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Boxing Obama in
Greater than the risk of being accused of criminality in the three scandals now gripping the Obama administration is the peril that the president's substantive agenda is being hopelessly knocked off track. The liberal Illinois senator who entered the...Tags: White House, Justice System, Human Interest, U.S. Senate, Darrell E Issa
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Progress on immigration
Just when Washington looked like it was completely preoccupied with the scandals, real and imaginary, swirling around the White House, a group of Democrats and Republicans in the Senate managed the unexpected (and, these days, extraordinary): They...Tags: Elections, Jeff Flake, Orrin Hatch, Democratic Party, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
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Immigration bill clears hurdle in Senate
WASHINGTON — A sweeping bipartisan plan to overhaul the nation's immigration system headed to the Senate floor after a key committee approved it Tuesday, setting the stage for a debate next month that could lead to the biggest victory for...Tags: Elections, Orrin Hatch, Gays and Lesbians, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate
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Oklahoma's tornado and political cheap shots
It's as predictable as it is disheartening: A red state gets hit hard by a tornado outbreak -- in this case killing at least 24 people, many of them children attending school -- and the first batch of letters from readers (most of them from Southern...
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Reid to delay Senate votes on most Obama nominees until July
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday that he will delay votes on several of President Obama’s nominees for key posts until July, a decision raising the prospect that he’ll seek further changes to Senate rules...Tags: Elections, George W. Bush, U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Washington, DC, Richard Cordray
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Immigration reform bill heads to full Senate
WASHINGTON — A sweeping bipartisan plan to overhaul the nation’s immigration system headed to the Senate floor after a key committee approved it Tuesday, but not before tilting the bill to the political right with amendments designed to...Tags: DREAM Act, Elections, Orrin Hatch, AFL-CIO, Gays and Lesbians
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Dems' Senate campaigns marked by internal battles
ATLANTA (AP) — Republicans aren't the only ones roiled by internal jostling and recruiting hiccups ahead of next year's midterm elections. Two top-tier Democratic prospects recently bypassed running for Senate seats in Georgia and South Dakota,...
Tags: Elections, Lawyers, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Mark Begich, Political Fundraising
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AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional
WASHINGTON (AP) — The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records "unconstitutional" and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal...
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GOP can't help overreaching on Obama scandals
Well, that didn't take long. Just as several genuine scandals cast the Obama administration in an unfavorable light, Republicans in Congress are already overreaching — with hyperbolic comparisons to Watergate, calls for special prosecutors,...Tags: Elections, U.S. Senate, Monica Lewinsky, Politics, Rand Paul
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White House fights back on IRS as GOP keeps up pressure
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.WASHINGTON — A senior White House aide insisted Sunday that President Obama learned only from news reports that an IRS office had singled out dozens of tea party organizations and other conservative groups for questionable scrutiny, while...Tags: Elections, Tea Party Movement, White House, Washington, DC, Taxation
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Obama tries to steer attention back to jobs
WASHINGTON — President Obama said Friday he wanted to put more Americans to work by slashing the amount of time it takes to grant federal approval for big job-creating projects. But Obama's choice of venue for his remarks — a Baltimore...
Tags: White House, Charleston, Washington, DC, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Senate
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Keystone XL looms as Obama wants to cut delays on big projects
WASHINGTON — President Obama said Friday he wanted to put more Americans back to work by slashing the amount of time it takes to grant federal approval for big job-creating projects. But Obama’s choice of venue for his remarks of a...
Tags: Charleston, White House, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. House Committee on Small Business, U.S. Senate
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