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Obama defends climate bill's cap-and-trade plan

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Jun. 24, 2009
The climate-change legislation likely to win House approval Friday will produce "millions of jobs" in renewable energy technologies while slowing down global warming, President Obama said today. "A long-term benefit is we're leaving a planet to our children...
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch