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What Happens When Congress Needs To Use Something They Accidentally Cut?

2013-05-18T14:49:29Z

The sequester was designed to be so awful and impractical to the American people that Democrats and Republicans would have no alternative but to put a...

How Obstruction Will Ruin The GOP

2013-05-18T11:50:15Z

It’s obvious that the unprecedented Senate Republican obstruction of executive branch nominations is bad for the president; it’s bad for the smoot...

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Dem Effort Marked By Internal Wrangling

2013-05-18T09:21:54Z

ATLANTA — Republicans aren't the only ones roiled by internal jostling and recruiting hiccups ahead of next year's midterm elections.

Two top-t...

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Michelle Brané: Women Are a Critical Part of Immigration Reform: Let's Include Them This Time

2013-05-17T18:25:59Z

As the bill moves through committee and onto the Senate floor, the rights and well-being of immigrant women will depend on Senators keeping women -- and women's realities -- in mind.

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Hoyt Hilsman: The Republicans' Obama Problem

2013-05-17T17:59:52Z

By attacking Obama, the Republicans are throwing red meat to their base, which is an increasingly small and extreme group of right-wingers. The danger of tossing red meat to a tiger is that it becomes even more aggressive.

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Jim Worth: In Our Sights

2013-05-17T17:17:43Z

Until we become smart enough to recognize what other civilized countries have found -- that stricter gun control saves lives -- we're destined to repeat the tragedies of Newtown, Aurora, Tucson, and Virginia Tech again and again and again.

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Congress Gets Mixed Advice On Drone Regulations

2013-05-17T14:53:00Z

WASHINGTON — The growing use of unmanned surveillance "eyes in the sky" aircraft raises a thicket of privacy concerns, but Congress is getting m...

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Jack Lew Tells Congress Of Steps To Avoid Debt Default

2013-05-17T13:40:44Z

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew is telling Congress that the administration will begin taking steps next week t...

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Philip Radford: An Open Letter to the Congressional Committee Investigating Politically-Motivated IRS Audits

2013-05-17T13:34:47Z

Greenpeace is offering to testify about being the target of politically motivated audits in 2004, because regardless of which party holds power, these abuses are egregious and must stop.

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Christopher Bergin: Scandal, Scandal, Scandal

2013-05-17T13:08:01Z

In Washington, they throw the word scandal around with such abandon it's hard to know at any given time what it means.

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Political Storm Shifts To Congress

2013-05-17T08:31:57Z

By John Whitesides WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - A U.S. House of Representatives panel on Friday opens the first in a series of inve...

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ONE MORE TIME: House Votes Again To Repeal Obamacare

2013-05-16T18:50:17Z

WASHINGTON -- One more time, with feeling! The Republican-led House voted yet again Thursday to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law, knowi...

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Sec. Kathleen Sebelius: What's At Stake if the Health Law Is Repealed

2013-05-16T17:08:40Z

Today, for nearly the 40th time since it's been the law of the land, House Republicans staged yet another repeal vote in their latest attempt to turn back the clock on progress and deny Americans health insurance coverage they can count on.

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Gender Gap Among K Street CEOs: $600,000

2013-05-16T17:45:24Z

WASHINGTON -- Gender inequality is alive and well on K Street, Washington's notorious lobbying boulevard, according to a new report on CEO salaries is...

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Congress Rethinking 9/11 Law

2013-05-16T16:43:28Z

WASHINGTON -- Congress is rethinking the broad authority it gave the president to wage a war on terror after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in ...

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Larry Cohen: Give Us Five: A Fully Functioning NLRB Needs All Five Members

2013-05-16T16:23:00Z

They know that even under the best circumstances, justice is hard to come by. Now, the Senate is making it virtually impossible for workers to gain the justice they deserve. And what does that say about our democracy?

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David_Goldstein: A Daughter's Tears: The President's Speech

2013-05-16T15:08:45Z

China has recently overtaken the United States as the world's highest carbon emitter. Of course, for any solution to be effective, not only the United States, not only China, but the entire world must get on board.

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'I'm Not Going To Cry In My Beer'

2013-05-16T13:01:48Z

Former Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) -- who lost his 2012 election race against Elizabeth Warren -- said he's not crying over the loss of his seat in the...

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Steve Fleischli: 10 Surprising Senators Who Voted Against Clean Water This Week

2013-05-16T09:48:00Z

Some members of Congress consistently vote against clean water, and many others are reliable champions. The senators profiled below were the biggest surprises in their vote to block protections for our nation's waterways.

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Imagine Never Being Pissed Off By A Republican Or Democrat Ever Again

2013-05-16T09:29:34Z

"When you humanize the other party, it's hard to get as angry with them as you might otherwise get." ...

Striking GOP Disparity Hints At Trouble For Dems

2013-05-16T08:42:53Z

One of the most striking aspects of the 2012 elections is that Republicans won their third-largest House majority since the late 1920s while losing th...

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Sanford Comeback Complete

2013-05-15T17:58:51Z

WASHINGTON — Republican Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina governor whose extramarital affair derailed his political career, returned to Co...

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Samantha Paige Rosen: So, Are You Still an Island?

2013-05-15T16:20:23Z

How does one conduct herself each day among such partisanship, isolation, domestic and international disasters, and what seems like the daily fracturing not only of our nation, but also of our relationship with other nations? It's been a harrowing week trying to figure all of this out -- here's what I've established.

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Cathy Youngblood: Immigration Reform -- Notes from an African American

2013-05-15T16:05:57Z

I entered the hospitality industry in 2010. It took me all of one week to realize what I did not want to believe. My housekeeping sisters, mostly Latina, were treated different than me.

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Amy Spies: What U Need to Know About U-Visas

2013-05-15T12:11:05Z

We need to hold the Senate to its courageous promise. More U-visas for the criminally abused will mean more liberty, equality, and freedom from injustice for all.

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