Dame's Manti Te'o reacts following a tackle during the second half against Michigan during an NCAA college football game on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012, in South Bend, Ind. Notre Dame defeated Michigan 13-6. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)</p><p>Florida State quarterback E.J. Manuel (3) runs for a 28-yard gain during the first quarter of an NCAA college football game against Clemson on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Phil Sears)</p><p>Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron (10) rolls out to pass against Florida Atlantic during the first half of a NCAA college football game on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. McCarron threw three touchdown passes, including an early 85-yarder to Kenny Bell, and No. 1 Alabama routed Florida Atlantic 40-7. (AP Photo/ Butch Dill)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/10/11113414-5-more-minutes-snooze-alarm-clock-says-nohttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/10/11113414-5-more-minutes-snooze-alarm-clock-says-noalarmbatteryresetclocksnoozewake-upunplugonly-on-msnbc-comTue, 10 Apr 2012 07:27:01 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post