Mike Crapo

Amanda Terkel Pokes Holes In Grassley's Argument

Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Politics News, Violence Against Women Act, Msnbc, Video, Vawa, Charles Grassley, Chuck Grassley, Amanda Terkel, Patrick Leahy, Senator Patrick Leahy, Mike Crapo, Joe Biden, Domestic Violence, Domestic Abuse, Politics News

Protecting women from domestic violence and abuse is one more issue dividing Democrats and Republicans, as The Huffington Post's Amanda Terkel pointed...

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Amanda Terkel

Violence Against Women Act Suddenly Partisan

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Women's Rights, Biden, Violence Against Women Act, Video, Vawa, Charles Grassley, Chuck Grassley, Patrick Leahy, Senator Patrick Leahy, Mike Crapo, Joe Biden, Domestic Violence, Domestic Abuse, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Protecting women from violence and abuse has been an issue of bipartisan cooperation since President Clinton signed the landmark Violenc...

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Penny-Wise and Pound-Foolish: Proposed Funding Cuts for Response to Violence Against Women

Marianne Mollmann | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Violence Against Women Act, Human Rights, Violence Against Women, Vawa, Patrick Leahy, Mike Crapo, Amnesty International, Women's Rights Movement, Domestic Violence, Politics News
Marianne Mollmann

Domestic violence is a continuing, costly, and consistently underserved problem. Cutting federal funds for dealing with it is not only bad news, it is a bad idea.

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Michael McAuliff

GOP Senator: Republicans Could Bend On Taxes If Super Committee 'Goes Big'

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Super Congress, Deficit, Video, Super Committee, Budget Cuts, Dick Durbin, Deficit Reduction, Mike Crapo, Go Big, Saxby Chambliss, Republicans Tax Cuts, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of lawmakers suggested Republicans would be willing to raise certain taxes to shrink the deficit, as long as the debt...

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Michael McAuliff

Unions Go After Gang Of Six Plan: 'It Would Kill Jobs'

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Deficit, Debt, Gang of Six Debt Plan, Tom Coburn, Social Security, Debt Ceiling, Spending Cuts, Kent Conrad, Debt Limit, Dick Durbin, Mark Warner, Mike Crapo, Gang of Six, Medicare, Saxby Chambliss, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Unions are coming down hard on the so-called "Gang of Six" deficit-cutting plan, blasting the bipartisan proposal with a harsh ad set to...

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Ryan Grim

Gang Of Six Unveils Debt-Reduction Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Debt, Debt Ceiling, Debt Reduction, Kent Conrad, Dick Durbin, Mike Crapo, Gang of Six, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Susan Collins, Deficit, Gang of 6, Tom Coburn, Debt Limit, Mark Warner, 112th Congress, Saxby Chambliss, Joe Manchin, Prediction, Predict the News, Video, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- More than half the Senate was convened early Tuesday morning by Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) for a briefing on a deficit-reduction plan bein...

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Ryan Grim

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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Ryan Grim

Swipe Fee Showdown In Senate [UPDATED]

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 08.08.2011

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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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All Eyes On 'Gang Of Six' As Deficit Deal Negotiations Continue

Posted 06.26.2011

Read More: Tom Coburn, Debt Ceiling, Saxby Chambliss, Deficit, Gang of 6, Dick Durbin, Deficit Deal, Debt Limit, Kent Conrad, Mike Crapo, Gang of Six, Mark Warner, Debt Ceilling Vote, Debt Limit Deal, Debt Ceiling Deal, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- They have met in almost total secrecy for months, holed up in an office on Capitol Hill: three Republican and three Democratic senat...

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Jon Ward

Senate Republicans Threatening To Make Harry Reid And Dems Go It Alone On Raising Debt Ceiling

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: John Cornyn, Tom Coburn, U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell, Debt Ceiling, John Boehner, National Debt, Mark Warner, Dick Durbin, Mike Crapo, Harry Reid, Saxby Chambliss, Kent Conrad, Gang of Six, Politics News

With many Republicans agreeing with Democrats that raising the debt ceiling is a simple necessity, some think the GOP is left with little negotiating ...

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Ryan Grim

Slash Mob: Secret Senate Gang Weighing Budget Cuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Saxby Chambliss, Mike Crapo, Deficit, Dick Durbin, 2012 Budget Cuts, 2012 Budget, Budget Cuts, 2012 Senate Budget Cuts, Senate Budget Cuts, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of senators that has been meeting behind the scenes during the past several months is emerging as the focal point in ...

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It's the Climate, Stupid (Not the Deficit)

Patrick McCully | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joe Klein, Tom Coburn, Joe Romm, Climate, Judd Gregg, Mike Crapo, Black Rock Solar, Climate Change Denial, Deficit Commission, International Rivers, Global Warming Deniers, Global Warming, Green News
Patrick McCully

If you care about your grandkids' welfare, by all means be concerned about the deficit -- but be very, very, very concerned about the need to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions.

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Two Of GOP's Most Conservative Senators Back Deficit Commission Plan

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deficit, Tom Coburn, Federal Budget Deficit, Budget, Obama Deficit Commission, Mike Crapo, Deficit Commission, Debt Commission, Federal Budget, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Some of the Senate's staunchest conservatives and one of its most powerful liberals on Thursday swung behind a controversial defici...

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ID-Sen: 64% Crapo (R), 20% Sullivan (D) (Mason-Dixon 10/22)

Huffington Post | Brad J Shannon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mike Crapo, Poll Update, Idaho, Idaho Senate Race, Tom Sullivan, Politics News

Mason-Dixon 10/20-22/10; 625 likely voters, 4% margin of error Mode: Live phone interview (Mason-Dixon PDF) Idaho 2010 Senate 64% Crapo (R), 20% Sul...

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Our Rinky Dink Scandal Culture

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mike Crapo, Koch Industries, Harry Reid, Citizens United, Corruptions, Scandal, Wall Street Journal, Journalism, Media News
Glenn Hurowitz

A WSJ story on the stocks held by the staff of some members of Congress is journalism based on the notion that every database deserves its own sensationalistic expose -- even when the information in the database is relatively ho-hum.

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Jason Linkins

Congressional Budget Office: Sometimes Wonks Have To Explain Their Work To Morons

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, Cbo, Health Care Reform, Mike Crapo, Innumeracy, Congressional Budget Office, Idiots, Eat the Press, Politics News

Allow me to state for the record that I have great sympathy for the dedicated professionals at the Congressional Budget Office. In Washington's parti...

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Idaho Delegation Forgets the Invisible Hand

Walid Zafar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Walt Minnick, Potato Farmers, Potatoes, Butch Otter, Nancy Pelosi, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Idaho-Politics, Mike Crapo, Mike Simpson, Idaho, Jim-Risch, Politics News
Walid Zafar

When their own constituents are in need, the Idaho Congressional delegation abandons Friedrich von Hayek and head straight to the waiting arms of John Maynard Keynes.

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The Wyden - Bennett Healthy Americans Act: Why Not Just Say Yes?

Lanny Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lanny Davis

What exactly does the HAA accomplish that could possibly attract such broad, bipartisan support in the U.S. Senate? Universal health insurance coverage and immediate deficit neutrality in the first two years.

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Idaho Senators Share Hobbies, Donors

Sunlight Foundation. | Sunlight Foundation | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Transparency, Mike Crapo, Jim Risch, Fundraising, Political Parties, Idaho, Home News

Senators Mike Crapo (R-ID) and Jim Risch (R-ID) have more in common than a love for their home state. The Idahoan Senators, who have been friends sinc...

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