<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><atom:link href="http://cbs5.com/politics/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>CBS 5  - San Francisco Bay Area's source for news, weather, traffic and sports</title><link>http://cbs5.com/politics</link><description><![CDATA[CBS 5  - San Francisco Bay Area's source for news, weather, traffic and sports]]></description><language>en-US</language><copyright><![CDATA[(c)  MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.]]></copyright><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:30:09 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Protest Over Health Reform In Pleasanton]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/politics/pleasanton.healthcare.protest.2.1576766.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/politics/pleasanton.healthcare.protest.2.1576766.html</link><description><![CDATA[Pleasanton police say a protest organized by the tea party movement caused some traffic troubles but no other problems Friday afternoon. Police say about 300 people showed up for the protest and march over health care reform that began near the office of Congressman Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasanton, and continued across a freeway overpass. 
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:08:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newsom Delays City Worker Layoff Plan]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/politics/sf.layoff.notices.2.1576507.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/politics/sf.layoff.notices.2.1576507.html</link><description><![CDATA[Mayor Gavin Newsom is waiting one week to enact layoffs that would turn most of San Francisco's 17,000 government employees into part-time workers. Newsom spokesman Tony Winnicker said the idea is still on the table, but other options are being considered. 
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:03:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jobs, Schwarzenegger Tout Organ Donation Bill]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/politics/organ.donation.registry.2.1576798.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/politics/organ.donation.registry.2.1576798.html</link><description><![CDATA[For several months last year, Steve Jobs concealed that he needed a liver transplant. As speculation swirled about his health, the Apple CEO registered as an organ recipient in Memphis, Tennessee. Most of the 20,000 Californians in need of a transplant do not have that luxury, and Jobs is lending his star power to efforts to expand the number of organ donors in California. 
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:01:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[End In Sight, Health Care Battle Tips Obama's Way]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/politics/health.care.reform.2.1575822.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/politics/health.care.reform.2.1575822.html</link><description><![CDATA[One by one, House Democratic fence-sitters began choosing sides Friday, and the long, turbulent struggle over landmark health care legislation tilted unmistakably in President Barack Obama's direction. In full campaign mode, his voice rising, the president all but claimed victory, declaring to a cheering audience in Virginia, "We are going to fix health care in America."<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:46:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[GOP Howls At Health 'Sweetheart Deals']]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/politics/GOP.health.care.2.1576618.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/politics/GOP.health.care.2.1576618.html</link><description><![CDATA[As Democrats drill down on the final undecideds, Republicans are drilling down on anything that smells like a special deal for that special someone. Republicans have likened it to a game show.<br />
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]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:16:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obama Appeals To Iranian People In Online Video]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/politics/barack.obama.iran.2.1576812.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/politics/barack.obama.iran.2.1576812.html</link><description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama has posted an Internet video telling Iranians that the United States wants more educational and cultural exchanges for their students and better access to the Internet to give them a more hopeful future.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:38:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Schwarzenegger Picks Appointees For Delta Council]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/politics/delta.stewardship.council.2.1576523.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/politics/delta.stewardship.council.2.1576523.html</link><description><![CDATA[Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday named his selections to a new council overseeing the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Schwarzenegger announced four appointees to the seven-member Delta Stewardship Council: Francis Randall Fiorini, former Democratic state Assemblyman Phil Isenberg, Henry Nordhoff and Richard Roos-Collins.
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:41:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Court Upholds Blocking 475 Calif. Lawyer Furloughs]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/politics/lawyer.furloughs.overturned.2.1576672.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/politics/lawyer.furloughs.overturned.2.1576672.html</link><description><![CDATA[A state appeals court in San Francisco ruled Friday that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had no right to furlough about 475 lawyers who work for the State Compensation Insurance Fund. The Court of Appeal said the attorneys are protected by a provision of state insurance law that makes fund employees "exempt from any hiring freezes and staff cutbacks otherwise required by law." 
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:16:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emanuel: 'Fringe Group' Controlling GOP]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/politics/rahm.emmanuel.tea.2.1576664.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/politics/rahm.emmanuel.tea.2.1576664.html</link><description><![CDATA[Getting health care reform passed is, of course, President Obama's top domestic priority - which means it's also the top priority of his chief of staff, the tough-talking, take no prisoners veteran of the political wars -- Rahm Emanuel. He talked exclusively to CBS Evening News Anchor Katie Couric for this Sunday's "60 Minutes."<br />
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]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:08:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report Finds Revoked CA Nurse Assistants Rehired]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/politics/rehired.nurses.loophole.2.1576381.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/politics/rehired.nurses.loophole.2.1576381.html</link><description><![CDATA[A Senate subcommittee plans to hold a hearing next week on findings that nurse assistants who lost their certification with one state department were later approved by another as caregivers for the elderly. <br />
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