Kay Hagan

Senate Bill Targets Multi-Billion Dollar Ad Spending At For-Profit Colleges

HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Senate, Congress, College, Student Debt, Tom Harkin, Dick Durbin, Higher Education, Student Loan Debt, Kay Hagan, For-Profit College, Business News

The rapid growth of for-profit colleges over the past decade has been aided by billion-dollar ad campaigns on daytime television, the Internet and hig...

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Sen. Rand Paul: Slow Down Education Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 12.18.2011

Letters and amendments are flying on the eve of the first markup of a comprehensive rewrite of the No Child Left Behind law, providing a glimpse into ...

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10 Job Slashers That Benefited From A Tax Holiday

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: John McCain, Congress, Bailout, Job Cuts, Bank of America, Tax Holiday, Citgroup, Harry Reid, Institute for Policy Studies, Repatriation Tax Holiday, Tax Breaks, Kay Hagan, Businessweek, Business News

More money doesn't always mean more jobs. Take when the U.S. government last imposed a tax holiday on offshore profits in 2004. Those companies that b...

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DREAM Act Supporters: Democrats Shouldn't Count On Us In 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: DREAM Act Supporters, Ben Nelson, Undocumented Immigrants, Latino Vote 2012, 2012 Election, Mark Pryor, DREAM Act, Obama Immigration, Max Baucus, Immigration, Jon Tester, Joe Manchin, Kay Hagan, Dreamers, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Six months after the Senate voted down a bill to provide legal status to some undocumented students, DREAM Act supporters are mobilizing...

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Banks Lose: Merchants Prevail In Swipe Fee Fight

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 08.08.2011

Read More: Senate Debit Card Fee Vote, Debit Card Fee Senate Vote, Swipe Fee Vote, Swipe Fee Senate Vote, Swipe Fee, Mark Pryor, Dick Durbin, Bob Corker, Debit Card Fee Vote, Mike Crapo, Swipe Fees, Jon Tester, Kay Hagan, Debit Card Fee, Senate Swipe Fee Vote, Debit Card Fees, 112th Congress, Senate, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The six-month Senate fight over debit card swipe fees is finally over. The banks lost. An amendment pushed by Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mon...

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Swipe Fee Showdown In Senate [UPDATED]

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 08.08.2011

Read More: Debit Card Fee Senate Vote, Senate Debit Card Fee Vote, Swipe Fee Vote, Swipe Fee, Swipe Fee Senate Vote, Mark Pryor, Dick Durbin, Bob Corker, Debit Card Fee Vote, Mike Crapo, Swipe Fees, Jon Tester, Senate Swipe Fee Vote, Debit Card Fee, Kay Hagan, Debit Card Fees, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The hardest fought, most expensive legislative battle of 2011 is coming to a head today in the U.S. Senate. The question: How much s...

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Save Medicare

Sen. Kay R. Hagan | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Medicare, Kay Hagan, Health Care, Seniors, North Carolina, Politics News

While deficit reduction is essential, balancing the budget by dismantling Medicare is both unfair to hard-working Americans and counterproductive.

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Dems Form Group To Cut Spending

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Debt Ceiling, Mark Udall, Environmental Reform, Balanced Budget Amendment, Kay Hagan, Budget Cuts, Moderates, Senate Democrats, Moderate Democrats, Senate Moderates, Education Reform, Third Way, Tom Carper, 112th Congress, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- As tension builds over compromise between the GOP-led House and Democrat-led Senate, Democratic Sens. Tom Carper, Mark Udall and Kay Hag...

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What Will Immigration Advocates Learn From DREAM's Defeat?

Daniel Altschuler | Posted 05.25.2011

Were advocates of comprehensive immigration reform too slow to shift to supporting piecemeal legislation? And, did these leaders advance the optimal piecemeal strategy by focusing exclusively on the DREAM Act?

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Senator's Office Vandalized

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hagan, Senate, Senator Kay Hagan, Kay Hagan Vandalism, Kay Hagan, Sen. Kay Hagan, Kay Hagan Office Vandalized, Caught on Tape, Video, Politics News

Sen. Kay Hagan's (D-N.C.) Greenville, North Carolina, office was targeted last week in a vandalism spree that left many downtown buildings spraypainte...

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The Payday Industry's Powerful Friend

Gary Rivlin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Consumers Union, Payday Lending, Lynn DeVault, Consumer Federation of America, Community FInancial Services Association, Financial Reform, National Consumer Law Center, Richard Shelby, Payday Loans, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Kay Hagan, Politics News

The country's payday lenders and check cashers gave more in campaign donations to Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) than any other Republican in Congress.

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The Payday Lenders Confront Their Mortality

Gary Rivlin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Payday Lending, Payday Loans, Kay Hagan, Payday Lenders, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Dick Durbin, Politics News

There aren't many industries that might be wiped away in a few strokes of a pen; but then the country's payday lenders are hardly your average interest group.

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They're Violating 30 Centuries Of Moral Law -- And Lobbying Like Crazy, Too

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bob Corker, W. Allan Jones, Kay Hagan, Payday Loans, Politics News

The practice of payday loans isn't just excessive, greedy, or socially inadvisable. It also violates four thousand years of moral law and tradition by charging usurious rates to those who are struggling.

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BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina Urges Its Enrollees to Oppose Health Care Reform

Yuna Shin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Option, BlueCross BlueShield Association, Health Care Reform, Single Payer, Kay Hagan, BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina, President Obama, Health Care Public Option, Obama Health Care Reform, Politics News

As the Senate prepares to vote on health care reform, BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina sent its enrollees a mass mailing on Wednesday asking them to oppose health care reform.

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House Health Care Bill: A Death Sentence For My Fellow Breast Cancer Survivors

Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Bill, Anna Eshoo, Medical Students, Breast Cancer, Kay Hagan, Biologics, Nancy Pelosi, Avastin, Herceptin, Fda, Biologic Drugs, Health Care Reform, Politics News

Pelosi made a choice about the lifesaving biologic drugs I took when I was in chemotherapy that will cost many fellow breast cancer survivors everything they own, and quite possibly their lives.

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Protecting Pharmaceutical Profits: The Cost Is Human Lives

Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anna Eshoo, Dr. Anthony So, Breast Cancer, Crohn's Disease, Herceptin, Kay Hagan, Biologics, Amsa, Politics News

The public option has received the lion's share of attention in the health care debate, but there's an equally important issue relating to generic drugs that could mean lifesaving drugs remain too expensive for all but the wealthy.

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Democratic Senators Summoned To White House

ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 05.25.2011

ABC News has learned that President Obama will be meeting with 16 Democratic senators (and one "Independent Democrat") this afternoon at the White Hou...

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GOP Prosecutor Targets Dems On Obama's Watch

AP | MIKE BAKER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democrats, Republicans, George Holding, North Carolina, North Carolina Prosecutor, John Edwards, Kay Hagan, White House, Obama, President Obama, Barack Obama, Gop, Mike Easley, Politics News

BEAUFORT, N.C. — Having swapped his hip-holstered Blackberry for fishing pliers, the U.S. attorney for eastern North Carolina watches closely fr...

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Nelson Blocks Fed Audit In Senate (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ben Nelson, Financial Oversight, Kay Hagan, Financial Crisis, Federal Reserve, Jim Demint, Accountability, Video, Politics News

Boding poorly for advocates of transparency for the Federal Reserve, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) shot down legislation to audit the Fed Wednesday afterno...

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All 13 Democrats are voting for new HELP health care bill

Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Help Committee, Health Care for America Now, President Obama, Kay Hagan, Health Reform, Health Care, Politics News

The HELP Committee has released their final version of a health care bill, including a public health insurance option and a provision for shared respo...

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Kay Hagan, Key Senate Democrat: "I Support" Public Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hagan Help Committee, Hagan Public Plan, Hagan Community Insurance Coverage, Kay Hagan, Politics News

One of the Democratic senators who was on the fence when it came to backing a public option for health insurance coverage is coming out in support of ...

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Will Kay Hagan Betray Ted Kennedy?

Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Insurance, Lobbying, Kay Hagan, Ted Kennedy, Healthcare, Politics News

Teddy Kennedy is too sick to be there, Senator Hagan, so he is relying on your vote for the issue that he has fought for passionately his entire life.

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Senate Dems On Pakistan: U.S. Here To Stay

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mark Udall, Evan Bayh, Mark Begich, Kay Hagan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Moderate Democrats Working Group, Middle East, Jeanne Shaheen, Afpak, Foreign Investment, Tom Carper, Foreign Policy, Politics News

Look for the United States to be sending resources not only to Afghanistan, but Pakistan and the rest of the region for the foreseeable future, a grou...

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Not a Woman in the Picture

Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama's Cabinet, Al Gore, White House, Women's Rights, Sweden, George W. Bush, Sex Trade, Asia, Missouri, Sarah Palin, Same-Sex Marriage, South Africa, Angola, Kay Hagan, Dan Quayle, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Nancy Pelosi, Racism, Nigeria, Elizabeth Dole, Secretary of the Treasury, African-American Issues, Latin America, Speaker of the House, Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar, Netherlands, Minnesota, Barack Obama, Secretary of Energy, Condolleezza Rice, Secretary of Agriculture, Janet Napolitano, Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton, George H. W. Bush, Claire McCaskill, Secretary of State, Women's Issues, Civil Rights, Arizona, Laura Bush, Gay Rights, Vietnam, Slavery, Sexism, Secretary of Defense, Senate Majority Leader, Vice President, Bill Clinton, Islam, John McCain, Africa, Belgium, Secretary of Transportation, Homeland Security, Attorney General, North Carolina, Colombia, Cia Director, Cambodia, Secretary of Interior, Death Penalty, Gay Issues, Politics News

Is it a coincidence that in the world's largest economy, whose military expenditure accounts for half the global total, the most senior posts dealing with money and war are still reserved for men?

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We Win, They Lose. Now, Let's Get To Work

Paul Helmke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mark Udall, House of Representatives, Ted Stevens, John McCain, Assault Weapons, Al Franken, Senate Races, 2008 Election, Nra, Guns, Illegal Guns, Barack Obama, Ak-47, Gordon Smith, John Sununu, Senate, National Rifle Association, Mark Begich, Tom Udall, Norm Coleman, Obama Transition, Jeanne Shaheen, Jeff Merkley, Jim Martin, Saxby Chambliss, Election 2008, Elizabeth Dole, Kay Hagan, Bob Schaffer, Oregon, Politics News

Candidates endorsed or "A" rated by he NRA suffered losses in every region of the nation, up and down the ballot, losing not only the White House, but also at least six crucial races for the U.S. Senate.

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