Senator John Kerry

John Kerry Sports Black And Blue

The Huffington Post | Posted 01.24.2012

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Sen. John Kerry made quite an impression on Monday when he appeared at a White House event honoring the Stanley Cup champs, the Boston Bruins, sportin...

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'Mitt Is Sort Of Running Against Mitt Right Now'

The Huffington Post | Paige Lavender | Posted 12.06.2011

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Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) criticized Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Tuesday, saying the former Massachusetts governor "is going t...

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Ugandan Gay Activist Wins Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 01.10.2012

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WASHINGTON — A gay rights activist in Uganda, where a bill that would punish gays with prison or death has stirred worldwide outrage, received t...

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Lobbyist/Lawmaker Revolving Door Still Spinning With Same Constancy As Planet Earth

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.13.2011

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Ever get the feeling that your interests are just outnumbered and outgunned in Washington, such as we'll likely see in the upcoming super committee deliberations? Well, there's good reason to feel that way, as so many lobbyists funnel into Congressional staff positions, and vice versa. These same individuals would have you believe that Washington is a hyper-functional place, just purring along, success after success, riding high on the collective body of "experience" that's on hand as a result of the Capitol Hill-to-K Street-and-back again cycle. And yet, Congressional job approval is at a meager 15 percent, for some reason.

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John Kerry: I'm Not Meeting With Lobbyists

Boston Globe | By Glen Johnson | Posted 11.12.2011

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As one of the 12 members of a congressional “supercommittee” charged with developing a plan by Thanksgiving for cutting $1.5 trillion from the fed...

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WATCH: Scott Brown Declines To Appear With Massachusetts Politicians In 'It Gets Better' Video

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 09.26.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Massachusetts congressional delegation has put together a new video for the "It Gets Better" project, reassuring LGBT youth who may ...

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Educating for Democracy: Are Politicians 'Dumbing Us Down?'

Joel Shatzky | Posted 08.07.2011

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The recent flak over Sarah Palin's grossly inaccurate recollection about "Paul Revere's Ride" makes me wonder if one of the future qualifications for the Presidency will be the candidate's "Ignorance Quotient."

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Sen. Kerry Introduces Bill To Help LGBT Youths In Foster Care

Posted 07.14.2011

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This week, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) introduced the Reconnecting Youth to Prevent Homelessness Act to protect children in foster care from ending up o...

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Top Lawmakers Argue Against Suspending Aid To Pakistan

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 07.08.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Top lawmakers on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee defended aid to Pakistan on Sunday despite lingering questions about how much th...

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Senator Ron Wyden Lauded by CCIA

Mike Smith | Posted 07.05.2011

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Washington Caucus Event Capped by Congressional Award CCIA President & CEO Ed Black is a Washington insider who glided across a ballroom at Union Sta...

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Officials Push For Action In 'Online Privacy War'

HuffingtonPost.com | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011

Top senators and members of the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday criticized the current state of Internet privacy regulations and pushed for legi...

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John Kerry Breaks With Obama On Afghanistan

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE: The Boston Globe has issued a "clarification" to its original story, indicating that Kerry's disagreement with the current Afghanistan war str...

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Shutting Off the Internet Was the Wrong Thing to Do

Michelle Kraus | Posted 05.25.2011

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Egypt may have made their single biggest strategic blunder by attempting to shut down the Internet and cell networks. Indeed, by doing so they may hav...

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Ex-Slave and Human Rights Activist: President Obama, Do Not Let Ticking Time Bomb Go Off

Heather Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Today human rights activist and escaped slave Simon Deng finished an historic barefoot walk to each of the 535 offices of the U.S. Congress in an ap...

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One of America's Deepest, Darkest Family Secrets: The DES Drug Disaster

Diana Bianchini | Posted 05.25.2011

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For decades, the United States Government has been keeping the deep, dark secret of DES (diethylstilbestrol) from Americans so well that most people have never heard of it and don't know that it was the world's first drug disaster.

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Only a Few Blocks Could Make a Big Difference for the Ground Zero Mosque

Michelle Kraus | Posted 05.25.2011

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You'd think we might have figured this out a little sooner because once again we are ill prepared for the stealth swift boat attacks before an important election during the dog days of August.

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Is WikiLeaks the Antidote to the Washington K Street Kool-Aid?

Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould | Posted 05.25.2011

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The shocking information released by WikiLeaks was the acid test for Washington's beltway experts to square themselves with the fatal collapse confronting them and who was to blame for it.

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Federal Court Rules FCC Lacks Authority to Regulate Net Neutrality

Alexander Howard | Posted 05.25.2011

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The ruling is a significant victory for Comcast , which had been involved in a dispute with the FCC over network filtering of P2P filesharing software.

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Global Health Diplomacy and the Muslim World: How Haiti Will Heal Us

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

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Collaborative work is emblematic of the increasingly important field of global health diplomacy and the Muslim world has an enormous role to play in this new conversation.

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It's a Runoff, Now What? Parsing the Impacts of the Presidential Rematch in Afghanistan

Vikrum Aiyer | Posted 05.25.2011

A coalition government in Afghanstan, while supposedly offering the best of both worlds, tacitly condones an illegitimate election and would require America to broker power among competing personalities.

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Alexandra Kerry DUI: John Kerry's Daughter Arrested In Los Angeles

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES — The daughter of Sen. John Kerry was arrested Thursday in Hollywood for allegedly driving drunk. Alexandra Kerry, 36, was stopped ...

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A New Foreign Policy: Hillary Clinton Targets Pakistan

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hillary Clinton's three-day visit to Islamabad and Lahore, which began inauspiciously on the day of the terrorist attacks, was widely derided in the Pakistani press and cursorily covered here at home.

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Genachowski Rule: FCC Confirmation Is a Lovefest

Mike Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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Genachowski's confirmation hearing for FCC chairman last week was a provocative give-and-take on national communications infrastructure, broadband policy, mobile deployment and transparency.

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Party Planners: Corporate Events Ban Would Kill Business

New York Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW York's party planners aren't dancing over legislation Sen. John Kerry is trying to push through Congress. Last week, the Massachusetts lawmaker...

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Women Matter

Michelle Kraus | Posted 05.25.2011

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This was a heroic week for women worldwide.

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