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Farm Bill cultivated in Congress
While farmers are struggling to get seeds in the ground and ranchers are moving livestock to pasture, Congress is stepping closer to piecing together the 2013 Farm Bill. Issues, some big and some small, still divide lawmakers and the process will take...Tags: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, U.S. Senate, Agriculture, U.S. House Committee on Agriculture, U.S. Congress
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Letters: Fussing about the filibuster
Re "Nuking the filibuster," Editorial, May 15 It should be clear by now that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will not do the right thing and fix the filibuster. The Senate will continue to be in gridlock. The Democratic senators wringing...Tags: Politics
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Senate panel focuses on enforcement in immigration bill
WASHINGTON — Senators kept the bipartisan immigration bill largely unchanged Thursday after dispatching dozens of proposed amendments even as they punted many of the thorniest issues to next week. The day's session at the Senate Judiciary...
Tags: Personal Data Collection, Justice System, Chuck Schumer, Lindsey O. Graham, Chuck Grassley
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Nuking the filibuster
In requiring the U.S. Senate to confirm presidential appointments, the Constitution aims to ensure a second level of scrutiny of the qualifications of government officials. But Senate Republicans have hijacked the confirmation process, not only to...
Tags: U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, U.S. Senate, Richard Cordray, Work Relations, Labor Disputes
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Taxing Internet sales
In 1998, when President Bill Clinton signed the bipartisan Internet Tax Freedom Act, which prohibited state and local taxation of Internet access and Internet-only services, the purpose was to promote the commercial potential of the Internet, especially...Tags: Cal Thomas, Sales, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Bill Clinton, E-Commerce Industry
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Gun control backers turn up heat on selected senators
WASHINGTON — First came the letter-writing campaigns, then the protests at town hall meetings and now the television ads. The last several weeks in New Hampshire have had the feel of a heated electoral season — but the target of this siege,...
Tags: Lobbying, Democratic Party, Mother's Day, Chris Murphy, Michael Bloomberg
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Congress speaks with a loud, muddled voice on Syria
WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein made headlines recently by demanding a forceful U.S. response to Syria's use of chemical weapons against its population. Less noticed was that the California Democrat wasn't urging deeper military involvement...
Tags: Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), James Inhofe, John McCain, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Dianne Feinstein
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The NRA doesn't deserve my sympathy, or yours
Usually when a senator suffers a big public defeat, he slinks off to lick his wounds. He rarely retwists the arms that didn't bend his way. Colleagues don't like to be seen switching. Were they horribly mistaken the first time? Don't know what they...Tags: John McCain, Glenn Beck, Minority Groups, Michael Bloomberg, National Rifle Association of America
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Senate to take up farm bill in May
WASHINGTON - Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., said April 25 that she plans to hold a markup of a new farm bill in May, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., signaled that he intends to bring it to the Senate floor...Tags: Congressional Budget Office, Amy Klobuchar, Immigration, Mark Begich, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013)
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Child's play over the budget
WASHINGTON -- The budget feud on Capitol Hill is looking like those Vietnam War peace talks when negotiators bickered over the shape of the table. House Republicans, after howling for years about Senate Democrats' failure to pass a budget, are...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Gene Sperling, Rob Portman, Allergies, Washington, DC
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Republicans get tough talk from one of their own
Sun SentinelBlaise Ingoglia is one of Florida’s more colorful Republican leaders. The home builder, who enjoys tea party support, is chairman of the Hernando County Republican Party and vice chairman of the state party. He also makes “Government Gone...Tags: Tea Party Movement, Elections, Hernando County (Florida), Republican Party, Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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The filibuster kills gun legislation and democracy
President Obama called it a shameful day for the Senate. A survivor of the Tucson shooting that wounded Gabby Giffords shouted from the gallery, "Shame on you." This was the response to the rejection of gun control. I was tempted to write the "voting...Tags: Democracy, Political Systems, Judaism, Crime, Law and Justice, Gun Control
May 17, 2013
|Column| Aberdeen News
May 17, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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May 11, 2013
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May 13, 2013
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May 11, 2013
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May 10, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
May 10, 2013
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May 8, 2013
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May 7, 2013
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May 7, 2013
|Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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