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Senate Banking Committee Holds Hearing on Bernanke Confirmation: One Hot Committee Room

Cate Long | Posted 12.17.2009 | Politics

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Cate Long

A fight's a'brewin in room 538 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building... This is the committee room of the Senate Banking Committee...

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Breaking: Senator Reid States He Is Keeping Anti-Immigrant Vitter Amendment From the Senate Floor

Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 10.29.2009 | Denver

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Mario Solis-Marich

Today at a press tele-conference with Latino members of the press Senate Majority Leader Reid stated that he was keeping the anti-immigrant Vitter amendment from the floor of the Senate.

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California Would Lose Seats Under Census Change

New York Times | SAM ROBERTS | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

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A Republican senator's proposal to count only United States citizens when reapportioning Congress would cost California five seats and New York and Il...

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Louisiana Dems File Ethics Complaint Against Vitter

The Hill's Briefing Room | Michael O'Brien | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

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The head of the Louisiana Democratic Party filed an ethics complaint against Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) on Friday, accusing Vitter of using his taxpaye...

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La. Dems Respond To Vitter's 'LuvFest' Ad: Our 'LuvFests' Are Legal, Unlike Yours

Talking Points Memo | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

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Check out this statement we just got from the Louisiana Democratic Party, responding to Republican Sen. David Vitter's recent Web ad going after his p...

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David Vitter Agrees To Lift Hold On FEMA Nominee

AP | BEN EVANS | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed President Barack Obama's pick to head the nation's emergency management agency Tuesday after a Louisiana Repub...

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Craig Fugate, FEMA Nominee, Blocked By David Vitter

McClatchy | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics

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A Louisiana senator is stalling Florida emergency management director Craig Fugate's nomination as head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency ....

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"Horny" Joe The Plumber's Next Career Move

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 04.22.2009 | Comedy

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Matthew Filipowicz

Don't get me wrong. It was a stupid joke and Joe definitely is a stupid man, but one thing that Mr. The Plumber does know how to do quite well... is market himself.

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Tony Perkins Turns Down Primary Run Against Vitter

Washington Post | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics

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This hasn't been a very good week for Louisiana Sen. David Vitter but it's ending on a positive note: Family Research Council president Tony Perkins h...

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UPDATE: Vitter Cleared In Airport Tantrum

The Huffington Post | Megan Slack | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics

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UPDATE 3/24: Vitter has been cleared in the TSA investigation of his airport tantrum. CNN reports: The Transportation Security Administration said T...

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Vitter Slams 'Bloated' Omnibus While Benefiting From $249 Million In Earmarks

Think Progress | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics

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Republicans like Sens. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-AZ), have been attacking the $410 billion omnibus spending bill, claiming that it has too ...

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Vitter Champions Family Values In Omnibus Debate

Talking Points Memo | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics

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Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), whose career became mired in the D.C. Madam prostitution scandal back in 2007, and is now headed into his 2010 re-election c...

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Stormy Daniels, Porn Star, May Challenge Vitter For Senate Seat (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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UPDATE 2/13: Daniels has reached out to Hustler publisher Larry Flynt to run her Senate campaign. The Times-Picayune reports: In a telephone intervi...

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Vitter: GOP Senators Are "Scared To Death" Of Obama And His Polling Numbers

Hot Air | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

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A quickie from this morning's chat with Laura Ingraham courtesy of her producer, Tom Elliott. The observation's unremarkable -- the boss mocks the, er...

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Congress May Soon Freeze Salaries

Politico | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

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President Barack Obama's decision to freeze top White House staff salaries may force members of Congress to do something they never want to do -- bloc...

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Vitter Spared Testimony in Sex Case

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Defense attorneys spared Sen. David Vitter an embarrassing trip to the witness stand in a federal prostitution trial Monday as they...

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Senator David Vitter On Witness List In DC Prostitution Case

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Louisiana Sen. David Vitter may be called to testify on behalf of a woman accused of running an upscale Washington prostitution ser...

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David Vitter: "Enormous Difference" Between My Case And Spitzer's

Times-Picayune | Bruce Alpert and Bill Walsh | Posted 08.14.2008 | Politics

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Sen. David Vitter, R-La., has been mostly mum on the prostitution scandal that forced Democratic New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer to announce his resignati...

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Prostitute Dishes Details On Relationship With GOP Senator Vitter In Hustler Interview

Politico | Martin Kady II | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Sen. David Vitter has tried move on after his embarrassing hooker scandal, but Hustler magazine won't let him. In a magazine interview hitting the ra...

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