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Rahm Israel Emanuel (born November 29, 1959) is an American politician currently serving as White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama. He served previously as Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Illinois's 5th congressional district from 2003 until his resignation in 2009 to take up his... Full Article
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White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel talks with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi before the event with President Barack Obama honoring the 2009 Kennedy Center honorees in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009.
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WASHINGTON - JUNE 7: ) White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel across the South Lawn of the White House on June 7, 2009 Washington, DC. President Obama was returning from an overseas trip to the Middle East and Europe.
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White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel speaks at the Wall St. Journal CEO Council on "Rebuilding Global Prosperity" in Washington November 16, 2009.
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White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel addresses the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington on November 10, 2009. Emanuel stepped in to speak in replacement of US President Barack Obama who went to Fort Hood to meet with victims and families of last...
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WASHINGTON - MAY 26: U.S. President Barack Obama (C)speaks with an unidentified aide as White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel (L) looks on prior to his departure from the White House May 26, 2009 in Washington, DC. Obama was heading to Las Vegas to attend a fundraiser for Sen. Harry...
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White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel walks by the Rose Garden of the White House, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009, in Washington as he waits for President Barack Obama to return from Camp David.
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US Representative Barney Frank (C), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, speaks with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel (L) after US President Barack Obama signed the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act and the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act in the East Room of...
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White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, left, sits with former Defense Secretary William Perry, center, and former Georgia Sen. Sam Nunn, right, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 19,2009, during a meeting with President Barack Obama.
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White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, right, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, center, and Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough, left, look on as President Barack Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, both not pictured, in the Oval Office of the White House...
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White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, right, along with, from left: Defense Secretary Robert Gates; National Security Adviser James Jones; US Middle East envoy George Mitchell; look on as President Barack Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, both not pictured, in...
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WASHINGTON - MAY 13: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel looks at his Blackberry while President Barack Obama talks about health care outside of the Oval Office at the White House on May 13, 2009 in Washington, DC. President Obama called on Congress to pass health care legislation...
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WASHINGTON - MAY 09: Jason Binn, CEO Niche Media/Capitol File Magazine, and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel at the White House Correspondents' dinner after party hosted by Capitol File at Corcoran Gallery of Art on May 9, 2009 in Washington, DC.
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In this photo provided by CBS, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel appears on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009.
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US President Barack Obama laughs with Press Secretary Robert Gibbs (2nd L) and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel (L) as he makes a surprise appearance in the press briefing room at the White House on May 1, 2009 in Washington. Obama talked about the retirement of veteran Supreme Court Justice...
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WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 14: White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel (2nd R) attends a meeting with (L-R) Phil Schiliro Director- legislative affairs, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Sen. Christopher...
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White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, second from right, meets with, from left: Phil Schiliro, White House Director of Legislative Affairs; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. ; Senate Majority Leader Harry...
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White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, second from right, meets with, from left, Phil Schiliro, White House Director of Legislative Affairs, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. , Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn. , and Nancy-Ann DeParle, Director of...
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White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel (L), Senior Advisor David Axelrod and Press Secretary Robert Gibbs (R) listen as. U.S President Barack Obama holds a news conference on the 100th day of his administration in the East Room of the White House in Washington April 29, 2009.
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White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, left, listens while President Barack Obama speaks during a prime time news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, April 29, 2009. Senior Advisers Valerie Jarrett, David Axelrod and spokesman Robert Gibbs are...
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White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, right, talks with U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk as President Barack Obama held his first Cabinet meeting, Monday, April 20, 20090, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington.
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US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (R) speaks with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel (L) during the morning G-20 plenary session at the Pittsburgh Convention Center in Pittsburgh on September 25, 2009.
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, right, talks with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel at the start of the morning plenary session at the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh, Friday, Sept. 25, 2009.
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White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel (R) talks with U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice (C) and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a Security Council Summit meeting during the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York September 24, 2009.
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice huddle as President Barack Obama chairs a meeting of the United Nations Security Council at the United Nations headquarters, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009.
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White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, center, talks with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in the United Nations Security Council, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009.
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WASHINGTON - JUNE 7: ) White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel across the South Lawn of the White House on June 7, 2009 Washington, DC. President Obama was returning from an overseas trip to the Middle East and Europe.
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It shows that in Washington, you can be firm on your opinions; it is your principles you can be flexible on
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We have something here that I think is unprecedented in American politics, a White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, destroyed a fellow democrat's career, forced him out of office, just to make it one vote easier to pass health care, at least if Eric Massa is to be believed … Is Emanuel guilty of some...
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It was not a gesture ... Our intention was not us-win-them-lose. I think he showed sincerity by going there.
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I'm sitting there showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes Rahm Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest. . . . Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man?
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We were involved in the legislation all the way through.
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Rahm Emanuel is very good at making enemies. He is not very good at making friends ... You can’t compromise when someone is coming at you with a finger in your chest. There is no compromise.
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We have heard from both chambers that the House sees a public plan as essential for the final product, and the Senate believes it cannot pass it as constructed and a co-op is what they can do ... We are cognizant of that fact.
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I was in my first two months ... I was in a battle about the budget, Rahm was angry with me. He poked his finger in my chest while we were in the shower. I went through it on the radio show. Not only did it happen, I will never forget it. Rahm Emanuel doesn't like me. I get it.
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The good news is, nobody is saying 'Drop it.' Everybody is saying, 'Take the time to figure out how to get this done ... Not doing it is not part of this conversation.
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I was in my first two months ... I was in a battle about the budget, Rahm was angry with me. He poked his finger in my chest while we were in the shower. I went through it on the radio show. Not only did it happen, I will never forget it. Rahm Emanuel doesn't like me. I get it.
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All these things start and lead to one place: J-O-B-S
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All I knew was this guy was telling great... stories about Rahm Emanuel.
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One party was for fiscal discipline, the other party wasn’t
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There's nobody in Washington, D.C. who caves at the slightest hint of a fight with corporate interests more than Rahm Emanuel ... We're making clear to Rahm that when he undermines progressives and the overwhelming will of the American people on issues like the public option, he will pay a political pri...
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You know, I suppose, Katie, you could say that I'm responsible for not having done more at the White House ... but I think that, in this period of time between her winning the primary and us getting a phone call to get involved, we were immediately up there with whatever resources they asked for and mor...
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There's nobody in Washington, D.C. who caves at the slightest hint of a fight with corporate interests more than Rahm Emanuel ... We're making clear to Rahm that when he undermines progressives and the overwhelming will of the American people on issues like the public option, he will pay a political pri...
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Look, I mean, I think so, but you know, I've worked in the White House before and I work here. Every day the president of the United States can make any decision. You work there basically at their pleasure. So any day you could basically be told, you know, ‘No more.’ That's … what comes from working at ...
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showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes Rahm Emanuel ... poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me. Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man?
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Look, I mean, I think so, but you know, I've worked in the White House before and I work here. Every day the president of the United States can make any decision. You work there basically at their pleasure. So any day you could basically be told, you know, ‘No more.’ That's … what comes from working at ...
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I think the profiles are damaging in part because they're doing so at the expense of the president ... If the president had only been smart enough to listen to Rahm Emanuel, so goes the argument, he would be a much more effective leader right now. That's clearly not helpful.
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I was here at the White House
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The stupid season has arrived for Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel
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Tim Geithner helped steer the financial sector and the entire economy through the worst crisis since the Great Depression
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I am showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes Rahm Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me.
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You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.
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