Susan Collins

GOP Senator: Secret Service Prostitution Scandal Wider Than Believed

AP | LAURIE KELLMAN and CALVIN WOODWARD | Posted 05.23.2012

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WASHINGTON — Senators investigating the Secret Service prostitution scandal said Wednesday that dozens of reported episodes of misconduct by age...

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Jennifer Bendery

Republicans Grip Up For Another Debt Showdown

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 05.15.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Despite the risk of economic and political fallout, Senate Republicans Tuesday said they're standing with House Speaker John Boehner (R-...

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Telling the Truth and Demanding Justice

Greg Jacob | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Susan Collins, John Kerry, Sexual Violence, Special Victims Unit, Sexual Assault Military, Military, Service Women's Action Network, National Defense Authorization Act, Sexual Assault, Female Soldiers, Sexual Assault Awareness, Politics News
Greg Jacob

Today, more than 250 people will come to Washington, D.C., for a first-of-its-kind event that will inform, empower and move forward critical efforts to eliminate sexual violence within the military.

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Christina Wilkie

Meryl Streep-Backed Museum Project In Jeopardy

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 05.03.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Support from donors and elected officials for a National Women's History Museum appears to have evaporated after a recent Huffington Pos...

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Secret Service Scandal Touches Off Delicate Dance In Washington

AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 04.24.2012

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WASHINGTON — The widening Secret Service prostitution scandal has touched off a delicate dance in Washington. From President Barack Obama on do...

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Congress Expanding Secret Service Investigation

AP | ROBERT BURNS and ALICIA A. CALDWELL | Posted 04.24.2012

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WASHINGTON — The Secret Service prostitution scandal grew Monday to include a 12th member of the U.S. military as the Pentagon suspended the sec...

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Senator: 20 Or 21 Women Involved In Secret Service Incident

Reuters | Posted 04.18.2012

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* Senator questions whether security could have been compromised * Secret Service agents, Marines under investigation *...

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Snowe Replacement Faces Problem

AP | STEVE PEOPLES | Posted 04.16.2012

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BRUNSWICK, Maine — Independent Senate candidate Angus King of Maine has a woman problem. He's not one. The popular former governor is the undis...

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April Is Child Abuse Prevention Month

Sen. John Kerry | Posted 05.30.2012

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Sen. John Kerry

In our country, a child is abused or neglected every 36 seconds, and only 40 percent of abused children receive the services they need. The Protect Our Kids Act can be the catalyst we need to begin to speak out more effectively for children who cannot speak up on their own.

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Hunger Games: Reality TV Gone Wild?

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Jennifer Lawrence, Susan Collins, Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games, Reality Television, Reality TV, Reality Tv the Hunger Games, The Hunger Games Movie, The Hunger Games Reality Tv, The Hunger Games Film, Entertainment News
Steve Rosenbaum

The Hunger Games is about reality TV taken to its most terrible end. It is the Roman Colosseum. A massive, deadly distraction that provides an opiate to the masses.

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Clean Air and Public Safety Triumph Over Keystone XL and Dirty Energy in the Senate

Frances Beinecke | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Susan Collins, Tar Sands, Gas Prices, Senate, John Hoeven, Oil Industry, Air Pollution, Clean Air Act, David Vitter, Keystone XL Pipeline, Big Oil, Green News
Frances Beinecke

In a major victory for public health and the environment, the Senate defeated three dirty amendments on Thursday.

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GOP Rep Slams Colleagues As Ineffective, Too Partisan

AOL Defense | By Otto Kreisher | Posted 01.11.2012

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Sen. Susan Collins blasted the "highly politicized" nature of Congress, questioning whether Congress can resolve any of the major problems facing it, ...

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Is Booze The Key To Saving The Postal Service?

Posted 12.14.2011

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The eagle is struggling to fly. Growing financial grief has placed the U.S. Postal Service in a difficult bind. As it plans to close hundreds of m...

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Filibustering A D.C. Circuit Court Judicial Nominee

The Huffington Post | Arin Greenwood | Posted 12.08.2011

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WASHINGTON -- This week's Republican filibustering of judicial nominee Caitlin Halligan brought to light a whole bunch of ironies. In Slate, Dahlia...

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Hey, GOP: Give the 99 Percent Some Lovin'

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Susan Collins, George Bush, Capital Gains Tax, Payroll Tax, The 99 Percent, Gop, Income Tax, Twilight, Republicans, Grover Norquist, Mtv, Jon Kyl, The 1 Percent, Bush Tax Cuts, Politics News
Leo W. Gerard

To serve the 1 percent, Republicans discarded all of their supposedly sacrosanct philosophy about taxes during last week's struggle over extending the temporary payroll tax cut.

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Michael McAuliff

Republican Senator Says Tax The Rich

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 11.30.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins broke party ranks Wednesday, supporting a tax hike on millionaires and billionaires in order to f...

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Top Republicans Back Crucial Expiring Provisions

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 11.23.2011

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Maine Republican Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins have come out in favor of extending unemployment benefits and the Social Security payroll tax c...

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Conservatism Blew Up the Economy

Cliff Schecter | Posted 01.14.2012

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Cliff Schecter

So what do you do when financial analysts are warning that housing prices are headed for a "triple dip," the second largest Swiss Bank (Credit Suisse)...

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Dave Jamieson

Senators Set To Slash Benefits For Disabled Civil Servants

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 01.10.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are looking to cut benefits for federal workers disabled on the job, a budget-trimming move that critics warn ...

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Exactly the Type of Friend Turkey Needs

Joshua W. Walker | Posted 01.07.2012

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Joshua W. Walker

I was pleasantly surprised last week to listen to one of the best speeches I've ever heard delivered overlooking the Bosporus by one of the least likely and most unassuming American leaders from Washington.

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Senators Save Postal Service From The Brink

AP | By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 01.02.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Senators announced a bipartisan plan Wednesday to help keep the financially ailing Postal Service solvent and continue six-day mail deli...

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Andrea Stone

Packing Heat: TSA Finds Four Or Five Guns A Day In Carry-On Luggage

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 01.02.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Government screeners every day confiscate four to five guns -- some of them loaded -- packed in carry-on luggage at the nation's airport...

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Senate Votes To Save Potatoes In Schools

AP | By MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 12.19.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Senate threw its support behind the potato Tuesday, voting to block an Obama administration proposal to limit the vegetable on schoo...

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In Anti-Government Poltiics, "Time-Out" on Regulation Versus Shortened Lives

Michelle Chen | Posted 11.18.2011

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Michelle Chen

Seizing upon a reliable "job creation" talking point, conservatives have stoked their war against "big government" by trying to freeze federal actions to protect the public.

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Anti-Government Republicans Against Jobs, the Environment and a National Park in Maine

Cynthia Dill | Posted 10.04.2011

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Cynthia Dill

Philanthropist Roxanne Quimby wants to donate 70,000 acres of wilderness to create a new national park in Maine. So why are Republicans in the state's legislature -- and Maine's governor and U.S. senators -- opposed to it?

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